[cctalk] Re: Bill Atkinson

He designed much of the modern GUI, adding substantial functionality to Xerox PARC's Smalltalk, Alto and Star workstations' primitive GUIs. I wrote an obituary: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/11/bill_atkinson_obituary/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...

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

uter#/media/File:TRS-80_Color_Computer_1.jpg -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: Indius Java components

On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 at 14:06, silcreval via cctalk wrote: > > A very left field question, but many moons ago I wrote some software using > Nescape IFC. Do you mean this Netscape IFC? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Foundation_Classes Note that there are download links there..

[cctalk] Re: Anybody need a dot matrix impact printer?

On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 at 02:57, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote: > > It's yours for pickup or shipping, but I won't complain if you > offer me something for it. May I mildly interject that you didn't note where you or it are? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.m

[cctalk] Re: RS232 - parallel modems!?

B drivers _for Windows NT 4_ -- an OS that did not support USB. https://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.php?/topic/7054-usb-on-nt4/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM

[cctalk] Re: Open source a panacea?

I also have Privoxy installed and configured, but I think nobody tests it any more in Ubuntu. It doesn't seem to work in 22.04 or 24.04. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven

[cctalk] Re: Microsoft 50 years

venting use of pointing devices, etc. Linux -- *all* the GUIs -- is so bad at this it is _shameful_. But then I also prefer DOS and NT CMD to any xNix shell I've ever seen. Coming up on 40 years of xNix use now and I still hate the shell. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven

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

t's good. That is almost T-shirt worthy. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: AI? Really?

ve invention. It is a door within a door, you see.” ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 22

[cctalk] Re: AI? Really?

t no-one ever > listens. It does strike me that the LLM bots are an effort at Genuine People Personalities™... and are about as desirable... -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype:

[cctalk] Re: Try Algol 68 on Windows

connected in any way, but there is a work-in-progress front-end to add ALGOL-68 to GCC. I wrote about it a week ago: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/07/algol_68_comes_to_gcc/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitt

[cctalk] Re: Try Algol 68 on Windows

resultant large file sizes, and the number of floppies you'd need to store them? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC Apparently it averages about 9MB per minute. So a 3min song would need about 20 diskettes of 1.4MB. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk

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

red, but this may interest 6809 fans: Arguably the greatest 6502 machine, the Atari XE, with a 6809 brain transplant: http://liber809.blogspot.com/ https://github.com/boisy/liber809/tree/master/atari -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB

[cctalk] Re: Running DOS executables on other versions of DOSRe: Looking for Sharp PC-5000 disk drive (CE-510F or possibly MZ-80B)

randed media, and I wondered if it might have been a US-only thing... so I Googled them, and as soon as I saw the detailed full-colour logo, I immediately remembered. There is some deeper point about recollection here that is probably doctrine taught in marketing schools... if there are such places

[cctalk] Re: OS2 on a ThinkPad

. I could not get Firefox 45 to install: I was defeated by too many dependencies, even with "yum" working. ArcaOS is better, much much better, but eCS does work and saves a lot of hassle. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB

[cctalk] Re: Ward Christensen NY Times Obituary

ich really killed off BBS type activity. I had to explain this to Netscape Inc on a transatlantic call in 1996. They had no idea. It persisted until the very late 1990s in the UK and Ireland. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: l

[cctalk] Re: Passing of Edson (Ed) De Castro, Founder of Data General

rant though... -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

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

d Ford, then a Compaq cost as much as a new Cadillac. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

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

On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 at 15:50, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > > The whole thing could be summarized under "How I spent my summer > vacation" or "The big C and me". Ohshit. Sorry to hear that. I hope that they nuke you till you glow and it's successful.

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

rectories, because the same chap wrote them both: Tim Paterson. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegr

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

n-x86 architectures can read and write DOS FAT16 diskettes. Even by the 1980s, many common platforms couldn't read CP/M disks. DR's slowness to adapt to x86 gave DOS its break, and from then on, DOS set the standards. No? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro.

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

On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 at 02:25, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > (still kicking, barely) Oh no! Glad to hear that you are, but something prompted that... Dare I ask? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twit

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

all it yourself: https://www.xwp8users.com/wp81script.htm -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Sig

[cctalk] Re: Dysan Alignment and Performance Testers

ed that that MIGHT actually be a backup tape from > somebody having been using a PDP to develop some software to run under > OS/2 Ohhh yes. Dan Gahlinger, I think. That was quite funny. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@

[cctalk] A museum for the Brits and those who can reach it easily

technology anywhere. » 1min video: https://www.facebook.com/bbchumberside/videos/3790794644572336 -- Liam Proven

[cctalk] Re: Microsoft & Apple

t was not an investment. That was a lie spread by the marketing lizards. Please don't repeat it or spread it. It is not true and never was. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamprove

[cctalk] Re: VT + Other Terminals - UK - Facebook

? That's what I normally did when I was in the UK. No reserve, and *say* there's no reserve. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44

[cctalk] Re: VT + Other Terminals - UK - Facebook

On phone, so please excuse the mangled posting. << Thanks to the various people who have messaged me with various help which has enabled me to be a bit more specific on some of the details. Looks like I have... Vt420 Vt510 Data general 6501 Rack mount screen x2 Various keyboards that you can se

[cctalk] Re: MS-DOS

laces. Not my country, not my continent. I've lived in Africa, 3 different countries in Europe, spent a lot of time and speak the languages of 4 more, but America is far off and largely unknown to me -- a frightening semi-theocracy with guns and no healthcare. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https:/

[cctalk] Re: MS-DOS

mes as well. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: MS-DOS

and never became a product. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Windows_Vista -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: MS-DOS

he best of both worlds, rich media and gaming with NT stability" -- but in actual fact no convergence had happened. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: Macintosh Plus clone

On Wed, 31 Jul 2024 at 13:11, Liam Proven wrote: > > So, yes, if replacing just the CPU is possible, replacing the rest of > the logic board as well is just an implementation issue. The entire case can just be 3D-printed: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5532530 https://hackaday.co

[cctalk] Re: MS-DOS am I the only person who liked the win 3.1 UI?

s for all my apps and things and I missed that. NT 4's 95-a-like Explorer was slower. But it did so much more and needed so much less customisation to be usable. > another wish (for winblows or linux) if it was like Dos/win3.1 This is the closest thing I know: https://github.com/jcs/progm

[cctalk] Re: MS-DOS

eting spiel. > and the > first with a 64 bit variant. Kinda sorta yes, but it was not 64-bit at release. First an Itanium version came out a year or so later, then a year or so after that, an AMD64 version followed. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...

[cctalk] Re: MS-DOS

d also IBM E and Rexx if you want them. It works very well. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: Macintosh Plus clone

Now there's a bare-metal emulator that's about 130x faster. So, yes, if replacing just the CPU is possible, replacing the rest of the logic board as well is just an implementation issue. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB:

[cctalk] Re: MS-DOS

uot; iMac now! https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/17/windows_nt_on_powermac_g3/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech

[cctalk] Re: MS-DOS

year it is released is great for sales in the > first year, and a serious liability in subsequent years, unless there is > actually going to be a new version every year (as automobiles do) Agreed. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail

[cctalk] Re: Macintosh Plus clone

Raspberry Pi Pico, a sub-$1 microcontroller. https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/18/apples_macintosh_128k_on_a_pico/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 762

[cctalk] Re: Relay computers

to judge how accurate it is. -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven IoM: +44 7624 227612 ~ UK: +44 7939-087884 ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053

[cctalk] Pick system in Manitoba looking for a new home

s sat covered in plastic in a chemical warehouse for the past 35 years. Where do people usually post stuff like this other than here? Thanks! » -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lp

[cctalk] Re: Relay computers

are this more widely. Any objections if I put the text on my tech blog, with credit and attribution? (Or without, if you prefer!) -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+

[cctalk] Re: Neurodata Catwriter

On 15/07/2024 9:56 pm, Joshua Rice via cctalk wrote: https://imgur.com/a/GjiB44R For all of those not in the group, images above. BTW you missed the motherboard pic. -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro

[cctalk] Re: Neurodata Catwriter

NEURODATA Yes, "raiting". -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven IoM: +44 7624 227612 ~ UK: +44 7939-087884 ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053

[cctalk] Neurodata Catwriter

This seems to be a Belgian computer that draws a total blank on Google. https://www.facebook.com/groups/vintagecomputerclub/posts/8562290167137607/ Anyone ever heard of it? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com

[cctalk] Re: what to do with our "treasures"

've lived in 5 or 6 countries on 2 different continents and never in the US. I've forgotten my credentials it's been so long, but vendors mostly refuse to ship internationally and buyers won't look at stuff that's abroad. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liampr

[cctalk] Re: Fwd: [GreenKeys] FW: [cca] Ed Sharpe, KF7RWW, SK

On Sat, 15 Jun 2024 at 21:01, Eric Moore via cctalk wrote: > > FYI, RIP Ed Oh no. Awful email style but an interesting chap. Ave, atque, vale. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~

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

itask DOS apps. Resolutely single user. I know people who used DESQview to run BBSes. Definitely multiuser. But the _same software_. But could one ordinary person afford it? At least in some countries, e.g. where it's made or at least designed? That is a clearer, easier split, I think.

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

lying a helicopter is like rubbing your stomach and patting your head while walking a tightrope.) That does not make that helicopter into a car. A workstation was, essentially, a minicomputer built to be a single-user device, but cost as much as a room full of terminals or micros. It's not the sa

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

tions because workstations also exceeded PCs in price by, as I said, at least an additional zero. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

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

e: the 0.001% of the richest of the rich have private jets. They exist as private transport but we do not all have personal jets. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

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

On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 at 21:11, Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk wrote: > Yes, I can confirm that I am real. :-D And better still, extant. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Sk

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

* to the average person who might productively use a spreadsheet. "Matrix arithmetic" is of even less relevance to everyday life than algebra. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~

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

On Fri, 31 May 2024 at 18:57, Harald Arnesen via cctalk wrote: > > Liam Proven via cctalk [31/05/2024 18.07]: > > > My first fiancée's dad had what he reckoned was the first mainframe in > > Norway. > > Was it this: > > <https://snl.no/NUSSE> - in Nor

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

ed the pieces up to at least > the 2nd or 3rd floor, put it back together and got it running! > > QUITE a story! https://www.ljw.me.uk/ibm360/Saga.html That one? Lawrence is on this list and posts occasionally. He's real: I've met him. He was kind enough to give me some boxed copie

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

nspired but ultra-limited thing like a Kenbak or some hexadecimal trainer. It needs to have a microprocessor to qualify. Microprocessors are what created the PC. No µP = not a PC. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com

[cctalk] Re: Help request with fundraising campaign to save historic computers

uter Club on Facebook, but I agree: you need an English language website, and an English language project description, if you want to raise money internationally. The websites did not successfully go through Google Translate, although the Museo homepage did in Firefox, oddly enough. -- Liam Prov

[cctalk] Re: 5,34 Petaflop System Cheyenne

$47.99 each. Plus shipping, I'm sure. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: BASIC

24/05/02/rool_530_is_here/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: APL (Was: BASIC

slation for American readers: "O" level -- school exams at about age 16; you normally do about 8 subjects. I did 12. "A" level -- school exams at ~18, necessary to get into university. You normally do 3. I did 5. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro..

[cctalk] Re: APL (Was: BASIC

something cryptic like APL or Forth I reckon we'd never have had a generation of child programmers. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44)

[cctalk] Re: Double Density 3.5" Floppy Disks

50 DS/DD 720K disks Recycled disks--Guaranteed 100% $34.95 Recycled disks are tested, reformated, and relabeled in our facility. » -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM

[cctalk] Re: Charles Stross, replay the bubble of 1995, alt history plus retrocomp

ricans of my personal acquaintance find hard to parse and hard to handle. I have some very close American friends, but they're the bitter sarcastic type. :-D Try finishing it. It's worth it. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTal

[cctalk] Re: Charles Stross, replay the bubble of 1995, alt history plus retrocomp

at his place a few times. I still own 2 of his cast-off Macs. :-) He is very _very_ smart and also extremely technically knowledgeable. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven

[cctalk] Re: IBM 360

scinating. Thank you. It sounds truly awful. A device that effectively tries to push strips of tape into receptacles? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 2

[cctalk] Re: IBM 360

arned to code on an IBM 1620. He told me of a terrible, terrible storage device which used a robot to load strips of magtape. Cheap but a horrendous failure rate. Is it this thing? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com

[cctalk] Re: Problem with Dell Vostro 1700

nectors are. He doesn't get to be picky if he's that poor. That's how life is. > (His hobby is complaining that most stuff other people would say is > good enough isn't perfect.) That is a privilege that comes with being able to afford better. TBH, ISTM that you active

[cctalk] Re: Problem with Dell Vostro 1700

CPU and GPU fans are clean, unobstructed, spin and it's not overheating? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp

[cctalk] Re: How to shutdown RT11?

proved my xNix credentials. :-) Good thing, really... My vi skills were minimal and they still are today. Didn't like it then, like it less now. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ S

[cctalk] Re: DEC Processor Books

s. :-D My company did _not_ adopt 3+Open or OS/2. On the basis of my experience we moved to Novell instead. At the time, a good choice, I still think today. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven

[cctalk] Re: IBM PC-XT

ou a 486 PC. » https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/19/windows_nt_30_years_on/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsA

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

f nothing with no quote. Have I said anything about Tripos anywhere? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

or info... Didn't you just try Google? vcf south california 1st hit: https://www.vcfsocal.com/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 793

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

platforms. https://bbcbasic.com/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

did we Sinclair fans discover that there was an entire international market in clones and compatibles of the little Spectrum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ZX_Spectrum_clones -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com T

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

s. It's resolutely single-core anyway. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

chair, while running Doom on a PC that wasn't connected to mains power. The world's biggest "laptop". -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

as only ever run on ARM and nothing else. Nobody is making PDP-7s any more, are they? :-) I think the first C-based Unix was 4th edition. Are there any new PDP-11s? If that makes my point any clearer? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMai

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 19:40, Wouter de Waal via cctalk wrote: > Computers are much like motorcycles: many of the most interesting > ones were TERRIBLE! Oh, very good. I may quote that. :-D -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

ish company. Its native OS is still updated and is FOSS today, and provided the inspiration for a key part of the Windows 95 user interface now used by billions. The core of the OS dates from the late 1970s or so and may be the oldest OS of which a modern derivative still can run on the bare metal

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 07:30, Andrew Diller via cctalk wrote: > > Hope this helps, I put it together to keep track of them all. I think you forgot something. There was no link or anything there, and the list doesn't allow attachments. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me

[cctalk] Re: The Mac at 40

g right now, focussing on myth busting. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] The Sinclair QL's legacy at 40

My 1st contribution to the Register's "retro tech week" may amuse... https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/16/ql_legacy_at_40/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamp

[cctalk] RIP: Software design pioneer and Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth

Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and an OS was 89 https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/niklaus_wirth_obituary/ The great man has left us. I wrote an obituary. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB

[cctalk] Re: (no subject)

o on IBM servers Well spotted. If I was unclear: I have downloads of both. I failed to make a note _where_ I downloaded them from. There are quite a few pages with download links that no longer work. This may have been where I found it! -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email:

[cctalk] Re: IBM .BOO format

ng to scratch.) It's not but it certainly sounds fun. :-) -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: IBM .BOO format

rnet Archive already -- it's here: https://archive.org/details/sc34-4399-00 This is: f29al000.boo The one I haven't found yet is: f29bdg00.boo I have a local copy but I did not record where I got it... >_< -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.

[cctalk] IBM .BOO format

me an empty PDF. I found the original IBM CUA documentation and want to convert it to some more modern, open format, but I am not having much luck... -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/

[cctalk] Re: Looking for NORTRONICS Read/Write head for IBM 5100/5110/5106 tape unit

when new items are available. » This is what happens when you don't provide a link, or an auction number. > Hope this helps. > Mark It doesn't. > Sent from my iPhone Well that was a bad move for a start. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...

[cctalk] Re: WTD: transputer multi-cpu isa card

n* for the fabric interconnect. I wrote about it: https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/06/pi_pico_transputer_code/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 2776

[cctalk] Re: For Fred, especially: "Everything I know about floppy disks"

for that. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: For Fred, especially: "Everything I know about floppy disks"

ut floppies on the planet. > > Fred, you will be paid with great admiration and appreciation. Sorry, all I > can offer. :-) > > Anyone with me? I second that motion. I defer to Fred's deference to others, but that notwithstanding, Mr Grumpy here has a knack for communicating w

[cctalk] Re: For Fred, especially: "Everything I know about floppy disks"

s a Centronics port) and masked into a corner of the printer controller chip was a tiny bit of bootstrap code. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK:

[cctalk] Re: For Fred, especially: "Everything I know about floppy disks"

of Unicode cleverness, I think. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: For Fred, especially: "Everything I know about floppy disks"

f the problems we're in today, and while that happened under Clinton, the process _started_ under Ronnie. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wallstreet/weill/demise.html -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com

[cctalk] Re: For Fred, especially: "Everything I know about floppy disks"

his efforts to get into politics... maybe? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: For Fred, especially: "Everything I know about floppy disks"

On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 22:24, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > It's got some really good stuff, but some things that are awkward, > although few totally WRONG. [...] > Overall, a good start, for MOST aspects. That is high praise indeed, I think! :-) -- Liam Proven ~ Profile:

[cctalk] For Fred, especially: "Everything I know about floppy disks"

of plastic and I wanted to write down what I've learned so far. » https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2023-08-28/ -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn:

[cctalk] Re: NewtonOS

if I _liked_ it, that's different. FWIW I always buy them used, from these guys: https://webuy.com/ The company was founded by a friend of mine, sadly long dead now. > Liem, sorry about your forearm. Get well and keep writing ✍️ Thank you! -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamprov

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