Month June 2013

@retrochallenge – If This Then Retro

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For this year’s Retrochallenge it’s my intention to do some sort of mash up of old and new technology to see what sort of modern computing tasks I can complete with some of my retro hardware.

I want to incorporate my Raspberry Pi which has become an effective yet rather lonely media server sitting behind my T.V. and seems destined for greater things.

Over the last few months I’ve also been using and experimenting with the If This Then That (IFTTT) website which allows you to all manner of things by creating recipes to trigger events.

Combining this with Jim Brain’s excellent TCPser software, I’m imagining all sorts of fiendishly pointless exercises.

Retrochallenge Summer 2013

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Retrochallenge

Yes it’s true, we’re less than three weeks away from the start of Retrochallenge 2013.  You can now register to participate in this year’s event.

Head over to Retrochallenge.org and sign up now for this always fun and entertaining competition.

I shall be registering shortly, I just need to decide what I’m going to do.  I’d like to explore CP/M on my Commodore 128 but I’d also like to have a dabble with TCPSER which I’ve been threatening to do for some time.

However I also really need to sort out my burgeoning collection of vintage gear and just doing this may throw up an interesting project.

If you’ve mmm’d and aaah’d about entering but never have, make this year the one you do.