On 23/07/2025 02:17, Jeffrey Brace via cctalk wrote:
What do you mean you haven't booked your hotel room for VCF West 2025?
No, considering I live in Europe, and it has become clear that
traveling to the US can be a rather horrible experience that I'd
rather avoid.
Julf
Anyone need the Compaq management software pack for
Proliant servers?
I am based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Julf
Forgot to mention that I am based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Julf
On 20/07/2025 13:47, Johan Helsingius via cctalk wrote:
Anyone need Compaq hot plug SCSI drives and/or drive trays
(part number 386536-001)? I have 16 of them spare.
Julf
Anyone need Compaq hot plug SCSI drives and/or drive trays
(part number 386536-001)? I have 16 of them spare.
Julf
On 18/05/2025 04:12, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
No one showed up today. Have we all lost interest. Should I schedule
another one for June?
Well, it was a bit too far to just pop in from here (Amsterdam).
Julf
On 04/05/2025 21:17, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Good point. And yet another is ALGOL 60
A more obscure one - The Nokia MPS-10, a 32-bit supermini from
1983, with a microprogrammed architecture optimized for Ada.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/989798.989799
Julf
On 04/05/2025 20:39, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
A language for which specific machines have been built a number of times is
FORTH
Another is Lisp.
Julf
On 04/05/2025 19:36, Steve Lewis wrote:
But aren't modern ASICs essentially that idea of software-implemented-
in-hardware, mainly for dedicated performance?
I would think of it more as "hardware assisted software" - figure out
what parts are especially critical for performance and implement as
On 03/05/2025 23:18, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote:
Is anyone out there familiar with the Wang 2200 BASIC? Of about 1973/1974
I worked on them for a couple of years back in the day. Still carry the
trauma.
My question is, was its basically really "built" using TTL logic/chips?
The system d
On 09/04/2025 20:21, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
I don't have a problem with skepticism about it. Call it a parlor trick
all day long, tell me it's not *truly* intelligent, but you should also
examine it enough to get to the point where you'll say "that's truly an
amazing and perhaps sometimes
On 03/04/2025 02:10, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
Except that no one ever wrote code like it offered me cause
it was just plain wrong and wouldn't work.
Indeed. As I wrote it has no actual understanding. It just combines
things based on statistics.
It is like Mark V. Shaney, the chatbot t
On 02/04/2025 19:44, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
Think of it like old-school "pair programming" that gives you
a friend in your cube to talk to.
As long as you remember that the "AI" (really not AI, just a
generative large language model) doesn't actually understand
what it is doing - it is ju
On 15/02/2025 20:53, ben via cctalk wrote:
Some how 6 bit characters seems more standard, text wise,
compared with the mess with accented characters and money characters
of today.
6 bit characters were fine if you didn't care about proper
capitalization and your only language was English.
On 01/02/2025 18:42, Frank Leonhardt via cctalk wrote:
I think the Epson MX80 was responsible for standardising the Centronics
interface :-)
Ooh yes, fond memories, that was the first printer I could actually
afford.
Julf
On 25/12/2024 05:57, Mark Linimon via cctalk wrote:
Stop by and visit us over on FreeBSD sometime, we abhor systemd :-)
And there is of course Devuan - systemd-free debian. That's
what I run on my laptop and desktop, servers are all freebsd.
Julf
On 11/2/24 01:15, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
For a few year VMS was the OS of the "internet". I remember wondering in
1991 or 1992 if UNIX would still be around by 2000
From what I can recall, there were a lot of VAXen on the net, but
the vast majority was running BSD.
Julf
UNIX might have been unobtainium in your home, but a lot of BBS's
used UUCP to get email and USENET connectivity, and a huge amount
of students had modem access to an UNIX computer at their university.
Julf
On 10/24/24 04:36, Doug Jackson via cctalk wrote:
Yes, UUCP was literally a thi
On 03/10/2024 19:56, ben via cctalk wrote:
Not like old computers, that could sing and drives could dance. :)
I know the PDP-8 could do music thru a AM radio. Did they ever have it sing?
No, they used DecTalks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l0Ko1GUiSo&pp=ygUecGV0ZXIgbGFuZ3N0b24gZWVkaWUgYW5k
On 31/08/2024 19:34, Alexander Schreiber via cctalk wrote:
Well, everybody who watched the documentary "Iron Sky: The Coming Race"
knows that, of course.
And if you haven't seen the original Iron Sky then you will never
appreciate Space Nazis in the same way...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir
I vote for cat.
Julf
On 30/08/2024 04:02, cz via cctalk wrote:
ED!
ED MAN!
MAN ED!
Ed is the standard text editor..
On 8/29/2024 9:50 PM, Christian Kennedy via cctalk wrote:
On 8/29/24 18:21, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
[snip]
We have our own non-theological religious war
On 29/08/2024 23:28, Mychaela Falconia via cctalk wrote:
Specifically: I am potentially willing to donate my equipment and/or
my cash only to those who are Pureblood, meaning UNvaccinated.
I assume you are aware that child mortality was 50% well into
the 20th century, and was still 25% in 1950.
On 05/08/2024 15:55, John Maxwell via cctalk wrote:
Well, my friend, the guns are the only thing that keep us free from tyranny!
Voting and proper checks and balances (broken by the current US Supreme
Court) is what keeps us free from tyranny, not guns.
Julf
On 21/07/2024 00:23, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote:
A few years ago I got a FLIR camera, and on the back it says "export
controlled" It's the only consumer-device I ever got that has an explicit
Export Controlled sticker on it. I imagine if I were to bring it with me
on a trip to China, that pro
It becomes a political discussion. On one hand the US is all about
"free trade" (when it is an issue of selling US products abroad)
but then the US imposes trade barriers against other countries.
Yes, the Chinese government does subsidise exports. So do
most countries.
Julf
On 02/07/20
On 27/06/2024 19:30, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
As I previously stated I tried that just a month or two ago.
Got zero offers. Scrapped a whole bunch of stuff cause keeping
everything I have now just isn't an option anymore.
An extra problem for us living outside the US is that freight/
On 08/05/2024 05:53, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
[1] Apparently there's a slogan on the wall of the QUAD workshop
'Ohm's Law rules here. Oxygen-free cable is not required'
That would have been back when Quad was run by Peter J. Walker
who was a no-nonsense engineer. Unfortunately the company i
On 02/05/2024 01:51, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
What would our world be like if the first home computers were to have had
APL, instead of BASIC?
I don't know, but if you had asked "What would our world be like if the
first home computers were to have had SmallTalk or even ALGOL instead of
BAS
On 28/04/2024 01:14, Gavin Scott via cctalk wrote:
Fortunately, in the US the net wasn't run by the Post Office
No, but fore a very long time the phone network was run by
a government-granted monopoly, Ma Bell. Hadn't the divestiture
happened, AT&T had their own dinosaur ideas and would have
do
On 16/01/2024 16:29, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
I suppose it's easier on byte-oriented machines but it seems doable on others. ANSI FORTH may be
helpful for this, since it explicitly distinguishes between "character address" and
"cell address" (meaning word address).
Good point - that wo
On 16/01/2024 16:04, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
FORTH by its nature actually fits well in Harvard architectures.
Indeed - but it really doesn't fit machines that aren't byte-oriented.
I started on porting FIG-FORTH to the PDP-10 architecture but quickly
abandoned the effort...
Julf
On 05/06/2023 00:37, Alexander Schreiber via cctalk wrote:
Eh, this engineer strongly prefers a _practical_ car.
That is why we have a Toyota Avensis station wagon - one of
the last ones made. Never sold in the US.
Unfortunately the successor (Camry) wich I liked because it
has a linux-based e
On 04/05/2023 22:46, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Any flamewars that you were reading are probably still active.
I guess the site is called eternal-september for a reason :)
Julf
Thanks! Wow, they even provide UUCP batches!
Julf
On 04/05/2023 20:00, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, 4 May 2023 at 18:49, Johan Helsingius via cctalk
wrote:
Unfortunately my local ISP doesn't run a server any more. :(
I use Eternal September, via Thunderbird. Works
A shame. :(
Julf
On 04/05/2023 19:51, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
It seems like all of the good USENET providers are subscription
services now. I'm not sure of any ISP that I've heard of who still
runs one.
Pat
On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 1:49 PM Johan Helsingius via cct
Unfortunately my local ISP doesn't run a server any more. :(
Back in the 80's I used to run the USENET (and UUCP)
gateway for Finland.
Julf
On 04/05/2023 18:47, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
On 5/4/2023 10:35 AM, Johan Helsingius via cctalk wrote:
On 04/05/2023 14:59,
On 04/05/2023 14:59, geneb via cctalk wrote:
FidoNet is still a thing too.
So is USENET.
Julf
That's what I suspected. Thanks!
Julf
On 02-03-2021 12:26, wrco...@wrcooke.net wrote:
On 03/02/2021 4:07 AM Johan Helsingius via cctalk wrote:
Not sure pics make it to the list, but trying...
Julf
The list only allows plain text, no pictures (not even html text)
Wil
On 01-03-2021 21:53, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
I'd be interested in pictures if you have some handy.
Here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/zGydaWcxE5v7ngdk7
Julf
On 01-03-2021 21:53, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
I'd be interested in pictures if you have some handy.
Not sure pics make it to the list, but trying...
Julf
On 01-03-2021 21:53, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
I'd be interested in pictures if you have some handy.
Don't seem to be able to attach pics to messages to cctalk,
but sent you a private message.
Found some old stuff on the web:
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2591907/ibm-agrees-to-r
On 01-03-2021 21:40, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote:
Wait. Transmeta?? Which chip, specifically? I assume running in x86 mode.
Crusoe (TM5600), 633 MHz
Definitely in x86 mode (the blades came preconfigured with either
Windows or Red Hat).
Each blade could have 128, 256 or 512M of DIMM SDRAM
RLX Technologies pioneered the blade server concept between 1999 and 2005
(when they got acquired by HP). I have two of their early RLX 24 blade
enclosures, one fully populated with 24 transmeta-based processor blades,
and the other with 19 blades.
Julf
On 31-01-2021 20:35, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
> As my age catches up on me (more lately) I really miss many of
> the people I knew in the early USENIX years. Sadly, they seem
> to be fading from my memories faster every day now.
Hear hear!
Julf (formerly seismo!mcvax!penet!julf
On 15-12-2020 10:40, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> It's nothing new. 15y ago or something, there were umpteen Communities
> on Livejournal for any conceivable subject or interest -- most created
> by kids without the wits to check for others' before creating their
> own.
This is one of the reas
On 15-12-2020 00:38, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> Would you like me to post these lists on the Facebook vintage-computer
> collectors' groups for you, Don?
Seems to be the usual FB problem - too many similar groups. :)
Julf
On 19-11-2020 18:11, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
> They're soft but not silent in my accent. But you're from the northwest and
> all
> bets are off when it comes to how the pie-eaters speak. Presumably at least
> the
> "P" in "psalm" is silent, because that really does sound weird if not.
h
(English at end)
Hej!
> Har du fortfarande kvar några av systemen ?
Ja, en Proliant 6000, en DL380, och en tower-typ maskin med 8 diskplatser
(skall kolla typen senare),
och säkert 20 caddyn och hårdskivor.
> Vikt (tittade pga frågan om diskarna på vad frakten från Nederländerna
> skulle kosta
On 08-07-2020 12:41, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
> As a guideline, PostNL quote €18.20 (≈USD20.50) for its single grade of packet
> post to "world". The 2kg weight limit is good for two or three typical 3.5"
> hard disks of around 700g each. It's cheaper to the rest of Europe (and UK)
> but
>
On 07-07-2020 22:58, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> I might be tempted to scratch an itch and play with the 6000 if I were at a
> swap meet and could pick it up for a song. But I'm not a serious shopper for
> it.
Right, and shipping it anywhere will be seriously expensive considering the
we
On 07-07-2020 17:45, Alessandro Mazzini wrote:
> Flebay is quite overpriced, sadly ( personal opinion anyway, from the point
> of view of someone that's now looking at finding a thing since months and is
> fixated about a real price vs an enflated one
Not disagreeing.
Julf
On 07-07-2020 17:46, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> I think I sold my last 2 or 3 before I emigrated for circa €50 each.
> 5.25" HD floppy drives went for more than that.
Wow! I guess I have been a bit hasty with taking stuff to recycling. :-/
Wonder if someone would be interested in either of
On 07-07-2020 16:48, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> I would also suggest advertising or offering these online. Vintage Mac
> collectors, as well as all manner of vintage UNIX box collectors, are
> finding it increasingly difficult to find SCSI drives these days. Some
> are happy to go with SCSI2S
On 06-07-2020 23:54, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> /Which/ caddie are they? Can we see a picture of them? Both the front
> visible from outside of the system and the connector(s).
Pictures at https://imgur.com/a/iJU6YBH
The drives are Ultra Wide 3 SCSI.
I think they are the same as this:
Hi!
I have a box full of Compaq SCSI server disk caddies (with 9.1G disks in
them). Feels silly to dump them into e-waste recycling, but there
probably isn't much point in shipping them very far either (I am in
Amsterdam).
Julf
Hi!
I have a box full of Compaq SCSI server disk caddies (with 9.1G disks in
them). Feels silly to dump them into e-waste recycling, but there
probably isn't much point in shipping them very far either (I am in
Amsterdam).
Julf
On 11-06-2020 11:35, Peter Coghlan via cctech wrote:
> In my experience, the only way to avoid duplicates under the current setup
> is to subscribe to the cctalk view of the list and to have everyone post
> only to cctalk. I think many others have worked this out too because very
> few of us post
Hi!
Anyone else getting duplicate messages from this list? I get 2 copies of
most (but not all) messages, with the second copy often arriving
significantly later.
Julf
Anyone in need of a Proliant 6000 / 7000 CPU board (unused), and hotswap
hard disk cartridges?
https://imgur.com/a/3h9VBmH
Julf
On 28-05-2020 19:38, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> Now, the *nix weenies who know nothing else thing you could learn
> Python in a week. Yeah right.
Well, I did...
Julf
On 22-05-2020 23:58, Stefan Skoglund wrote:
> Are they in the Netherlands ?
Yes. Amsterdam.
> btw är du finlandssvensk ?
Jo, det är jag. :)
Julf
I have a bunch of the pizza box SPARC ones that need to find a proper
home, but they are somewhat special as they were the ones from one of
the first pan-European Internet service providers (EUnet).
Julf
On 03-05-2020 17:22, silvercreekvalley via cctalk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Every now and aga
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