Re: PC-Letter "WUI" War over User Interface 1-1988

2017-11-22 Thread r.stricklin via cctalk
On Nov 21, 2017, at 8:36 AM, william degnan via cctech wrote: > Basically I am unsure what planet the author was from, but you can decide > for yourself. Talks a little about HP's GUI product, Sun/AT&T, Apple > Finder, etc. Mentions NeXT is coming, Commodore is dead, ... opinionated. I don't k

Re: Idle question: Color of tape coatings

2017-11-22 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 11/22/2017 02:52 PM, Tom Gardner via cctalk wrote: > The following answer comes from a retired IBM tape technologist: > > The color of the coatings on a tape are dominated by the magnetic pigment (or > the carbon used in back coats..which is black)..the earliest iron oxide > coatings were ba

RE: Idle question: Color of tape coatings

2017-11-22 Thread Tom Gardner via cctalk
Hi: The following answer comes from a retired IBM tape technologist: The color of the coatings on a tape are dominated by the magnetic pigment (or the carbon used in back coats..which is black)..the earliest iron oxide coatings were based on the conversion of alpha-iron oxide which is a pale y

Re: Ideas for a simple, but somewhat extendable computer bus

2017-11-22 Thread ben via cctalk
On 11/20/2017 8:41 AM, Tapley, Mark via cctalk wrote: On Nov 19, 2017, at 11:54 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: So we agree on parallel standard buses, that STD bus is a strong contender with varied processor base. Catching up late, sorry if this is an old question, but what did t

Re: DR-DOS

2017-11-22 Thread Peter Corlett via cctalk
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 08:15:00PM +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: [...] > A file-based virus could escape _if_ the VM had access to the host > filesystem. But mine don't, partly because it's moderately hard, partly > because it takes a _ton_ of RAM in DOS terms. Not really: QEMU can be confi

Re: Looking for AT&T 3B2 Networking diskettes

2017-11-22 Thread Seth Morabito via cctalk
Hi Alan, * On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 12:26:53AM -0500, alan--- via cctalk wrote: > > I believe the yahozna archive has them under misc/network. Yup, this is where I originally got the NI card driver disk, and the Wollongong TCP/IP disks. Unfortunately, when I attempt to install the Wollongong

Re: DS12887 pcb substitute with battery

2017-11-22 Thread alan--- via cctalk
What are you talking about? https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/maxim-integrated/DS12885/DS12885-ND/1196867 -Alan On 2017-11-21 14:16, Maciej W. Rozycki via cctech wrote: On Mon, 13 Nov 2017, systems_glitch wrote: Good stuff! I recently designed a module to build new DS1287 and DS1288