GC35CDV Unknown Cache How Geek Are You?
Type: Mystery | Size: Small Small | Difficulty: 2.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 2 out of 5
By: KA&JWest @ | Hide Date: 10/04/2011 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 36.150 W104° 57.645 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Dogs  Recommended for kids  Takes less than an hour  Parking available  Picnic tables nearby  Bicycles  Horses  Stealth required  Short hike (less than 1km) 

All right, everyone! How is your Geek knowledge of classic computers?


Cache is not at the posted coordinates. This is where you park!

Solve the following puzzle to obtain the letter values for A through J. Then use the substitution table below to convert to numbers.

A = 0 B = 3 C = 6 D = 2
E = 9 F = 7 G = 8 H = 1
I = 2 J = 3 K = 9 L = 7
M = 3 N = 7 O = 3 P = 6
Q = 8 R = 4 S = 5 T = 0
U = 8 V = 2 W = 1 X = 0
Y = 7 Z = 3

The cache is at N 39 AB.CDE W 104 FG.HIJ

1

 

2

 

 

C

 

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

 

 

 

 

 

5

 

A

 

 

 

6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

D

B

 

G

 

 

 

 

 

H

 

 

 

 

7

 

I

8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

J

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

F

10

 

 

 

 

 

 

E

 

 

 

Note - Puzzle had a misspelling and has been corrected!

Across:

2

Universal Automatic Computer

5

Name of assembly language for the CDC 7600 and similar computers

7

Erasable long term memory before Flash

9

PDP-11 Time Sharing Operating System with built in Basic-Plus

Down:

1

Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer

3

He went from VMS to Windows NT

4

His law says transistors on an Integrated Circuit double every 2 years

6

Creator of the CDC 6600

8

Opposite of Complex Instruction Set Computer

10

7400 series IC family

You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.

Geocaching Colorado

Initial contents:

FTF Coin for First to Find
Log
Pencil
DECUS Languages&Tools Magician Pin
LED Flashlight Keyring
Travel Bug to move along
*** Ok.. How did the whippersnappers get FTF? FilmBEe are now honorary Grey-Haired Geeks for being FTF! ***

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 Logs

7 Logs: Found it 7  

Found it 10/26/2018 By DuneBuddy
Sometimes you need to read all about the cache to figure out how to find it. I thought I was looking for one kind of container but after reading the contents realized I was looking for another kind. With this ah ha moment in hand I made the quick find. TFTC

Found it 10/24/2018 By T5M
One by one we are getting these puzzles off the map. This one was quite the chore. However I had to reach out to PAF. Finally the final coordinates came to life. Stopped by after work today to make the find. All is well with this cache. Container in great shape.

Some may say we are crazy, but this game/hobby is one of the greatest gifts. Who doesn’t love a great scavenger hunt. Hiking, biking or driving hundreds of miles to sign our name on a piece of paper. This brings us a lifetime of joy.

Thanks for placing this cache and keeping our recreation going. SL/with PoshCacher/MagicCacher.Tftc
#1952
Found using Cachly on iPhone!

Found it 10/10/2017 By PayMeCache
With the help of heh324 and fearthefish we made way to find this one after completing a multicache nearby. Of course heh324 has to educate me a little on this one. All is well with the cache and log.

Found GC35CDV - How Geek Are You?, on October 10, 2017 using Cachly for iOS.

Some may call me seriously mentally ill. Some may state that I am in a state of mind that prevents social interaction. Some may say I am in a state of mind that prevents normal perception and or behavior. I prefer to say that I tend to do the same thing over and over again, but I expect different results. That being said, I believe we only live one life and I am trying to make the best of it. I thank you, KA&JWest for placing a fun geocache to fuel my "insanity" or addiction as I call it. I appreciate you bringing me here so that I can sign my alias on a piece of paper that you have hidden.

I look forward to finding more of your geocaches. I also look forward to potentially finding geocaches with you one day and sharing stories of our insanity... I mean hobby or addiction? Cheers!

Found it 10/10/2017 By fearthefish
Heh324 aka SpeakNoEvil was certainly the brains behind the solving of this puzzle. She once again proved that, on occasion, she is worth keeping around.

PayMeCache, on the other hand, really has no intrinsic value whatsoever. We have asked him repeatedly to go away. However, he never acknowledges us because he is as deaf as a post. So, we take pity on him and keep him around for our occasional entertainment.

As always, thanks for another of your fun puzzle caches and for putting up with us and our logs.

Found it 10/10/2017 By heh324
Of the 3 monkeys( See No Evil - @fearthefish, Hear No Evil - @PayMeCache, and Speak No Evil - myself) evidently I am the geekiest as this took me little to no time to solve. And even worse, I recognized the fortran cards in the background of your cache....and why you ask??? Because I am old enough that that was how we were programming in my computer class in high school! (I guess I should just be grateful that my high school even offered a computer class.) I can always count on my fellow geo-primates though as I would not have been able to sign the log without them. TFTC

Found it 07/12/2017 By Back Country Horsemen
I solved this one last winter when I have much more computer time in the evenings. Today it was cool enough & I had a few extra minutes to snag it. I traded TBs.

Found it 04/25/2017 By FlyBoy86
The puzzle took longer than it should have because on one question.
Great puzzle and it dredged up a lot of old memories, having done Assembly programing in the early 70's.
Used the geochecker feature on-site, and it helped. Should have done it first.
Out from Oregon.
Log and cache in good shape.
Dropped a trackable.
TFTH SL