It's been a bit of a trial, but the site upgrades are complete, at least as far as this application is concerned. A lot has been done, but there is still more to do!

Read on for the rest of the story...

I've always loved playing games on computers, and though I don't have much time for them any more, I still do!

I remember playing Lunar Lander on my TRS-80 Model 1 many, many years ago, and I also remember writing a graphical version for that platform in Z-80 assembly language. Great memories, and made only better by this article.

Did you know that the original Lunar Lander program was written in Basic on a PDP-8 by a high school student? And in under 50 lines of code?

Read the article for a fascinating retrospective.

The site will be undergoing some upgrades in the next few days - hopefully this weekend (25-26 July)

The upgrades will include:

• A new server will be installed after a full backup. The new server has 4 processors, 8GB of RAM, and 1TB of RAID 1 mirrored storage. This machine should be fine for this site and several others.
• I will hopefully be upgrading ConcourseConnect to version 2.0, which includes:
  • A variety of new security features and an integrated webinar and web conferencing system using Dimdim
  • Embedded video content from Youtube in wikis and maybe blogs.
  • Lots of bug fixes and usability improvements

I'm looking forward to getting these improvements in place, and then going back to work on my Kaypro 4-84. Hopefully my next blog entry in the Kaypro section will deal with creating Kaypro formatted disks for the editors and compilers I have collected over the last couple of years.

I've upgraded the site to the latest public ConcourseConnect code: Version 1.02

Read on for a description of the upgrades and bug fixes...

It's time for spring cleaning at my house, and I decided to sell a bunch of the old computing stuff and consolidate everything onto one server. So I'm selling my old 1U Supermicro dual Xeon RAID system, my 1U dual 1.8GHz Athlon, and maybe the machine this is running on: a dual 1.2GHz Athlon tower with HW RAID.

I've got several other older Pentium-class boxes I would give away to interested parties. Contact me with the Contact Us button up top if you're interested.