On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Cindy Croxton wrote:
> Today they start getting cut up if no one responds.
[snip]
> Located in WI. Email me off list if you seriously want to go buy.
I'm still wondering where in Wisconsin this is.
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Eric Christopherson
Forgive the question, but what is an "election vigil"? Just people
paying attention to the tallying at night after voting has closed?
".
>> Aparrantly one guy said to the person sat next to him it's a pity you had
>> your eyes closed when we flew under the high voltage wires.
>> You missed going under the bridge on the other side
They would even fly a team of technicians to a mountaintop to install
a microwave receiver and a single terminal on it!
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Eric Christopherson
about other terms with "farm" in them?
(I came across a new one the other day, but of course I've forgotten it
now.)
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Eric Christopherson
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> Hi, all. I'm looking for information on slang terms with the word "farm"
> in them, relating to computaters; especially the origins of such terms.
> I've known "cube farm" (a bunch of cubicles where offi
On Oct 18, 2015 3:08 PM, "Chuck Guzis" wrote:
>
> On 10/18/2015 12:46 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
>
>> Later, it began to be used for moderately open land, with collections
>> of other stuff, such as a group of windmills became a "wind farm"
>> (Altamont pass).
>
>
> I recall a room full of a hundred or
ing) nuts; does this seem
correct?
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eryone think about this? And would an
electromagnetic library security system (the kind that's like a tube
through which checked-out materials are put; often with a caution not to
put tapes or floppies through it) be a suitable degausser?
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Eric Christopherson
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Oct 2015, Eric Christopherson wrote:
>
>> I know Chuck Guzis has written about this, but I don't see that he's done
>> so publicly in the last few years, so I thought I'd ask here about his and
adow mask color TV!
>
> Joe
>
> > On Oct 25, 2015, at 1:01 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> >
> > On 10/24/2015 09:06 PM, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Fascinating -- I didn't know there were AC and DC magnetic fields.
> >> How
ance didn't apply. Maybe in rural areas those access points were
still long distance, though. But AOL itself had per-minute premium rates
for quite a while.
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Eric Christopherson
or your time.
> Kind Regards
> David Wilding
>
>
Perhaps it's out of the (very nice) web page's scope, but I don't see a
mention of the modern-day partial recreation of QuantumLink that some
Commodore enthusiasts use today.
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Eric Christopherson
gt;
> > I'm wondering what I can put between the two to keep the cable from
> > disconnecting from the adapter. Some searches seem to indicate I want
> > some 4x40 (or 4-40) female-female (coupling) nuts; does this seem
> > correct?
> >
> > --
> >Eric Christopherson
>
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On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Eric Christopherson <
echristopher...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015, Joseph Lang wrote:
> > This list seems to me to be populated with "build your own" types, so
> make your own degausser.
> > Decades ago I repaired t
pic they are, before
being dispatched to either cctalk ONLY or cctalk+cctech.
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Eric Christopherson
On Oct 27, 2015 3:59 PM, "Noel Chiappa" wrote:
>
> > From: Guy Sotomayor
>
> > Peanuts do *nothing* .. The heavy item will "settle" and have
nothing
> > surrounding it. The peanuts act a fluid during shipping.
>
> I can attest to this. I bought a largish disk drive, and it was shipped
. and then there's aggressively optimistic
> >
> > I love this person's style:
> >
> > http://www.ebay.com/itm/281835789336
> >
> > It doesn't sell for $25? Fine, re-list it at $35!
> >
> > Noel
> >
>
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On Sun, Nov 01, 2015, Mike Stein wrote:
> Just asking: Any interest in 80-pin SCA drives, Ultra 3 and Ultra320 in
> various capacities, both IBM and HP/Compaq 'caddies' ?
Are those the kind of drives that are appropriate for use at a
Renaissance Faire?
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Eric Christopherson
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015, rod wrote:
> Whats all the fuss about.?
> What did the poor guy do to be banned?
There's some stuff about it in the list archives. I for one would prefer
we not rehash it here now.
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Eric Christopherson
t; --
>
> Inventor of zmodem, eh? Thanks for passing this along.
> Bill
I never realized he was right near here.
:(
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Eric Christopherson
some minor intelligence on
> the remote end to covert into a raw image, but "send everything" mentality
> is better than nothing) - extra points for retrying bad sectors.
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
I've been pondering a way to do this with an Atari ST hard drive, too.
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Eric Christopherson
; >
> >
> >
>
> Amen to that, brother. The duplicates drive me nuts.
>
What gets duplicated? Are you subscribed to both -talk and -tech at one
time?
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Eric Christopherson
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015, Al Kossow wrote:
> On 11/17/15 11:46 AM, Eric Christopherson wrote:
>
> >What gets duplicated? Are you subscribed to both -talk and -tech at one
> >time?
> >
>
> Yes, they were two separate lists at one point, then someone decided to start
>
ule I have. I have tons of
rules like that; they apply an appropriate tag and archive the messages,
so I have to navigate into a specific folder to read a group's messages.
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Eric Christopherson
ems that when I do that, Gmail later reverses my decision. I'm not
sure how I could keep synchrony with Gmail *and* have that.
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Eric Christopherson
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> On 20/11/2015 19:39, Eric Christopherson wrote:
>
> >I'm considering doing something that actually downloads my Gmail content
> >locally and keeps it in sync periodically, but I haven't really looked at
> >what's
On Nov 21, 2015 10:47 AM, "Al Kossow" wrote:
>
> On 11/21/15 1:38 AM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, downloading the DjVu file does nothing
>
>
> and Firefox reports it as a web forgery.
>
> If someone can find real djvu files for those manuals, I will
> convert them to pdf a
gt; > was the message along with the pretty colors of the modem sender.
> >
> > Holy cow! It didn't even ask if I wanted to point the browser at the
> > configuration page. Shades of COFEE. Does anyone else think that this is
> > a great feature and not a security hole?
> >
> > --Chuck
> >
> >
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Eric Christopherson
http transactions, going across the wire in plain text?
>
> Jerry
I'm not sure, but I'm betting https sites just refuse to connect --
which is how my employer's network handles https.
> On 11/22/15 09:05 AM, geneb wrote:
> >On Sun, 22 Nov 2015, Eric Christopherson wr
//itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/https-inspection-within-forefront-threat-management-gateway-2010/
> > >
> > > --Toby
> > >
> > >
> > > cert to provide caching for HTTPS connections - they're that common.
> > >> ...
> > >>
> > >> /~\ The ASCII Mouse
> > >> \ / Ribbon Campaign
> > >> X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org
> > >> / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> >
>
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ny ideas? Maybe it wasn't Byte?
>
> Of course all this really quite irrelevant in the grand scheme of things,
> but it would help me scratch an itch at the very least.
>
> Thanks! Mark.
>
I'm all too familiar with that kind of itch. I'm glad we have this forum to
at least attempt to find answers; hope you find yours.
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Eric Christopherson
and inventory and submit
labels to print on a Symbol handheld running PocketPC OS (or whatever it
might have been called at that time). A, good times.
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Eric Christopherson
;m using GMail through it, it seems that
Google's idea of what threads are take precedence and they go back to the
way they were.
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Eric Christopherson
start new discussions. But make sure they're treated
as new by emailing cctalk@classiccmp.org directly instead of replying.
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Eric Christopherson
ble :-)
Are you using "interpreter" in two senses here, or just one? That is to
say, I'm not sure if you're saying the "COBOL interpreter" was just a
program that printed COBOL source on a punched card, or if you mean it
actually ran the program.
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Eric Christopherson
e source you would find the cards
> listing the input for the program, such as a list of accounts and amounts
> to be added
> together or sorted.
So you could have the same batch job compile AND run the program? That
kind of surprises me. Must have saved a lot of time that way.
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Eric Christopherson
riginal post. I was trying to
> convey knowledge of the misinterpretation, and the humor of it.
To me, that's a hint at best. If it had been a winking face, I would
have been pretty confident that humor or irony was intended; simple
smiling emoticons don't indicate irony to me.
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Eric Christopherson
was it refreshed?
3. What kind of speed could be acheived, and did this depend on the
number of connected terminals?
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Eric Christopherson
/ibm/2260/
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Eric Christopherson
On Dec 27, 2015 10:35 PM, "Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote:
> SCSI disks are most often shipped formatted with a pool of spare sectors
> available beyond the nominal externally visible capacity, although the
> firmware of many allows reformatting with the size of the pool altered, at
> the most extreme
OME OK remakes that were
> better than mediocre movies they were based on. I just wish that remakes
> would have some sort of designation in the title that makes the original and
> the remake differentiable by more than copyright date.
> When is the "Casablanca" remake due out?
>
>
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Eric Christopherson
ocom-style multi-word parser or
anything.
I also remember a game in what I think was a COMPUTE! compilation, where
you played someone stuck on an enemy spaceship; but I can't seem to find
it right now.
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Eric Christopherson
t; I certainly wouldn't want to
play a game that did that. Maybe you're just trying to make it more
period-correct by emulating 1541 loading times, in which case the delay
should be much longer ;)
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Eric Christopherson
On Fri, Jan 01, 2016, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Cindy Croxton wrote:
> > >> Has any of you took one of them old choose your own adventurer books and
> > >> coded it into a text RPG
s/tools/Pages/BoschProductDetail.aspx?pid=P
> B360S
>
> And I must say... an awesome "tool", necessary for any jobsite ;)
Too bad they didn't make it look like a 3D projection of a hypercube...
they came SO close!
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Eric Christopherson
the 'black level' from the ZX81 in that it was too great and
> caused the autotune mechanism to skip it altogether as it wasn't seen as a
> useable signal.
>
> Hopefully someone else can elaborate on that.
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Eric Christopherson
; http://i64.tinypic.com/nci35y.jpg
> > >
> > > I know all the code is right is there a misprint in the book?
> > >
> > > I am pulling my hair out...LOL
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
> I think there has to be a typo in the book there is no other possibility!
One potential problem is that it looks like it's for 80 columns and
you're running it on a system with only 40.
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Eric Christopherson
is one I'm replying to, while it
has typos, is not quite so opaque):
> *1/ there is a serial port next going from right to left there is a
> interface theb the tohhlr and i am not sure hie ti ser them then rge
> powre and last but not least the on and off switch..
> Can this be use as a 2nd drive if so hoe do zi hook it up the right way?
> thank you sll in sdvsnce...
For more on good questions, see <
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>.
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Eric Christopherson
to the
cause being in the filesystem rather than the media, but he charges the
same rate regardless.)
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Eric Christopherson
541 also work
> on these units, and putting an extra char at the end of the command will
> make the changes permanent, as I recall.
>
> Jim
Jim, don't you sell a device that's useful for temporarily switching off
specific drives so the device numbers can be changed more easily?
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Eric Christopherson
e, along with a 2-place DIP switch
> for controlling device ID.
I'm feeling my C128 privilege here -- the 1571 and 1581 always had DIPs
for just that purpose, and I never even realized the 1540/1 didn't.
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Eric Christopherson
quot; drive options (saw one
> at World of Commodore, forgot the name).
How did these dumb drives interface with the computer at a software
level? I'd think a DOS would need to be loaded somehow.
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Eric Christopherson
ross a thread
saying you could use parallel port passthrough in a limited fashion:
<https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=54187>
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Eric Christopherson
l help!
I wish you guys hadn't started this. A few months ago I was interested
in resurrecting an old ThinkPad, but I put it away again, thinking there
were more important things to do. Now I'm wanting to put 98SE on it :/
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Eric Christopherson
On Feb 12, 2016 11:10 AM, "Jos Dreesen" wrote:
>
>
> On ftp.dreesen.ch/PDP11 you can find some pics on how the rescued
PDP11/04 fits right in next to its cousin, a PDP8/a
>
> This 8a, BTW, has more memory (128K x 12) and more oomph ( a FPP8A )
than the PDP11/04
>
>
> Jos
I'm just getting a S
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016, Charles Anthony wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 8:29 PM, Eric Christopherson <
> echristopher...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 12, 2016 11:10 AM, "Jos Dreesen" wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On ftp.dreesen.ch/PDP11 y
ould have claimed them based on proximity, but then I'd have had to
worry about keeping them in a safe environment, so it's probably for the
best.
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Eric Christopherson
ther than the racoon mascot.
Hey, we all know a raccoon makes a great mascot. Better than a penguin,
daemon, or puffer fish :)
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Eric Christopherson
22 Feb 2016, Mike wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a way to copy a disk from a commodore floppy drive to a SD card
> >> if so please enplane how it is done
> >>
> >
> > You need a machine that supports both formats. Either add an SD card to a
> > Commodore, or do appropriate special cabling and software to read the
> > commodore disk on a PC.
> >
> >
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's SD2IEC software, as far as I
> > know. The main source of documentation I know of is at
> > <https://www.sd2iec.de/gitweb/?p=sd2iec.git;a=blob;f=README;hb=HEAD>.
> >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Fred Cisin
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, 22 Feb 2016, Mike wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Is there a way to copy a disk from a commodore floppy drive to a SD
> > card
> > > >> if so please enplane how it is done
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > You need a machine that supports both formats. Either add an SD card
> > to a
> > > > Commodore, or do appropriate special cabling and software to read the
> > > > commodore disk on a PC.
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> > --
> > Eric Christopherson
> >
>
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Eric Christopherson
(s) when I get home, but
it's been dead for a long time now.
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Eric Christopherson
or 2mb ram. Will
> post more pics when I get around to opening it up.
Excellent!
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Eric Christopherson
On Mar 12, 2016 10:25 PM, "James Vess" wrote:
>
> I'm in Houston and could make the trip, Anyone here interested in the
> systems listed?
>
> I would need to see enough interest to go do it though, as even though I'd
> love to get these and just play with them, but I wouldn't be able to keep
> the
oked
straight, I put the RAM in, and everything was fine then.
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Eric Christopherson
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
> Back to the MP 3000. There are a number of CPUs in the box. Two are the
> most
> obvious: the SBC running OS/2 and the actual S/390 CPU. However, there is
> another
> S/390 CPU in the box as well. It is not visible (at least directly) to
Is there a subset of this group for people who like to program in
languages or language implementations or libraries that are no longer
in common mainstream use? Or other groups for such a thing?
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Eric Christopherson
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Rich Alderson
wrote:
> From: Eric Christopherson
> Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 9:18 AM
>
>> Is there a subset of this group for people who like to program in
>> languages or language implementations or libraries that are no longer
>> i
S, one IPL's z/OS. :-)
He corrects that in the video itself :)
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nds to the cctalk mailing list.
>
> Description: Classic Computing Talk (non-public).
>
> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.vintage>
> nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.vintage>
>
We're also on http://marc.info/?l=classiccmp&r=1&w=2 .
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tual output is only in 40 because of memory
limitations. The specific project in the magazine allows four 16
foreground and 16 background colors per pixel, but it says the author
has also made it output 8-bit analog RGB foregrounds with one fixed
background color.
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Eric Christopherson
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Eric Christopherson
wrote:
> The specific project in the magazine allows four 16
> foreground and 16 background colors per pixel,
Sorry -- of course I meant "allows for 16 foreground and 16 background
colors per character". The display is
would have them. It's a bit of an old post, but maybe he still uses that
email and has them.
>
> Thanks as always,
> Josh
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ed to VB.NET
> .. but the competition requires sprites so you would need something
> special... and I think its DOS based on a PC ...
It doesn't require sprites. It specifies that even character graphics
would work.
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On Sun, Sep 13, 2015, Chris Osborn wrote:
> The complete source code has been posted to github, and you can see the full
> rules and check out other submissions here:
>
> https://redd.it/3ko0nd
What format is the Commodore-sprites.spd file in?
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Eric Christopherson
t; * me * saying it, I'm just reporting
What?? Headline writers take things in directions the authors didn't
intend??
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Eric Christopherson
don't make backups, they just put their stuff on an FTP and
> let the rest of the world mirror it..."
"Can't sleep; cloud will eat me."
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Eric Christopherson
>
> More information available upon request.
>
> Asking $1,400 or best offer.
>
> Thanks.
You're Raskin' too much! ;)
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Eric Christopherson
I have no idea what the context is.
>
> Happy computing.
>
> Murray :)
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Eric Christopherson
I need to tell these children "if you could pick it up, it was not a
> mainframe."
>
> I'm sorry I looked ...
What? -- what's wrong with "Altair Era" "S-100 Mainframes"?
>
> mcl
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Eric Christopherson
em; most of it is on your
web page and the Wikipedia page for BDS C, which appears to borrow quite
a bit from your page. Was MARC an OS itself, or a Unix-like layer on
CP/M? Is it available to download and play with?
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Eric Christopherson
On Sun, Sep 27, 2015, Jay Jaeger wrote:
> On 9/27/2015 12:30 AM, Eric Christopherson wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015, Jay Jaeger wrote:
> >> (BTW, My memory of that acronym is "Machine Assisted Resource
> >> Coordinator", a small-sized Unix work-alike
> Allan can be reached at the address to which I sent a copy.
If you CCed someone, that seems to have been stripped by the mailing
list.
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og.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk/
>
> Dave Curran of Tynemouth refurbishes dead 8-bits either as USB
> keyboards for modern computers, or fits RasPis into them to bring them
> back to life.
>
> https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TynemouthSoftware
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Eric Christopherson
s possible (viz. creating a valid, bootable
filesystem and untarring files into it)? Or should I just invest in a
CD-ROM drive?
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Eric Christopherson
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 9:17 AM, David Brownlee wrote:
> On 2 October 2015 at 15:01, Eric Christopherson
> wrote:
>> A very generous list member just gave me a SPARCStation 20 with SunOS
>> 4.1.4 on it. I thought the first thing I would do would be to image
>> its hard
Markus Kunn:
<https://markuskunn.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/yamaha-c1-the-kraftwerk-computer/>
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Eric Christopherson
e 0wned or something?!
Yeah, there's classic computing and then there's... whatever THAT is.
*g*
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Eric Christopherson
ook first?
Is this the same one that was showing all exclamation points on every
other line?
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Eric Christopherson
If one were to use a dumb CRT terminal from the early '70s regularly in
this day and age, would it be more prone to hardware failure than if it
were kept in storage or just kept to look at but powered off?
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Eric Christopherson
-System-for-PDP-11-Analog-Digital-I-O-Ultra-Rare-/291440856658?hash=item43db3a8e52:g:KRYAAOSwDk5TzrBt
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 2:46 PM, devin davison wrote:
> some drives had to be destroyed. I believe it is coming from
> Harris, so it makes sense.
>
What Harris is this? The one that made machines running Vulcan OS?
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Eric Christopherson
ory seems fascinating.
>
> I also seem to remember an operator's console with two round CRTs on
> it, but I might have fabricated that memory from whole cloth.
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Eric Christopherson
dn't get any of the
directory-changing commands et al. from the SD2IEC firmware.
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Eric Christopherson
emes of perhaps putting a tiny OS kernel in the
thing, but at that point *it* would become the computer and the 128 would
be just sort of sitting there. The same is true of the CosmosEx device I've
been thinking of getting for my Atari STs; it has a Raspberry Pi inside.
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Eric Christopherson
ay more except in private.
Hopefully not something that would require said filesystem
implementators to pay licensing fees or sign NDAs or take affirmative
action to limit users' use of data, or onerous things like that.
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Eric Christopherson
es:
> >
> > Has the list gone down or just dropped me again?
> >
>
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Eric Christopherson
not guaranteed.
Do either the 2001 or 2007 support *digital* RGB/CGA out of the box?
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Eric Christopherson
al
(TTL) and analog signaling?
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Paul Koning
> wrote:
>
> >
> > > On May 17, 2016, at 3:30 PM, Eric Christopherson <
> > echristopher...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > > Do either the 2001 o
s after he died. I was interested
in the Sun workstations and to a lesser extent the Harris mini (not sure
what kind). But I would have been even less equipped to deal with them
(especially the big metal) than I am now.
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Eric Christopherson
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:54 PM, Eric Christopherson <
echristopher...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2016, Swift Griggs wrote:
> >
> > I've stack-ranked all the classic items that I, to my everlasting shame,
> > let go of at some point and now I feel like
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