Friday, June 11, 2021

Parallax Penguin Historical Change


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PARALLAX PENGUIN ROBOT HISTORICAL CHANGE

Everything is constantly changing over time and nothing is stable on the internet. Throughout the ravishes of time and the brutality of history, poor little Penguin robot took his share of hard knocks.

Parallax
Some links to outside sources no longer work. In the case of the Parallax Forums, the forums were changed several times. The data is likely still there, only the links have changed - contact Ken Gracey at Parallax to get the information to convert the old links to new links.

Robot Magazine
Robot magazine went out of business and took their servers offline thus deleting all article content that was necessary to make the printed articles complete. This resulted in the deletion of vital article information for my Penguin Robot Superhero Article including photos, code, charts, etc. that were not in the ink printed article. Through great effort, this information was found in several archives, reconstructed and reposted on Humanoido's website along with new additional bonus information.

p-robot.com Website - Penguin Robot Society
Penguin Robot Society was founded and developed by Humanoido in 2006-7. Some time later, a second faster website was set up as a partnership between Humanoido and Vrossi (Vittorio Rossi). I initially provided all the information on Penguin Robot, photos, a full set of Penguin magazines, literally hundreds of Penguin programs, and other related projects like the BASIC Stamp Supercomputer. Rossi did an outstanding job putting it all together on the web. Then in 2016, Vittorio Rossi closed all his business activities and websites, and the PRS vanished.

Penguin Robot Wiki
Vittorio Rossi created a one page Penguin Wiki at Wikipedia. After Parallax announced discontinuing the manufacturing of the Penguin Robot, the Wiki disappeared. According to Vittorio Rossi, the administrator deleted it. I have the archived wiki files and plan to reconstruct the page and information on this web site.

Penguin Robot Yahoo Group & Email
Yahoo made changes to Yahoo Groups and access to the group site was no longer available. The Yahoo penguin email site was also deleted by Yahoo.