Re: Time to get rid of weird connected appliances!  <>   check this

2016-10-23 Thread jim stephens
On 10/22/2016 11:17 PM, couryho...@aol.com wrote: Time to get rid of weird connected appliances! <> check this http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/how-your-dvr-was-hijacked-to-help-epic-cyberattack/ar-AAjh8Yr?ocid=mailsignout I wish that writers had a clue what IoT is and what th

Re: Time to get rid of weird connected appliances! <> check this

2016-10-23 Thread Guy Dawson
It's not so much an attack on IoT as with IoT. The worm's ( assuming a compromised IoT device is used to compromise others - I'm not sure about this) job is to make IoT devices available to a control system so that IoT devices can be used to generate the loads needed in DDOS attacks. The attackers

Re: OT: Excessive bounce notices?

2016-10-23 Thread Adrian Stoness
I got one still getting emails weird On Oct 23, 2016 12:55 AM, "Brad H" wrote: > > > I get hit by that every couple of weeks. I still have no idea what a > 'bounce' is or what I'm doing or not doing to cause it to drop me. Kind of > frustrating because it just drops me and then I miss chunks o

ASTEC 8151 PSU (TRS80, Osborne etc)

2016-10-23 Thread Adrian Graham
Hi folks, Now that the bouncing has calmed down I've got a question about this here triple output pretty ubiquitous power supply. This one had some burst caps so naturally wasn't working and was probably why the machine it came out of was taken out of use. I've replaced all of them because why no

Re: Maslin archive "virus"? (Was: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

2016-10-23 Thread william degnan
On Oct 23, 2016 1:13 AM, "Fred Cisin" wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Oct 2016, Eric Christopherson wrote: >> >> Where is this image? I found what I think is the Maslin archive at >> http://www.retroarchive.org/maslin/ but I don't see any Sharp stuff >> there. > > > > http://www.vcfed.org/forum/archive/inde

Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

2016-10-23 Thread Liam Proven
On 22 October 2016 at 21:21, Fred Cisin wrote: > On Sat, 22 Oct 2016, Liam Proven wrote: >> >> :-) >> A good 5-6y or more ago I restored an old Mac Classic II a friend gave >> me. I got it dual-booting System 6.0.8 and 7.1 and had both of them >> online via an Asanté EtherSCSI interface. To do thi

Re: VTServer/etc for V6 Unix

2016-10-23 Thread Noel Chiappa
The fact that the installation procedures for V6 and V7 are wholly different, in their technical detail, was apparently not well known. The 'Setting up Unix' documents are more checklists, they don't go into a lot of detail as to what is actually happening, so I have prepared two pages on the Comp

Re: PDP-11 RL02 disk emulation

2016-10-23 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Scott Baker > Feedback on this project is most welcome. Any chance it could be put into 'production'? It just seems to me that rather than having 53 people send in individual orders for boards, etc it would be better (and also perhaps get a price break due to volume) to do a small

Re: VTServer/etc for V6 Unix

2016-10-23 Thread william degnan
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > The fact that the installation procedures for V6 and V7 are wholly > different, > in their technical detail, was apparently not well known. > > The 'Setting up Unix' documents are more checklists, they don't go into a > lot > of detail as to

RE: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

2016-10-23 Thread Electronics Plus
-Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Liam Proven Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2016 9:37 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system? On 22 October

Re: PDP-11 RL02 disk emulation

2016-10-23 Thread william degnan
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: Scott Baker > > > Feedback on this project is most welcome. > > Any chance it could be put into 'production'? It just seems to me that > rather than having 53 people send in individual orders for boards, etc > it would be bet

Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

2016-10-23 Thread Fred Cisin
But "Marketing" convinced the public that Macs were IMMUNE TO GETTING VIRUSES!:-) On Sun, 23 Oct 2016, Liam Proven wrote: No no no -- hang on. Classic MacOS was appallingly vulnerable. It had no user-account security at all, and every disk had a tiny bit of code read and executed when it wa

Re: DEC bus transceivers

2016-10-23 Thread shadoooo
Hello, surely the old transceivers are the most compatible solution, however you still need to convert the voltages back and forth... Plus the solution is not the cheaper, and a little uncomfortable too, as you need to find these old chips, hoping not to buy fake chinese duplicates (it happened to

Re: DEC bus transceivers

2016-10-23 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/23/16 11:50 AM, shad wrote: > The problem is that there aren't open drain bus transceivers, but the > problem could be solved simply using input-only and output-only components, > connecting two in parallel but opposite direction on bidirectional pins. > The reason for using the old

Re: Time to get rid of weird connected appliances! <> check this

2016-10-23 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 10/23/2016 01:29 AM, Guy Dawson wrote: > It's not so much an attack on IoT as with IoT. The worm's ( assuming > a compromised IoT device is used to compromise others - I'm not sure > about this) job is to make IoT devices available to a control system > so that IoT devices can be used to generat

Re: Time to get rid of weird connected appliances! <> check this

2016-10-23 Thread Alexandre Souza
A good linux machine running a firewall wouldn't make all of this work flawlessly? 2016-10-23 17:31 GMT-02:00 Chuck Guzis : > On 10/23/2016 01:29 AM, Guy Dawson wrote: > > It's not so much an attack on IoT as with IoT. The worm's ( assuming > > a compromised IoT device is used to compromise othe

Re: Time to get rid of weird connected appliances! <> check this

2016-10-23 Thread Alexis Kotlowy
On 24/10/2016 06:05, Alexandre Souza wrote: A good linux machine running a firewall wouldn't make all of this work flawlessly? The problem is the 'average consumer' isn't going to bother with that. They'll just wire up their IoT devices, for convenience sake, and leave it to do its thing. Unfor

Free - IBM PS/2 model 30-286, 50, and 77 for spares/repairs. (Bristol, England)

2016-10-23 Thread Tom Moss
Hi All, I have a few IBM PS/2s in various states of disrepair that are free to anyone willing to collect from Yatton (Near Bristol), or arrange a courier. Systems as follows: Model 30-286 - powers on to BASIC prompt, bad floppy drive, missing hard drive. A few minor scuffs, should make an easy r

Re: Time to get rid of weird connected appliances! <> check this

2016-10-23 Thread Alexandre Souza
Too stupid of me forgetting about the common man :( Sorry! :D 2016-10-23 17:41 GMT-02:00 Alexis Kotlowy : > On 24/10/2016 06:05, Alexandre Souza wrote: > >> A good linux machine running a firewall wouldn't make all of this >> work flawlessly? >> > > The problem is the 'average consumer' isn't goi

Re: Time to get rid of weird connected appliances! <> check this

2016-10-23 Thread Pete Turnbull
On 23/10/2016 20:41, Alexis Kotlowy wrote: On 24/10/2016 06:05, Alexandre Souza wrote: A good linux machine running a firewall wouldn't make all of this work flawlessly? The problem is the 'average consumer' isn't going to bother with that. They'll just wire up their IoT devices, for convenien

Re: DEC bus transceivers

2016-10-23 Thread Toby Thain
On 2016-10-23 2:50 PM, shad wrote: Hello, surely the old transceivers are the most compatible solution, however you still need to convert the voltages back and forth... Plus the solution is not the cheaper, and a little uncomfortable too, as you need to find these old chips, hoping not to buy

RE: Time to get rid of weird connected appliances! <> check this

2016-10-23 Thread Dave Wade
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Alexandre > Souza > Sent: 23 October 2016 20:36 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: Time to get rid of weird connected appliances! < DIE>> check this > > A good li

RE: Time to get rid of weird connected appliances! <> check this

2016-10-23 Thread Electronics Plus
In 2011 Barnaby Jack warned of insulin pump attacks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby_Jack) yet in 2016 J&J had to warn their customers that they were vulnerable to attack (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161004/06242635699/johnson-johnson-warns-insulin-pump-owners-they-could-be-killed-

Re: ASTEC 8151 PSU (TRS80, Osborne etc)

2016-10-23 Thread Jules Richardson
On 10/23/2016 08:02 AM, Adrian Graham wrote: Hi folks, Now that the bouncing has calmed down I've got a question about this here triple output pretty ubiquitous power supply. This one had some burst caps so naturally wasn't working and was probably why the machine it came out of was taken out of

Re: ASTEC 8151 PSU (TRS80, Osborne etc)

2016-10-23 Thread Adrian Graham
On 24/10/2016 00:30, "Jules Richardson" wrote: > On 10/23/2016 08:02 AM, Adrian Graham wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> Now that the bouncing has calmed down I've got a question about this here >> triple output pretty ubiquitous power supply. This one had some burst caps >> so naturally wasn't working

Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

2016-10-23 Thread Mouse
>>> [...anti-virus...] >> [...] > Just wondering are you guys not running AV SW on your old HW? I am not. But then, because of my interests, the old hardware I keep is stuff like Sun SPARCs that are powerful enough to run a real operating system. These are (a) inherently invulnerable to most of

Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

2016-10-23 Thread Mouse
> My favorite formatter was my S100 crate with CP/M, [it's] impossible > to give a single user OS without background processing a virus. I disagree. I see nothing about "a single-user OS without background processing" that would prevent a virus from infecting other programs, even including the OS

Tek 40xx computer users

2016-10-23 Thread Randy Dawson
I bought the Tek 4051 on ebay today; Jason brought it to my house and it works perfectly, with about a half hour of programming instruction my 12 old daughter was plotting a cat face. https://www.facebook.com/Thelma.Franco/videos/10154277153852670/ I would like to get in touch with other user

Re: Time to get rid of weird connected appliances! <> check this

2016-10-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> Nevertheless, most IoT devices only talk (outgoing) to some server in > some cloud, and are reasonably safe, at least until the server is > attacked. Which is why I'll only buy systems for which the API is either open or well-understood. I have several sets of Philips hue bulb networks in the

Re: Time to get rid of weird connected appliances! <> check this

2016-10-23 Thread jim stephens
On 10/23/2016 9:32 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: Similarly, my home camera system connects to an Axis concentrator I'm using Foscam cameras, which are ip connected, but the model I have isn't "cloud" connected, there is a mini DVR the size of a cigarette pack that does a 16 channel recorder to an