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Now that's funny. My students look at me cross-eyed when I tell them about crashing the ME server at Purdue by accidentally filling the hard-drive with the output from a c program that was supposed to be calculating hydraulic pressures.

But I had a high tech 19.2k data-over-voice system that let me talk on the phone WHILE I was connected to the school network. Take that ya old fogies!

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I'm just can't wait for me to come back to this thread in 30 years and say, "Man I remember back when I had to actually type the numbers into my scientific calculator. Kids these days and their thought calculators." Man technology moves fast. So glad I didn't have to use a slide rule.

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I have kept a slide rule at my desk at work since the Y2K scare. I have also put a note on it stating "100% Up-Time, 24/7/365" for those times the IT people (who keep crashing the network) come to do upgrades :D

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oooooooooo, preeeeetttttyyyyyyyyyyyy. I wanna play with it.

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When I was an undergrad ('97-ish), watching my dad stare in impressed, crestfallen horror as Mathematica completed his PhD thesis in about ten minutes was pretty funny.

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What does it take to get one of those IFI boards working again? Have some sitting on our old robots and was wondering if they could ever be revived.

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Assuming it 'works', just find the old software; surely someone on CD has a set of those files. (They are probably also online somewhere). If it is 'broken' I would hesitate to recommend attempting a repair, unless there were obviously damaged (and still available) components.

All the other posts: Man, you guys are old!:p

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Software-wise, what you will need is the MPLAB IDE (I think you want version 6.3) with the C18 compiler and the IFI Loader program. You will also need a copy of the default C code.

Start at https://kevin.org/frc/ for lots of useful files. Kevin Watson has always been a great resource for FRC teams.

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My first year in FIRST, 1999, we had the control systems that they provided. They had to be returned after the season and rendered the robot static display only. I don't remember what type of controller it was or what they called it. Somebody must know and why they wanted them back/what became of them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Trouble_(FIRST)