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  1. This is cool by Goldberg's+Pants · · Score: 1 · on Wozniak Inducted Into Inventors Hall Of Fame
    Shame this is US centric, Clive Sinclair should be inducted into something like this too. Sinclair is the ultimate mad genius. Don't know much about the man? Check this site out for full info on the man and the legend. He's the reason I'm into computers. I'm just glad he never used his power for evil:)

    Cool to see Wozniak inducted though. Very worthy.

    Slashdot is populated by quite a few jackasses.

  2. Lots of Options by brank · · Score: 2 · on What Happens To Old Software?
    There are sites dedicated to selling used copies of old software, or FTP sites with huge shareware archives that are never updated. You can FTPSearch if you know the file name.

    If the software isn't free, then it usually ends up in the hands of somebody rather than just wasting away. See if you can find records of the company (or some the companies assests) being sold to some other company.

    But this is part of a large issue. In the free software world, a number of sites are set up to "take in" software that the maintainer no longer develops until a new maintainer can be found. Also, the FTPSearching is a lot more reliable. Maybe an agency could be set up that would look for interesting proprietary software that is about to (or already has) leave the active development cycle and buy it. It could do things like selling remaining inventory or acting like a auction house for "dead" products.

  3. Re:arg! -- Whoops! by Nate+Eldredge · · Score: 4 · on Jargon File 4.2.0 Out
    There is a decent mirror at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/. From there I've fetched the complete list of mirrors, which follows.

    List of Jargon Resources Mirror Sites USA:

    Australia:

    Austria: http://www.snafu.priv.at/jargon/

    Czechoslovakia: ttp://www.instinct.org/texts/jargon-file/

    Finland: http://zone.pspt.fi/jargon/

    Germany:

    Gret Britain: http://jargon.strugglers.net

    Greece: http://www.hack.gr/jargon

    Italy: http://beatles.cselt.stet.it/mirrors/jargon

    Japan: http://www.vacia.is.tohoku.ac.jp/jargon/

    Norway: http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/misc/jargon/ Poland: http://www.uci.agh.edu.pl/jargon/

    Spain: http://www.undersec.com/jargon

    Sweden: http://ftp.sunet.se/jargon/

    U.K.:

  4. Re:Here's one no-one's mentioned. by duplex · · Score: 1 · on Technologies That Shaped the Last Century?
    The contraceptive pill.

    And what about porn? Likely a far more important invention in the slashdot community.

    I will now officialy reveal to you all that the greatest invention of the century has been (drums...) Sinclair C5 electric tricycle :

    • cheap (5*zx spectrum+)
    • environment friendly
    • low power consumption (but if you're slim it helps even further)
    • immensely safe (provided everyone switches over)
    • lightweight (esp. without the battery in it)
    • cool looking (no? OK maybe not!)
    • efficient beyond belief (20miles/battery downhill)
    • ultrafast (particularly on a steep slope)
    Clearly ahead of its time (although behind every other vehicle on the road including golf buggies). Still can't get over why it hasn't stormed the world the way speccy did :o)
  5. Re:Repton by Repton · · Score: 1 · on Perfect score in Pac-Man

    Yup - Repton, Repton 2, Repton 3, ...

    The BBC Lives! is a pretty good site for Beeb stuff. Unfortunately, Superior Software are still exercising their copyright, so none of the Superior / Acornsoft stuff is legally copyable (and, hence, is not available).
    (although there are ports around..)

    --
    Repton.

  6. HP49 Emulator by ludde · · Score: 1 · on HP49G is a reality

    Here is a working emulator for HP49. It's only Alpha though, and for windows95/NT. It works really well.

    http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~olepe/emulator .zip

    A new "skin" can be downloaded from:
    http://www.geocities.c om/SiliconValley/Byte/2617/emu49sp.zip




  7. Re:Stupid Curiosity by Roland+Walter+Dutton · · Score: 1 · on Sinclair Does Linux

    Yes indeed. More details here, if you're interested.

  8. The man himself by Roland+Walter+Dutton · · Score: 1 · on Sinclair Does Linux

    I thought I'd submit a bit of information on Clive Sinclair for those who haven't heard of him. (That everything.blocksta ckers.com thing appears to be broken at the moment.) He's certainly quite an interesting figure, and still a well known one in the UK.

    First off: Planet Sinclair seems the best place for information on the man and his machines.

    Perhaps the best comparison to make is with another "flawed hero", Steve Jobs. There are many obvious differences between the two, but they both seem to inhabit the same grey areas between visionary and huckster, and between modern-day Midas and failed businessman. Although he doesn't have Jobs' reputation for personal charisma (or egomania), Sir Clive generates similar feelings of affection and admiration among many. His products tend to be ground-breakingly inexpensive and are often genuine minor marvels of design. (He was something of an electronics wizard from his teens.) Unfortunately they also tend to be marked by kludges or fatal flaws in their design, shoddy manufacturing, unavailability, or uncommerciality.

    It's been a long time now since he's had a really successful product, and he hasn't produced a computer in many years. But he's succeeded in the past in uneven-looking contests against manufacturing titans, so don't write him off. Of course it's great to hear that he's embracing Linux - especially since Linus' machine was a Sinclair QL before he bought that fateful first PC.

  9. The man himself by Roland+Walter+Dutton · · Score: 1 · on Sinclair Does Linux

    I thought I'd submit a bit of information on Clive Sinclair for those who haven't heard of him. (That everything.blocksta ckers.com thing appears to be broken at the moment.) He's certainly quite an interesting figure, and still a well known one in the UK.

    First off: Planet Sinclair seems the best place for information on the man and his machines.

    Perhaps the best comparison to make is with another "flawed hero", Steve Jobs. There are many obvious differences between the two, but they both seem to inhabit the same grey areas between visionary and huckster, and between modern-day Midas and failed businessman. Although he doesn't have Jobs' reputation for personal charisma (or egomania), Sir Clive generates similar feelings of affection and admiration among many. His products tend to be ground-breakingly inexpensive and are often genuine minor marvels of design. (He was something of an electronics wizard from his teens.) Unfortunately they also tend to be marked by kludges or fatal flaws in their design, shoddy manufacturing, unavailability, or uncommerciality.

    It's been a long time now since he's had a really successful product, and he hasn't produced a computer in many years. But he's succeeded in the past in uneven-looking contests against manufacturing titans, so don't write him off. Of course it's great to hear that he's embracing Linux - especially since Linus' machine was a Sinclair QL before he bought that fateful first PC.

  10. he also made this by sidewinder · · Score: 1 · on Sinclair Does Linux

    Sinclar C5

  11. The cheeky bastards! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on World's Smallest Hard Drive

    Do they really call it "Microdrive"? That may be a trademark violation. This is the REAL Microdrive, from 1983. And if you look at the specs, even if IBM is not violating Sinclair's/Amstrad's trademarks, it may not be a good idea to call their new baby by the same name as a tape drive with a total capacity of 85 KILObytes...

  12. Second Ultimate/Rare interview. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Special on Ultimate Play The Game, now Rare

    This interview should also be of interest. Moaners, read it to learn why Rare/U:PTG matters. The mere fact that this one dates from 1988 should give some idea why.

    Speaking of which, it's interesting to contrast Sabre Wulf with Goldeneye. :)

    (I found this at the Planet Sinclair website, shrine to the Speccy and all the works of Clive Sinclair. Old Ultimate Spectrum games are floating about in various places, such as the Java Spectrum Emulator website.)

  13. Second Ultimate/Rare interview. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Special on Ultimate Play The Game, now Rare

    This interview should also be of interest. Moaners, read it to learn why Rare/U:PTG matters. The mere fact that this one dates from 1988 should give some idea why.

    Speaking of which, it's interesting to contrast Sabre Wulf with Goldeneye. :)

    (I found this at the Planet Sinclair website, shrine to the Speccy and all the works of Clive Sinclair. Old Ultimate Spectrum games are floating about in various places, such as the Java Spectrum Emulator website.)