Re: VAX in action

nto Settings and the Labs tab and enable: «Quote selected text Ryan A Quote the text you have selected when you reply to a message. (Now works with the mouse too!) » It does proper quoting as well or better than any offline MUA. I'm using it right now. -- Liam P

The Burroughs B5900 and E-Mode

that title, my friends and co-workers at Burroughs Corporation did, and I consider it a great honor. This true story is about the B5900, and why it was an important milestone for Burroughs and later Unisys, as well as the computer industry in general. » http://jack.hoa.org/hoajaa/BurrMain.html --

Re: The Burroughs B5900 and E-Mode

On 14 October 2015 at 17:15, Noel Chiappa wrote: > Wow! What a fabulous story/writeup! Highly recommend to everyone. Oh good -- glad someone else enjoyed it. :-) -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Faceb

Atari Unix

om/2011/01/18/the-atari-st-could-have-run-unix/ … But the original 68000 version couldn't hack it. No MMU. http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=1383 The product did eventually exist: http://www.atariunix.com/ But as ever it was too little, too late. -- Liam Proven

Re: Atari Unix

s all offered a UNIX — Acorn RISC-iX, Commodore Amiga UNIX and Atari UNIX. None caught on — they were vastly expensive for home users, and the machines were seen as toys by professionals using SUN workstations and so on. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro

Re: Atari Unix

rossed wires here. The TT shipped, sure. It’s Atari UNIX that I /think/ did not. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)

The KIM Uno -- a modern clone of the KIM-1

ithout case or power supply), but provides a faithful KIM-1 'experience'. An atMega328 (Arduino Pro Mini, actually) mounted on the back of the board contains all the logic and memory. » http://obsolescence.wix.com/obsolescence#!kim-uno-summary/c1uuh -- Liam Proven • Profile: http:/

Vintage BBC Computer gets FPGA Buddies

add a 6502, a Z80, a 6809, or a PDP/11 to a BBC Micro via the tube interface. There’s something satisfying about a classic computer acting as an I/O slave to a fairly modern FPGA that implements an even older PDP/11. » http://hackaday.com/2015/10/03/vintage-bbc-computer-gets-fpga-buddies/ -- Liam

Re: VCF-Berlin, 2015

Seriously though, it would have been nice to have gone I was thinking much the same thing. It's only a train ride for me -- OK, a long train ride, but still. I even have a few friends in Berlin I could have couch-surfed with. :-( -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal

Know any Fortran programmers who need a more interesting job?

«Why NASA Needs a Programmer Fluent In 60-Year-Old Languages To keep the Voyager 1 and 2 crafts going, NASA's new hire has to know FORTRAN and assembly languages. » http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a17991/voyager-1-voyager-2-retiring-engineer/ -- Liam Proven • Profile:

Re: The list seems very quiet today

On 30 October 2015 at 12:02, rod wrote: > The list seems very quiet to-day. > I have had only one post this morning. > Anybody know why? No replies to my message about NASA wanting Fortran programmers... -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@

Re: Know any Fortran programmers who need a more interesting job?

On 30 October 2015 at 16:28, Paul Koning wrote: > Neat. I would think that a large fraction of the membership of this list is > qualified for that job. That's why I posted it! :-) -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail

Re: Vintage computing events in Germany [Was: Re: VCF-Berlin, 2015]

ts for those events in > advance. Echoing whjat -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)

Re: Vintage computing events in Germany [Was: Re: VCF-Berlin, 2015]

On 5 November 2015 at 15:03, Liam Proven wrote: > On 4 November 2015 at 22:34, Anke Stüber wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 09:24:04PM +0100, Anke Stüber wrote: >>> […] Classic Computing 2015 […] >> >> btw, there are more vintage computing ev

Re: Query for dec teleprinter roms

alking about either. Cory's email looked normal to me, except for the top-quoting. Speaking of which, Simon, if you are using Thunderbird then you have ABSOLUTELY NO excuse for top-quoting. Please do it right. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.

Re: Emulation

On 21 November 2015 at 16:55, Ray Arachelian wrote: > What you really want is the MESS project, http://www.mess.org/ - which > is part of MAME and has retro computer emulators. Not any more, no. As Al K said, MESS has now been merged into MAME. -- Liam Proven • Profile

Re: DEC Papertape Readers

roll (book, whatever) equivalent of a lace card. I'm amazed it held together enough to play, and I suspect it's not going to survive more than a handful of plays at best. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Fli

Re: A stored collection piece is a Schrodinger's cat

death.html http://blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk/2015/05/commodore-pet-romram-replacement-boards.html -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles:

Re: A stored collection piece is a Schrodinger's cat

On 30 November 2015 at 18:43, Adrian Graham wrote: > All of this fixing I'm currently doing is all Dave's fault, so yes :) [Actual LOL] -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lpro

Re: A stored collection piece is a Schrodinger's cat

x27;s a smart and very helpful chap. He built a Raspberry Pi 2 into my old LMT 68FX2 ZX Spectrum replacement keyboard. The snag is, a Spectrum keyboard layout is really very little use with anything else (e.g. Linux or RISC OS.) Shame, as it has a good action and feel -- individual sprung keys. --

Re: Oberon and the OberonStation (retro-style FPGA computing)

aspberry Pi... -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)

Re: TU-58

is why he said "in some states" with a smiley. By attempting to "correct" him, you have merely exposed your own ignorance of history and mathematics and your inability to work out the meaning of a smiley. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email:

Re: Oberon and the OberonStation (retro-style FPGA computing)

On 2 December 2015 at 17:54, Jos Dreesen wrote: > On 02.12.2015 15:04, Liam Proven wrote: >> >> On 24 November 2015 at 08:45, Mark Wickens >> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for letting us know about this William - I'm sure there is still >>> plent

Re: [cctalk] Re: TOP POSTING

On 10 December 2015 at 16:54, wrote: > Bad news is Gmail never deletes your emails, ever. They remove them from > your view but keep it on their servers for profiling you. *I* never delete my emails. I have a trail back to 1994. So? Also, [[Citation needed]] for paranoid ravings. --

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

27;t let you bottom-quote properly, it's broken. The only desktop client I've seen that is so completely broken is MS Outlook. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.c

Re: [cctalk] Re: TOP POSTING

dar [c] Even if I did go PGP-crazy, there are very few people I could communicate with. I have other email addresses. Lots of 'em. About 5 still get checked regularly. But, frankly, Gmail is the best, so I stay with it. I am paranoid enough to use a local client to keep a local backup, tho

Re: [cctalk] Re: TOP POSTING

On 10 December 2015 at 20:42, Rich Alderson wrote: > From: Liam Proven > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 8:33 AM > >> On 10 December 2015 at 16:54, > wrote: >>> Bad news is Gmail never deletes your emails, ever. They remove them from >>> your view but keep i

Re: [cctalk] Re: TOP POSTING

ple miss bottom-posted replies. :-( -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

ain. I don't use Windows unless someone pays me to suffer it. However, I used to use and like Thunderbird and still do on Linux and Mac. If you're willing to go proprietary -- I prefer not to -- I have heard nothing but praise for The Bat! [sic] -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.li

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

this. Again, if you see this kind of behaviour, you have a broken email client. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

On 11 December 2015 at 23:57, Dave Wade wrote: > In order to get buttons that let you go to the next message There's one on your keyboard. It's the big long rectangular one at the bottom. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co

Re: [cctalk] Re: TOP POSTING

On 12 December 2015 at 03:00, Rich Alderson wrote: > From: Liam Proven > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 10:54 AM > >> On 10 December 2015 at 20:42, Rich Alderson >> wrote: > >>> From: Liam Proven >>> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 8:33 AM > &g

Re: What did computers without screens do?

core than build hardware to do it. By the same token, a colleague and friend of mine recently discovered this gem & Tweeted it: Chris Williams ‏@diodesign TIL modern Intel chipsets have a hidden SPARC core (inside Intel's Management Engine) https://recon.cx/2014/slides/

Re: Wood (was Re: IBM Mainframe terminal stuff)

On 20 December 2015 at 04:30, Eric Smith wrote: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: >> Was it the Processor Technology Sol that had oak strips on the sides? > > Walnut. Are you sure it wasn't rosewood? -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejourn

Re: Available: various PSION organizers, parts, and documentation from the mid-80s

models, with both 2 and 4 line displays, and different > amounts of memory. > > > I also have memory modules, cables, and development documentation. > > There's also a PSION module duplicactor. > > > If any of this interests anyone, let me know. Wow! Do you have a

Re: Remember the old "Choose your own adventure books" By D & D! ! !

ic way of doing it was a lot of GOTOs -- which is basically what the book is -- and the proper way, with a database of text and jumps, was tedious. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN

Re: Data Recovery Services

ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiction#Hard_disk_drives -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)

Re: What to Do with a PS/2?

free for data or swap file. Then hack the config file on the boot CD to read the files from the hard disk. I've been following your posts on Twitter about this, and enjoying it. :-) Good work so far! -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk

Re: What to Do with a PS/2?

es-old releases of an OS, Bittorrent can be your friend, too. E.g. https://thepiratebay.se/search/ibm%20os%202/0/99/300 -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Ya

Re: What to Do with a PS/2?

back, I'm afraid... Of multi-thousand-line CONFIG.SYS files, of juggling drivers (PATA versus SATA today, for example), of patchy or missing hardware support etc. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lp

Re: What to Do with a PS/2?

y and clunky. Sorry to have to say it, but I found the Windows 9x Explorer more actual /use./ The idea of the Start menu, implemented as a directory of directories, was *inspired*. Shortcuts are clunky but they work -- if the implementation had originated on NT and NTFS, it would have worked bet

Re: What to Do with a PS/2?

he letters of 'VMS" 1 position forward in the alphabet. Actually, though, it was developed on multiple CPU platforms, and one was an in-house board design based around Intel's RISC chip, the i860 -- codenamed the N10. NT allegedly stood for "N Ten" before MS marketing retco

Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

d recommend Windows 7, which has substantially the same look and feel as Win 98 and would require minimal re-familiarisation. As for Ersatz-11, there is a Win32 version, or you could run the existing version under a VM in Virtualbox, a free hypervisor. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.live

Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

7;d use > VirtualBox in any case to deal with that issue. I've certainly done with > other old systems. Well yes, but you need a host OS, and there is no reason not to _use_ that host OS and work on it. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.

Re: What to Do with a PS/2?

o drop it as a target architecture. Wow! Thanks for that! My compliments on your work. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mob

Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

s includes email. Yes, Jerome Fine, I'm talking to you, among others. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)

Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

th the small amount of malware and very few successful exploits, shows the difference. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobile

Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

fair point, but then, one is not going to use MS-DOS to browse the Web in 2016, right? Even the handful of ancient DOS web browsers can't handle the modern Web. There's a big difference between a "daily driver" and a specialist tool. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.liv

Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

ked was Windows 2000 -- since then, the bloat has piled on for little reward. XP can be stripped down to nearly as lean as W2K, though. I sometimes run the TinyXP 3rd party distro inside VMs. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter

Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

day mainstream use, which is suicidally risky. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)

StackExchange retrocomputing forum

This now has enough followers to move on to the next stage of the approvals process -- gathering enough example questions... http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/94441/ -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr

Re: Virtualizing AIX 1.3 - WAS::::Re: AIX for IBM PS/2

fine on Google Chrome on Mac OS X, incidentally. Google Sites are dynamically generated from a high-level markup the user enters in a special editor, AIUI. The fact that it is a Google product, a company that makes its own cross-platform browser and is a rival of Microsoft, makes the contention

Re: Mystery system

On 5 February 2016 at 17:16, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > (Norwegian "inn" is the same as English "in") > :-) Og "i" også, er det ikke sant? -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitte

Re: Farewell and thanks!

wice that day alone for comments which I had thought were reasonable and proportionate. I was wrong. My comments were inappropriate. I regret them and apologise for them. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Face

Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

offices in Farnborough. More details on request (if I can find them!) -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)

Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

On 21 February 2016 at 16:27, Liam Proven wrote: > I have a VAXstation 4000 going spare. It's currently at Red Hat's > offices in Farnborough. More details on request (if I can find them!) It's a 4000/60, I'm afraid it's untested, and Farnborough is just outside L

Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

grades of the running OS, *without reboots.* Minix 3 is the single most technically impressive new Unix-like OS that I have seen or heard of in the entire FOSS world in this century. It deserves more respect than "what's the point of that". -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://

Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

n. > > I assume you mean the one in Hampshire, but... I confess I didn't know that there was more than one Farnborough. However, I did specify that the VAXstation was in Red Hat's UK HQ. There's only one Red Hat and it only has one UK HQ. It is in the business estate adjac

Re: Minix 3 vs portability - was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

27;re only targeting the 2 main arches which comprise about 99.9% of the modern computer market. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)

Re: Minix 3 vs portability - was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

otebook chips as well as desktop chips, and POWER (and PowerPC) was only addressing desktop devices. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven C

Re: Minix 3 vs portability - was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

What is in any way confusing about that? -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)

Re: Minix 3 vs portability - was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

run Windows in a VM, which is far, far more useful. I personally didn't like the move, but it was a smart one for the company. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • S

Re: Minix 3 vs portability - was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

ons within HELP WOMBAT... wondering if this was some surreal joke being played on me... :-) -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7

Re: Minix 3 vs portability - was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

it as FOSS, as Linux replicated commercial monolithic Unix kernels as FOSS. (And Haiku recreated BeOS, and AROS recreated AmigaOS, and so on. FOSS is arguably better at re-implementing than innovating.) -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • G

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 20, Issue 29

cally http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/ -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) •

Free Sinclair QL emulator

complete with bootable hard disk images. The second discovery was that QPC2 for Windows installs and runs flawlessly under WINE on 64-bit Ubuntu. :-) -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotma

Re: SeaMonkey - Re: Usenet News Servers

as I have answered this question for him at considerable length several times. Perhaps someone would like to forward my old messages to him. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com •

Re: Connecting a Cambridge Z88 to the Internet

ight make a convenient host system. A USB <=> RS-232 convertor is probably the easiest way. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/

Re: Connecting a Cambridge Z88 to the Internet

On 18 March 2016 at 15:09, Austin Pass wrote: >> On 18 Mar 2016, at 14:04, Liam Proven wrote: >> >> I've been asked about doing this for an exhibition. >> >> From some cursory Googling, it seems that the Z88 has a terminal >> emulator, and equipped wit

Connecting a Cambridge Z88 to the Internet

readily. Not much more than that, though. Has anyone on CC done this? -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-08

WinWorld

d more from our software library right here at WinWorld! For news, support and discussion visit WinBoards. No registration is required to post, so why not drop in and say hi? » Impressive assortment of OSes and apps for older PCs, Macs and broadly related systems -- CP/M etc. https://winworldpc.com/

Re: Here's what happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe...

gbook.pdf?dl=0 -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)

RC2014 homebrew computer

display driver » (Errors in the source material.) More info and purchasing sources: https://www.tindie.com/products/Semachthemonkey/rc2014-homebrew-z80-computer/ And a (for my money, insane, but) interesting peripheral: https://hackaday.io/project/9567-5-graphics-card-for-homebrew-z80 -- Liam

Re: WinWorld

f I prefer. I don't want to. I own the version I want. As it happens, though, it's in a storage unit 1000 miles away, with an inconvenient sea in the way. So, I downloaded it. Am I admitting to scandalous software piracy? -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejourna

Re: Wanted: stand for NeXT monitor

efit from running on a RISC chip. (E.g. http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=766974 -- sadly the original article has gone. Couldn't find a mirror.) -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook:

Re: organizing a trip to Cuba

estination was of > course somewhere in Soviet Union. This was in the early 80s... I'm sure > someone can find the full story online somewhere. It's mentioned in the Datasaab article on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datasaab -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejo

Re: [SPAM key] - Re: How many use old browsers (e.g. =< Netscape 4 or IE 6) as their ONLY source of web content?

om the Win98 machine to your unused Win7 machine. Reinstall Netscape 7.2 on the new machine and check it works. You can download it here: http://sillydog.org/narchive/full67.php Then install SeaMonkey. It *should* notice and import your profile. It is very important to install Netscape *before

Offered: Amiga 500/2000 BASIC manual, in German

In honour of the 30th anniversary. Anyone want this handbuch? In good condition, some staining on front cover but no dog-ears or creases. Free for the cost of postage from the Czech Republic. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G

Re: Saved DEC kit

renheit or MM-DD-YY. Not in about 2 generations, mostly. Often more. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-08788

In Realtime: Saving 25,000 Manuals — August 15, 2015

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4683 Apologies if this is old news... -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939

Re: Booting an IBM MP 3000 S/390 System

On 10 August 2015 at 22:39, Eric Christopherson wrote: > He corrects that in the video itself :) Indeed so. Just watched it through for a second time, actually. Great fun and I too am jealous. :-D -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co

Re: More on manuals plus rescue

security/magazine/16-02/ff_stasi?currentPage=all http://www.bstu.bund.de/EN/Archives/ReconstructionOfShreddedRecords/VirtualReconstruction/_node.html ... to reading burned 2000YO scrolls from Pompeii: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30888767 -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejou

Re: Vintage Software Copyright

On 22 August 2015 at 01:34, Fred Cisin wrote: > and maybe it should have come down ALL the way to MS-DOS price Arguably -- and I'm aware it's stretching a point -- it did, in the form of DR-DOS. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.

Re: In Realtime: Saving 25,000 Manuals — August 15, 2015

On 15 August 2015 at 13:03, Liam Proven wrote: > http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4683 > > Apologies if this is old news... Some pictures, from sun-rescue: https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72157657277241785/page1 -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejo

Re: punchcard svg file available

On 10 September 2015 at 15:42, Fred Cisin wrote: > He also said that the colored pencils that I manually did graphs > with were "COLOUR PENCILS". Sounds legit to me. But then in the old world we still spell the proper, old-fashioned-way. ;¬) -- Liam Proven

ZX Spectrum disk interfaces

high-density drives, giving 1.5MB per disk: https://www.facebook.com/groups/speccy4ever/permalink/1237322356346334/ Given that HD floppies and drives are far more readily-available than DD these days, how come most 8-bit interfaces can only handle DD? Is it purely a data rate issue? -- Liam

Re: Is tape dead?

d apps at once. They conflict. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)

Re: OT: x86 machine code [Was: Re: Self modifying code, lambda calculus - Re: ENIAC programming]

tical mistake of Transmeta not to at least release the native instruction set. If they could also execute Motorola 680x0 code, or PowerPC code, or Alpha code, or any other discontinued (or effectively discontinued) instruction set, they would still have a market today. -- Liam Proven • Profi

Re: OT: x86 machine code [Was: Re: Self modifying code, lambda calculus - Re: ENIAC programming]

On 18 September 2015 at 13:35, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > I believe the VIA C3 had an undocumented feature to allow executing the > underlying RISC instructions. [[Citation needed]] I've never heard of anything like this. Are you perhaps thinking of the Crusoe family chips? --

Re: Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?]

but you got suckered. Me, I only use Windows if someone pays me to. Life is too short otherwise. My desktop is a Mac (and before that was a Hackintosh); my laptops run Ubuntu. Both are much *much* less work and I don't need to run antimalware. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejo

Re: Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?]

x27;s apps -- I don't use their browser, email client, chat client, or productivity tools; I very occasionally use their media player and their text editor, and that's about it. The Apple text editor isn't the default, incidentally. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.live

Re: Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?]

I wonder if that would work on this? (until they notice, and change their > sequence). Also created files named "*.*" and ".???", multiple > entries for same file in DIRectory, etc. Nce... -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/p

Re: Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?]

or wraps IE, that reduces the chances still further. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702

Re: OT: x86 machine code

was stored. As I didn't think it was important at the time, I threw it > away. > > I would love to provide a proper citation, but I searched the net and > couldn't find anything to back this up. Remarkable! OK then. As a journo, and one who doesn't generally sign N

Re: Self modifying code, lambda calculus - Re: ENIAC programming

27;s own variables. If the program had variables called a, b & c, you could also enter "a*b+c" and it would use the values. Which meant that if it /didn't/ have such variables, the program would crash out with an "unknown variable name" error... a sort

Re: eval() considered dodgy - Re: Self modifying code, lambda calculus - Re: ENIAC programming

On 19 September 2015 at 19:45, Toby Thain wrote: > Thank God nobody would build such a thing into a modern language, especially > not the one that runs in almost every browser... Well, quite. :-) Or rather, :-( -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email

Re: Self modifying code, lambda calculus - Re: ENIAC programming

rifying! > One of the extension ROMs for HPL on the HP9825 (a BASIC-like language) had > a command to store a string as a program line. It could be used within a > program, > thus leading to an official way to have self-modifying code. Nifty! -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lprov

Re: Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?]

ersial claim of malware that could transmit itself from machine to machine using speakers and microphone. It's a jungle out there, with all that that implies about parasitism, zombieism, concealment and stealth and creepy disgusting infections that hide for a lifetime then apparently explod

Re: Self modifying code, lambda calculus - Re: ENIAC programming

mmand or equivelant either > but it is possible to merge programs together using slight hackery. However, > once BASIC is made aware of the change, it will clear the variables so a > certain level of deviousness is required to do stuff like overlays. Hmmm. I'm now wondering if the

Acquiring a bunch of Lisp Machines

Just stumbled across this. I don't know what more to the story there is. http://kremlin.enterprises/post/129364443055/your-code-is-so-bad-we-had-to-make-etclocal -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lp

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