[ale] Computers. It's what all the kids are doing today.

[Charles Shapiro]

The spiffy flasher I soldered together is currently sitting next my desk,
counting away.  I'm considering buying the $5 gizmo you need to plug it
into USB so I can change the program.

-- CHS



On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Hey Chuck,
>
> I missed you. I was there with my son, daughter-in-law, and 3
> grandkids. I had also ran into Charles at the solder station where I
> was helping my circus (as my wife and I refer to them all) make those
> LED flashers that he mentions in the post.
>
> And yeah, the Apple part was a bit lame, but then I'm not much of a
> fanboy. You could really tell the fanboys, they pretty much stayed in
> that part. But the rest of it was pretty cool and I enjoyed going down
> a bit of nostalgia. The grandkids became permanent fixtures down at
> the teletype/paperpunch machine.We were there from about 11 to 4:30
> and they wanted to stay longer.
>
>
> On 04/22/2013 11:38 AM, Chuck Payne wrote:
> > Michael,
> >
> > You should have went. It was a blast. In fact I bumped into Charles
> > in front of this Tic-Tac-Toe machine that a guy build in high
> > school, a lot of really cool stuff. I even got to see a working MSX
> > here in the states, I had only seen them before in Japan.
> >
> > My 8 year son got to try his first lan party. In fact, because of
> > that, I stay another 2 hours, he had a blast wants to go the next
> > one.
> >
> > No Charles, you didn't make it sound bad.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Charles Shapiro
> > <hooterpincher at gmail.com <mailto:hooterpincher at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Oh!  Did I make it sound that bad?? (heh)
> >
> > -- CHS
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Michael B. Trausch
> > <mbt at naunetcorp.com <mailto:mbt at naunetcorp.com>> wrote:
> >
> > On 04/22/2013 09:59 AM, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> >> It was a great, great time. If you didn't go this year, you
> >> should make plans to go to the next one. I know I shall be there.
> >> If
> > you some
> >> kid-geeks, kidnap them and make sure to bring them along as
> >> well.
> >
> > I wanted to go this year, before reading your post. :-(
> >
> > — Mike
> >
> >
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