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Subject:Re: Front Panels - New development - Bezels
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 08:01:35 +0100
From: Rod Smallwood
To: Paul Birkel
On 07/07/2016 07:18, Paul Birkel wrote:
"MakeAnEight", oh my :->. Next it will be "SweetSixteen" I imagine.
Gr
Wow. Talk about a historically significant computer system and program. I'd
love to make a replica one day. Thanks!
Marc
> On Jul 5, 2016, at 7:28 AM, Dave Wade wrote:
>
> I guess this is on-topic.
>
> http://hackaday.com/2016/07/05/don-eyles-walks-us-through-the-lunar-module-s
> ource-code/
>
This gigantic, $53,000 hobbyist-built computer is making the rounds on
Facebook:
http://gizmodo.com/guy-spends-four-years-50k-building-giant-computer-to-1783190283?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
A relay one from a few years ago: http://we
On Wed, 6 Jul 2016, Fred Cisin wrote:
> Yes, the author seems to be young enough to think of "word-processing"
> as starting with TRS80/Apple][.
I can forgive him. So few people actually got to put their hands on
mainframe and "real" (non-micro) computers before the PC "revolution". I
was in th
Rod sent me an extra 8/e panel due to a shipping mistake, the one with the
less than 180 degree lines on the rotator switch.
It is located in Seattle, WA.
If you pay Rod for the panel, and me to ship it to you, you'll get it a lot
quicker.
On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Rod Smallwood <
rodsmall
On 07/06/2016 07:15 PM, Murray McCullough wrote:
> My first word processor was from Wang called “Word Processor” and
> then IBM’s “Displaywriter”. I tried “Wordstar” originally called
> “Wordmaster” but way too complicated.
The big oversight here is that nobody seems to collect old wapro stuff;
On 07/07/2016 18:40, Ian Finder wrote:
Rod sent me an extra 8/e panel due to a shipping mistake, the one with the
less than 180 degree lines on the rotator switch.
It is located in Seattle, WA.
If you pay Rod for the panel, and me to ship it to you, you'll get it a lot
quicker.
On Wed, Jul 6,
I will nominate as "the first manuscript created on a microcomputer
wordprocessor":
the documentation of ESP-1 ("Extended Software Package 1") by Michael
Shrayer. (to do so, he created "Electric Pencil")
He very well might not have been the first to do so, but it is well known
to be the "FIRST"
On 07/07/2016 18:57, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 07/06/2016 07:15 PM, Murray McCullough wrote:
My first word processor was from Wang called “Word Processor” and
then IBM’s “Displaywriter”. I tried “Wordstar” originally called
“Wordmaster” but way too complicated.
The big oversight here is that nobo
On 07/07/2016 11:31 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
> ADM3A as a terminal and Diabolo Daisy as a printer. Forms on screen
> application and letter quality printing. Not to mention letter
> quality word processing single sheet feed etc.
The point is that word processing predates wide use of microproce
On 7/7/2016 3:02 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
Forwarded Message
Subject: Re: Front Panels - New development - Bezels
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 08:01:35 +0100
From: Rod Smallwood
To: Paul Birkel
On 07/07/2016 07:18, Paul Birkel wrote:
"MakeAnEight", oh my :->. N
On 07/07/2016 19:11, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
On 7/7/2016 3:02 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
Forwarded Message
Subject: Re: Front Panels - New development - Bezels
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 08:01:35 +0100
From: Rod Smallwood
To: Paul Birkel
On 07/07/2016 07:18,
The second release of the HP 3000 Series III simulator is now available
from the Computer History Simulation Project (SIMH) site:
https://github.com/simh/simh
This release adds a simulation of the HP 2607, 2613, 2617, and 2618 line
printers and supports the use of custom VFU tape images, as w
Well done - congratulations!
On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 8:36 AM, J. David Bryan wrote:
> The second release of the HP 3000 Series III simulator is now available
> from the Computer History Simulation Project (SIMH) site:
>
> https://github.com/simh/simh
>
> This release adds a simulation of the HP
As always, amazing, Dave!
- J.
On 7/7/2016 10:36 AM, J. David Bryan wrote:
The second release of the HP 3000 Series III simulator is now available
from the Computer History Simulation Project (SIMH) site:
https://github.com/simh/simh
This release adds a simulation of the HP 2607, 2613, 26
>To this day, I still use "joe" as my all-around text editor under Linux
>and BSD. It uses mostly WS key conventions.
I remember using "Runoff" (for formatting text) and "Junior" (full screen
editor) on a PRIME. Then there was "Mince" which I think was a "Junior"
port to the IBM-PC?
Terry (Tez)
On 07/07/2016 01:53 PM, Terry Stewart wrote:
>> To this day, I still use "joe" as my all-around text editor under
>> Linux and BSD. It uses mostly WS key conventions.
>
> I remember using "Runoff" (for formatting text) and "Junior" (full
> screen editor) on a PRIME. Then there was "Mince" which
On Thu, 7 Jul 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> To this day, I still use "joe" as my all-around text editor under Linux
> and BSD. It uses mostly WS key conventions.
Same here. I love Joe. I got used to WS keystrokes from Borland compiler
suites. Incidentally, George R.R. Martin (author of the Song of
It's not as old as some would like, but it's definitely unique enough.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/UBER-RARE-MULTIFLOW-TRACE-14-300-COMPILER-VINTAGE-COMPUTER-processor-compiler-/112050410557?hash=item1a16b9943d:g:r2EAAOSw3YNXbtaY
b
> The effect of bloatware:
> http://hubpages.com/technology/_86_Mac_Plus_Vs_07_AMD_DualCore_You_Wont_Believe_Who_Wins
"Wordstar on an 4.077 MHz 8088 could keep up with my typing; WinWord
under Windoze on a 300 MHz PII can't." --Seth Breidbart
You can tell how old the quote is: it cites a PII/300.
On 07/07/2016 02:45 PM, Mouse wrote:
> "The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is
> its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made
> by the computer hardware industry." - credited to Henry Petroski by
> someone on a mud I hang out on.
I heard it from
On Thu, 7 Jul 2016, Mouse wrote:
> I see it in monitors. I've been repeatedly annoyed by modern
> flatscreens that refuse to even try to do what CRTs from twenty years
> ago routinely did.
I'll pile on, too. I'm always grumbling about monitors that use some kind
of super-crap algorithm to scale
> From: Mouse
> "The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its
> continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the
> computer hardware industry." - credited to Henry Petroski
There's a reason I run considerably older software (which I p
I hardly need to note that anything stored in a self-store facility in
Austin for 17 years will have been subjected to very high termperatures.
mcl
On 7 July 2016 at 20:31, Rod Smallwood wrote:
> Try highlighting a word with shift and right arrow, then ctrlC.
> Now move in your email and type crtlV.
>
> Yes Wordstar keyboard commands are alive and well.
Nope. Sorry. Those aren't WordStar commands.
They are CUA commands, adopted by more or
On 8 July 2016 at 02:28, Liam Proven wrote:
> Then, use the cursor keys or to your destination position.
Sorry -- I meant to add in the WordStar character movement commands
but I forgot 'em. It has been about 25y since I last used it!
--
Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/p
>> [modern "improvements" in monitor technology]
> Lord have mercy, just give me the damn pixels on 1/3rd of the monitor
> and give me the *option* to scale it if I want. Why is it so hard to
> understand that nobody wants to run an LCD in it's "non-native"
> resolution. It always looks like crap
On 07/07/2016 04:31 PM, Brian Walenz wrote:
It's not as old as some would like, but it's definitely unique enough.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/UBER-RARE-MULTIFLOW-TRACE-14-300-COMPILER-VINTAGE-COMPUTER-processor-compiler-/112050410557?hash=item1a16b9943d:g:r2EAAOSw3YNXbtaY
b
We had a 7/200 at work
On 08/07/2016 01:28, Liam Proven wrote:
On 7 July 2016 at 20:31, Rod Smallwood wrote:
Try highlighting a word with shift and right arrow, then ctrlC.
Now move in your email and type crtlV.
Yes Wordstar keyboard commands are alive and well.
Nope. Sorry. Those aren't WordStar commands.
They
So a friend tells me there's a maybe-abandoned HP 8510 Network Analyzer in the
hallway of the engineering building of the univ. he works at.
I presume it's a unit like this, as he says it's over a metre tall:
http://www.ece.lsu.edu/emdl/facilities/network%20analyser.html
I figure its a li
2016-07-07 7:30 GMT+02:00 Rod Smallwood :
> Hi Guys
>
> +++ Panels stocked and ready to ship
> +++
>
> I am pleased to be able to announce the following PDP-8 front panels are
> now ex-stock.
>
> Stock levels are 10 or less of:
>
> PDP-
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