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>>> WELCOME TO THE LAMP! <<<
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THE BEST OF THE A2 BULLETIN BOARD ON A2Central
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"Teaching the Apple II user how to fish since 1998"
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The Lamp! An Onipa'a Software Production Vol. 10, No. 8
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Publisher................................Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W., L.S.W.
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Editor.....................................................Lyle Syverson
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Internet Email, Publisher.........................thelamp@sheppyware.net
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Internet Email, Editor...............lutefisk at grex.cyberspace dot org
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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August 15, 2007
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HIGH ABOVE THE ROCK RIVER---------------------------------------------[OPN]
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The Life of a Hobo
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A2 BULLETIN BOARD at A2Central.com DISTILLATIONS----------------------[DAA]
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//c IDE/ram card?------------------------------------------------[IRC]
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Experimental Apple II Music--------------------------------------[EAM]
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Upgrade a Franklin Ace 100 to a Real ][?-------------------------[UFA]
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What Clone Did You Have?-----------------------------------------[CYH]
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SPECIAL---------------------------------------------------------------[SPC]
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Why a IIgs Really Flies with an Ethernet Card--------------------[RFE]
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR-------------------------------------------------[LTE]
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The Apple II and Time
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Radio Clock Thoughts (Again)
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An Invitation
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KFEST 2007------------------------------------------------------------[KF7]
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KansasFest 2007--------------------------------------------------[KFS]
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An Open Letter to KFest 2007 Attendees---------------------------[LKA]
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KFest 07 Day 1 by Kirk Mitchell----------------------------------[K71]
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KFest 07 Day 2 by Kirk Mitchell----------------------------------[K72]
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KFest 07 Day 2 by Bruce Baker------------------------------------[K7B]
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KFest 07 Day 3 by Kirk Mitchell----------------------------------[K73]
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KFest 07 Day 4 by Kirk Mitchell----------------------------------[K74]
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KFest 07 Day 5 by Kirk Mitchell----------------------------------[K75]
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KFest 07 Day 6 by Kirk Mitchell----------------------------------[K76]
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GShisen Final Rounds---------------------------------------------[GSH]
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Return of the Geoff-i--------------------------------------------[RTG]
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KFEST 2008------------------------------------------------------------[KF8]
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KansasFest 2008--------------------------------------------------[KFE]
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EXTRA INNINGS
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About The Lamp! ------------------------------------------------ [INN]
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[*] [*] [*]
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READING THE LAMP! The index system used by The Lamp! is designed to make
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""""""""""""""""" your reading easier. To use this system, load this
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issue into any word processor or text editor. In the index you will find
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something like:
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EXTRA INNINGS
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About The Lamp! ------------------------------------------------ [INN]
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To read this article, simply use your search or find command to locate
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[INN]. There is a similar tag at the end of each article: [EOA].
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[OPN]-------------------------------
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HIGH ABOVE THE ROCK RIVER |
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From The Editor
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by Lyle Syverson email: lutefisk at grex.cyberspace dot org
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The Life of a Hobo
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Years ago, while growing up on the farm, we had regular visits from
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Hobos. These people traveled from one part of the country to another by
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catching rides in open railroad box cars... not very elegant... but very
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inexpensive.
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They would drop by the farm individually and ask for a meal,
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permission to stay overnight in the hay mow, old clothes, old shoes and so
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on. They would offer to do some work to pay for their request. There were
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always various tasks waiting to be done on the farm so we could set them up
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splitting wood, pulling weeds, removing manure from the hog house, etc.
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They had a series of symbols they would carve on a tree or fence post
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indicating a farm that had good meals, a dog to watch out for, reasonable
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or unreasonable requests for work, etc.
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Every so often one would balk at the suggested work and head down the
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road. A quick call to the next farm indicated a Hobo was on the way, what
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he asked for, and the work he refused... if he was hungry enough by the
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time he reached the next farm he might accept the same terms he had just
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refused.
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These people would be out of touch with family for months at a time.
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Quite a contrast to those who have to be in constant contact with others
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via cell phones or instant messaging.
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[EOA]
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ASCII ART BEGINS
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ASCII ART ENDS
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[EOA]
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[DAA]-------------------------------------------------------
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DISTILLATIONS FROM The A2 Bulletin Board at A2Central.com |
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by Lyle Syverson email: lutefisk at grex.cyberspace dot org
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[IRC]
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//c IDE/ram card?
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Hello all,
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I read over on the other side of a2central that someone was working on a
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ram and IDE card for the //c and //c+. Is there any more info out there
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about this project?
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I would love to have a flash based setup for the ][ but I need to keep the
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portability of the //c. /l
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Thanks!
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(CrAlt, a2c.general_chat, Jul 22 2007)
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No info except what has been disclosed is available at this time. As soon
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as the card goes into testing or is released, we will be sure to post it.
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Sean Fahey
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SysOp
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(sfahey, a2c.general_chat, Jul 23 2007)
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[EOA]
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[EAM]
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Experimental Apple II Music
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Here's my latest Apple II noise project:
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http://www.archive.org/details/MICRO.MUSIC
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I had the idea to put an LP's worth of music on a single 5.25" floppy. The
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music is sequenced from sets of 16 samples which are mixed two at a time
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"on the fly". At some point in the project I got a bit loopy and decided
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not to compose music in any traditional manner, but rather to use arbitrary
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sections of data as the score. This came about after I was viewing audio
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sample data in the monitor and noticed the byte sequences of the waveforms
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contained regular patterns with small variations which I thought would
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translate well into music. Personally, I find the results rather
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interesting, but as always YMMV.
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-s
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|[LD8]! ====== 8-BIT SOUND & FURY ======
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| o. | APPLE ][ AUDIO & MUSIC RESOURCES
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!__!__! http://8bitsoundandfury.ld8.org/
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(Luddite, a2c.music_multimedia, Jul 18 2007)
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[EOA]
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[UFA]
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Upgrade a Franklin Ace 100 to a Real ][?
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Hello,
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I have a Franklin Ace 100 (not 1000) computer. Can I upgrade this system
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to a normal ][ by taking the rom chips from a REAL apple2 and putting them
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in the franklin board? My little Ace has 6 rom chips. If I am able to swap
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chips then do I need them from a ][ or from a ][plus?
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Thanks!
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-chris
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(CrAlt, a2c.hardware, Jul 13 2007)
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Moved the message to a2c.hardware
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iirc, no - you can't. The 100 is one of the hardest to find Franklin
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models, btw - wouldn't you want to keep it original?
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Maybe Tony Diaz will add to this thread.
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Sean Fahey
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SysOp
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(sfahey, a2c.hardware, Jul 13 2007)
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Ok,
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There are 6 rom chips on the main board just like a real ][. They are on
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sockets so the upgrade could be undone with no problem.
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PS: Thanks for running this bbs system. I am typing this on my old //c that
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is hooked to my OSX machine.... I just wish I could find a term app that
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let me do color ansi :-/
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PPS: To "The Lamp" dude that emailed me. You have my permission to use any
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of my posts you want. I lost the email somehow and don't know your email
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address.
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thanks!
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(CrAlt, a2c.hardware, Jul 15 2007)
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The //c doesn't have the hardware capable of doing 80x24 text with 16
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colors. The only option I am aware of is Spectrum with the Second Sight
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Card on a IIgs (or was Ms. Scarlet with the revolver in the Kitchen :).
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(geoff, a2c.hardware, Jul 15 2007)
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[EOA]
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[CYH]
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What Clone Did You Have?
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A Triton (I think. The label fell off long ago). It seems to be a ][+
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clone. I say this because it has upper and lowercase characters in ROM. It
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had a Videx 80 column clone, a Microsoft Z80 softcard, an Epson APL
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parallel card, a RAM expansion by Australian Video Productions, and a great
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floppy controller card that supported and auto detected both numbers of
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disk sectors. Unfortunately a dodgy power supply ravaged it. When some
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cards arrive in the mail I'm going to restart its repair/restoration. I
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love its gargantuan case! It's just begging for extra hardware.
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(Tristan, a2c.apple_clones, Jul 23 2007)
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[EOA]
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[SPC]-------------------------------
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SPECIAL |
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[RFE]
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Why a IIgs Really Flies with an Ethernet Card
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I have heard of all kinds of ways people have managed to get their IIgs
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connected to the outside world, but if you have an Ethernet LAN, then a NAT
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router will allow you to share as many computers as you like on that LAN,
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and a IIgs really flies with an Ethernet card such as the Uthernet card. If
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anyone wants them, I can explain the technical reasons why this is so.
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(Ewen Wannop, KFest-Talk mailing list)
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(Yes, please do.)
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OK, here goes...
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With the traditional interfaces to the IIgs, based on the serial port, you
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are at the mercy of the Interrupt system when capturing incoming data. It
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is up to the efficiency of the software routines of an application to
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handle and store that data, so there is no corruption of the data flow. If
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the incoming data cannot be handled as it arrives, it will be lost forever.
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Depending on the speed of your IIgs, which in turn depends on the speed of
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any accelerator you may have installed, you may well get data loss or
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corruption at speeds in excess of 9600 baud. Each persons experience will
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be slightly different.
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I can only speak for the Uthernet card and the Marinetti interface, but the
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way this works is quite different, as the card has its own onboard data
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buffer, and does not use the interrupt system of the IIgs at all. Marinetti
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is polled frequently by the calling application, and will retrieve any
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waiting data from the card storing it in its own buffer. The application
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then calls Marinetti for data whenever it is expecting it, and as Marinetti
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handles the integrity of packets of data, only clean data will be returned
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to the calling application, with bad packets being re-requested
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automatically. This saves on application code, as the application does not
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have to check the data integrity itself.
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The process of retrieving incoming data with an Ethernet card is more or
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less a lossless system, and on my own 12.49Mhz IIgs, when transferring
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files with FTP from a computer on the LAN, I am receiving data at the full
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speed of the 10-Base Ethernet connection.
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As others will attest, an Uthernet card and Marinetti, transforms a IIgs
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into a very fast machine indeed. For instance, I can't remember the exact
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time it took, but using SNAP, I was able to retrieve, process and store,
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the list of 106,000 news groups from Giganews in under 7 minutes. The
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resulting text file is 2.3Mb in size. File transfers with FTP go even
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faster.
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Cheers - Ewen
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[EOA]
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
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The Apple II and Time
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I liked your mini-editorial piece in a recent "The Lamp!" issue about using
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the II in a time-related way. I think that something that listened to one
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of the RF clocks and then rebroadcast (or just displayed) the time would be
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pretty cool. I have seen plenty of clock tools for MS-Windows and Linux
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that take time from a NIST server via the internet and (re)display it;
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something that runs on the IIGS, but uses RF-based time would be really
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unique.
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(Steve, via email, Jul 16 2007)
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Radio Clock Thoughts (Again)
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I have thought about this some more, and there are GPS receivers with
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serial-port connectors that a II might be able to read and therefore
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display accurate time. I'm looking around for something that just feeds
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ASCII....
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(Steve, via email, Jul 19 2007)
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[EOA]
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AN INVITATION
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Express your opinions about the comings and goings in the world of the
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Apple II computers.
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Send your comments to Lyle Syverson, lutefisk at grex.cyberspace dot org
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The Editor reserves the right to edit any material submitted.
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The Editor reserves the right to reject any material he considers
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unsuitable for publication in _The Lamp!_.
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[EOA]
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[KF7]------------------------------
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KFest 2007 |
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[KFU]
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KansasFest 2007
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was held July 17-22, 2007 at Rockhurst University in Kansas City.
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[EOA]
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[LKA]
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An Open Letter to KFest 2007 Attendees
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An open letter to KFest 2007 attendees.
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In 1992 I was fortunate enough to attend KFest in its heyday when it was
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still run by Tom Weishaar at Avila College, with Apple people such as Dave
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Lyons, Tim Swihart, etc. still attending, not to mention so many of the
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"ordinary" people who made - and still make - the Apple II so
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"extraordinary".
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Unfortunately I haven't been able to make it back since, what with the
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airfares from Australia, a wife and family and job and ... well, I think
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you get the idea. But every year I read all the plans and wish I could win
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a lottery so I could attend, and then I read people's reports and look at
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the online snapshots, and I remember back to the fun and camaraderie and
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lack of sleep, and in some small way I feel like I share the experience
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again.
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Today that vicarious KFest experience came a little closer and a little
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less "imaginary" when a postcard from Kansas City arrived in the mail. My
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first thought was that it was from Ken Gagne (who I keep in contact with)
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as it is the sort of thing I could picture him doing. Then I read the
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greetings from many of the other attendees at KFest as well, and I can
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honestly say I was touched. Heck, "blown away" might be a better
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description!
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I'd just like to say "Thank you!" to the people who took the time to sign
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the card. It would have taken seconds of your time, but it's created a
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memory for me that will last much, much longer!
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The Apple II was and is a special computer partly because of the people
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that were attracted to it, and who stayed. I've seen another example of
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those people today.
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Apple II Forever!
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Peter Watson
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-- Write to MS-DOS disks on the Apple IIgs?
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-- Impossible! ;-)
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(peterw, a2c.general_chat, Jul 25 2007)
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[EOA]
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[K71]
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KFest 07 Day 1 by Kirk Mitchell
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Hey, all...
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Your intrepid reporter here with yet another running commentary on the
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current KFest.
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I'll try not to talk about food so much this year. B-{)
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I left the small town of Moscow, KS to drive to KFest and 7 hours later,
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pulled into the parking lot of XL, the dorm we're at. I really need to
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take more pit stops on trips like this. I'm old enough that my joint's
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lock up. Duh!
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Registration was fast, and I had lots of help from folks already here to
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help me unload my treasures. Ryan Suenaga needed my GS for his session, so
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it got out of the house for the first time in a few years.
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Got here around 2:00 pm, and by 3:00 pm, a bunch of us decided to go out
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for lunch. Geoff Weiss suggested Sonic. I'm never going to listen to
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Geoff's suggestions again. Waiting for food in a hot car is just no fun.
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That and they shorted us an order of fries. The B@stards..
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Shortly afterwards, more folks started arriving, and we met folks we
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haven't seen in 5-12 years, like Max Jones, Cindy Adam, and Tim Kellers...
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Also, KFest newbies, Jamie, Anthony, and Henry. All much younger looking
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than I'd anticipated. Sweet! The Apple II kept alive by the younger
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generation. B-{)
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Dinner time finally came around, and we raced to Sweet Tomatoes, a soup and
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salad joint that's become a tradition. I won. I don't think the others
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were aware that we were racing, or that'd the excuse they're using. I ate
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plenty of rabbit food, but made sure to finish off with lots of soft serve
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ice cream on hot fudge brownies. My Dr. would be so proud. B-{)
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Oh. Food. Sorry. Sheesh, I'm obsessed!
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After Dinner, Ryan and I drove to Costco to buy supplies for the KookOut
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tomorrow. It's a lot for 40+ folks. Since I have to bake outside grilling
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this stuff, I made sure to get a case of my favorite barley beverage. B-{)
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You can't buy small quantities of anything at Costco though, so we had to
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search for a Price Choppers to get the rest of the stuff we needed.
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Sheesh... I live in the boonies. I have to drive 35 miles to get to a
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WalMart... One way. Seems like you have to do the same in a big city, but
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you have to do it at 35 mph, and mess with stoplights. We got everything,
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and.... had absolutely no help hauling it to our room. I'm a bit miffed at
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that.
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Now we have folks settling into their rooms, playing a Wii on the big
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screen TV in the lobby, coding, visiting, and generally introducing
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themselves to each other. Matt Jenkins was in here earlier, and we had a
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nice relaxed conversation about Australia, and IT, and a range of other
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stuff. Meeting new cool people is what this is all about. B-{)
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I brought an external USB Hard drive with all 11 seasons of MST3K to share
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with Ken and any other Misties here. Since it takes 3 hours to copy over,
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it could keep him busy. B-{)
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Oh, it took a while before Rockhurst IT got their act together, and
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activated the account we were to use. They gave us the username and
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password, but the service wasn't activated. We've working on getting
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certain ports opened now.
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I'm going to do a walkabout to see if anything else is happening...
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Talked to Andrew Roughan a bit... The lobby full of folks playing Wii
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Bowling... Or just sitting there with laptops on laps engrossed in geeky
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stuff. This is truly a summer camp for geeks. B-{)
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I got a few folks to sample my homemade wine, but they must be frightened
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of Jesuits, since this is supposed to be a dry school. I haven't seen
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security yet, and I'm discrete. B-{)
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I'm sure more will happen, but I'm off to visit some more. I hope other
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participants feel free to add to the thread with their takes on what
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happens here. We have a lot of new folks, and their viewpoints can always
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open fossilized eyes. B-{)
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Kirk
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(Kirk Mitchell, comp.sys.apple2, July 18 2007)
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[EOA]
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[K72]
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KFest 07 Day 2 by Kirk Mitchell
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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Day 2, first official day of KFest...
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We stayed up to a little after 3 AM, and woke up at 7:30 AM to shower and
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get ready for breakfast. Same fare as last year.
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Nothing much happened until I started the charcoal at 11:15 AM to start the
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KFest Kookout. The Rockhurst staff had even brought the grill over to the
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dorm, and set up tables and chairs, but most folks decided to eat with air
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conditioning.
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Everything went well, and I only suffered a few 1st degree burns, and the
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loss of some hair on my fingers. B-{) No one has reported to the nurse
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for food poisoning either, so it was a success!
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Dave Szetela gave a great Keynote address where he regaled us with his
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Apple II experiences, including stories from inside Apple Inc. Also his
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experienced while with Nibble and many other stories that are familiar to
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anyone else who's ever fallen in love with the Apple II. Good times!
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Ed Eastman gave a session on Soldering 101, but I was already nursing minor
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burns and didn't want to press my luck. B-{)
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Instead, Ryan Suenaga, my roomie, needed a ride to Radio Shack, so off we
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went. The first one we went to didn't have his item in stock, so they
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called another store that did have it, so off we went to explore North
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Kansas City.
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I hadn't been to that area, so it was an adventure. The prostitutes
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weren't that bad looking, and the gang colors appeared to be mostly yellow,
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but we were on a mission and didn't stop until we'd got his frigging mixer.
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Only took us an hour and a half. B-{P
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We got back with 15 mins to spare for dinner. Food was good, but I'll
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spare you the menu.
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After dinner, Ken Gagne showed some of the "BBS: The Documentary". I'd
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already seen this so I didn't go to it, but I do recommend this to anyone
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who remembers the squawk of a modem, and the thrill of accessing your first
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BBS.
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Instead, I hung out in a2central's chat room, where you'll find many
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current KFesters saying absolutely nothing because they're busy running
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around. Still, you can also find them chatting away during sessions, since
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nearly everyone is taking advantage of the college wifi, and chatting with
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someone across the room from them, or even across the table. B-{)
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If you're using Firefox or a Mozilla browser, get Chatzilla. Then by
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clicking on:
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irc://a2central.com/a2c.chat
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you can join us vicariously while things are happening. You'll probably
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end up bored though, because we're running around though. B-{)
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The last activity of the evening was the pizza party put on by the
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publishers of Juiced.GS. Thanks, Sheppy!
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Wandering around the rooms lets you discover really neat things, too.
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Across the hall in James Littlejohn and Matt Jenkin's room, Jamie Steffins
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was demonstrating a VGA converter that does a great job of upscaling a GS's
|
|
video signal to VGA! Sorta steep at $300 though.
|
|
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The Wii continues to impress the geeks here, tying up the bigscreen TV most
|
|
of the time, so there's been no movies shown, or karaoke sung... B-{(
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Oh... Carrington Vanston finally puttered into town on his Vespa, but a bit
|
|
late for Kookout. Fun guy!
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Well, that's it for the official day. I'll wait before posting this, at
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least until it's a bit later. Google Groups appears to be having problems.
|
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I posted yesterdays report from there, and it never showed on Google, but
|
|
did on other news servers. I'll paste this on to yesterdays news to see if
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both show up on Google.
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Still going strong, but I'm posting it anyway....
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Kirk
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(Kirk Mitchell, comp.sys.apple2, July 18 2007)
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[EOA]
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[K7B]
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KFest 07 Day 2 by Bruce Baker
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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Kfest is official this afternoon with the Keynote Address given by David
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Szetela of Nibble Magazine fame.
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We have quite a few people who have not been here in a while. It is great
|
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to see them back.
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|
Perhaps the most startling thing so far, and it is not much, is that
|
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someone (please identify yourself) is driving a full size school bus
|
|
repainted in an old dark green color. Some have called it olive drab. In
|
|
some places the paint has come off giving it a camouflage feel.
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The bus made it easy to move people to Sweet Tomatoes last night for the
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unofficial kick off of Kfest 2007.
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Lots of other have different impressions I'm sure.
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A few extras took the time to drive this year brings more gear. Tony Diaz
|
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drove from somewhere in sunny California. Eric and Sarah Shepherd came from
|
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the other direction (Kentucky?). We have drivers from Ohio, Chicago area,
|
|
and my wife and I from Houston. This is why Kansas was picked in the first
|
|
place, it is so centrally located.
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|
The game boxes have been used quite a bit on the big screen TV in the
|
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central room. I'm seen an xbox and a wii. Michael Kent seems to be the
|
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master at wii bowling.
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(Bruce Baker, comp.sys.apple2, July 18 2007)
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[EOA]
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[K73]
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KFest 07 Day 3 by Kirk Mitchell
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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Day 3...
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|
Only made it to 2:30 am last night. Still got up at 7:30 am though.
|
|
Breakfast menu hasn't changed, but I doubled up on coffee.
|
|
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|
First session was Andrew Roughan's on the Marinetti Open Source Project.
|
|
Andrew picked up the pieces when Richard abandoned efforts on bug hunting
|
|
and documentation corrections. He deserved, and got a big hand. Which
|
|
interrupted my fervent meditation of the insides of my eyelids. Damn near
|
|
got whiplash! B-{)
|
|
|
|
Austin Phelps (famous for being the only person struck by a flung floppy
|
|
disk during KFest 2005's Diskcathalon competition) gave a session on
|
|
Medical Images and OsiriX. I wish I could tell you what it was about. I
|
|
went back to my room to rest my eyes.
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|
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|
Tony Diaz presented a CBC documentary on Spam. I missed that too. I'm
|
|
pretty much an expert on Spam, after recieving hundreds of gigabytes of the
|
|
inedible stuff.
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|
Lunch was good. I didn't miss that, and it shows. B--{)
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|
Eric Shepherd did several nifty sessions on ORCA. Big hint, use ORCA on a
|
|
fast emulator to speed development. Word is that the folks in the back of
|
|
the room were so overwhelmed that they passed out. B-{)
|
|
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|
Ryan Suenaga gathered guests Carrington Vanston and Andrew Malloy for a
|
|
live session of A2 Unplugged - LIVE. It was quite humorous as these guys
|
|
crossed wits and set off sparks. You'll have an opportunity to hear me
|
|
giving a big "WhooHoo!" during the audience introduction. B-{)
|
|
|
|
Michael Mahon gave a technical and interesting session on "Real Sound for 8
|
|
bit Apple II's". Much of it went over my head, but I stayed awake...
|
|
focused the entire time! It was great seeing what he could make an old //e
|
|
do soundwise! ...err.... hearing.
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|
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|
Dinner was fine.
|
|
|
|
Our last session of the day was from Rob Walsh, KC native and podcaster for
|
|
PodCast411 and Today in iPhone. He focused on the strengths and weakness
|
|
of this interesting device, and pointed us to places where we could go to
|
|
hack the things. B-{)
|
|
|
|
Shortly after that, we made a run to the Apple Store where I enriched the
|
|
stockholders of Apple Inc. Most of the other folks were just Looky Loo's.
|
|
|
|
Finally, Ryan and I went in search of the great steaming Krispy Kreme donut
|
|
in an attempt to bring home dozens of the rascals to KFest participants.
|
|
Alas, Ryan had spent valuable time yapping with others and by the time we
|
|
got there, only the maddening odor of the damn things lingered in the
|
|
parking lot of the closed store. Yet another hour and a half wasted
|
|
driving the streets of KC. I'm a country boy, and driving in a "big city"
|
|
is beginning to wear on me. Still, I do what I can to contribute. So I
|
|
should shut up and think happy thoughts. B-{) .... still, we came back
|
|
without donuts. sniff..
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|
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|
Wii is still big.. The crowds waiting their turns are engrossed.
|
|
|
|
And laughter is wafting down the hall, calling to me. Gotta check this
|
|
out. B-{)
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|
Wish you were here!
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|
(Kirk Mitchell, comp.sys.apple2, July 20 2007)
|
|
[EOA]
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[K74]
|
|
KFest 07 Day 4 by Kirk Mitchell
|
|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
|
|
Day 4,
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|
|
Well, I got involved on the Wii last night and didn't tear myself away
|
|
until 5 AM. My roomie failed to wake me until it was 9 AM and too late for
|
|
breakfast. The rat. B-{)
|
|
|
|
First session was Michael Mahon's NadaNet session, where he gave a detailed
|
|
technical presentation on networking and how he built his NadaNet from
|
|
scratch. It was very interesting, and the demonstration was intriguing.
|
|
And I didn't fall asleep! His AppleCrate is something to see as well!
|
|
|
|
Bruce Baker gave the next session where he chose a number of games from the
|
|
Softdisk 8 bit collection (a real gold mine of neat programs... Hundreds
|
|
of them!). I bought the collection last KFest but haven't really sorted
|
|
through the 166 disk issues to find the real gems myself. Bruce found some
|
|
neat ones.
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|
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|
Tony Diaz was supposed to give a session, but I don't know what happened to
|
|
it.
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|
Lunch was especially fine since I'd missed breakfast. B-{)
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|
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|
Ed Eastman had another soldering session which I missed.
|
|
|
|
Geoff Weiss's session was System 6.0.1 for Dummies, and he went through the
|
|
System Folder describing what almost each file did.
|
|
|
|
Tim Kellers gave a session on an Introduction to FreeBSD, which forms the
|
|
base of Mac OS X. Interesting, but the Center was having network problems.
|
|
|
|
We had the fancy dinner next, then proceeded to reroast past roastees and
|
|
watch slide shows. Lots of humor. B-{) Contest winners collected their
|
|
booty and a good time was had by all.
|
|
|
|
A small group took of this evening to a Celtic Folk music concert, another
|
|
group headed out for the movies, Ryan and I finally got the Krispy Kremes
|
|
back to the dorm and almost lost limbs as we were rushed by human donut
|
|
piranhas... B-{)
|
|
|
|
So, it's been a slow night. There have been quite a few new faces on
|
|
a2central's chat. I hope they haven't been terribly disappointed by the
|
|
conversations. When everyone gets back from movies and concert, we'll
|
|
probably get back to ignoring the chat. B-{)
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|
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|
The night's still young, although I don't think I'll be staying up so late
|
|
this time.
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|
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|
I'll be finishing up my report tomorrow when KFest 2007 comes to a happy
|
|
conclusion.
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|
Kirk
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|
(Kirk Mitchell, comp.sys.apple2, July 21 2007)
|
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[EOA]
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[K75]
|
|
KFest 07 Day 5 by Kirk Mitchell
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|
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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|
Day 5,
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|
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|
I got to bed at a decent hour last night. Of course, the half dozen folks
|
|
who went to Denny's didn't bet back until around 4 AM. I'd already been
|
|
asleep for an hour. B-{)
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|
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|
Got up at 7:30 am, and made it to breakfast and coffee. Lots of coffee. I
|
|
helped Ryan haul my GS to the Student Center where he prepared for his
|
|
session "Suck Free Zone". If a GS programmer doesn't have a program for
|
|
KFest, tradition is that he/she sucks. Ryan didn't suck. His program
|
|
allowed you to send SMS text messages to cell phones. Interesting!
|
|
|
|
Andrew Roughan did a quick demo of his HackFest program. He'd finally got
|
|
it working last night. Ryan and I thought he was moving in with us because
|
|
he wouldn't leave off debugging his work on my GS. B-{) It's called
|
|
ShareClip and allows you to share or receive the contents of the GS's
|
|
clipboard with Macs, Windows, or other GS's which are also running a
|
|
program called ShareClip. That would be useful during my chat sessions on
|
|
a2central.com, since it's difficult to get folks posting long URL's to take
|
|
them to tinyurl.com first, since I chat on my GS, but surf on a G5 and hate
|
|
to have to retype those URL's on the G5 to see the sites.
|
|
|
|
Carrington Vanston gave an interesting session on recording audio for
|
|
podcasting or other purposes. Ryan should take a hint, but he says his
|
|
standards aren't that high. B-{)
|
|
|
|
Next came lunch, followed shortly by another A2unplugged LIVE session. You
|
|
should find that distributed pretty shortly. I whoohooed again, but I'm
|
|
getting weaker as KFest finishes up... B-{(
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|
|
|
HackFest awards were given, and Michael Mahon walked away with an Apple
|
|
//c+ in an Apple carrying case for his program demonstrating a bouncing
|
|
ball travelling between two computers running NadaNet. Nifty!
|
|
|
|
We moved back to the dorm to have the swap meet/vendor fair, and I dropped
|
|
a few more bills on Apple II stuff.
|
|
|
|
Then it was off to KC Masterpiece for some excellent BBQ. I'm glad I
|
|
decided to get the half slab of ribs rather than the full one. I'm still
|
|
stuffed!
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|
|
|
Back at the dorm, we held the finals of the GShisen contest, where Geoff
|
|
Weiss claimed the prize. $50 off of anything in Syndicomm's library of
|
|
goods.
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|
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|
The Wii got packed away, so now folks are playing other board games and
|
|
cards... How refreshing!
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|
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|
As for me, I'll be up a little longer, but since I have a long drive
|
|
tomorrow, I won't be staying up too late. It'll be breakfast tomorrow,
|
|
then packing to leave yet another great KFest! It was great meeting old
|
|
friends and new faces of folks who share an interest in the Apple II!
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|
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|
Hope to see you here in 2008!
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|
Kirk
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(Kirk Mitchell, comp.sys.apple2, July 21 2007)
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[EOA]
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[K76]
|
|
KFest 07 Day 6 by Kirk Mitchell
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"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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Day 6,
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Usually I stop reporting on Saturday. But even Sunday was exceptional.
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|
I went to bed at 1 am, to be fresh for the drive home. Up at 7:30 to
|
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shower and shave (the wife doesn't like me scruffy.... She may not like me
|
|
unscruffy too, but she hides that well. B-{) )
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|
I stoked up on coffee none the less, and loaded the van all jittery and
|
|
sweaty. phew..
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|
Michael Mahon asked for a ride to Wichita earlier on the kfest mailing
|
|
list, but I wasn't planning to go that route. Until my wife called and
|
|
said I may have to pick up my bother-in-law there on the way back. I
|
|
remembered Michael, and brought him on board. Of course, my BIL would
|
|
change plans afterwards, but he did me a favor. B-{)
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|
That three hour drive was one of the quickest I've ever experienced, we
|
|
chatted so much, and I was totally engrossed the entire time... (when I
|
|
wasn't checking the map to make sure I wasn't effing up...). At KFest,
|
|
you'll meet folks way smarter than you, but they'll be kind and good folks.
|
|
Generous with their knowledge, and the stuff they bring to the vendor fair
|
|
but don't want to take back too. You may pay a bunch to get here, but the
|
|
giveaway treasures earned through contests or chance are worth taking home.
|
|
Unless you wouldn't like an Apple //c+... I scored one last year. Michael
|
|
got one this year. Lots of //e's changed hands.. Monitors. Software...
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|
I'm not religious, but I can see why some folks value a Hajj. Get at least
|
|
one KFest under your belt, and you'll be a better person, and you'll make
|
|
some damned fine friends, and your acne will finally clear. B-{)
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|
Kirk
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|
(Kirk Mitchell, comp.sys.apple2, July 23, 2007)
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[EOA]
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[GSH]
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GShisen Final Rounds
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""""""""""""""""""""
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|
Geoff Weiss set the world on fire in the championship round of the GShisen
|
|
Contest with a blistering time of 2:53 to claim the 2007 title. He needed
|
|
that kind of performance to defeat Margaret Anderson, who also turned in an
|
|
impressive time of 3:26. (The GShisen game number played in the
|
|
championship round was 9197.)
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|
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|
Geoff's victory earned him a $50 product discount on any title in the
|
|
Syndicomm software arsenal. The second-place prize for Margaret was a 2008
|
|
subscription to Juiced.GS.
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|
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|
Earlier in the day, Margaret had won the second round of the contest,
|
|
followed by Geoff. Placing third in the second round was Sarah Shepherd,
|
|
followed by Bruce Baker and Carl Knoblock (a former champion).
|
|
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|
Congrats to the winners and all the participants in this year's contest.
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|
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|
-- Max
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|
(Max Jones, KFest Mailing List, July 21, 2007)
|
|
[EOA]
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[RTG]
|
|
Return of the Geoff-i
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"""""""""""""""""""""
|
|
I got home safely after KansasFest. Dain was really worried that he was
|
|
going to make a wrong turn and end up in Kansas before getting me to the
|
|
airport. I told him that the only way I was to end up in Kansas is if the
|
|
plane I was one would fly over that state. And sure enough, the plane took
|
|
off over Kansas before turning southeast.
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Geoff
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(geoff, a2c.general_chat, Jul 22 2007)
|
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[EOA]
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[KF8]------------------------------
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KFest 2008 |
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-----------------------------------
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[KFE]
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KansasFest 2008
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"""""""""""""""
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KansasFest 2008 is scheduled for July 22 through 27, 2008.
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This will be the 20th anniversary KFest.
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|
|
Go to <http://www.kfest.org> regularly to watch for details as they
|
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develop.
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[EOA]
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[INN]------------------------------
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EXTRA INNINGS |
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About The Lamp! The Lamp! is published on the fifteenth of every month on
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""""""""""""""" the WEB at: http://lamp.a2central.com/
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This publication produced entirely with real or emulated Apple II computers
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using Appleworks 5.1 and Hermes. Apple II Forever!
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* The Lamp! is (c) copyright 2007 by Ryan M. Suenaga, M.S.W. All
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rights reserved.
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* To reach The Lamp! on Internet email send mail to
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* All issues of The Lamp! are available at:
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