On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 11:01:34PM +, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 2/1/25 13:12, David Wise via cctalk wrote:
[...]
>> I used the 1488 and 1489 RS232 chips as level shifters on the
>> semiconductor RAM board I designed for the IBM 1620. Handy.
> In the 1970s/80s, there seemed to be two ca
On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 08:23:18AM -0700, ben via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> So when did serial printers show up?
1887 if we are to believe Wikipedia's article on teleprinters, although
their citation doesn't quite support that date. It's not going to be much
later though. The early teleprinters didn't
On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 04:56:06AM -0700, ben via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> I always wondered why one needed a 25 pin connector?
> Now every thing seems to be just 3 wire TTL.
> Before RS232, how many wires where needed for the current loop
> and did they have standard connector?
> I can see 2 wire pai
On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 06:37:46AM -0800, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> Perhaps, instead of gravity being .5 G back then, it was merely only on
> half the time? Perhaps being done at a high enough frequency to not be
> noticed, similarly to SCR "phase control lamp dimming"?
Yoy may jest, bu
On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 08:27:05PM +, Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> My robot vacuum has taken to asking "Please empty my dustbin and clean my
> filter" about 5 minutes after I did that. More annoyingly, it insists that
> "I'm stuck. Please move me so I can recover my position" about 1
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 06:51:15PM -0800, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-01-13 at 17:16 -0800, Joseph S. Barrera III via cctalk wrote:
>> FORTRAN was a dead end, both in syntax (line-oriented, line numbers) and
>> semantics (common blocks, static arrays, very poor string support).
> Fo
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 01:57:44PM -0700, ben via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> Funny when the 8 and 16 bit micros hit the market, Algol seemed to vanish
> off the face of the earth. Was 64KB too small a address space?
It's likely to be the same reasons why C never really became a thing on
typical microco
On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 11:05:13AM -0500, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:
> I use a strobe disk glued to a fridge magnet that I stick on the spindle
> motor of 5 1/4" drives to confirm the speed; the trouble is that it's
> becoming difficult these days to find lamps that emit light at 60 Hz. ;-)
Thos
On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 12:31:53PM -0500, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> And, you are very lucky! We used to have two electronic stores, and now
> both have closed up. If you need a connector, length of cable, or
> something of that sort, there is no place local to get it!
I can't even find a
On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 03:43:01PM -0500, Doc Shipley via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> You should see what a DIP 8250-compatible UART costs...
The venerable 16550 is an 8250-compatible, so that would be $4.47 from
Digikey, plus another couple of bucks for a PLCC-to-DIP adaptor from
wherever. DIP versions
On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 04:00:40PM -0600, ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 2024-08-16 8:56 a.m., Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
[...]
>> This makes them a perfect match for a brain-dead language. But what does
>> it even *mean* to "automaticaly promote smaller data types to large
On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 11:42:01PM -0600, ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 2024-08-16 12:11 p.m., Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
[...]
>> From what I can tell of a casual peruse of the documentation of CP/M-68K
>> and CP/M-86, they support the full address space of 4GiB and 1MiB
>&g
On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 12:28:23AM -0500, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> I don't ever recall seeing 86-DOS on shelves, or ever really hearing about
> it. But CP/M remained fairly popular to mid 1980s (I just mean I knew
> various friends who daily used CP/M then). A couple issues with CP/M:
On Sun, Aug 04, 2024 at 08:47:44PM -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Aug 2024, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
[...]
>> 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 fa
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 01:41:20PM -0600, ben via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> I don't know about the VAX,but my gripe is the x86 and the 68000 don't
> automaticaly promote smaller data types to larger ones. What little
> programming I have done was in C never cared about that detail. Now I can
> see way
On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 01:33:56AM -0500, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk wrote:
> is anybody 3-d printing things that are often lost, or additional ones
> needed, like disk caddies for sun and silicon graphics systems?
Yes, and they often publish them for others to use for free on e.g. their
GitHub reposi
On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 09:56:14PM +0100, Joshua Rice via cctalk wrote:
> https://imgur.com/a/GjiB44R
> For all of those not in the group, images above.
The back connectors are a couple of BNC connectors marked "VID [obscured]"
and "VID1" so we can assume video, and a DB-25 with three wires connec
On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 05:51:50PM +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> 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?
Unfortunately, that link is also a total blank
On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 09:06:47PM -0400, cz via cctalk wrote:
> Actually I am travelling to France in a few weeks and there is an RM80
> platter HDA I could pick up. What is the complexity of just checking it as
> baggage? Do I have to declare it at Customs if the value is like zilch?
I don't kno
On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 05:18:56PM +0100, Joshua Rice via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> DEC came across another issue with the PDP-11 vs the VAX. Although the
> pipelined architecture of the VAX was much faster than the PDP-11, the
> actual time for a single instruction cycle was much increased, which led
On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 12:06:13PM -0500, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> so, just curious. how do digital TVs (and monitors) work? I presume the
> dots are a rectangle, not sloping down to the right, no half a line at the
> top and bottom. Do they just assume the brain can't tell that (for t
On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 11:13:38AM -0500, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> many games and entry pcs with old style tv analog format, don't interlace,
> and tube TVs nearly all (except maybe a few late model high end ones?) are
> fine with that, but I seem to recall that most or all digital/fla
On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 02:51:06AM +, Just Kant via cctalk wrote:
> BASICs available at bootup were nice, but really were only useful with 8
> bit micros. IBM ROM BASIC was hobbled until you ran BASICA from disk. And
> if you had a floppy it only made sense to buy a cheap compiler (Quick
> Basi
On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 01:06:42AM +0100, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> This was implemented by a humble 6502 running at (mostly) 2MHz, with one 8
> bit arithmetic register, two 8 bit index registers, one 8 bit stack
> pointer, a 16 bit program counter and a few flag bits.
> I would have
On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 09:34:42PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 4/19/24 19:39, ben via cctalk wrote:
[...]
>> Now is a good time to stock up for any z80 projects or repair, while they
>> are $10 or less on epay.
Unless people start panic-buying them, Z80 chips are likely to languish i
On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 05:44:59PM +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> No idea of the CPU performance. 4MHz Z80A but whether there was any
> contention or anything I have no idea. I believe one of the
> interesting bits of the design is that there's no ROM at all. They
> came with a dedica
On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 04:32:57PM -0600, ben via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> I think that way has been for a while. Having a hard time finding a 68B50
> on ebay. All the modern serial devices (I can buy) seem to be serial
> interfaced. Sigh.
I see the 68B50 on AliExpress, and they're probably even genu
On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 08:51:31AM -0500, John Herron via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> That price is interesting. Does that imply the value has gone down after
> some skyrocketed close to 1 million? One still has to make the decision of
> a owning a house or an apple 1.
Well, both of them are treated as
On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 09:21:52AM -0600, ben via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> I would of thought the AMIGA would have a say here, as it reads a disk
> track as just a bunch of flux transitions.
The Amiga has a choice of two fixed clock rates, both of which happen to
correspond with common DD disk format
On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 12:52:39PM +0100, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> USB interfacing is hard, but SD cards are a lot simpler. So use a card
> reader thing to transfer the files to an SD card and design an
> interface for that to ISA bus.
No need even to design anything or faff around cop
On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 12:02:05PM -0500, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
> That is because Amiga uses GCR recording rather then FM or MFM.
Nope. You may have gotten confused with the Commodore 64 drives, which
were very Special, or perhaps early Apple gear.
The Amiga's disk controller supports both
On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 09:16:02PM +, Jonathan Chapman via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> It's nice to support the designers in some capacity, but buying knockoffs
> fuels the ecosystem that creates knockoffs. With our stuff, it's never
> been that a single knockoff operation eats our lunch, it's that t
On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 12:27:33PM +0100, Cedric Amand via cctalk wrote:
> I've looked at the problem a bit, there are two issues to solve at first
> glance ; (A) there doesn't seem to be a telnet server library in python,
> so whatever you do you have to write your own telnet server, which is a
>
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 07:55:50PM -0800, geneb via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the AppleSauce yet. Yes, it requires a
> Mac. Yes, they're currently out of stock, but Yes, it's absolutely the
> best solution out there for disk imaging. https://applesaucefdc.com/
It's c
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 10:16:18AM +, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> How about translating code from Z80 which has several registers to 6502
> with rather fewer? That would seem to need some more intelligent thinking
> on how to simulate the unavailable registers without causing additi
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 05:42:55AM +, Chris via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> The only answer that anyone can provide is redundancy. Keep 2 or 3 copies
> of everything on seperate external drives. Every 3 to 5 years buy new
> drives and transfer the data to them. Or just run checkdisk twice a year
> an
On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 08:10:27PM -0500, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> 5V tolerant does not mean 5V compatible. I have right now some 5V devices
> I want to control, and it's not exactly clear whether a 3.3V device will
> drive outputs high enough to reliably make 5V devices see them as hi
On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 10:28:09AM +, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> The other day I saw a product with a flashing LED, the flash rate was set
> with a knob. Yes, a microcontroller with a pot connected to an analogue
> input and LED hung off an output port. This is the sort of thing I'd d
On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 12:15:02PM +1100, Doug Jackson via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> Yet another American seler who doesn't understand how simple overseas
> shipping is.
As far as I can tell, the price to ship anything overseas from the USA is
twice the value of the item, plus fifty bucks, plus ten bu
On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 10:39:46AM -0500, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 10:26 AM Tony Duell via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> Does anyone have a Philips P2000C CP/M luggable with the carrying strap?
>> I will be restoring such a machine in the near-ish fut
On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 11:53:34PM -0600, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> Does anyone know if it's possible, or -- better -- have experience using a
> cell phone as a dial up modem?
I did it routinely in the late 1990s and early 2000s. I stopped once I got a
GPRS-capable handset, since that was m
On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 07:14:23AM -0400, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
> I get these every so often despite my gmail account. I believe when you're
> on a thread that has an email address within in it that gets flagged, all
> associated emails are also.flagged, based on how the reply all setting i
On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 07:12:07PM -0400, Sean Conner via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> Agree here. I loved the 68K and have fond memories of writing programs in
> it. But while the x86 has been Frankensteined into 64 bits, I don't think
> I can see the 68K ever being a 64-bit architecture. I don't think t
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 07:51:28PM -0500, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> Yes, RT-11 is a somewhat unusual file system in that it doesn't just
> support contiguous files -- it supports ONLY contiguous files. That makes
> for a very small and very fast file system.
> The only other example I
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 02:21:19PM -0800, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> That limit lasted until MS-DOS 3.31 / PC-DOS 4.00 After that, the limit
> was bumped up to 2GB. (Probably would have been 4GB if they had used an
> UNSIGNED 32 bit number, and given up the option of having negative file
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 04:47:36PM -0700, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> On 1/18/22 2:21 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
>> https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/floppy-disk-table/
> I like it!
The ratios are wrong: it's about twice as thick as it ought to be. It's
apparently been designed by som
On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 06:59:47PM -0700, ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 2022-01-02 6:28 p.m., Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
[...]
>> On that note a Raspberry Pi 2b running SIMH/VAX is about 1.6 VUPS.
> But can the Pi handle a gazillion students all time sharing at once @
> 2400? How long was the VAX ti
On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 06:20:33PM -, Chris Long via cctalk wrote:
> Great.not.
>
> Why do we need woke Lego?
To annoy people who use dogwhistles.
On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 01:09:34PM -0500, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
> On Nov 18, 2021, at 11:59 AM, Peter Corlett via cctalk
> wrote:
>> I assume you've already attempted to throw the usual household stuff at it
>> as if it was a phone or TV. If not, dig out the glass
On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 03:34:19PM +0100, jacob--- via cctalk wrote:
> I got a Apple cube here as part of a larger haul, at some point someone
> placed a bit of tape on the clear polycarbonate case, the tape is long
> gone but the yellow glue remains.
> Am unsure about the hardness of it, if I cou
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 10:18:51AM +0200, Sijmen J. Mulder via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> It's especially frustrating when, after having put in the work, projects
> refuse even trivial patches for Solaris and derrivatives or sometimes even
> BSDs because 'who uses that anyway'. (I include the patches in
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 01:14:54PM -0700, Yeechang Lee via cctech wrote:
> Liam Proven says:
[...]
>> If you were going to spend as much as a new car on an early home
>> computer,
> If you're going to exaggerate for effect, don't exaggerate so much that
> your meaning is lost.
I went and looked up
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 09:55:08AM -0400, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
> [...] WIN 11 is much more secure than previous Windows versions. [...]
Windows 11 hasn't even been released yet, so this cannot be known. Any
claims of "much more secure" comes from press releases and other marketing
m
On Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 09:34:30AM -0400, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote:
> On 2021-09-04 08:30, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote:
>> "Digital Diggings" couldn't get BlueSCSI to work on either VAX or Alpha:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFEh7owqHxU&t=36s. That's a pity as it's
>> much cheap
On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 12:04:34PM -0400, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> In the video on youtube and in my experience the screen formating codes
> seem to be incorrect. You can see this in the video when a man page is
> brought up. The bolding does not occur. I get the same result afte
On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 08:47:33AM -0500, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
> At 04:13 AM 8/24/2021, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
>> move.b ([0x12345678, %pc, %d0.w*8], 0x9abcdef0), ([0x87654321, %sp], %a0*4,
>> 0x0fedcba9)
> And which language and compiler case was this aimed at?
On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 01:38:33AM +0100, Tom Stepleton via cctalk wrote:
> For the sake of illustration to folks who are not necessarily used to
> thinking about what computers do at the machine code level, I'm interested
> in collecting examples of single instructions for any CPU architecture
> t
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 11:10:47AM -0400, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote:
> Scored an A3000. Prior owner cut a hole where the floppy goes and mounted
> a PC floppy in there. Looking for an original front plate and the matching
> floppy drive to restore machine to original look.
Those funky 150RPM
On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 01:29:37AM -0400, J. David Bryan via cctalk wrote:
> On Sunday, August 15, 2021 at 12:55, Kevin Parker wrote:
[...]
>> ...but on my limited understanding it required support from the web
>> server to actually give effect to this.
> I believe that's right. At least all of the
On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 11:46:17AM -0600, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> On 7/24/21 10:26 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>> My recollection of the DMF Microsoft period was that if you purchased a
>> retail MS product using the DMF format and couldn't get it read on your
>> system, a call to MS
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 10:51:30AM -0700, r.stricklin via cctalk wrote:
[...]
>> Regarding your "IDE HDDs were extremely rare" comment, did *anyone* other
>> than Quantum release an IDE drive in that 5.25" form factor? I can't
>> think of any, everything else was 3.5", although some early vendor's
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 06:48:08AM -0500, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> Regarding your "IDE HDDs were extremely rare" comment, did *anyone* other
> than Quantum release an IDE drive in that 5.25" form factor? I can't think
> of any, everything else was 3.5", although some early vendor'
On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 04:53:08PM -0600, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> On 6/25/21 2:48 AM, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
[...]
>> The other is in the software layer: the standards are a mess and the
>> full gamut of serial protocols are not available and/or not implemented
&
On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 06:46:41PM -0600, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> The 4k monitors that I've worked with have been ultra high DPI. This means
> that things that don't have DPI settings end up being tiny on the screen.
It works fine on MacOS, except for various garbage ports from Wind
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 11:42:22AM -0700, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> I have a vague recollection of a story about a FORTH processor that put
> the addresses of the functions to be executed on the return-address stack
> (68000?) and then executed a RETURN instruction.
I was initially goin
On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 08:06:26PM -0600, ben via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> My latest gripe, is I still am looking for a algorithm to generate code
> for a single accumulator machine for an arithmetic expression. Parenthesis
> need to evaluated first and temporary variables allotted, thus a two pass
>
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 09:02:20AM +0100, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> Why is the price marked in GBP and why doesn't he ship to Germany?
Assuming anything gets shipped at all. Perhaps they don't want to take money
from anybody too local who might cause them some grief.
I note they a
On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 04:32:20PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Mar 2021, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
>>> The 286 can exit protected mode with the LOADALL instruction.
[...]
> The existence of LOADALL (used for in-circuit emulation, a predecessor
> technique to modern J
On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 01:06:24PM +0100, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> I'll say. Modern kit gets 1 FLOPS per MHz per core [...]
And indeed with the speed of modern machines with clock speeds in the GHz
and TFLOPS, and thousands of cores in some devices, we use large SI
multip
On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 10:40:41PM -0800, Boris Gimbarzevsky via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> Out of curiousity, decided to benchmark one of my old, really cheap PC
> laptops that got in 2010 and it managed 30 Mflops using double precision
> arithmetic. 10 Mflop performance no longer as impressive as it u
On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 01:09:50AM -0800, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
> On 2/2/2021 11:51 PM, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
>> The Raspberry Pi Pico has a similar price to the Blue Pill and seems a
>> much better machine for this task, although I haven't combed through its
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 08:50:56PM -0700, ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 2/1/2021 6:07 AM, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
[...]
>> You're describing a failing in C and similar languages stuck in the
>> 1960s. Here's a Rust method that does add-exposing-carry:
>> https:
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 09:20:01AM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> When I last proposed the STM32F407, I was met with "Oh, but the Blue Pill
> is cheaper". Okay, use the Blue Pill, but my code won't work with it. Not
> once has anyone contacted me and said "I'd like to try my hand at d
On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 08:15:25PM +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 at 20:00, Fred Cisin via cctalk
> wrote:
>> I had always been told, "A pint is a pound, the world around."
"The world" meaning "the USA", of course.
> Aha! Does that mean a pint of water weighs 1lb?
Yes
On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 01:12:55PM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> Most old (pre S/360) digit/character-addressable architectures were
> big-endian (i.e. higher-order characters occupied lower addresses)
> Even PDP-11 isn't strictly little-endian, though Intel X86 definitely is.
I not
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 02:05:37PM -0700, ben via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> I don't see languages in general have improved since the the mid
> 1960's. Hardware and language models don't reflect each other,
> and don't have extendable data sizes and types.
> PL/I seems to have been the best,but too tied
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 11:21:11AM -0500, Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> In 1999, a fellow student in a UML course worked for a large information
> company (Reuters, I think?) and told me that they had embarked on an
> expensive s/w conversion project. Their back-end systems were implemente
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 07:43:13PM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> APL was difficult for those used to traditional programming languages, not
> primarily because of the character set, but because it's basically a
> vector/matrix programming language.
It is *also* the use of symbols. F
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 07:43:12PM -0800, Michael Brutman via cctalk wrote:
> Disclaimer: I don't speak for Google ...
> The thread shows a lot of Google bashing. Insinuating that Google makes it
> difficult so that people follow the path of least resistance is part of
> that.
I didn't insinuate
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 10:13:40AM -0500, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> Attempting to pull in this thread a tad, there are relatively simple
> measures that can be taken to bring a private mail server into compliance
> with gmail, Amazon, Microsoft level mail server protocol and
> authentic
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 05:12:09PM -0500, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> For those of you who run your own mail servers please consider updating
> your DNS / authentication to match gmail standards.
Google has more resources than me. How about they update their systems to
match Internet ema
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 08:09:04PM +0100, Johan Helsingius via cctalk wrote:
> 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 th
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 10:34:10AM +0100, mazzinia--- via cctalk wrote:
> Interesting read,
> What is your opinion of the Seagate exos 7e8 units ? (and does SED make any
> difference in ensuring a bit more quality of the platters)
I've not used them, but Exos disks ought to be be just fine. You d
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 09:36:00AM -0500, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
[...]
>>> It also turns out that £1 ≈ €1 ≈ $1.
> Close, but no cigar. I just bought something from Europe 3 days ago.
This rule of thumb only applies to stuff imported from the USA to Europe, or
from anywhere to the UK. It
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 02:54:27PM +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
>> Five MyBooks bought 18 months ago had debranded He8 disks in there: very
>> nice.
>> The three Elements a few months back have (non-SMR) WD Reds in them, which is
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:20:36PM -0800, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
[...]
>> But yesterday, I discovered that the 'L' in words such as "palm", "balm" and
>> "psalm" is _no longer_ silent and is actively pronounced in some regions of
>> the US, and mere surprise was no longer adequate and I was f
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 12:37:23AM -0500, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> HGST. 4TB seem really good.
I have a half-dozen of those in raidz2 on my workstation and can confirm. HGST
disks are good enough that WD bought them, declared them to be so good that
they are clearly Enterprise drive
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:30:40AM -0700, brian--- via cctalk wrote:
> Oddball question here: has anyone ever seen a way to cap off or protect
> standard 0.1" pin header jumpers?
I prefer to not leave boards in places where stuff like pin headers can be
damaged. And really, pin headers are the lea
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 03:12:50PM +0200, Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk wrote:
> Sorry I accidentally deleted this message from Dag Spicer, so here it is
> for cctalk. Reply to him or the list, not me!
[I'm not going to attempt to clean-up the top-quoted mess; check your archive
if you can't remem
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 11:29:14PM -0500, Richard Pope via cctalk wrote:
> The Amiga 1000 with AmigaDos and Workbench was released in late 1985.
> AmigaDos is based on Unix and Workbench is based on X-windows.
Er, no.
The Amiga's operating system is a pre-emptive multitasking microkernel which
us
On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 11:02:50AM -0500, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> I found it next to impossible to find information on what - if any -
> technology a particular SSD uses to extend lifespan; while manufacturers all
> compete on things like capacity and speed, very few of them seem
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 07:11:05AM +, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> I hope you say no, because I will probably learn more by keying in the code
> in the text, and finding my errors.
The errors in the code will not be yours. You will learn more by throwing
everything written by Herbert
On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 04:38:49PM +1000, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> I had a thought, that if the pin spacing was on par with say a common 15-pin
> VGA male connector I could buy a bunch of dirt cheap Golden Dragon ones, set
> them up in the mill and run a high speed slitting saw diag
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 12:59:51AM +, dwight via cctalk wrote:
> I would think to be a mainframe, it has to have a I/O processor. That is
> about all I can think of.
Contemporary PCs satisfy that description: GPUs are the most visible I/O
processor, and all of the other bus interfaces such as
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 01:09:21PM -0700, Ali via cctalk wrote:
[Hardware RAID controllers]
>> There is no good use case for them in 2020, which is why they're all
>> suddenly quite cheap.
> Why do you say that? Not disagreeing per se but just wondering the reasoning
> behind it.
On the "no good u
On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 08:52:16AM -0700, Ali via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> This is an article (for the layman) written in 2010 predicting the lack of
> usability of RAID 6 by 2019:
> www.zdnet.com/article/why-raid-6-stops-working-in-2019/. I found the math in
> it interesting and the conclusions prett
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:47:11AM -0700, Ali via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> Is there any reason a Smart Array controller can't be used as a simple SCSI
> controller? I.E. No array, just using it to drive a tape library? TIA!
In general, hardware RAID controllers cannot be used as ordinary controllers.
On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 01:24:11PM +0200, Stefan Skoglund via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> Vikt (tittade pga frågan om diskarna på vad frakten från Nederländerna skulle
> kosta dvs ca 250 SEK) ?
According to Google Translate: "how much to Sweden?"
For Sweden specifically, about €10 or SEK100. For Europe
On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 03:54:10PM -0600, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> If I needed one of those drives, I'd be willing to pay $1 / GB plus shipping
> and handling if they were known to be good. (If I needed them) I would buy
> them sight unseen if you ran SpinRite level 2 on the drives an
On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 01:32:02PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> Why is byte-granularity in addressing a necessity?
Because C's strings are broken by design and require one to be able to form a
pointer to individual characters.
> It's only an issue if you have instructions that ope
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