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

Charles Shapiro hooterpincher at gmail.com
Wed Apr 24 09:14:53 EDT 2013


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:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> 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
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________ Ale mailing list
> > Ale at ale.org <mailto:Ale at ale.org>
> > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and
> > SCHOOLS lists at http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________ Ale mailing list
> > Ale at ale.org <mailto:Ale at ale.org>
> > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and
> > SCHOOLS lists at http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -- Terror PUP a.k.a Chuck "PUP" Payne
> >
> > (678) 636-9678 ----------------------------------------- Discover
> > it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux.
> > ----------------------------------------- openSUSE --
> > en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup
> > <http://en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup> openSUSE
> > Ambassador/openSUSE Member Community Manager -- Southeast Linux
> > Foundation (SELF) skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup
> > freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363
> >
> > Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD,  an app you
> > want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro.
> > Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.com
> > <http://www.susestudio.com>. See you at Southeast Linux Fest, June
> > 7-9, 2013 in Charlotte, NC. www.southeastlinuxfest.org
> > <http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org>
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________ Ale mailing list
> > Ale at ale.org http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale See JOBS,
> > ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
> >
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/
>
> iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRds+xAAoJEIefqZ0kni1dOhMQAJXNVlrlv06KQbmUMUJTriGQ
> 8O25zpxJbOVhfyA0aWzx4QUB9/jmHTHdExbOJX0FQi0kb18Eb2DKOSWw9MB6PhME
> 8hVnNQ6dTIMahysLPpA46qhJ7VugUn3w/N4dZjKVgaHe24isyLOnu9PnnUDSRxEl
> TXBViWhQ7vIM8Tp/3uugyxotv7p/GAB0bBNnW/4YdrAvAaaUMYEvByTxmcYJGIp4
> B9nuHZ9VXpxyYsv8wiKBAIIplgpaStp1qyrlHPK8EZrbpSqnwaAgJXUfuhWE/f3E
> w4FKXoJxq9GQRY0pXOzqiKxLu4gR3Egj0q8Xtjf7sV09ftWqHYwBJjLlmLrlAdMQ
> h/K56XKkgKuGs7P/Ow0MYeBAnH1+GdNlbC2ighPzlFXZKjdOk6iwaGJ2Op+P9gXn
> zr89Oej3j4LE7SElHK2S9hZrPO77SOmcsTTNr1Pu3cyAM7S7wNmJTpJQKmj5rdu6
> 8Ywl0R47Bg9YDSSXu/maP8nirtvvB31XO+oHuBJaKcBCSLmiuLalkbgl4YUITt2/
> Rfr6lwMBnjX6yfauLvqaMpZM2mfgWJAyqFClnn7RTSvM8o4STiItlN69LrwJHAzT
> +hqTCjyBk9peYR3eoK9Cpwts2wh8qJfKCZ3fNOGDPtbRVVb0a1CP0clgN3HPqsRf
> ZU0RV0zttnlYzFE775bt
> =BSwh
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20130424/fe013274/attachment.html>


More information about the Ale mailing list