On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 21:47, Electronics Plus via cctalk
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> Just for fun, I went to the bank and bought about $1000 in half dollar and
> dollar coins. My son collects them, and we went through them all. We did find
> some silver half dollars. The ones we are not keeping now go to whatev
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 18:57, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> Oh, FAR FAR FAR less than 5%.
*Chuckle*
> Most residents of USA haven't seen a half dollar or "50 cent piece" in
> decades. They are as much of an oddity as the $2 bill. They are
> nominally still in circulation, most recent being
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 22:50, Warner Losh via cctalk
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> Yea, I'm just the right age to have seen them in circulation and have it as
> a unit of measure for "just bigger than an inch". Sorry for the crazy
> measurement...
It's fine really. It's provoked an interesting if offtopic conversati
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 22:55, Steven M Jones via cctalk
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> Two weeks ago I was in London, and had brought my pound notes/coins from
> a visit a few years earlier. When trying to buy lunch, the cashier
> refused my £10 note since new £5 and £10 notes had been issued over a
> year before. I
> US currency is very confusing to me. All the notes seem to be the same
> size and colour, so you can't readily sort them. I mean, I know
> America doesn't believe in helping people when they're sick, but it
> wasn't until I visited that I realised you saved up particular hatred
> for the blind an
On 06/29/19 06:39, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote (in part):
US currency is very confusing to me. All the notes seem to be the same
size and colour, so you can't readily sort them.
Some countries also put Braille dots (besides the different colours).
Does the US have any such plans?
N.
> On Jun 28, 2019, at 10:56 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk
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>> ...
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> I have had my own DNS for 20 years, it's pretty simple stuff. ...
>
> So, jumping in late to this conversation, why does it matter that Dyn
> and/or Oracle do not supply this service?
In my case, it isn't the DN
On Sat, 29 Jun 2019, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
US currency is very confusing to me. All the notes seem to be the same
size and colour, so you can't readily sort them. I mean, I know
America doesn't believe in helping people when they're sick, but it
wasn't until I visited that I realised you
"Silver dollar" used to be a large coin. (38.1mm) It was the standard for
casinos. When it was discontinued (1935), the casinos started to mint
their own chips/tokens as a replacement. There was a brief attempt to
revive the silver dollar in 1971 with the "Eisenhower Dollar".
It is quite rare t
Originally, System Engineering Laboratories (SEL) out of Fort Lauderdale
(later bought by Gould (Gould SEL), then NEC and finally spun off as
Encore) built one of the original 32 bit mini computers (and later
super-minicomputers) in the 70's -90's.
Popular for large flight simulators and nucle
On 6/29/19 3:39 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> You use nicknames for 2 denominations which most of us foreigners
> don't know -- I still don't know which is a "nickel" (which is a metal
> to me) and which is a "dime" (which is a Swedish chocolate-covered
> sweet bar, of which I'm very fond bu
On 2019-06-29 9:15 a.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote:
On 06/29/19 06:39, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote (in part):
US currency is very confusing to me. All the notes seem to be the same
size and colour, so you can't readily sort them.
Some countries also put Braille dots (besides the different
Washington State Ferries still use 50 cent pieces and 2 dollar bills a lot.
After years of receiving them as change, I finally asked why? The
reason is they reduce the number of hand movements by one half. If
you're sitting in a kiosk all day dolling out change, it can reduce
repetitive wris
I just finished taking pictures and dumping the firmware from a 730X terminal
but it turns out it has a Starlan and not an Ethernet interface. It would be
nice to get a firmware dump from an Ethernet card. A start of a 630 driver is
in MAME.
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/att/730/730X
It also appears t
On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 12:17 PM Al Kossow via cctalk
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> I just finished taking pictures and dumping the firmware from a 730X
> terminal
> but it turns out it has a Starlan and not an Ethernet interface. It would
> be
> nice to get a firmware dump from an Ethernet card. A start of a 630 dri
On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 1:21 PM Josh Dersch wrote:
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> On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 12:17 PM Al Kossow via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> I just finished taking pictures and dumping the firmware from a 730X
>> terminal
>> but it turns out it has a Starlan and not an Ethernet interface
FYI, it is unlikely there would have been a VCF without Sellam. He
basically started it (with his own money) and continued through the
first 10 years or so. Many others help support VCF (and continue to do
so even though Sellam backed out some number of years ago.)
I, for one, fully support
On Sat, 29 Jun 2019, Marvin Johnston via cctalk wrote:
FYI, it is unlikely there would have been a VCF without Sellam. He basically
started it (with his own money) and continued through the first 10 years or
so. Many others help support VCF (and continue to do so even though Sellam
backed out s
Seth Morabito wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2019, at 2:07 AM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
> > [...] so my response is to filter out anything to do with Linode from
> > here.
>
> This is something of a touchy subject for me because I have been a Linode
> customer for over a decade, and have always be
On 6/29/2019 4:21 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
An Imsai 8080 is s'posed to sell for $599 ($931 assembled)
An Apple 1 is s'posed to sell for $666.66
A TRS-80 is s'posed to be $599.95, with monitor and cassette player.
A 5150 is s'posed to be $1281, easily $1565 with base features, and up.
Wha
FYI, it is unlikely there would have been a VCF without Sellam. He
basically started it (with his own money) and continued through the
first 10 years or so. Many others help support VCF (and continue to
do so even though Sellam backed out some number of years ago.)
Many thanks to Sellam tho
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