> My world std (Software Tool and Die) account which was the first in the
> US to offer a unix shell account and email had a dialup service that is
> still in existence with local non toll numbers today to get onto the
> network via dialup.
Huh... This is pretty cool. I just checked them out and t
On 10/31/24 07:06, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 at 20:24, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
They had a lot of local numbers so you didn’t have to pay Toll charges.
Only in the USA, or maybe N America.
Most of the world, AFAIK, we all paid for all calls, local and
long-distanc
On 10/31/24 19:02, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
On 10/31/24 09:35, Donald Whittemore via cctalk wrote:
If I remember right I was told back in the early 70s by our IBM CE
that physical damage could be done to our model 30 or 40 if we ran a
program that did an Assembler instruction, B * For
remember, core memory is destructive read out. to read the bits you erase them
and have to rewrite them.
I doubt the B * running for 30 seconds, then cancel the job would be bad, but
if you started it up Friday and it ran all weekend? every time you demagnetize
and re-magnetize those cores, p
On 10/31/24 09:35, Donald Whittemore via cctalk wrote:
If I remember right I was told back in the early 70s by our IBM CE that
physical damage could be done to our model 30 or 40 if we ran a program that
did an Assembler instruction, B *For those non-Assembler people that is an
instruction
On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 9:35 AM Donald Whittemore via cctalk
wrote:
> If I remember right I was told back in the early 70s by our IBM CE that
> physical damage could be done to our model 30 or 40 if we ran a program that
> did an Assembler instruction, B *For those non-Assembler people that
On 10/31/24 10:39, Paul Koning wrote:
> I could imagine it in PPs, also in 6400 machines since they don't have an
> "instruction stack" so instruction fetches would go to memory. For all of
> those you'd end up hammmering a single memory cell at high speed, and each
> time you do that you get
On 10/31/24 10:39 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Oct 31, 2024, at 11:41 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
On 10/31/24 07:35, Donald Whittemore via cctalk wrote:
If I remember right I was told back in the early 70s by our IBM CE that
physical damage could be done to our model 30 or 4
> On Oct 31, 2024, at 11:41 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On 10/31/24 07:35, Donald Whittemore via cctalk wrote:
>> If I remember right I was told back in the early 70s by our IBM CE that
>> physical damage could be done to our model 30 or 40 if we ran a program that
>> did an Ass
On 10/31/24 07:35, Donald Whittemore via cctalk wrote:
> If I remember right I was told back in the early 70s by our IBM CE that
> physical damage could be done to our model 30 or 40 if we ran a program that
> did an Assembler instruction, B *For those non-Assembler people that is
> an instr
If I remember right I was told back in the early 70s by our IBM CE that
physical damage could be done to our model 30 or 40 if we ran a program that
did an Assembler instruction, B *For those non-Assembler people that is an
instruction to branch to the location of the instruction. I think i
On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 at 01:30, Ken Seefried via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I tried to install Warp 4 on a T42 while back. I concur...it was a pain in
> the butt, and never worked well enough to stick with it.
I can believe that.
I have several legit copies of eComStation somewhere but I got the
version o
Steve,
could you please explain, what exact disk media you are using.
On 30.10.2024 05:03, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote:
Fascinating notes!
I did run into oddities when using a 360KB disks in between a 1.2M 5.25
drive on the '386 and the 5.25 drive on the Sharp PC-5000. I forget my
exact seq
On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 at 20:24, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
> They had a lot of local numbers so you didn’t have to pay Toll charges.
Only in the USA, or maybe N America.
Most of the world, AFAIK, we all paid for all calls, local and
long-distance. Local was cheaper but it was by the minute which r
Richard via cctalk wrote:
> In article you write:
> >I'm looking for assembler, linker and the simulator that was abailable
> >when those chips came out (1986...) but I can't find any occurences
> >of that old stuff anymore.
> >Was a C compiler available for those old DSP's?
>
> Did you look her
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