OT - Old Backup Tape Hardware

beanie wrote:
> "CAS" wrote
>> "rads" wrote
>>> "Vic" wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Fingers crossed!
>>>
>>> Roger, over.
>>
>> Just another reason why I like UKRS - come up with the most bizarre,
>> off the wall, leftfield tekkie request and there is always someone
>> ready with a "you know... I saw one of those just the other day..."
>>
>> ...now, anyone got a reverse-threaded scrunge niblick handy?
>>
> funny you should say that but I threw one away just yesterday - I
> though they were obsolete

So can anybody help me read an 800bpi half inch tape?
A SEL dump in IBM compressed card format (but I can unpack
that if I could get it into a big long PC file).

It's not important but it's Bill Crowther's original
Colossal Cave source in Fortran. It dates from back in
the heady days when writing what was in essence a game
was a doctorate in computing because you used English
words (!!) to communicate with a computer.

Don't tell me it's on the web somewhere. It probably is.
I used this tape to put it on lots of flight simulators
in the 80s so we could teach the customer engineers to
type-read-think as they had never seen a terminal before.

It was wonderful: They started working on the sim by
following instructions but as soon as they pushed
<enter> they looked round to see what you wanted them
to do next. Give them a quick intro at the 'Cave and
leave them too it and after a few hours every word on
the screen was important.

Nostalgia....

nigelH

"Nigel Hewitt" <news@REMOVETHISnigelhewitt.net> wrote in message
news:838fdba9275e59d9c64cbc02f01fa10a@news.teranew s.com

> So can anybody help me read an 800bpi half inch tape?

I have only one source that might come up with stuff like that. The
chances aren't good...

> Don't tell me it's on the web somewhere. It probably is.

OK. I won't tell you that it's at
ftp://ifarchive.org/if-archive/games...riginal.tar.gz then


Vic.


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Nigel Hewitt wrote:

> It's not important but it's Bill Crowther's original
> Colossal Cave source in Fortran. It dates from back in
> the heady days when writing what was in essence a game
> was a doctorate in computing because you used English
> words (!!) to communicate with a computer.

I've got it on an 8 inch floppy for CP/M if that's any good,
not that I have anything that can read it any more.

- Keith

"beanie" <nospam@diving.ukdiver.com> wrote in message
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>
> "CAS" <calumscottTAKETHISBITOUT@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:bvvmrp$11jomb$1@ID-193985.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > "rads" <rads@xxnospamxxdavidradley.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
> > news:ktk620dtfe67s4ppro6h15g4atm9ggod4g@4ax.com...
> > > On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 17:51:51 +0000 (UTC), "Vic" <vic@innocent.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >Fingers crossed!
> > > >
> > > >Vic.
> > >
> > > Roger, over.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Just another reason why I like UKRS - come up with the most bizarre, off
> the
> > wall, leftfield tekkie request and there is always someone ready with a
> "you
> > know... I saw one of those just the other day..."
> >
> > ...now, anyone got a reverse-threaded scrunge niblick handy?
> >
> funny you should say that but I threw one away just yesterday - I though
> they were obsolete
>
>
How about a couple of cans of checkered paint?

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 09:50:20 GMT, "Nigel Hewitt"
<news@REMOVETHISnigelhewitt.net> wrote:
>
>It's not important but it's Bill Crowther's original
>Colossal Cave source in Fortran. It dates from back in
>the heady days when writing what was in essence a game
>was a doctorate in computing because you used English
>words (!!) to communicate with a computer.

>
>nigelH
>
Oh great! How irresponsible can you get?

Thanks to you I am now inside a building, a well house for a large
spring...



David

> >It's not important but it's Bill Crowther's original
> >Colossal Cave source in Fortran. It dates from back in
> >the heady days when writing what was in essence a game
> >was a doctorate in computing because you used English
> >words (!!) to communicate with a computer.
> >
> >nigelH
> >
> Oh great! How irresponsible can you get?
>
> Thanks to you I am now inside a building, a well house for a large
> spring...
>
>
>
> David

My job is now on the line...

....At my feet all the water of the stream is splashing into a 2-inch slit in
the rock. Downstream the stream-bed is bare rock...

....Nigel, you have an awful lot to answer for!

CAS (for the confused, try here...
http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/e_downloads.html)

"CAS" <calumscottTAKETHISBITOUT@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "rads" <rads@xxnospamxxdavidradley.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:ktk620dtfe67s4ppro6h15g4atm9ggod4g@4ax.com...
> > On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 17:51:51 +0000 (UTC), "Vic" <vic@innocent.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >Fingers crossed!
> > >
> > >Vic.
> >
> > Roger, over.
> >
> >
>
> Just another reason why I like UKRS - come up with the most bizarre, off
the
> wall, leftfield tekkie request and there is always someone ready with a
"you
> know... I saw one of those just the other day..."
>
> ...now, anyone got a reverse-threaded scrunge niblick handy?

How many do you want. All our scrunge niblicks are reverse threaded. It's
the American way.

Lee

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:11:38 -0000, "CAS"
<calumscottTAKETHISBITOUT@yahoo.com> wrote:

>(for the confused, try here...
>http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/e_downloads.html)

For the soon-to-be-enlightened, try here...
http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/maps/CaveMap.jpg
--
ferret
Best before: see end

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 12:03:24 +0000, Keith S. wrote:

> I've got it on an 8 inch floppy for CP/M if that's any good,
> not that I have anything that can read it any more.

I tried a bit of CP/M but it got on my pip.

Jason

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Jason wrote:

> I tried a bit of CP/M but it got on my pip.

Ah, Peripheral Interchange Program.

Actually that predates CP/M, it was a DEC PDP
command, but then CP/M was based on PDP-11
stuff. Or maybe even PDP-8's, I forget.

Mined ewe, I first played Original Adventure
on an IBM 360. And we had Star Trek running
on a Fairchild Sentry test system (but I don't
suppose anyone's ever heard of them).

- Keith