The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

A sudden tree or standing stone

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)
• Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...
• Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...
• Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...
• Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole VII - But not yet weary are our feet...
• Eighth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass! Hill and water under sky, Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate, And though we pass them by today, Tomorrow we may come this way And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun. Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe, Let them go! Let them go! Sand and stone and pool and dell, Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We’ll wander back to home and bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade! Fire and lamp, and meat and bread, And then to bed! And then to bed!

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[Fedora]

I kinda cheated--I bought a book on how to solve it :)

There was also something called a Rubik's Chain or something like that.

[300winmag]

I remember playing Star Trek on the computers at school, but it was via the printer. Every move required a new printout on that wide-carriage dot-matrix printer with the green-bar computer paper.

Youngster. I remember the standalone "printer music" programs for the IBM 1401. A more advanced version required you to put an AM radio on top of the computer at a certain spot so it could pick up the RF emissions. In college, one of the other guys at the datacenter disassembled the program, found a table that "described" each note, and developed a macro language that would allow him to transcribe sheet music into "computer music". It worked, but it was consistently flat.

The most computer overkill I ever played was "spaceships" on an IBM 360/50. The graphics was on a par with "Asteroids", but it was ship-to-ship combat between two players. It required the extremely expensive IBM 2250 engineering graphics workstation, and the overall configuration we played on (on midnights, when work was light) was about $5,000,000 with all the tape drives, TP boxes, card readers, punches, and printers, and disk drives (about 250MB of disk). None of that was used, however, since the game came on a deck of punch cards, and was IPL'ed ("boot" in IBM mainframe terminology) from the card reader.

No sound, blue monochrome graphics, and all controls were the 32-key function keypad, divided in half so both players had to share it. But it was a blast, especially considering the vast amount of expensice hardware involved.

I'm just happy to have the old Moria from my old 80286 PC running on my Palm Pilot now. I played that game for months in my spare time.

[RMDupree]

I was just saying earlier how I wished we Hobbit Holers all lived close together so we could pick a Friday night to hang out!

*sigh* I miss Entmoot!!

[Fedora]

Here's another one:

Have you tried Breakout with a moving wall?

Have you tried Breakout with an extra ball?

It's what fun's all about

It's. . .Super Breakout

Have you played a game of Atari?

Have you played Atari today?

[Fedora]

Here ya go! :)

Atari Age: 2600 Rarity Guide

[RMDupree]

Ahhhhh, now I see! I just peeled the stickers off and stuck them back on to make it look like I solved it. ;-)

[Fedora]

Was that stuff before or after the PET came out?

[RMDupree]

Breakout was really fun. Sheesh!!

Actually, I liked Combat. It had the different games with tanks.

[Darksheare]

Super breakout.. traded it for a Coleco/atari compatible game.
Which promptly disappeared.

[RMDupree]

WOW!! Atari-opia!

[Ramius]

Wow... now *that's* some expensive big iron time. :-)

But then again... the "computer at school" that I referred to was an Amdahl 7000. Yikers... those were the days. Way before being a computer geek was cool.

Memory lane, it is...

[Fedora]

Some people peeled the stickers off :) You could also take it apart and put it back together solved :)

[Fedora]

I liked Combat, too. Also Berserk.

[Fedora]

What was the Coleco game? The only Coleco-compatible games I had were the Atari versions of Donkey Kong and Dig-Dug (think the latter was Coleco?).

[300winmag]

Was that stuff before or after the PET came out?

This was mainframe stuff found in corporate America and universities before the four-function pocket electronic calculator came out. The IBM 360 series was built using a technology about midway between discrete transistors and primitive integrated circuits. The 370 series announced the first non-magnetic-core memory in 1970.

[Ramius]

I have a rubic's cube on my desk... except all of the sides are the same color. Sometimes I take it to meetings and fiddle with it just to piss people off. But I'm like that.

[Fedora]

Cool! That's an unwritten chapter in the history of video games!

[RMDupree]

I have a rubic's cube on my desk... except all of the sides are the same color.

Pure genius, that!!

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Went for a pint at the usual (E-9). Back now to watch a DVD.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

And up this far north, we get some really LOOOOONG days this time of year. Doesn't get dark till after 9 --next month it'll stay light past 10.