Re: Thanksgiving Day

2016-11-24 Thread Ian S. King
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > On 11/24/2016 01:51 PM, Murray McCullough wrote: > > I wanted to wish all American readers of this list a very happy > > Thanksgiving Day from a reader in Canada. Reading 'Classic > > Computing' still plays an important part in my appreciation

Re: Membership disabled due to bounces

2016-11-24 Thread jim stephens
From chocolate... "Gmail is only the single most reliable mail provider in the world, and bounces never happen." On 11/23/2016 5:02 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: >Do we have any evidence that his messages are affecting the rest of us, >though? The thread about email to AOL is not on topic to the

Turkey Day Scans: TELEX

2016-11-24 Thread Jason T
I received another big pile of random documentation this week and these floated to the top and landed directly on my scanner: http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/index.php?dir=%2Fcomputing/WesternUnion Circa 1968-9 Western Union TELEX brochures, rate charts and a little bit of ASR32 technical data. R

Re: Membership disabled due to bounces

2016-11-24 Thread Richard Loken
On Thu, 24 Nov 2016, Graham Toal wrote: Not so. By doing nothing (ie NOT creating an SPF record for the sending domain) you pretty much guarantee a lack of problems. (At least, these specific problems). It's the smart aleck admins who do create SPF records etc who cause the problems, in conjun

Re: Thanksgiving Day

2016-11-24 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 11/24/2016 01:51 PM, Murray McCullough wrote: > I wanted to wish all American readers of this list a very happy > Thanksgiving Day from a reader in Canada. Reading 'Classic > Computing' still plays an important part in my appreciation of the > role of computers from earlier years in why I still

Thanksgiving Day

2016-11-24 Thread Murray McCullough
I wanted to wish all American readers of this list a very happy Thanksgiving Day from a reader in Canada. Reading 'Classic Computing' still plays an important part in my appreciation of the role of computers from earlier years in why I still enjoy working with computers. Happy computing. Murray :)

Re: Membership disabled due to bounces

2016-11-24 Thread John H. Reinhardt
On 11/24/2016 12:20 PM, Eric Christopherson wrote: What's a bounce score, and how do you know what yours is and what the limit is? Does classiccmp specify 5.0, or Yahoo, or what? When you get the message saying you have been disabled, it contains two links. One is the link to re-enable yo

Re: Membership disabled due to bounces

2016-11-24 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Nov 23, 2016 11:05 PM, "John H. Reinhardt" wrote: > > > On 11/23/2016 8:00 PM, Eric Christopherson wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016, Michael Brutman wrote: >>> >>> Gmail routinely marks these emails as spam. And Gmail clearly says: " It >>> has a from address in aol.com but has failed aol.com

Re: Reverse-engineering WD1000, WD1001 hard disk controllers

2016-11-24 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/24/16 7:34 AM, dwight wrote: > I have a loose WD1000 someplace that I was going to use as for spare parts, > for the trs80 board I'm using. take a look at the pictures of the boards on bitsavers to see if they've already been dumped they are bipolar, 24 pin .6 are 82s181 .3 are 82s147

Re: Reverse-engineering WD1000, WD1001 hard disk controllers

2016-11-24 Thread dwight
I have a loose WD1000 someplace that I was going to use as for spare parts, for the trs80 board I'm using. If I can find it, I can dump the ROMs. Do I need to make adapters for them? When I first got the TRS80 one, it had a bad WD chip ( forget which one) but I found one a Anchor Elect. I l