At 11:25 PM 11/16/03 -0600, you wrote:
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>On Sunday, November 16, 2003, at 10:25 PM, Joe wrote:
>> I had the only (Nuclear) Weapon Effects ROM outside of
>> the military
>
>Pretty cool, it's not classified??
Not that I know of. It's just very tightly controlled. It's frightening
to punch in some numbers and look at the effects (blast effects, crater
sizes, dosage, fallout rates, mortality rates, etc) of different type/size
weapons.
>
>> (see <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/we/> and a pair of the
>> Military Engineering ROMs. Other than those, the coolest ROM that I
>> had
>> was the Astro ROM. It's a special surveying ROM that lets you take
>> extremely accurate readings and/or over extremely long distances. I
>> sold it
>> to a group that is re-surveying the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.
>> Believe
>> it or not there are no accurate surveys of the place and they've even
>> managed to lose a few tombs due to the poor maps of the area.
>>
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>Has anyone a copy of my :Labrinth: program? I think it needed the PPC
>rom
>and the first prompt asked for the name of the "Dungeon?" (it used the
>name to create some constants.. these were combined with the xyz
>location
>of the player to actually display doors/walls/arches All the stairs are
>at 0,0 IIRC.
Was it in the PPC ROM manual? If so I have it. I wasn't into games so
I'm not sure.
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>
>>> Is anyone here a sometime member of PPC?
>>
>> Yeap (#12114 IIRC)
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>I was a member too - but I have long forgotten my number.
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>> and it's short lived successor HPPC (IIRC). I was
>
>Wasn't that CHUU? HPPC I think, is alive and well and meeting in the UK.
I think you're right. As you said, it's been a lot of years!
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>> still active in the HP user's group up till a couple of years ago.
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>> They gave everyone there a free HP-49.
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>Nice..
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>
It was. It's an incredible machine but the documentation for it
really bites! The 49 would have been a best seller if they'd had even fair
documentation. They should have hired someone like Richard Nelson or some
of the old PPC bunch and wrote something like the PPC ROM manual go with
the ROM.
BTW does anyone here know much about the PPC ROM 2? I had one (in
EPROM) but don't know much about it. Also had some others that I couldn't
find much about such as an Assembler ROM. It might have been named "David's
Assembler". Or maybe that was two different ROMs, I just don't remember
any more.
Joe
Received on Mon Nov 17 2003 - 07:40:47 GMT