Gary,

The next time you want to fool around with vintage machines and
games, let me know.  I have a Mac Plus with a 20MB external hardrive
and some cool games on 5 14" floppies stored in my basement
ready to roll.  From my College days.

-chris


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 2:50 PM
Subject: CSSA Night Tonight!


> Howdy geeksters,
>
>  Tonight we're going to go way back in the Time Machine(TM) to check out
> some old OSes and video games from our past.  Specifically, we've got a
> beautifully running old box born sometime in the early 90s with DOS 3.x on
> it, a BIOS consisting of only one screen of setup options, and a whopping
> 512KB of memory (whoa!).
>
>  So we've got Oregon Trail, ALF, and a few other old-school 80s games on
> 5 1/4" floppies (yes, you read that right) that we can bring up and
> running on this box, and the plan is to get one or more of these games
> running on our modern personal computers before the night is out.  So if
> you like old hardware, resource-light software, funky UIs, and game
> emulators, this is the night for you.  Come on out to Votey 367 at 7pm,
> and join us for a little hacking fun.  And watch out for the cholera.
> It's always waiting on the trail if you don't keep your guard up.
>
>  Keep on hackin' in the free world,
>    Your friendly neighborhood Computer Science Student Association
>