Life before Windows Mystery Cache
jmunch: I checked on the cache and found it as described by LindsayFamily90710. This cache has had a long and good run. Thanks for all the finders and all the great logs. Archived.
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This is a Computer History cache!
NOTE: The city has finished "repairing" the cache
location. The cache is now back at its original location which is
just outside the original DR address.
Before IBM came out with the IBM-PC there were already some "home"
computers.
They didn't run "Windows" or even "DOS".
They often ran an operating system called "CP/M".
I still have a CP/M computer built around a Zilog Z80
processor.
It has a pair of 8 inch floppy (diskette) drives and 64K bytes of
RAM.
Its display could not display graphics and used a font like this
one.
CP/M was the product of a company located not in Seattle or
even
"Silicon Valley", but in Pacific Grove, CA.
The company was called Digital Research.
Once the IBM-PC became popular, users had their choice of operating
systems.
Digital Research's "DR-DOS" was in direct competition with
Microsoft's "MS-DOS".
Ultimately, Microsoft became the giant it is today and Digital
Research
has been gone for many years.
This cache is in memory of Digital Research and is near their
former location.
The cache is a micro containing only a log. It is a "sign only"
cache.
Please TNLNSL!
The coordinates given above are not those of the cache. They are a
few hundred yards from the cache.
To find the cache, you will need to use the information given
below.
54 48 49 52 54 59 2d 53 49 58 20 54 48 49 52 54 59 2d 53 45 56
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4e 2e 46 4f 55 52 2d 4f 4e 45 2d 46 4f 55 52 0d 0a 4f 4e 45 2d
54
57 45 4e 54 59 2d 4f 4e 45 20 46 49 46 54 59 2d 46 49 56 45 2e
46
4f 55 52 2d 5a 45 52 4f 2d 54 48 52 45 45 0d 0a
Note: When finished, roll the log around the pencil starting from
the bottom of the log with the ends even.
The Geocache logo should end up showing.
Insert the log and pencil into the lid.
Replace the container exactly where it was or it won't stay.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
NFPVV pbqrf va urknqrpvzny.
Treasures
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