Penske and others rent tractor-trailers to those with a CDL, so ... 8^O
Maybe the real estate arm of Allen’s empire has a deal on a warehouse that
Amazon hasn’t already turned into office space?
On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 4:03 PM Mark Huffstutter via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> If The
I’m not a lawyer (thank goodness!), but you have to know what they plan to
do and when. If they don’t “happen to see” your associated paperwork and
intend to scrap it, the only notice may be via some “public” announcement
in an obscure local periodical, as is customary for foreclosure sales. If
n
Wasn’t there a question as to whether LCM + L was ever going to open again
because Paul Allen’s estate’s executors are closing down things that don’t
interest them (permanently?), and COVID-19 provided an excuse to completely
lay off staff? The website still says “closed ... for now”.
Another All
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 3:12 PM Chris Zach via cctalk
wrote:
> It is the way
The Force is strong in this one ...
>
>
http://www.wendycarlos.com/bake%20a%20tape/baketape.html
Wendy Carlos is the performer who produced "Switched-On Bach", the
soundtrack for "A Clockwork Orange", "Sonic Seasonings", and a bunch of
other amazing recordings created on single-voice Moog synthesizers, using
multi-track tape recorders e
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 3:07 PM Glen Slick via cctalk
wrote:
> Anyone that was seriously going to put up the money for this would know
> how to go about authenticating this item.
It's been estimated by experts that a third to half of the "original
artwork", previously valued at a total in the t
I spent many a happy visit to Al Lasher's when the microcomputing
revolution was just turning over its starter in the SF Bay area. The acid
in the oil/perspiration from my face is probably still etched in the
windows of East Bay buildings that used to house IMSAI, CompuPro, etc.
(assuming they're
Cindy - if he can't find any other alternative, please feel free to forward
his contact info to me, or send my e-mail address to him (a Reply To will
expose it), cc: me.
The rest of this is background for those who may be curious about the state
of our educational system from someone on the inside
If you try to access the paper describing the 2017 - 2018 restoration work,
you soon crash into an academic publication paywall, but if you're
persistent enough, as my frugal, self-funded computing and robotics
students and I are, you will eventually find this link to the PDF of the
paper at the au
Starting in 1987, future Mac product circuitry and VLSI designs were run on
a Cray X-MP/48 for hardware and software simulations under Unicos Cray’s
licensed version of Unix System V: Apple was the first company that Cray
allowed to access their Network Systems Corporation (Minneapolis) developed
A, Rich, now you've gone and taken all the mystery out of it, and the
fun of complaining about something over which we have no control! Unfair
to Local 12 of the Villains, Thieves, and Scoundrels Union! :D
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 2:25 PM Rich Alderson via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrot
Speaking of COBOL and Admiral Grace Hopper, I have one of her actual
nanoseconds, a piece of insulated solid wire about 11.2 inches long, when
she was a Superintendent's guest lecturer. Since I was a Navy MSCS
student, she "signed" it with stripes and gaps in magic marker, as the ones
and zeroes i
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 4:08 PM Toby Thain via cctalk
wrote:
Is this blather on topic?
>
> If so I need to be on a different list.
>
Go ahead, if you think you can enjoy ignoring the reality that exists
outside an imaginary bubble. Computing was, and is, used for all sorts of
useful purposes, i
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 2:49 PM Holm Tiffe wrote:
> You are talking from the US, right?
> There is no other country on the world that fit's that nicely to your
> described symptoms.
>
See the foregoing posts. There is no other country in the world outside
the U.S. capable of saving, let alone
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 7:36 AM Will Cooke via cctalk
wrote:
> > Would the US prefer to not use arbitration at all ? Then it would be
> asimple matter of who is the strongest.
>
Worked pretty well for Teddy Roosevelt and the rest of yes, we, the U.S.,
over history, who saved most others' bacon
Not everyone on this list was even alive when much of this happened, and
others of us were busy dealing with other very important things going on in
The Real World then, so this is a very interesting story for many.
Anyone willing to do business with the terrorists in Iran knew why they
were getti
Hi John,
You may already be aware of it and visited if you've ever been to Chicago,
but, the Museum of Science and Industry is well worth a visit if you don't
find anything more computing oriented that's more interesting. You can
check out their current exhibits and search for computing exhibits
" ... like to write their own version"
It's a good thing no one else ever wrote their own version of history ...
oh, wait, _everyone_ does that! They once called it "To the victor goes
the spoils (of victory)." Jealously will get you nowhere, by the way.
Inferior products and services can only b
Don't spoil the spirit of excitement over this sort of thing, even if they
get every detail wrong. You weren't present for this event, and even
"expert" historians routinely also get a _lot_ of things wrong. I lived
through this era, and have spent the last two decades conveying the
importance of
The first 15,000, or so, Apple ///s had a problem where the very large,
dense, poorly mechanically-supported motherboard would warp as it heated up
after power-on. That resulted in ICs popping up in sockets enough to break
contact, as well as micro-cracks in printed circuit board traces. The
warp
Hi Benjamin,
I’m a high school teacher and am building up a computing lab with donated
and other items out of my own pocket. This would be perfect, especially
with the networking hardware, as I have a few ES45s and a RAID disk array.
I’m in Montana, but, school just got out and going to the coast
http://retrocmp.com/tools/uniprobe
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:44 PM Marc Howard via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> OK, stupid question time. I'm at work and I can't find retrocomp's
> website. Can you point me to it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marc Howard
>
> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 2:36 PM Bria
No firefighter in their right mind is going to knowingly pump a drop of
water anywhere near or in the direction of a data center, let alone into
it. That's why they're equipped with Halon or other oxygen displacement,
cooling, and flame suppression systems, and the FDs are equipped with
appropriat
Bidding hasn't ended on the display electronics, but, it's not clear when
bidding will end, so, bid high and often! :D
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 8:05 PM Adrian Stoness via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> weird this only went for 220 bucks
> https://www.rrauction.com/bidtracker_detail.cfm?I
Jussi Kilpelainen's page cited above (
https://www.tindie.com/products/kilpelaj/core-memory-shield-for-arduino/)
refers to the work of Ben North and Oliver Nash to create another core
memory shield for Arduino Unos. Their site inspired Jussi to create his
shield kit, which can be viewed at:
http:
To those of us who develop AI in the real world, it stands for "Artificial
Incompetence". We're not talking about just the software, but the
practitioners.who should know better than to allow anyone (especially
themselves) to overpromise and shamelessly promote AI being able to do
things that are
Hi Jos,
Thanks very much for posting about the NinjaFlex material. That will come
in very handy as my students design robotic parts, although I'm sure it
won't be long before custom-made "rubber" bands will be flying around the
lab, and new-fangled slingshots ("wrist rockets") won't be far behind
Hi Randy,
Here’s how to do it in Windows 10 (and probably 8):
https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/set-time-limits-windows-10
For Windows 7:
https://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/6900/windows-7-how-to-set-time-limits-for-a-child/
All the Best,
Jim
On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 00:17 Randy Dawson via cct
Did someone say "punched cards ... with steganographic bits in chads that
are only attached along a couple of edges"?
On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 4:36 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
> On 2/4/19 3:22 PM, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
> > At 04:49 PM 2/4/2019, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> >> And, of
Hi again Andrew,
Sorry for the techno-toys reference, and it wasn’t meant to be offensive,
which I’m sure you understand as I couldn’t know it would be to you. I
try to keep things light because I spent a very serious career in the
military, including membership on teams with nuclear weapons rel
Hi Andrew,
If it’s any consolation, the users of these components will be high school
students in an extremely rural area at the lowest level of poverty in the
U.S. The students are eager to learn computing and networking principles,
and these will provide opportunities for that in spades.
The
Hi Richard,
I've got everything lined up to do a full pickup, except the timing. It
will have to be next Saturday, 2/2, or preferably 2/9, but I appreciate
that the owner has waited this long. The only potential bugaboo could be
the weather, but the cycle seems to be favorable at the moment. Ho
RISC was never just about compiler and hardware simplification for improved
performance of the most frequently-executed instructions. It's also been
front-and-center in low-power (e.g., mobile) and embedded (now including
Internet of Things) applications, which each far outpace the number of
devic
,
Jim
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 9:51 AM Grant Taylor via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 12/21/18 1:07 AM, Jim Manley via cctalk wrote:
> > no, emulators will not cut it
>
> Would you please expand upon that?
>
> Are you saying that things like a Raspberry Pi run
My early Christmas present was finding all of the wonderful and amazing
people already gathered here and on other fora concerning classic
computing, especially S-100 systems that I missed the development of while
at a service academy, stationed overseas, and forward-deployed aboard ships.
Donation
I teach 7th - 12th grade Science (all of them) and Computing at a very
rural Little Red Brick K-12 Schoolhouse beyond The Middle of Nowhere in
Montana. Even waay out here, there are kids who just love, love, love
retro 80s games, and no, emulators will not cut it, thank you very much.
We recen
There’s a lot to be said for the Navy manuals because we (22 years in my
case), as all of the branches of the military and, increasingly, industry,
have had to educate our enlisted people in STEM principles, concepts,
practices, and skills. That’s because the K-12 “education” system has
largely pu
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 3:31 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2018, Jay West wrote:
> > Some are casting metal parts by 3d printing molds.
>
> Besides printing molds, I have heard that there is now a filament
> available that can be melted out/away, for a variant of lost-wax
> [sa
This?
http://searle.hostei.com/grant/MonitorKeyboard/index.html
It's much more efficient for a poster to provide URLs than for umpteen
others to have to go off searching.
You're welcome.
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 2:04 PM allison via cctalk
wrote:
> >> That is the easy part, where is the 99 cent
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 3:28 PM Grant Taylor via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 11/30/2018 02:33 PM, Jim Manley via cctalk wrote:
> > There's enough slack in the approved offerings that electives can be
> > weighted more toward the technical direction
> Back on topic, the tools exist, but they are often seen as toys and
> not serious software
> development tools. Are we at the point where the compiler for a visual
> programming
> language is written in the visual programming language?
>
> - Keelan
>
Hi Keelan,
I was going to mention this furth
Some computing economics history:
I'm an engineer and scientist by both education and experience, and one
major difference between the disciplines is that engineers are required to
pass coursework and demonstrate proficiency in economics. That's because
we need to deliver things that actually do
DEC had some employees with clearances all the way up both primary sides of
the classification ladder, General Service (GENSER, which includes some
"black" programs), and Special Compartmented Intelligence (SCI, which has
its own alphabet soup, including other kinds of "black" programs). They
need
I spent six weeks at MSU Bozeman this past Summer integrating a
performance-boosting, wide-area network-distributed database enhancement to
an augmented reality project sponsored through the Western Transportation
Institute there. I thoroughly enjoyed visiting the museum, which is a
couple of bloc
Hi Mike,
I teach science (all of ‘em!) and computing at a small, rural, K-12 school
in Montana (we graduated our Senior (sic) last year!) and we’re trying to
figure out how to get all of our mini proto geeks to the museum (and house
them) to both volunteer and exhibit some of our vintage systems
All this yammering about fancy desoldering gizmos harkens back memories of
a "desoldering station" consisting of a hot soldering iron ... made of a
hefty amount of copper (the kind you put in a pit of fire to heat up!) and
a long, skinny screwdriver, or two, used to _very_ gently pry up ICs from
ea
Evan said it was in service until a couple of months ago, so it should
power up OK, if it could all be electrically and mechanically stitched back
together carefully. The question is probably, could they afford the power
bill? We have a bunch of Crays and CDCs at the Computer History Museum,
and
One of my postgraduate school CS professors worked on the iAPX 432 and his
tidbit about the history of its development was that, whenever the EEs were
confronted with a hardware-level problem by the CSs, the EEs would
universally respond with, "Oh, well, that can be fixed by you software guys
with
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 12:55 PM Guy Sotomayor Jr wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 3:59 PM Guy Sotomayor Jr
> wrote:
>
>> An (optional) X server (and clients) can be added to the OS (I use them
>> all the time) but is not part of the base install ...
>>
>
> Apple has been using self-customized,
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 9:34 AM Eric Smith via cctalk
wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 02:36 Jim Manley wrote:
>
> Microsoft did offer a RAM expansion board specifically to allow the
> Softcard to access 64K of RAM dedicated to CP/M,
>
> Even that wasn't dedicated to CP/M. It was a 16K RAM card th
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 3:59 PM Guy Sotomayor Jr wrote:
> An (optional) X server (and clients) can be added to the OS (I use them
> all the time) but
> is not part of the base install ...
>
Wrong. Apple has been using self-customized, optimized-for their-hardware
supersets of the VNC protocol (
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 4:16 PM John Foust via cctalk
wrote:
> At 04:40 PM 10/22/2018, Jim Manley via cctalk wrote:
> >As for multitasking, even Windows 10 can easily get bogged down where the
> >GUI becomes essentially unresponsive to user actions. MS has never
> grasped
Hi Liam,
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 8:15 AM Liam Proven via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> Cairo was intended to be semi "object oriented" ...
>
This reference to "object-oriented" is way off, conflating GUI "objects"
and true object-oriented software. OO in code has nothing to do with
[ Accidentally only sent to Eric originally ]
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 3:41 PM Eric Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 01:46 Jim Manley via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>> The Softcard was a Z-80 based single-board
>> computer
>
>
> It wasn't. It was only a processor
Just to be clear, it wasn't that the CGA hadn't been designed and put
into production by the launch of the PC, the demand for the CGA was
simply overwhelming compared with the much lower demand and relatively
greater supply of the MDA. Plus, IBM had no experience selling into
retail, let alone non
I thought it was just hilarious that Microsoft chose The Rolling
Stones' "Start Me Up" for the theme song at the launch of Windows 95,
unaware of the later lyrics in the song (not played during the launch,
oddly enough), "You make a grown man cry-y-y ... You make a grown man
cry-y-y ... You make a
The stability of the dyes is only part of the problem. Even mass-produced
read-only optical media (e.g., movie/video content DVDs) can become
unreadable over time because the reflective layer (typically aluminum)
under the data-encoded layer corrodes due to the chemistry of the dyes and
encasing p
The degradation and attracting bacteria is also why geeks don’t get to
handle humans ... well, the halitosis, body odor, long hair/beards, etc.,
probably don’t help, either! 😳😁
All the Best,
Jim
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 9:09 AM js--- via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Different kind of oils, Christian. What
Using all of those gates to do brute-force logic for character vector
generation is pretty brilliant. Edison was truly a genius because he
invented and sold the electric light so that people could stay up late at
night to listen to his phonograph invention that he also sold. The
electric lights a
When you have "Defense Products Division" in your organization's name,
"high price" comes with the products, ala $10,000 hammers and toilet
seats (and
"Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation" doesn't exactly evoke
thoughts of Walmart pricing, either).
I grew up a few stones' throws from Clif
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