How soon? As soon as you're willing to give it. If you would actually
like to write it yourself, rather than waiting for Byron to question
you, I have no problem doing that. If you have screenshots from what
you did, or photos that you may have taken of yourself at the machine,
or of the machine all set up and ready for action.
What would be really awesome was if you had actually displaced newer
computer, i.e. the same desk spot was occupied, having a before/after
shot of the competition. Like, your powermac or acer aspire or compaq
presario sitting at your desk and it being all cluttered, or not,
however you work - and then of the retrochallange machine sitting
there.
Like I said, I publish MLAgazine whenever enough stuff comes through
for me to fill about 25 pages, and then between "full page ads" and
other random crap, I get about 30-32 pages filled on inDesign, PDF it,
proofread it again and let 'er rip. (or something like that.)
Take Care, ~Cory Wiegersma On Aug 24, 2005, at 6:24 AM, Goodwin, Greg P. wrote:
Ok, I spent 29 days on a 1.77 mhz machine... not for cash... not for prizes... but for fun AND on the fun premese that I would get some article in some magazine.
Now can I please get an answer to my question?
Sorry... it's just that I've asked this question now three times.
-----Original Message----- From: Goodwin, Greg P. Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 2:54 PM To: 'retrochallenge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: RE: [retrochallenge] Re: [retrochallenge 2005 ] score sheet?
So how soon are you going to need input for the article?
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-----Original Message----- From: retrochallenge-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:retrochallenge-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 7:26 PM To: retrochallenge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [retrochallenge] Re: [retrochallenge 2005 ] score sheet?
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 05:30:55PM -0500, Thomas Meek wrote:Thus, any work I did on the 1000 would have to be
transcribed by hand to another machine. I guess I could print it out on
the little thermal printer supplied by Timex and then scan and use a
character recognition program to read it.
That is, unfortunately, a problem with older software. If you can transfer the files to another machine, it may be possible to create a little program which strips the binary data out and leaves a readable text file (a lot of old word processors simply embedded a bit of data into the document's text). Another option, if you have a serial port or can print to one, is to print the document via the serial port and have a terminal program on another machine capture it. Well, that's what I did with some stuff on an Apple II. I don't know how applicable it is for your T/S 1000.
There are usually creative ways to get around these issues. For example: I'm building a presentation but find modern software inadequate. So I'm doing it up on an old Mac, printing it to a PostScript file (colour and all), then converting it to PDF to run the presentation on a newer computer. It works better, and the software seems to be faster to boot!
Byron.
