On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 11:57:01PM +, TangentDelta via cctalk wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have two card cages out of a pair of Linotron 202 phototypesetting
> machines, and have been hunting for documentation for the Naked Mini systems
> used in them for over a year now. The Computer Automation CP
I suspect much of the electronics is fine. It would be good for someone
wanting backup cards.
You must be joking. Those cards are done. Any chip that is still
operational will likely fail upon or shortly after power is applied.
Most components can stand soldering temperatures. It is clear
that i
On 10/12/20 5:43 PM, dwight wrote:
Remakable. It was not the descrete math I know, then. It would vary
heavy on logic and set theory stuff. Not the kind of stuff I deal with
at work. It was a long time ago though. Things have changed. The closest
we go to a real computer was a Monrow calculator
My grandfather wrote a book, "This is the Way to Study"
SQ3R was the system
Study, Question, Read, Write, Review
Look over the chapter, read the captions of the pics, look at the bold text
then make notes of questions for things that pop up
Then Read the chapter through
Write down more questions
> On 10/13/2020 1:50 PM Cindy Croxton via cctalk wrote:
>
>
> My grandfather wrote a book, "This is the Way to Study"
>
> ...
> My college friend says Wow, that is a LOT of work!
>
> Is there an expectation now that being educated is NOT a lot of work?
>
> --
>
My opinion, based on my expe
On 10/13/20 11:56 AM, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote:
> My opinion, based on my experience:
> There is an expectation that getting a degree is not, or should not be, a lot
> of work. Many people confuse getting a degree with getting an education.
As evidenced in many areas. For example, a DMA de
> On Oct 13, 2020, at 2:50 PM, Cindy Croxton via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> ...
> My college friend says Wow, that is a LOT of work!
>
> Is there an expectation now that being educated is NOT a lot of work?
It depends. In sciences, people understand that it's a lot of work. In what
Robert Heinl
On 13/10/2020 20:14, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
As evidenced in many areas. For example, a DMA degree does not
guarantee one a performing gig. It may not even guarantee a teaching gig.
Is a DMA degree one where some other entity does all the work but the
degree ends up in the right plac
On 10/13/20 12:25 PM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote:
> On 13/10/2020 20:14, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>> As evidenced in many areas. For example, a DMA degree does not
>> guarantee one a performing gig. It may not even guarantee a teaching
>> gig.
>
>
> Is a DMA degree one where some ot
I have a Maynard MaynStream tape backup unit from the 1980's.
It uses audio-format cassettes with 1/4" tape, but it's a different
tape composition, and the cassette has a notch in it to tell the device
it's not just plain audio tape. The capacity was 80 MB per cassette.
I also have four ISA contr
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 7:15 PM Chris Zach via cctalk
wrote:
> Well, the drive is working. Better...
Excellent!
> I've heard that the RX02 can format an RX01, but can it?
Nope.
There were 3rd party controllers that could format 8" media in DEC
machines (DSD for one).
DEC controllers and DEC
> DEC controllers and DEC 8" drives cannot. Not for any platform.
>
> Back in the day, DEC floppy users purchased pre-formatted floppies.
> If you had an RX02, you could "INIT" an RX01 floppy to RX02 use -
> essentially just rewriting the data portion of the sector to
> double-density (256 bytes
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 at 21:17, Paul Koning via cctalk
wrote:
>
> It depends. In sciences, people understand that it's a lot of work. In what
> Robert Heinlein called the "fuzzy subjects", you can often be a party animal
> who does very little real work and get a degree anyway. If so, it doesn'
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 at 21:51, Van Snyder via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I have a Maynard MaynStream tape backup unit from the 1980's.
>
> It uses audio-format cassettes with 1/4" tape, but it's a different
> tape composition, and the cassette has a notch in it to tell the device
> it's not just plain audio
On 13/10/2020 22:28, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
Then I guess the question rattling around my brain is "How did I get
this Elephant Memory systems disk formatted?"
RX01 format is a standard IBM format used by many systems, including
many CP/M ones, so it was possible to buy pre-formatted disk
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
I see comments like in this thread a lot, and I have also looked over
some modern uni papers and they look straight forward to me. I only
have a BSc and I have PhD envy, and occasionally idly considered
"dropping out" from work and doing a Master
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 00:19, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Do you want the degree?
> Or do you want to LEARN?
Fair!
Both.
> Take a course in your limited "spare time".
> Then another.
> and another
>
> I did grad school (UC Berkeley) while teaching full time plus running a
> business, and o
Take a course in your limited "spare time".
Then another.
and another
I did grad school (UC Berkeley) while teaching full time plus running a
business, and over 40 years old.
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
This may be tricky in a country where I do not usefully speak the
lan
On Wed, 2020-10-14 at 00:02 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 at 21:51, Van Snyder via cctalk<
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > I have a Maynard MaynStream tape backup unit from the 1980's.
> > It uses audio-format cassettes with 1/4" tape, but it's a
> > differenttape composition,
> On Oct 13, 2020, at 6:36 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 00:19, Fred Cisin via cctalk
> wrote:
>>
>> Do you want the degree?
>> Or do you want to LEARN?
>
> Fair!
>
> Both.
I like learning. Partly it's the good influence of my late father, and I said
so
On 10/13/20 3:17 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Oct 13, 2020, at 2:50 PM, Cindy Croxton via cctalk
wrote:
...
My college friend says Wow, that is a LOT of work!
Is there an expectation now that being educated is NOT a lot of work?
It depends. In sciences, people understand that it
Just wanted to let you all know that I've found a copy of Informix
3.11 for SCO XENIX on the Lisa 2... anyone interested?
RX01 format is a standard IBM format used by many systems, including
many CP/M ones, so it was possible to buy pre-formatted disks. Maybe
they came that way.
That may be it: The Elephant disk does say on the factory label: Single
sided, single density, IBM compatible, 128 bytes, 26 sectors. S
I got my degree four years before my retirement.
Fun stuff and memories. When I was at UMBC in 1986 I was kicked off the
Vax 8600's for writing funny scripts that would run in the batch queues
and resubmit between the systems when they completed. Net result was
seriously elevated rights, baff
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