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Whether you keep it archived, create a new one, etc, this is my bookmark to the VC&G site. (i noticed you took the link to the forums down from the blog) So this is always my first stop! lol

I've been doing a lot more coding lately, mostly in the excel/VBA area but im doing some small VB projects at home mainly retro game remakes

LAST POST! 

I've been teaching myself shell scripting, and I've been meaning to write a basic script to display the time and school closing information for my school age siblings anyway. I've uploaded a basic prototype to GitHub if anyone wants to try it out. It basically just displays the time and the latest blog posts from vintagecomputing.com. Time zone and format (12 or 24-hour) are user-selectable, but only 4 time zones plus UTC are listed. Most of the other limitations are listed in the README.

I haven't decided on some key implementation details because I don't know how others are interested in running it (such as with a real Telnet daemon or via netcat).

P.S. - If anyone has some screenshots of the time display from StarTTY, I can make the clock look more like it. I found them for most of the numbers, but I had to make a couple from scratch (6, 7 and 9, I think). Also, did StarTTY support ANSI color codes?

This makes me sad... But alas, what can we do?

That's sad; I only joined a week ago, and it's already dead. I was kind of hoping it would pick up again, but I fully understand the need to disable registrations if you're receiving hundreds of spam registrations for every real user.

Hey guys.

Today I disabled user registration on the forum due to continued spambots. Everyone already registered can still post if they wish, but it's clear that this forum has been dead for a long time.  So as of now it's just in hibernation / archival mode.  I'll keep it online as long as I can in case the messages it contains are useful to others.

I'm not sure if I'll ever create a new forum or have the time to moderate a forum effectively, so this is probably the end of the VC&G forums.

Thanks for posting all these years!

Benj

Hi.
The Power Glove is still in your stock ?
I live in France, so is it possible to ship it there ?
Have a nice day.
 

I don't think I have ever seen a potentiometer that looks like that in real life.  I wish I can help you, but I can't.  Sorry...

Hi,

Most people here are surely familiar with Robert Tinney's BYTE cover of a train on a PCB (http://mudwerks.tumblr.com/post/36583503/suyhnc-kagami-portada-de-robert-tinney). Behind the train, there's a cylindrical potentiometer that's blue on the bottom with a black thumbwheel on top. I want to get a potentiometer that looks like that. Its resistance is not important - just its appearance. The closest I've found are blue cylindrical pots like http://media.digikey.com/photos/Bourns%20Photos/3339P%20SERIES.jpg.

Does anyone know if they're still made? If not, does anyone have an old board with one of them on it?

Thanks,
   Bob

I loved to have a copy of his software.

It might not be that hard to create something like that either. I might look into it.