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Pastimes : Computer Learning
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To: Stan who wrote (110502)9/3/2025 6:42:32 PM
From: Kirk ©  Read Replies (1) of 110581
 
I spent a lot of lunch hours playing Adventure and mapping it out. Key was tracking the slight differences in what seemed to be telling you the same thing.
"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike." "You are in a little maze of twisty passages, all different."
I managed to get through and I wrote the steps to get to the end in text on a tape drive that we could enter into the game from the huge HP terminals we had back then with dual tape drives (so you could copy tapes!) It was fun to watch the tape drive give the answers to play the game.

I did the electronics for the IR link (my division is now AVGO) in our first laptop and spent time at the PC division helping them get it to work (power supply and EMI rejection issues for the analog EEs). They appreciated the help and gave me one of the first ones off the line to keep and I have it in my computer museum box still. I keep thinking about tossing it but it has too many good memories associated with it.

This shows the laptop's connections on the back "next to the IR port" youtu.be

We knew Bluetooth was coming in a few generations when we could get device sizes small enough to make radio waves work so until then we did IrDA and we made a wireless modem to use with the laptops but Windows wasn't very good back then so it took persistent nerds to keep fixing it rather than use the direct connect wire.

We like both Dell and HP laptops but I like the Dell's finger print readers for good security with many aps I use plus logging in but HP seems to have given up on that feature so my last two have been Dell.
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