I've got no time for blinking lights either. I'm too busy doing grown-up stuff like sequencing LEDs with an Arduino.

Looking at my UID: no, he's not :-D

I'm thinking of it (using https://github.com/dwelch67/raspberrypi as a tutorial), but seeing that I just got around to writing "Hello, world!" in an x86 boot sector a few weeks ago (and that's cheating since I'm able to use the BIOS), I might be a while :-P

I can attest that Crystal Head is full of spirits and energy. I'm sure with enough exposure to it I'd feel vibrations, but that might counteract any healing powers it might have.

Badgers?

Badgers?!?!

We don't need no stinking badgers!!!!

Thanks! I agree about the coolness factor. (The Pi is easier to obtain now, but maybe in 35 years a working one will be more interesting.) The only reason I have the VT101 is because a friend, who was working as a research assistant at a university at the time, cleaned his office and left it sitting in the hallway to be trashed before I saw it and asked if I could keep it.

I should install SIMH on the Pi and get Adventure and Dungeon running in something resembling their original forms. Plus it would amuse me to have a DEC mainframe emulated on something smaller than a hard drive, attached to a real DEC terminal :-)

For bonus points, someone do this on a Raspberry Pi. :-)

One of the first things I did with my Pi was hook it up to a VT101 terminal and run Colossal Cave Adventure and Dungeon (the free version of Zork) on it. But there was still a modern Linux (or at least as modern as SlackwareARM gets) running underneath of them, so it's nowhere near as interesting as booting directly into the game. :-P

An article for WinNT turning 20, but nothing for Slackware when it did the same 10 days ago? What is wrong with you, Slashdot?

Wait, don't answer that...

My PIN is 9999, it'll be the last number it could possibly try!

And I'm sure in the 20 hours it takes to get that far, someone will notice and say "hey, Bob, why is there an android trying to break into your Android phone?"

Sounds like Eric Meyer's HYDESim from 2005.

middle.of.nowhere

I used to believe in gravity, then I tripped up the stairs.

Was there an episode without Anakin/Vader?

Those were different characters... from a certain point of view.

Do any normal* people use these abbreviations to describe display resolutions? I just assumed SXGA was some rare video card that only a handful of PS/2 systems in the late 1980s had. Turns out it's probably meant to be 1280x1024, which happens to be the native resolution of the display I'm using right now.

It doesn't matter, it's still not my preferred Super version. That would probably be superluminal.

* By "normal" I mean "not in marketing".