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Event Title:Retro Computing
Speaker:Plymouth University/BCS South West
Event Date:21 November 2011, 19:00
Event Location:Sherwell Conference Centre, Plymouth University
No interactive thingymabobs here, but maybe that's ok since touchscreens weren't quite invented yet.
int yellowPin = 13;
int redPin = 12; // Red LED connected to digital pin 12
int greenPin = 11; // Green LED connected to digital pin 11
int inPin = 2; // choose the input pin (for a pushbutton)
int val = 0; // variable for reading the pin status
void setup() {
pinMode(redPin, OUTPUT); // sets the digital pin as output
pinMode(greenPin, OUTPUT); // sets the digital pin as output
pinMode(yellowPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(inPin, INPUT); // declare pushbutton as input
Serial.begin(9600);
}
void loop(){
val = digitalRead(inPin); // read input value
if (val == HIGH) { // check if the input is HIGH (button released)
blink01();
// digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW); // turn LED OFF
Serial.println("blink!!");
}
else {
nothing01();
Serial.println("off");
}
}
void blink01() {
digitalWrite(redPin, HIGH); // sets the Red LED on
digitalWrite(greenPin, HIGH); // sets the Green LED on
digitalWrite(yellowPin, HIGH);
delay(500);
digitalWrite(redPin, LOW); // sets the LED off: 0 V
digitalWrite(greenPin, LOW); // sets the LED off: 0 V
digitalWrite(yellowPin, LOW); // sets the LED off: 0 V
delay(500);
}
void nothing01() {
digitalWrite(redPin, LOW); // sets the LED off: 0 V
digitalWrite(greenPin, LOW); // sets the LED off: 0 V
digitalWrite(yellowPin, LOW); // sets the LED off: 0 V
delay(500);
}
I sumbled over this wonderfull items of my roots in computing. With the C64 I learned coding (I had no medium to save anything, so every time I started it, I had to built something myself first)
And the Cray was a dream back then. Cray not only made the supercomputers of that time, they made them stylish too. There was one with a watercooled system. They made a well out of it!
University of Gloucestershire open day at Park Campus, Cheltenham.
Picture by Clint Randall www.pixelprphotography.co.uk