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On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 5:22 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote: The greatest ever video about pre-WWW internet was "Hyperland".
a 1991 BBC documentary by Douglas Adams and Ted Nelson, and also starr
On 8/1/22 18:58, Ryan de Laplante via cctalk wrote:
> Thank you Chuck. You’re right, I’ve never heard of Auntie. Thanks for
> letting me know about it, but I’m mainly interested in the more mainstream
> ones.
Well, it depends, Auntie was the software for ATT-PAC as well as Walnut
Creek BB
The greatest ever video about pre-WWW internet was "Hyperland".
a 1991 BBC documentary by Douglas Adams and Ted Nelson, and also starring Tom
Baker.
A few years BEFORE WWW, it predicted the future of the internet.
https://archive.org/details/DouglasAdams-Hyperland
If you want subtitles/captions,
In case you aren't aware of it, there was a bbs magazine. Just ran across this:
https://archive.org/details/bbsmagazine
Will
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Marvin Minsky
The computer shoppers in the ‘80s and 90’s were full of BBS listings. Might
look there.
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> On Aug 1, 2022, at 18:58, Ryan de Laplante via cctalk
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>> On Aug 1, 2022, at 11:49 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
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>>> On 8/1/22 06:26, Ryan de Laplante vi
> On Aug 1, 2022, at 11:49 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> wrote:
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> On 8/1/22 06:26, Ryan de Laplante via cctalk wrote:
>> Over the years I have been collecting BBS related memorabilia such as Night
>> Owl shareware CDs, Boardwatch magazine, BBS magazine, books, manuals,
>> original disks, et
Apparently there was a BBS magazine. Just happened across this.
https://archive.org/details/bbsmagazine
Will
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Marvin Minsky
> On Aug 1, 2022, at 8:21 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> The greatest ever video about pre-WWW internet was "Hyperland".
> a 1991 BBC documentary by Douglas Adams and Ted Nelson, and also starring Tom
> Baker.
> A few years BEFORE WWW, it predicted the future of the internet.
>
> ht
The greatest ever video about pre-WWW internet was "Hyperland".
a 1991 BBC documentary by Douglas Adams and Ted Nelson, and also starring Tom
Baker.
A few years BEFORE WWW, it predicted the future of the internet.
https://archive.org/details/DouglasAdams-Hyperland
If you want subtitles/captio
You might want to try contacting Ward Christensen. He is the creator of
the original CBBS in Chicago along with Randy Suess.
Ward's linked in is: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wardchristensen.
On 8/1/2022 2:15 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, 1 Aug 2022, Ryan de Laplante via cctalk wro
Hi
The Tektronix 4970 does something similar to an IBM 3174 or 3708.
It hooks up terminals to an IBM mainframe, in this case Tektronix
graphics terminals, see [1], p.36ff.
Is anybody here in possession of the software that runs on it?
-Alex
[1] http://bitsavers.org/pdf/tektronix/tekniques/vol7/
On Mon, 1 Aug 2022, Ryan de Laplante via cctalk wrote:
Has anyone ever seen promotional videos showing Prodigy, Compuserv,
Delphi, GENie, AOL? I've collected disks, but the systems are long gone
so archived video is all we have to remember them by. When I was young,
I remember seeing disks an
> On Aug 1, 2022, at 11:38 AM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk
> wrote:
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>> For an extra $1 now you can get integrated WiFi (and Bluetooth but
>> there isn't any BT software support yet) in the form of the $5 Pi
>> Pico W, so that's one route to talking to an IP network for IoT or
>> something
On 8/1/22 9:00 AM, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote:
Just a heads up in case you aren't familiar, there is a project out
there where someone was pulling data from Prodigy cache directories
(from installed software that was used, on old computers.) They were
working to re-create Prodigy.
I'm fri
>
> For an extra $1 now you can get integrated WiFi (and Bluetooth but
> there isn't any BT software support yet) in the form of the $5 Pi
> Pico W, so that's one route to talking to an IP network for IoT or
> something like this.
>
> A neat thing about the Pico is that you can do hard real-time
On 8/1/22 06:26, Ryan de Laplante via cctalk wrote:
> Over the years I have been collecting BBS related memorabilia such as Night
> Owl shareware CDs, Boardwatch magazine, BBS magazine, books, manuals,
> original disks, etc. Does anyone have any BBS memorabilia they might be
> willing to sell t
Has anyone ever seen promotional videos showing Prodigy, Compuserv,
Delphi, GENie, AOL? I've collected disks, but the systems are long gone
so archived video is all we have to remember them by. When I was young,
I remember seeing disks and pamphlets for these services in the box when
upgradin
>“yellow pages”
Do you recall what this was called? I remember (vaguely) something called the
"Yanoff List" which was an attempt at a paper catalog of websites.
73 Eugene W2HX
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-Original Message-
From: Ryan
Over the years I have been collecting BBS related memorabilia such as Night Owl
shareware CDs, Boardwatch magazine, BBS magazine, books, manuals, original
disks, etc. Does anyone have any BBS memorabilia they might be willing to sell
to me? I’m particularly interested in PCBoard box/disks/man
All,
Per the LAN-attached serial thread, here's another cheap Lantronix device:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/123577635191
This is a LRS-2, which is basically a two-port LRS-1, one of their older models
of serial bridges. The LRS-2 is nice not only for the two ports, but because it
also has AUI and
> On Jul 31, 2022, at 7:25 PM, Gavin Scott via cctalk
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> On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 2:29 PM Paul Koning via cctalk
> wrote:
>> Yet another one is Raspberry Pico,
>>
>> Neither of these come standard with Ethernet, though I've seen option cards.
>> In the case of Pico, it seems poss
On Sun, 31 Jul 2022, Fritz Mueller wrote:
+1 for the Digi Portserver for this application. I recently grabbed one
off eBay, because I have a number of vintage terminals here which I
would like to ?crossbar? to a number of vintage computers with serial
terminal support, and also provide both te
Hello list,
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>My attempt at the colors from several years ago.
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>http://www.chdickman.com/pdp8/DECcolors/
>
>CHM = Color Harmony Manual
Many thanks to those (especially Charles and Vincent) who gave me pointers on
how to reproduce the DEC grey colour of the DEC cabinets. I wasn't aware tha
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