Saturday, December 31, 2011

2012 Retro Challenge Winter Warmup

After reading about it for a number of year's, I've decided to enter this years Retro Challenge (winter warmup). If you've never heard of the Retro Challenge here's an excerpt from their site:
In a nutshell, the RetroChallenge is a loosely disorganised gathering of RetroComputing enthusiasts who collectively do stuff with old computers for a month. The event is very much open to interpretation... individuals set there own challenges, which can range from programming to multimedia work; hardware restoration to exploring legacy networking... or just plain dicking around. It really doesn't matter what you do, just so long as you do it. While the RetroChallenge has its competitive side, it's not really a contest... it's more like global thermonuclear war — everyone can play, but nobody really wins.
What's my entry going to be? I'm going to dust off my Apple IIe Platinum and finally get that CP/M card in it working. I'm also going to do some work related technical writing on it. I've always claimed to prefer early 80's word processors to Microsoft Word, let's see if I actually do!

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