anthonyg

Now here is a phone for you…

Okay, so for a long time now I’ve wanted to put together an actual telephone and connect it with the ATA I bought when SDF rolled out its’ telephony VOIP service.

Has anyone here done this with a WE 302, specifically? It’s the model I’d love to have on my desk (I’d settle for a WE 500 if I had to…) The sets can be found on eBay (maybe questionable quality) fairly inexpensively right now and I have a bit of time to do something like this.

For those who have done a project like this: is there anything to watch out for? Will this model work with existing the VOIP service? (My ATA will work with rotary phones supposedly)

I've uploaded (mirrored, to be specific) two versions of the classic Star Trek game from the days of 'yore on SDF's git service.

The first is the "original" Super Star Trek (it's likely not really the original, but it's as close to it as I can find) which was found on minicomputers of the 1970's. I believe that it's been ported from BASIC to Fortran to C (which is what the version I have is). Find it here: https://git.sdf.org/anthonyg/super-startrek

Secondly, and this is the version I first encountered back in the day, is the Apple ][ version of the game called Apple Trek: https://git.sdf.org/anthonyg/appletrek

I hope the community enjoys my finds and please share your experiences with either game, new or old!

What are you doing for Field Day this year? Anything fun/interesting/unusual?

I posted this yesterday on Mastodon, but it's awesome enough that I feel it bears repeating here:

This is such a neat project; not just IA and textfiles.com (which in and of themselves are amazing) but the digitization of all the old Computer Shopper magazine issues. Brings back a ton of memories.

They're cheap, poor-fidelity, horrible propagation radios with handfuls of bugs (the one I bought years ago has a lot of trouble with frequency bleed).

But they're also now less than $20 USD on Amazon.

This seems like a good community to have here since we have a large amount of interest in ham radio among SDF members. Let's discuss radio!

73,

~ anthonyg (N6SH)