[Noisebridge-discuss] FW: $50K of robot donation

[Andrew Byrne]

Things I learned today:
-There was a video game crash of 1983
-This was the second video game crash
--dru


On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 6:40 AM, John Withers <jwithers at reddagger.org>wrote:

> On Sat, 2013-01-19 at 11:42 -0800, Peter Jansen wrote:
>
> > I remember seeing the Topos on TV when I was young -- It'd be fun to
> > have one wandering the lab, perhaps hacked to do some interesting
> > science.
> >
>
> Yeah, I am thinking the exact same thing about one of those HEROs, which
> I deeply coveted when I was young, and hence my quick posting about us
> getting this stuff. I would love to add to the original and have it
> doing interesting things (although I think I would probably take some
> care to keep the original parts involved or hack it in such a way that
> it could be fully restored to original condition easily).
>
> But I am having some slight misgivings the more I think it through. A
> couple of the pieces on this list are unique or close enough. These
> things are part of our historical culture. And the parts are from the
> 80's and while they can be pressed into service, they aren't insanely
> useful for modern projects. Given the nature of our folks, we are
> obviously going to either reuse the parts or highly modify these units,
> and with a few of them that would be nearly criminal. It would be like
> ripping the screen out of a Vectrex to use it as a status display for a
> quad copter sensor package or something. (and if anyone here knows where
> there is a vectrex collecting dust, you can feel free to talk to me
> about it...)
>
> -j
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