Re: Original AGC restoration / was Re: Apollo 8 Mission Control printers, or not?

2018-12-30 Thread Nemo via cctalk
On 30/12/2018, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk wrote: > >> On Dec 30, 2018, at 12:37 AM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk >> wrote: >> >> What is dox? > > New-era-internet term for illegally gaining access to someone's real world > “documents" (place of employment, home address, phone numbers, medical > reco

Re: sun 88780 on ebay

2019-02-12 Thread Nemo via cctalk
On 11/02/2019, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote (in part): > I haven't yet unboxed it. I took photos of the outside of the destroyed box > to send to the shipper. The front bottom left corner of the 88780 is > visible through a hole in the box, and is visibly mangled. Who was the seller? (The ebay li

Re: %20 nonsense

2019-04-09 Thread Nemo via cctalk
On 09/04/2019, Jeff Woolsey via cctech wrote: >> whats with the weird tag on this thread? > > Oops, sorry. > > Clicking on an address in the mailing list viewed as a web page via > http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2019-April tries to fire up > MacOS X Mail, which I don't want because I u

Re: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR

2019-07-02 Thread Nemo via cctalk
On 01/07/2019, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote (in part): > On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 14:01, William Donzelli wrote (in > part): >> There are still a few institutions and older folks that still use >> checks (like the annoying people that hold up the line in a grocery >> store, writing out a check), so

Re: [Simh] Fwd: VAX + Spectre

2019-09-22 Thread Nemo via cctalk
On 18/09/2019, Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk wrote: > [...] > Yea, I had to make a trip to a “secure facility” once and there were entire > “tempest” rooms with conditioned power and no external communications > equipment. We had a secure (but not tempest) room built for us by an authorised contrac

Re: 50 yrs. ago today

2019-10-29 Thread Nemo via cctalk
On 29/10/2019, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote (in part): > The first inter-computer communication happened 50 years ago today. L. > Kleinrock part of that historic moment, said, and I paraphrase here, > ARPANET was the instrument that was to enable computers to talk to each > other remotely.

Re: First Internet message and ...

2019-12-25 Thread Nemo via cctalk
On 23/12/2019, Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk wrote: > On Mon, 2019-12-23 at 12:00 -0600, cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote: >> Re: First Internet message and ... > > I read the caselaw in the GUI war cases of the 80's. Microsoft and > apple were battling over features and everyone else was being

Re: Advice requested on proper disposal of Seagate ST3000DM001 disk drives

2018-09-21 Thread Nemo via cctalk
On 20 September 2018 at 23:20, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: > Anyone have advice on making thermite? Ingredients, sources, proportions? > NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1? There is some milspec about sanding the platters that actually specified what grit to use but I do not remember the title. N.

Re: looking for out-of-print computer book

2018-09-22 Thread Nemo via cctalk
On 22/09/2018, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: >> I am trying to find an out-of-print tech book for a research project I'm >> doing. The book is called Porting Macintosh Applications to Windows 95 >> and NT by Greg Stone, dated December 1996, ISBN 0471118516, published by >> Wiley. >> > > I wonder if

Re: Desktop Metaphor

2018-10-23 Thread Nemo via cctalk
On 23/10/2018, Geoffrey Oltmans via cctalk wrote (in part): > I’d say that Windows 95’s UI blew the doors off of anything I’d used up that > point in terms of usability. Interesting... I recall gathering around a colleague's PC many years ago. One of us noticed his screen and said "Hey, you swit

Re: Microsoft-Paul Allen

2018-10-24 Thread Nemo via cctalk
On 24/10/2018, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote (in part): [...] > Come to think of it, most Linux users I know are Windows converts. > Very few are Mac converts -- once you go Mac, you can't go back, > apparently. Why would you? (Mac is certified POSIX and works very nicely with Sun mice and UNIX k