TRS-80s available: Ottawa, ON, Canada

2018-05-07 Thread Mouse via cctalk
A friend and colleage of mine says he has two TRS-80s available, or perhaps very soon to be available, in Ottawa (the capital of Canada). He says he knows very little about them; apparently it's been something like a decade since they were even taken out of the boxes. For further information, I'd

Re: Tektronix Terminal Emulation

2017-03-11 Thread Mouse via cctalk
> I'm not sure about the MicroVax II but on some other VAX and Alpha > machines, the console port may be less capable than ordinary terminal > ports in the way of buffering, flow control, 8 bit support and so on. The KA630, the MicroVAX-II CPU board (which includes the console serial port), has a

Re: I hate the new mail system

2017-03-10 Thread Mouse via cctalk
>> RFC 3912 doesn't specify what output the whois server is supposed to >> send. Everybody "assumes" that it should be the complete domain >> information, but that's simply not the case. >> Imposing this assumption is what Mouse does, and that is wrong. No, that is not what I'm doing, though I c

Re: NeXT in Toronto/Canada - was Re: Looking to re-home some NeXT hardware

2017-03-08 Thread Mouse via cctalk
> I'm also a Cube owner in Toronto. Maybe we should start a local > collector's / user's group :D > Any others care to speak up? I'm in Ottawa. I've got a - very small! - collection of NeXT hardware. A slab or two, at least one megapixel display (the 2bpp greyscale kind), some small number of k

Re: I hate the new mail system

2017-03-07 Thread Mouse via cctalk
>> And BTW, what you are doing is not clever at all: >> mo...@rodents-montreal.org >> SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection: >> host MX-4.rodents-montreal.org [98.124.61.89]: >> 550-.de's whois server, whois.denic.de, is completely broken, handing >> 550-out

Re: I hate the new mail system

2017-03-06 Thread Mouse via cctalk
> You know how to see what user agent I use (hint: alpine). And it is > fully capable of editing or changing anything I want. Good. Then what's the problem? Do you just want the list to be tuned so that you won't have to take a few seconds to edit out any addresses you don't want to send to? Ba

Re: I hate the new mail system

2017-03-06 Thread Mouse via cctalk
> My complaint (and I guess many more from other users will follow) is, > that if you reply to a message on the list, the author of that > message gets a private mail, too, as he is listed in the > Reply-To:-field. Only if you don't bother editing it down to whichever address you want to reply to

Re: Heathkit tube checker available

2017-03-02 Thread Mouse via cctalk
> Hi, all, I have a Heathkit TC-3 tube checker, including manual and > prints, available. Image here: > http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/jpg/tmp/TubeChecker.jpg Oh, man, that takes me back. As a kid, back when electronics meant vacuum tubes (because that was what I had access to), I had a (

Re: I hate the new mail system

2017-02-28 Thread Mouse via cctalk
>> [From: changing] > You can blame me for the change to the way the From: header is > handled. The purpose of this change is to try to solve the mass > bounce problem. Sounds as though this may be a cure worse than the disease, though. > Actually, you should really blame the folks responsible