Byron wrote:
What is the Retrochallenge?
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The Retrochallenge demonstrates the utility of legacy (or obsolete)
technologies for work and play. It sets out a basic definition of
a legacy system and establishes a series of challenges which we
can fulfill for additional points.
What is a Retrocomputer?
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A retrocomputer is any system produced before March 1993, which
runs an operating system released prior to August 1995 (the release
dates of the Pentium processor and Windows 95, in case you are
wondering). Any other hardware qualifies, provided that it doesn't
offer CPU acceleration. Likewise, any other software qualifies.
What are the Challenges?
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Exclusive use of qualifying systems at home, 10 points per day.
Exclusive use of qualifying systems except at work, 20 points per day.
Exclusive use of qualifying systems, 50 points per day.
There are three levels here because using a qualifying machine
when you're away from home can be next to impossible, and some
people have no choice except to use the machine their employer
sets in front of them.
Getting the machine online, 50 points x protocol multiplier.
You get one multiplier for each of the following protocols:
IMAP, POP3, SMTP, NNTP, FTP, IRC
You get two multipliers for each of the following protocols:
HTTP, gopher (but you have to find a server)
I'm sure you get the idea. Feel free to add your ideas to the
bottom of the challenges list. Things I was thinking about: an
art competition, a demo programming competition, etc.. The point
is to show how much you could do (and can continue to do) with
legacy systems.
Byron.
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Rats, Byron! It's this use of the "exclusive" condition that stops me. My
little old Classic is running happily along on System 6 -- and, yes, I use
it every day for writing, keeping finances straight, storing TidBITS issues,
and so on -- and I suppose I get 50 points for having it online, as you do,
but only with IMAP mail and a Lynx browser on a text-only shell account --
but, drat, it's not an EXCLUSIVE situation! Because I also use a big honkin
G3 Molar with OS 9.2.2 for other computing -- including ADSL high-speed
Internet browsing and most of my e-mailing.
I expect that's where most of us are -- running System 6 on compacts or
other early Macs, but also using a later machine as well, and likely running
System X on it.
So it's an interesting question: who among us is using ONLY a retrocomputer?
And, incidentally, ONLY System 6?
George Stacey
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