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[AWCE][POSTCARDS] Postcards received

**Posted:** Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:22 am

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maevey · Veteran Joined: 21 Dec 2005 Posts: 106

Font is wingdings 3, which translates into regular text as:

ABFH INRSX EFLS TXXZ ELMR WWAF

**Posted:** Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:57 am

enaxor · I Have No Life Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 2395

I just got my card in the mail, but it uses wingdings. Decoded it is:

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10/05/2007, 04/23/2009, 07/02/2015
The world is a much dimmer place.

Kender

Mine is an electronic circuit diagram. And the text "Remember to Make a Note"
Can't scan it here Sad

Pic will follow.

Input is a 1kHz sine and output is two 7-segment led displays.

One of the parts seems to have the wrong number (74LS151 is not an 8-bit Parallel-in shift Register but an 8 Input Multiplexor, pins look more like a 74165)

The problems right now are that I have no good SPICE program (just stoopid eval versions with too many limitations) and the splitting up of one of the two Octal D-flipflops (74374) into three parts that's confusing me.

So if anyone knows a good freeware circuit diagram designer with simulate option, I'd love to hear it.

Edit: Added blurry phone-photo of my card. I PSed some text on to clarify

freshness · Boot Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 52

I picked up a solid version of P-SPICE a few months back...but I got it through the university, so I don't know of a good freeware version. If you can't find anything else, let me know and maybe I can help simulate it.

**Posted:** Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:35 pm

konamouse

I'm not active in this game, but this postcard showed up in my mail box tonight. Seeing that there is a Bloomington IL postmark, it probably belongs to ACWE.

Enjoy.

**Posted:** Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:53 pm

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'squeek'
r u a Sammeeeee? I am Forever!

Lysithea

**Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:25 am

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"Some people grow into their dreams instead of out of them." - Miles Vorkosigan

maevey · Veteran Joined: 21 Dec 2005 Posts: 106

konamouse's card uses the cipher used by Mary Queen of Scot's:
http://www.simonsingh.net/The_Black_Chamber/maryqueen.html

It translates as

**Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:25 am

Lysithea

**Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:39 am

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"Some people grow into their dreams instead of out of them." - Miles Vorkosigan

josiah

Just to confirm, the http://www.anothercontestworthentering.com/cadet.html gives us our first clue! It's a google image for a place just outside Birmingham (the US one, not the proper one in the UK.

Any volunteers for a drive? One down.... 15 to go!

Still waiting for mine to arrive... I'm in the UK so by the time mine arrives they'll probably all have been solved!

EDIT: Just noticed...

**Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:49 am

Kender

terminalskeptik

Thats the Alabama State fairgrounds speedway. It is 18 hours by car from me. Unless there was a cash prize involved, I am not driving that far. Anyone on the boards from Alabama we could enlist?

**Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:11 am

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teh_lisa

haven't gotten my postcard yet, but it is good to we others have! i'll report back when it arrives.

lisa anne

**Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:03 am

Kender

I gave up on trying to simulate the circuit.

I still solved it.

The answer had to be two digits, and the text says "Remember to Make a Note"
So I tried all two-letter notes and got lucky with http://anothercontestworthentering.com/fa.html

**Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:22 pm

Kender

**Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:43 pm