On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Aaron Wolfe wrote: >On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.hesk...@verizon.net> wrote: >> On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Benny Pedersen wrote: [...] >>>kids need to know how little is needed to do simple things, and when >>>thay have seen it, thay will code much better if thay get some jobs >>>that use there knowledge >> >> I agree Benny. To demo that, I have the old coco2 that acted like a >> $20,000 dollar Grass Valley Group E-Disk for the production video >> switchers in the 300 series they made about 20 years ago. For $245 worth >> of stuff, its 4x faster and 100x more friendly for the tech directors to >> use than the $20k GVG package was. >> >> Coding in assembly for one of those is something I can still do, I just >> rewrote the mouse driver which was suffering from a huge lack of tlc. >> >> When someone comes over who can be impressed, I go boot the coco3 up, >> then come back to this linux box, and over a bluetooth serial emulation, >> log into it with minicom. Just to impress the frogs of course. > >Long live the Coco :) > >At this moment I am working on a project (half 6809 assembler, half >Java) that allows multiple simultaneous telnet sessions in and out of >a Coco running NitrOS-9. Just two days ago we made Coco history when >three people (including one of the original OS-9 developers) all >connected over the internet into my coco 3. > >8 bit CPUs and ancient operating systems are still very fun to play with. > >-Aaron
Amen Aaron. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> The Kennedy Constant: Don't get mad -- get even.
