[XCSSA] XCSSA Meeting: Cooler-Bot, SID MidiBox and Apple-UNIX!... Mon, Oct 19th, 7pm in Room 122 (basement)

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Hey all!

We have a pretty sweet lineup this month!


Return of the Cooler-Bot! By Fredrik
That's right.. the famous Cooler-Bot is back!  Serving us drinks and blowing 
out minds!  If you missed it last time back in August, you need to come by 
and watch as Fredrik's latest propeller controlled creation springs to life 
and serves us all Dr. Pepper!  
(prior meeting links and video on the web page)
http://xcssa.org/archives/XCSSA_2009-10-19.html#NEXT

Fredrik's also talking about bringing in an old 80's HERO robot that he's 
looking at hacking up and modernizing.


MB-6852 SID Synthesizer By Tim
Back in July, Tim blew us away with his SID Midi-shoe-box demo..  Well now 
Tim's back and has completed most of the project!  His version of the MIDIBox 
SID is based on the Wilba MB-6852, a really slick, full featured midi box 
project that we've all been dying to see since his show-box version debut 
four months ago!  Related links, photos and his previous presentation are all 
on the web site.
http://xcssa.org/archives/XCSSA_2009-10-19.html#NEXT


Apple UNIX Running on a Mac SE30 By Mike Roberts
Mike Roberts has been building out his "computer museum", and is building 
something that many of us didn't know about.. A standard Mac SE30 (from the 
90s) running an official AT&T UNIX load called A/UX!  This should be a stroll 
down memory lane for several of us.. that is, if he can score the old SIMM 
memory and SCSI hardware he needs to breath UNIX life back into his old 
Motorola powered SE30!
(links on the site)
http://xcssa.org/archives/XCSSA_2009-10-19.html#NEXT

Fredrik, Tim, Mike.. If any of you have any slides or additional URLs to 
share, please send them my way ASAP for our page archvies. :)


Should be a pretty sweet meeting!
Hope to see you there!

Tweeks
President of XCSSA.ORG