[cctalk] Re: eBay strikes again!!

2025-06-20 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
#x27;t like the shipping quote. Plus, there's also the whole packing business. -- -------- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- There is always one more imbecile than you counted on. -

[cctalk] Re: Skype

2025-05-14 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> There is a native Teams application for Linux. Well, to the extent Electron can be considered native ... -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- I have but two thi

[cctalk] Re: Skype

2025-05-13 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
try from either country, and the numbers are local. She was also a big user of Skype calling, but having this now part of her handset is simpler. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodg

[cctalk] Re: Compute's Gazette returning

2025-04-30 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
ey're likely to publish, but because they're trying to cover the entire retro scene, it's going to be more COMPUTE and less Gazette. Which is fine, but it's not Gazette. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser *

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

2025-04-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
nal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Premature optimization is the root of all evil. -- Donald Knuth

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

2025-04-01 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> I have a book about writing AI code on a Tandy computer from 1981 Commodore did one of these too. Very primitive, but I liked it at the time. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * c

[cctalk] Re: Elliott Algol

2025-02-16 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> do you start discussions around u redits on the articles complaining about > the removal ofthe info I used to. Then I realized they enjoy that. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com

[cctalk] Re: Elliott Algol

2025-02-16 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
producible or otherwise high quality. I admit to a bit of pique here: I don't even bother updating Wikipedia articles anymore because they'll always get reverted by someone with less of a life than me for any number of specious reasons. -- -------- perso

[cctalk] Re: RS232 - parallel modems!?

2025-02-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. -- H. H. Williams -

[cctalk] Re: RS232 then and now

2025-02-03 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
ut the line drivers in the keyboard... Pretty sure the Pro as well (at least, I don't need to run any power to the VR201). -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Watch

[cctalk] Re: RS232 then and now (bitbanging)

2025-02-02 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Turbo232 with a 56K modem for awhile. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Actually, we can overcome gravity (just not the paperwork involved). ---

[cctalk] Re: RS232 then and now

2025-01-31 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
ems in the same case. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Excellent guess, Kreskin. Wrong, but excellent. -- Space Quest 6 ---

[cctalk] Re: Microsoft history

2025-01-31 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> Microsoft, or is it Micro-Soft or MICROSOFT, You forgot MICROS~1. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- There are 10 kinds of people: those who read binary,

[cctalk] Re: Apple & History (Was: Microsoft 50 years)

2025-01-31 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
o the 68K emulator, though 8.6 was probably the compatibility peak. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- TRUE HEADLINE: Bomb Victims Still Trying To Pick Up The Pieces -

[cctalk] Re: null modem for DEC Pro 380

2025-01-20 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
stack for Venix/PRO through Slirp). I'll try a null-modem cable on it first. Thanks! -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Isn't it odd how Mac users are loyal to Apple, but not always vice versa? --

[cctalk] Re: null modem for DEC Pro 380

2025-01-20 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
. Anything special about the wiring required? Thanks! -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- He who Laughs, Lasts. --

[cctalk] null modem for DEC Pro 380

2025-01-20 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
DEC Pro owners: does the DEC Professional use a straight-thru serial cable, or null? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- BOND THEME NOW PLAYING: "All-Time High&

[cctalk] Re: AI? Really?

2025-01-18 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> I fear that before long, the WWW will be hopelessly polluted by > AI-generated content. "Facts" will become irrelevant. We call this "politics." -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems

[cctalk] DECtalk for Digital UNIX

2025-01-15 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
haPC 164LX running Tru64 5.1B). -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- The surest test of discipline is its absence. -- Clara Barton --

[cctalk] Re: Old mainframe humor

2024-12-10 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
-- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- The whippings shall continue until morale improves.

[cctalk] Re: A bit of humor to test the list

2024-12-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
a vector XOR instruction). -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Who ever said the human race was logical? -- Gillian, Star Trek IV -

[cctalk] Re: HCF [was: System 360 question]

2024-11-03 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
itial values of the registers. Can we pick the initial contents of memory? ;) -- ---- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Go Computer Now! -- Sphere Corporation -

[cctalk] Re: undocumented instructions including HCF [was: System 360 question]

2024-11-01 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
like the 6800 HCF. They were eliminated in the 65C02, though later versions add the STP opcode as an intentional way to halt the CPU until reset. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai..

[cctalk] Re: Ward Christensen (BBS, XMODEM) has died

2024-10-13 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. -- Jack Paar

[cctalk] Re: Valuable floppy archiving: seeking current best practice

2024-10-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
onkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- ACTUAL CLASSIFIED AD: Parachute, used once, never opened, small stain. $100

[cctalk] Re: Data General MV/8000 emulator announcement

2024-10-05 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
l take time before source code will be part of a SimH release. > > What platform(s) were you targeting...? The one I'm typing on, OpenPower ppc64le (a POWER9 Raptor Talos II). -- -------- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodg

[cctalk] Re: Data General MV/8000 emulator announcement

2024-10-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
onkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- There is no rest for the wicked, yet the virtuous have no pillows. -

[cctalk] Re: LCM auction

2024-08-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
-- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- One can live in Paris ... on just grief and anguish. -- Henry Miller ---

[cctalk] Re: 8P8C but width of an RJ-11

2024-08-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
nector's narrow 8P8C is the right width and a careful swipe or two with a Dremel machined out enough of a divot to match the port key. Alligator clips and jumpers were enough to wire it up to serial and the connection is functional and snug. Thanks for the suggestion, Lamar! It did the job. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- When two elephants fight, the grass and trees suffer. -- African proverb ---

[cctalk] Re: MS-DOS

2024-07-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
rced to be an undergraduate until you call in to get a new one. Great at parties. -- -------- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- BOND THEME NOW PLAYING: "The World is Not Enough" --

[cctalk] Re: Old vintage computing magazine/newsletters

2024-07-16 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
ro, some Family Computing, ...). -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- LDA #TXT:JMP $AB1E:TXT .asc "just another c64 hacker":.byt 0d00 -

[cctalk] Re: 8P8C but width of an RJ-11

2024-07-13 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> Patch cords…for banjos?? Telco service line sets, often called buttsets or banjos. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- When the going gets weird, the weird t

[cctalk] Re: 8P8C but width of an RJ-11

2024-07-13 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
e is truncated at page 97, so there's no pinout for the port, though I can tell from the wiring that two lines go to ground and one to voltage). -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- You're never too old to become younger. -- Mae West

[cctalk] Re: 8P8C but width of an RJ-11

2024-07-12 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Ethernet cabling and has the same contact spacing as RJ-45 and RJ-11, but Ethernet is too wide for the jack. I was wondering about RJ-45S or RJ-48, maybe. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Innovation is hard to schedule. -- Dan Fylstra -

[cctalk] 8P8C but width of an RJ-11

2024-07-12 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- When in doubt, take a pawn. -- Mission: Impossible ("Crack-Up")

[cctalk] Re: Experience using an Altair 8800 ("Personal computer" from 70s)

2024-06-02 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
uncontrollable fits of laughter. You owe me a new keyboard (and another glass of milk). -- ---- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- If ignorance is bliss, shouldn't I be happier? -

[cctalk] Re: terminology [was: First Personal Computer]

2024-05-26 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> You rap the drive to get it unstuck, but if you rap it too hard > the machine would reset. I think I had a co-worker like that once. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com

[cctalk] Re: Random items on Pascal #4

2024-05-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> At NCC - Anaheim, I bought John Draper lunch (I never exercised with him) So what you're saying is, you increased his energy level. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.co

[cctalk] Re: Z80 vs other microprocessors of the time.

2024-04-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> I shared an office with a lady who got a computer from Ohio Scientific > that had both a Z80 and a 6502. The Commodore 128 says hi. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodg

[cctalk] Someone with ExpressPCB: can you convert these to Gerbers?

2024-03-26 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- E pluribus Unix

[cctalk] Re: How to shutdown RT11?

2024-03-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> You say that like fsck is reliable now... There's a reason it's only one letter off. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Premature optimization is th

[cctalk] Allied Telesyn stuff was Re: Cleanup time again

2024-03-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
en I put one in service when a new machine arrives but I never seem to run out. Allied Telesis/Allied Telesyn kit is good stuff. I have a 10MBit hub from them that's been in continuous service since at least 1998. It won't die. -- -------- person

[cctalk] CommonPoint for AIX

2024-03-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- "I'd love to go out with you, but I need to clean my toilet brush."

[cctalk] Re: Tadpole/RDI UltraBooks - UNIX notebooks - species needs rescue...

2023-09-24 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
but it also says "Setting NVRAM parameters to default values." which suggests it has default values stored somewhere to set NVRAM to. I don't know much about these systems' boot process, however. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com

[cctalk] Re: Tadpole/RDI UltraBooks - UNIX notebooks - species needs rescue...

2023-09-24 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
censored] -- Ethernet address [censored], Host ID: [censored]. The IDPROM contents are invalid Creator card not detected Boot device: net File and args: >From there it times out, drops to an ok prompt, and I can start Solaris. -- personal: http://ww

[cctalk] Re: Silly question about S-100 and video monitors

2023-09-01 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
ranty sticker remains undisturbed. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- I have but two things to say to you: Celery and Sidewalk. -- Michel Rivard -

[cctalk] Re: Apple 1

2023-08-05 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
ome of them apparently have edge-case incompatibilities). -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- When in doubt, take a pawn. -- Mission: Impossible ("Crack-Up")

[cctalk] Re: 50 pins in three rows

2023-08-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
a SCSI terminator should look. TIL. Thanks! -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- The point of good writing is knowing when to stop. -- Lucy Montgomery --

[cctalk] 50 pins in three rows

2023-08-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
else? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. -- Oscar Wilde

[cctalk] Re: KIM-1 debug board RAM test: *zero* flashes

2023-07-03 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Not sun-worshippers: Son-worshippers! -- Uhura, Star Trek "Bread & Circuses"

[cctalk] KIM-1 debug board RAM test: *zero* flashes

2023-07-03 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
y and fully certifies the other two KIMs. What would cause it to hang (?) in the RAM test on the defective one? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Roger Waters to mo

[cctalk] Re: Need AUI cable

2023-06-27 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
ut it runs Venix/PRO. Gotta try 2.9BSD one of these days. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- 1-GHz Pentium-III + Java + XSLT == 1-MHz 6502. -- Craig Bruce --

[cctalk] Dwight Elvey's KIM diagnostics board

2023-06-19 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
angements you'd prefer. Yes, I'm aware schematics exist, but I was hoping not to place my ability to fix this unit entirely upon my ability to assemble a board if a working one is already out there. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron

[cctalk] Re: Bob Applegate passed away

2023-06-18 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
everloved.com/life-of/robert-applegate/ Bob made great stuff. I bought a few KIM boards off him a few weeks back. He said the treatment wasn't going well, and it didn't seem like it would be long. I'm glad he's at peace. -- personal: http

[cctalk] Re: KIM-1 stuck bits from $280 to $29f

2023-05-12 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
he TTY. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Ninety-nine percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name. ---

[cctalk] Re: KIM-1 stuck bits from $280 to $29f

2023-05-12 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. This board has NEC D2102AL-4 SRAMs on it, so I ordered a couple MM2102AN-4s which look equivalent. I'll swap one in when it arrives and see if that's the problem. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --

[cctalk] Re: KIM-1 stuck bits from $280 to $29f

2023-05-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
a bad RAM chip, but why would it be *just* those addresses? Does that sound like a plausible failure mode? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- God made the in

[cctalk] Re: KIM-1 stuck bits from $280 to $29f

2023-05-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
80, etc. I would think this would still suggest data is the problem. I suppose I could randomly replace the RAM and see what changes but again it seems weird to have a fault so neatly aligned and only in a specific range. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/

[cctalk] KIM-1 stuck bits from $280 to $29f

2023-05-10 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
onal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- require "std_disclaimer.pl"; ---

[cctalk] Atari PLATO was Re: Re: Age of Tape Formats?

2023-03-13 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- You are not ready! -

[cctalk] Re: mainframe vs mini

2023-03-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
This has been around the block: You can lose a screw in a micro. You can lose a screwdriver in a mini. You can get lost in a mainframe. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai

[cctalk] WTB: Accutech Gobi (Gobi7 or Gobi8)

2023-02-27 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
e but will use it if it's there) sitting around gathering dust, I'd love to buy it off you. I have the power supply and batteries already. Southern California. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floo

[cctalk] Re: Tadpole RISC laptop RAM modules

2023-02-26 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
eone with better soldering skills than I've got. I draw the line at surface mount; I've wrecked boards before, and this module has 18 Hitachi DRAM chips on it (parity). -- ---- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *

[cctalk] Re: Tadpole RISC laptop RAM modules

2023-02-26 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
a source for spares because it seems like others on this list have had similar problems with theirs. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Queen, you shall be it if you wish/Look for your king -- Pink Floyd

[cctalk] Tadpole RISC laptop RAM modules

2023-02-26 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
would be even better. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Put your Nose to the Grindstone! -- Plastic Surgeons-Toolmakers Union Ltd. -

[cctalk] Re: DLOAD BASIC command for Color Computer 1/2 heritage

2023-01-31 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
n CLOAD on the client, and it pulled it over the cassette port. No automatic push, but I think he had only around 15 computers or so, so it didn't take long to load software. My math fractions trainer I wrote in CoCo BASIC was in use there for a number of years. -- ---------

[cctalk] Re: Mac System 7.1 or 7.5 question

2023-01-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
uot; but that won't work for Mac OS 8 and 9. :/ -- ---- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Shell scripting: the ultimate open source software.

[cctalk] Re: Mac System 7.1 or 7.5 question

2023-01-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
the Desktop folder. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Our way is peace. -- Septimus, Son worshipper, Star Trek "Bread & Circuses"

[cctalk] Re: Replacing NiCd with NiMH in a pro way.

2022-12-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > dumb charger. Might be worth a watch, but the tl;dr seems to be that trickle >     ^ > The what ??? Too long; didn't read -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser *

[cctalk] Re: what is on topic?

2022-12-20 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
they didn't, but if so that's a shocker to me. It has a VG230 in it which apparently is a NEC V30HL variant. My mistake, it's an 8086 clone, not an 80186. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap S

[cctalk] BSD 2.11 on the DEC PRO

2022-12-20 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
ctual 380? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Male Macintosh geeks are so predictable. All we think about is X. --

[cctalk] Re: what is on topic?

2022-12-20 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
ly > are not run of the mill. Something like the HP LX series or even the portable ZEOS DOS palmtops would probably be on-topic. The OmniGo 100LX behind me has a Vadem equivalent of an 80186. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floo

[cctalk] Apple AWACS register documentation

2022-11-17 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
x27;s different on later 6500s/TAMs. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- God made the integers; all else is the work of Man. -- Kronecker ---

[cctalk] Re: Inline Serial Device?

2022-11-13 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
tp://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- The earth is like a tiny grain of sand, only a lot heavier and bigger. -

[cctalk] Re: Inline Serial Device?

2022-11-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
s://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/10/ir-controlling-new-air-conditioner-in.html -- -------- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. -- Tacitus -

[cctalk] GLACIER-01 in the DataRover 840

2022-11-10 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
these? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- "Endian Little Hate We" -- credits from Connectix Virtual PC 6 for Mac -

[cctalk] Re: HP Computer Museum update

2022-11-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
rticularly historical OS releases? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas. -K. Enderbery

[cctalk] Re: IBM 4863 monitor sync problem (PCjr display)

2022-11-07 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
n. This morning it powers up fine, so maybe there's a cold or bad solder joint somewhere in that area, or a failing cap. I'll check the rails next time it goes bad. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems

[cctalk] IBM 4863 monitor sync problem (PCjr display)

2022-11-06 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
think something in the display blew. Anyone recognize this issue? Seems like it should be a straightforward fix; I can't imagine this monitor is particularly complex internally. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Sy

[cctalk] Re: RDI BriteLite IPX keeps going to white screen

2022-10-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
sonal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- I thought his Markov chain needed oiling. -- Mark J. Blair -

[cctalk] Re: RDI BriteLite IPX keeps going to white screen

2022-10-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
t(s) I'm not sure how I could easily fix it (with my luck it won't be a discrete part). -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- A penny saved is stupid. ---

[cctalk] RDI BriteLite IPX keeps going to white screen

2022-10-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
ith it, but it seems more like the problem is in the display, which is a custom part. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Fish will never understand fear of deep water. -- Tanner Greer -

[cctalk] Re: Apple G5 Rebuild

2022-10-10 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
tasks now that I'm on a Raptor Talos II as my desktop machine, though I do issue security patches on an irregular timeline. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- If th

[cctalk] Re: bubble memory stable?

2022-10-02 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
l you get to the right location. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- BOND THEME NOW PLAYING: "The Living Daylights" -

[cctalk] Re: bubble memory stable?

2022-10-02 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
7;t make a unit that emulates the entire system and looks like a bubble memory storage device, naturally, just like any other disk emulator. -- -------- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Do you think I could buy back my introduction to you? -- Groucho Marx --

[cctalk] Re: i860 vs. i960 WAS Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

2022-09-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- The faster we go, the rounder we get. -- The Grateful Dead, on relativity --

[cctalk] Re: Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

2022-09-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
nal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Everything is permissible, but not everything is expedient. -- 1 Cor 6:12 --

[cctalk] Re: 9-pin mini-DIN serial?

2022-09-16 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
on these looks like, including the metal "bar" at the top: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MiniDIN-9_Diagram.svg -- -------- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- If you use Arabic numerals, THE TERRORISTS WIN -

[cctalk] 9-pin mini-DIN serial?

2022-09-15 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
ARC serial ports because the pins are slightly out of place. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Don't let 'em drive you crazy when it's within walking distance. ---

[cctalk] Agenda VR3 MIPS cross-gcc

2022-07-24 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
sonal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- You can't fool me: there ain't no Sanity Clause. -- Chico Marx -

OT: foreign language away messages was Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 94, Issue 20

2022-07-16 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
meant. And I also knew why wearing mankinis in Kazakhstan is normal and masculine. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Quoth the Web Server, "404!" ---

Re: List migration

2022-07-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> The new hosting is provided by the Chicago Classic Computing group. > > Many thanks to Jay West for hosting the lists for 20 years! Thanks, Jay, CCC and Dennis! -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodga

Re: OT: mail provider recommendation

2022-06-10 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
I don't get a commission; I'm just a satisfied customer. My usual mail client is Thunderbird on Linux and macOS, but I see people using all kinds of clients with it. https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/ -- -------- personal: http://www.cameron

Looking for Silent 700 Model 765 lower board

2022-05-07 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
, but what I need is a working lower board itself. Unless someone is experienced with board level repair and knows the typical faults on these. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodga

Re: DEC OSF/1 for i386?

2022-04-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> but I know at IBM we had 2 principle "ports" that we maintained (PPC Did this have anything to do with Apple's alleged "A/UX for PowerPC" which was supposedly OSF/1 based? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Camer

Re: Not just slashed zeroes/ohs

2022-04-27 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
at I didn't miss anything). -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- How do you explain school to a higher intelligence? -- Elliott in "E.T." ---

Re: Not just slashed zeroes/ohs

2022-04-27 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
-- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Focus is all about saying no. -- early Apple employee --

Re: Not just slashed zeroes/ohs

2022-04-27 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Time makes more converts than reason. -- Thomas Payne --

Re: Retro networking / WAN communities

2022-04-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
suppose that's something I could write up for gits and shiggles. -- -------- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley

Re: Retro networking / WAN communities

2022-04-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
systems I should figure out something fun to do with. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- MOVIE IDEA: The Never-Ending E-mail Signature --

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