On Thu, 15 Oct 2015, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
On 10/15/2015 02:44 PM, Jay West wrote:
... In
some cases, nut bars are very preferable...
I think we have plenty of those around here
*bars*, not *bags*! :)
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On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
Fred Cisin wrote:
While I won't try to claim that the FIRST or SECOND
emails were flames, I'm inclined to think that they
started early. 'course in our day, we were much more
polite in how we flamed
Emacs? You _MUST_ be kidding.
WordStar. Non-doc
On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Fred Cisin wrote:
started early. 'course in our day, we were much more
polite in how we flamed
Emacs? You _MUST_ be kidding.
On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, geneb wrote:
WordStar. Non-document mode.
Did you really think that that was better than Electric Pencil?
I'
On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Jon Elson wrote:
On 10/23/2015 01:57 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
On Oct 23, 2015, at 2:48 PM, ben wrote:
...
It does seem mechanical stuff is dieing art.
I don't know about that.
Yes, there is an open-source project that provides a CNC machine control for
mill, lathes, hexap
On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Jon Elson wrote:
On 10/23/2015 04:32 PM, geneb wrote:
On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Jon Elson wrote:
I sell some hardware for motion control based on this software, and have
sold over 300 controller-interfaces.
A popular one seems to be using MachineKit on a Beagle Bone
On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, Jules Richardson wrote:
On 10/24/2015 09:14 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Are we really running short of "720K" floppies?
I've never had any luck finding used disks anywhere locally; people are a bit
too concerned about data theft these days, and all of that seems to go
straig
On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, Chuck Guzis wrote:
The talk about dummy loads brought back a memory of the Heath Cantenna--an RF
dummy load consisting of a Globar (noninductive) resistor in a gallon paint
can filled with mineral oil with an attachment to a SO-239 "UHF" connector on
top. IIRC, it was lit
Here's the obituary:
http://www.anewtradition.com/obituaries/obituary/12060_Charles_Alton_Forsberg
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On Tue, 3 Nov 2015, Jay West wrote:
Yeah, already looked at doing that. When I hear about a site going down
permanently I often try to snag a copy for posterity and dump it on the
classiccmp server for folks (with owner permission if possible), but for
this one it doesn't appear files can be h
On Wed, 4 Nov 2015, Fred Cisin wrote:
"Hmmm. What else could we call the keyboard?"
FADID. Where do I send the consulting bill?
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On Wed, 4 Nov 2015, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Wed, 4 Nov 2015, Fred Cisin wrote:
"Hmmm. What else could we call the keyboard?"
On Wed, 4 Nov 2015, geneb wrote:
FADID. Where do I send the consulting bill?
I'm not familiar with that one.
It just might be unique enough to ke
On Wed, 4 Nov 2015, Charles Anthony wrote:
On Wed, 4 Nov 2015, geneb wrote:
FADID. Where do I send the consulting bill?
I'm not familiar with that one.
It just might be unique enough to keep anybody from confusing our fadids
from somebody else's keyboards
Finger Accessible
On Sat, 14 Nov 2015, Paul Koning wrote:
"Abandonware" is a term invented as an excuse to steal other people's
property. Let's not try to apply it here.
Copyright infringement is not theft... at least according to the Supreme
Court, but then again, what do they know?
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On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, Ian Finder wrote:
Ian S. King wrote: "... -- K7PDP"
Show-off ;)
I'll see that K7PDP and raise you an N7MOS. :D
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On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, Jay West wrote:
Ed# wrote...
COMBINE THEM THEN JUST ADD TWO LETTERS AND A DASH AS THUS
CC-
No.
How about [CC] prefixed by a Copyright symbol so we can streamline and
process two arguments at once? :D
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On Sun, 22 Nov 2015, Eric Christopherson wrote:
My ISP injects into web pages a helpful heads-up message if your account
If you can, run screaming to another ISP. I don't care how "helpful"
they're trying to be, content injection like that should be punished with
a public skinning.
Until th
On Tue, 24 Nov 2015, ben wrote:
On 11/23/2015 7:28 PM, William Maddox wrote:
The revived 2013 re-issue of Niklaus Wirth's Oberon system is a joy
to behold. If you've never heard of Oberon before, it is a
minimalistic education-oriented language and operating system
designed after Wirth had ta
On Tue, 24 Nov 2015, Paul Koning wrote:
Pascal is largely obsolete now, but I still appreciate it -- of the 40
or so languages I know, there are only two where I could go from no
knowledge at all to having a working program of significant size in one
week: Pascal and Python.
Um, no. Check o
On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, Jon Elson wrote:
On 11/25/2015 09:01 AM, geneb wrote:
On Tue, 24 Nov 2015, Paul Koning wrote:
Pascal is largely obsolete now, but I still appreciate it -- of the 40 or
so languages I know, there are only two where I could go from no knowledge
at all to having a working
On Sun, 27 Dec 2015, Mike wrote:
Would you buy the new Commodore 64 ? ? ?
No. The company folded years ago after the founder and driving force
behind the whole mess, died.
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On Mon, 28 Dec 2015, Paul Berger wrote:
On 2015-12-28 12:13 PM, geneb wrote:
On Sun, 27 Dec 2015, Mike wrote:
Would you buy the new Commodore 64 ? ? ?
No. The company folded years ago after the founder and driving force
behind the whole mess, died.
g.
The man who founded Commodore
https://archive.org/details/cdromsoftware?&sort=-publicdate&and[]=SGI
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On Tue, 12 Jan 2016, Ian S. King wrote:
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 12:10 PM, geneb wrote:
https://archive.org/details/cdromsoftware?&sort=-publicdate&and[]=SGI
O. M. G. Thanks!
You're welcome, but I'm just the guy pointing it out. :)
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On Tue, 12 Jan 2016, Ian Finder wrote:
This is a great start, but I wouldn't install this version.
Try to install the 6.5.22 overlay or greater. It does indeed require some
disks from this media set, but is more compatible with newer open source
software built for the platform.
Installing 6.5.0
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016, Ian Finder wrote:
So instead of sneering about it, why not upload ISOs of that version?
I wasn't sneering at it. My goal was to advise people not to waste time
performing a 4 hour install process that takes 6 CDs that each need to be
read in twice only to find out they can
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Paul Koning wrote:
On Jan 13, 2016, at 6:01 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
Er...Heathkit is long gone.
It was for a while. But it's back. Check out heathkit.com.
The radio kit they're selling is an embarassment.
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http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/94441/retro-computing
I think this is actually a pretty good idea and StackExchange is a great
platform.
As of right now it needs 11 more people following it (and more questions).
tnx.
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On Fri, 15 Jan 2016, David Brownlee wrote:
On 15 January 2016 at 13:50, geneb wrote:
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/94441/retro-computing
I think this is actually a pretty good idea and StackExchange is a great
platform.
As of right now it needs 11 more people following it (and
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016, John Robertson wrote:
I built one of the Heathkit colour TVs in time to watch the moon landings. I
was 18 and built in one day (and night) and it worked from the first turn on.
Lasted over twenty years as the main house set only needing service every few
years until the pi
VAXCINATION A "preventive training" provided to potential
users of the VAX system to prevent software
foul-ups other than deliberate.
VAX-RAY A high-energy screening to determine whether a
user is qualified to have a VAX I/O station on
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016, Rick Wilbur wrote:
Check eBay right now. A complete system with everything you want, without the
SD card interface. Has 17 hours left. Bidding with the cost of shipping is at
$217.00. It will cost you under $100.00 for the SD interface. You might get
everything you want f
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016, drlegendre . wrote:
This coming weekend I'm supposed to receive something like 2-3 complete
C-64 systems with drives, monitors and accys. Who knows, one could be
yours?! =)
Aren't rescues fun? :)
If you're looking for Commodore oriented books or magazines, you can't
beat
On Sat, 23 Jan 2016, Eric Christopherson wrote:
How did these dumb drives interface with the computer at a software
level? I'd think a DOS would need to be loaded somehow.
The drives had their DOS in ROM. Keep in mind that the 1541, 1571, etc.
essentially were computers unto themselves with a
This site has a lot of interesting info on a number of fonts used in PCs
and compatibles. It looks like there was quite a bit of research
involved.
http://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/
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On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Mark J. Blair wrote:
This machine doesn't have a CD drive, and I don't think it ever did
based on there being no missing bezel filler panels. But I think that
the scsi2sd may be able to emulate a CD drive. I'm off to work now, but
this evening I'll poke around to see wha
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, Jay West wrote:
Guy wrote...
-
In late '86 I was running a VAX8500 with 2 RA81s
-
Can't be true. There's no such thing as running RA81's *Grin*
Don't laugh. in 1993 I was running FOUR of them connected to a VAX 8250.
In my house. Upstairs. :)
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On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, Richard Cini wrote:
It depends on the quality of the binding and its age, and how much
pressure you put on the spine. I've done it with the cover up with a
white paper "mask" on the glass to minimize haze at the edges, and then
hold the book by hand. There will be some tex
On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, Fred Cisin wrote:
http://www.diybookscanner.org/ :)
Ooh, that's pretty cool.
Yes, but, . . .
I've participated in building a few similar devices.
So download the CAD files and get cracking.
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On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, Fred Cisin wrote:
http://www.diybookscanner.org/ :)
Ooh, that's pretty cool.
Yes, but, . . .
I've participated in building a few similar devices.
So download the CAD files and get cracking.
If that's the way that you WANT to do it.
It's mostly plywood, framing, and some
On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, Fred Cisin wrote:
Can someone explain this list reply to me what what it has to do with AT&T
minis?
On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, Alan Hightower wrote:
1) Mike lives in Colorado, Washington, Oregon, or Alaska
2) Mike fell off his Honda ATC 3-wheeler and hit is head really hard
3) S
On Sat, 12 Mar 2016, James Vess wrote:
I honestly am a bit surprised, as other dealings I've had with groups that
focus on technology typically are not as welcoming or responsive.
You caught us on a good day. I'm sure you'll get yelled at next week.
Welcome to the zoo. :)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45X4VP8CGtk
It's pretty entertaining. :)
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On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
Maybe I'm overthinking this. If I just put
regulated +5 on the 7805 VIN will it work?
Isn't the minimum input voltage for a 7805, 6vdc?
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On Fri, 22 May 2015, Jay West wrote:
Chuck wrote...
-
I, for one, didn't even notice.
-
I really really wish I could say the same. Truly.
Well you're the guy behind the curtain. We're forbidden from noticing
you. :D
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On Wed, 27 May 2015, Electronics Plus wrote:
A KayPro II and a KayPro II
...so two IIs? :)
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On Sat, 6 Jun 2015, jwsmobile wrote:
For Pick folks (Mr. F15) I don't know the sysprog password, and need to null
it out.
Cool! Are you going to try to image the disk in order to use it in a
virtual machine?
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On Sun, 7 Jun 2015, Kip Koon wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I am looking for pdf files for the Computer Journal. There is a series of
articles on designing microprocessors I'd like to someday read about. Any
ideas where they may be located?
https://archive.org/details/the-computer-journal
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On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, Noel Chiappa wrote:
I wish there was some _easy_ way to lay in a stock of the most common TTL
IC's - e.g. some kind of kit one could buy - but alas, I don't know of any.
(Hence my dream of finding and acquiring someone else's collection! :-)
Suggestions for the source of suc
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, Mark J. Blair wrote:
On Jun 16, 2015, at 08:19, geneb wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, Noel Chiappa wrote:
I wish there was some _easy_ way to lay in a stock of the most common TTL
IC's - e.g. some kind of kit one could buy - but alas, I don't know of any.
(Henc
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, Chris Osborn wrote:
It’s Droste Week on RetroBattlestations! Inspired by a couple of different
posts, I thought it would be fun to do a challenge where people don’t just post
a picture of their computer, but they display the picture of their computer
*on* their computer a
gines based on scanned parts,
original engineering drawings and newly created drawings from existing
parts.
This ties nicely into this: http://www.simpits.org/geneb/?p=365
*huge grin*
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On Fri, 19 Jun 2015, Toby Thain wrote:
"in 1949 the Air Force ordered all the flying wings destroyed, all the jigs
and tools destroyed, every trace of the flying wing eradicated. A few years
later even the engineering drawings were all destroyed by new Northrop
management."
I don't know w
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2015-06-23 18:41, Alexandre Souza wrote:
But unless I misunderstood things, the software merely does a check if
the hardware looks sane, and if not it displays a message saying that
this is the wrong hardware, and it refuses to continue running.
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Alexandre Souza wrote:
He's mentioned more than once that this software BRICKS the device. When
something is bricked, that means you might as well treat it like the stone
kind for all the use you're going to get out of it from then on.
In the last message I added (re
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Fred Cisin wrote:
It's dead, pushing up daisies, it's run down the curtain to the Choir
Invisible. IT'S BRICKED.
Man, I LOLed with this "pushing up daisies" :D
It is most assuredly NOT pining for the fjords! :)
It is a relatively common euphemism, and is explicitly in
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
On 06/23/2015 03:13 PM, geneb wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2015-06-23 18:41, Alexandre Souza wrote:
But unless I misunderstood things, the software merely does a check if
the hardware looks sane, and if not it displays a
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2015-06-23 22:05, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 06/23/2015 12:03 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
What is in the NVRAM? And how did it get there in the first place? Are
you saying that it is impossible to reprogram the device with some other
firmware after y
On Tue, 7 Jul 2015, Sean Conner wrote:
[2] mutt. I was forced to upgrade a decade ago because elm was no
longer maintained and non-Y2K compliant (I think that's why I
switched).
Alpine Forever! :)
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On Mon, 27 Jul 2015, Al Kossow wrote:
On 7/27/15 10:54 AM, Evan Koblentz wrote:
"Vintage Computer Federation".
Great
I hope Sellam gets on your ass over that.
Al, don't be a dick.
Evan clearly mentioned that he got Sellam's and Erik Klein's(sp?) OK on
the name.
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On Mon, 27 Jul 2015, Lee Courtney wrote:
I think Al forgot the :-) for the humor impaired.
From past experience, probably not.
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On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, William Donzelli wrote:
There are several kinds. These:
http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/pdp11/jpg/H960FrontPanelClips.jpg
You know...that wouldn't be terribly difficult to print. The heat-set
inserts are easily obtainable too. (that little metal threaded bit)
Any
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
From: Pete Turnbull: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 2:57 AM
On 29/07/2015 07:24, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
I've placed a new design at:
http://svn.so-much-stuff.com/svn/trunk/3D/rack-bracket/bracket-new.jpg
That looks pretty good to me, and the only ref
I have a crufty old version of DesignSpark PCB. I'll have a look at
Mechanical.
It's basically SpaceClaim that's been tweaked to only output it's native
file format and STL files.
You should also do your design work in metric if you expect to be having
parts printed. Scaling isn't a practi
On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Matt Patoray wrote:
Since the S/N ratio on the list is now at about 20 dB and falling, I am
done with the list.
7 messages (including yours...gah! Now *8*) out of 1163 is not exactly
bad ratio. Maybe you forgot how to math today? :D
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On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, Sean Caron wrote:
When it comes to soldering, I usually recommend Hakko or Pace irons; I have
a Hakko 936 and it's a great "all-rounder". The FX-888D seems to be their
recommended replacement for the 936 so I guess I will endorse that, if they
are making the new models as wel
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Marc Verdiell wrote:
Wow. I'll never complain again that it takes too long to boot Windows...
One thing I don't understand - why can't the machine boot on its own? Why
would IBM design a computer that required another computer just to boot
it?
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On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Jay West wrote:
Gene wrote...
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One thing I don't understand - why can't the machine boot on its own? Why
would IBM design a computer that required another computer just to boot it?
To report higher sales of OS2/Warp? ;)
I'll rate that as "Midly Plausible". :)
N
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
In many cases more than one! ;-)
But more to the point, having a separate processor handing the booting chores
frees the
main CPU from those tasks. Initialization can be a pain just look at the x86
ISA and the
hoops it makes the S/W (BIOS & OS) just
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Eric Smith wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:22 AM, tony duell wrote:
Amazingly there is nothing inside that 16pin DIL package. No silicon chip, no
thick-film resistor
network, nothing. It is just a package with the pins.
Are you sure? They might have gotten a really good
On Mon, 17 Aug 2015, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> From: Eric Smith
> If a person has any reasonable business justification
But a lot of the people here don't; they're purely hobbyists. So spending
$1K on a piece of test equipment just isn't realistic for them.
Having said that, I do see some D
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Al Kossow wrote:
He destroyed the organizational schema of bitsavers when he "mirrored" it
and had his little band of minions "curate" it for IA.
Bullshit. His mirror has zero effect on your original site or
organization.
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, Evan Koblentz wrote:
Years ago I needed a HP service manual for a plotter I was trying to repair
that I owned. HP of course wouldn't let me have it, so I had to buy a PDF
copy from someone on eBay. I ended up removing the password and posting it
on my website.
That's c
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, william degnan wrote:
As a musician sometimes the bar pays the ASCAP fees sometimes they
don't but at least there is a way to compensate the song copyright
owner when a band plays a cover song on stage at a bar. I wonder if
some sort of ASCAP for out of print manuals could
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, Rod Smallwood wrote:
So what is the lifetime of a software copyright ?
You're going to die before it expires. Quite possibly your grand children
as well.
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, et...@757.org wrote:
I *DO* have friends that are interested in vintage computing but work in jobs
where any copying of any software that isn't strictly allowed by law is a
no-no, and they're pretty much stuck. Own a couple of computers but can't do
much because it's diffi
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, Evan Koblentz wrote:
That's why I speak out against attempts to paint copyright violation as
other things, such as theft: it's an appeal to emotions, trying to equate
"thing I want people to oppose" with "very different thing I expect people
already consider bad". It's
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Kyle Owen wrote:
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
look at ALL of the documentation of the period
NO ONE called them PUNCH cards
Section 7:
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/burroughs/200-21001B_B200_SeriesRefMan_Jul64.pdf
"Punch card stock" "punch
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Mike Stein wrote:
For a while many utility bills etc. were sent out with prepunched cards
containing the customer and billing information, to be mailed back with
your payment for proper allocation.
A guy that I went to school with,
Can you do a traceroute to members.iinet.net.au? In case DNS is blocked,
the IP address is 203.0.178.90. I've been on iiNet since they bought out
my previous ISP.
Here's a traceroute sample:
1 75-145-20-102-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net (75.145.20.102)
0.554 ms 1.468 ms 1.878 ms
2 9
On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 09/11/2015 12:03 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
However, it was far earlier than the Victorians. Noah Webster
(1758-1843) only overlaps the Victorian era by 6 years; he was
reacting against the aristocratic spelling norms of the 17th and 18th
centuries, wh
On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Dave G4UGM wrote:
Well, participating in such an event for the fun of it might be interesting, but
to be perfectly frank, I don't know what one calls "BASIC" anymore.
Isn't that a Retro Question ? I seem to remember it being asked about
GFA basic ..
If the disks are st
On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 09/13/2015 01:18 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Well, participating in such an event for the fun of it might be
interesting, but to be perfectly frank, I don't know what one
calls "BASIC" anymore.
Does it have to be TRUE BASIC, or are street BASICs accepted?
On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, drlegendre . wrote:
To the clown, to the CLOWN!!
=P
Fixed that for ya.
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 09/24/2015 04:30 PM, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
IMHO, you want to buy at one generation below the current max
capacity on the assumption that they ironed out the bugs on that
one.
So, if you were to move up from the 500GB SATA drives to the "next
g
On Thu, 1 Oct 2015, Liam Proven wrote:
* m0n0wall
Isn't m0n0wall just a LiveCD for a firewall? It was when I used it last.
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On Mon, 18 Apr 2016, Ian Finder wrote:
I don't really need anything- the machine was new in box and works
correctly. It has media- but I'd love more context if people know it. Sure,
it's a very boring generic M68K box, but I can barely find any record of it
existing.
While (probably) not direct
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Paul Koning wrote:
Look here, http://www.hpcworld.com/mobile/km/pocketcutup/index.html, click
"See the manual", it's at the bottom of the first page.
Looks like a neat little machine. I don't have one (or any knowledge of
these devic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T1IYdjOpYE
The video is an hour long, but you can skip around. It includes ads for
machines like the ITT Xtra, IBM PC Jr, etc. The Hayes Smartmodem ad is
just atrocious. :) There's even ads for IOMega drives and the Promethus
Pro Modem...
g.
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Proud own
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 04/25/2016 09:39 AM, Jon Elson wrote:
I used it to port a couple of my programs from (Ughhh!) Borland
Turbo Pascal for Windows to Linux, and it was a surprisingly painless
job. The only thing I notice is the error messages look exactly like
Borland er
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Jon Elson wrote:
On 04/25/2016 12:42 PM, geneb wrote:
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 04/25/2016 09:39 AM, Jon Elson wrote:
I used it to port a couple of my programs from (Ughhh!) Borland
Turbo Pascal for Windows to Linux, and it was a surprisingly painless
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Sean Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Mouse once stated:
What I've often wondered is why there are so many IT people with the
same sort of laments and we haven't all collectively built our own
networks over wireless ?
The crazy patchwork quilt of regulation
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, John Willis wrote:
What IS known as FidoNet (1:138/142 here. :) ) and it's still a political
shit-show, mostly due to people from Zone 2. *sigh*
Why, hello, 1:138/142! 1:305/1 here!
#fidobros! *laughs uproariously*
g.
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Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f1
On Sun, 1 May 2016, Tomasz Rola wrote:
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:07:34AM -0700, geneb wrote:
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Sean Conner wrote:
[...]
Just look into the political machinations of what was known as FidoNet to
see how this could end up.
What IS known as FidoNet (1:138/142 here
On Tue, 3 May 2016, Liam Proven wrote:
On 3 May 2016 at 05:24, Chuck Guzis wrote:
The hardware's not there to run 16-bit code natively in 64 bit
mode.
I think you mean software?
It is possible to run Windows 7's XP Mode under Windows 8.x -- I've done it.
http://www.howtogeek.com/171395/ho
On Wed, 4 May 2016, Tomasz Rola wrote:
Now I even started to think, very shyly, how nice would it have been
to posess even one real IP4 number and have one such thing on my
router. It can run Linux (or so OpenWRT guys claim), so it can run
gopherd too. Albeit I would rather have non-Linux on it.
On Wed, 4 May 2016, Liam Proven wrote:
On 3 May 2016 at 16:20, geneb wrote:
The issue is that with 64 bit versions of windows, the 16 bit thunking layer
isn't present. The simplest way to do this is to grab VMWare Player (free
download) and then create a Win98 VM. Google can point
On Wed, 11 May 2016, Swift Griggs wrote:
Has anyone used a 3D printer to make a case for their old machine ? I've
started drafting an SGI Indy "skin" in Sketch, but it's just a box right
now, nothing cool. I've noticed and been somewhat inspired by these:
Do NOT use SketchUp to create parts fo
On Wed, 11 May 2016, Swift Griggs wrote:
On Wed, 11 May 2016, geneb wrote:
Do NOT use SketchUp to create parts for 3D printing. You'll end up with
an STL that's all screwed up.
Ah, okay, thanks for this tip.
NP. If you're going to the Bay Area Maker Faire, stop by the SeeM
On Wed, 11 May 2016, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote:
On 2016-05-11 17:59, geneb wrote:
Cool. I'm not fond of SketchUp anyhow. I'm switchin'. If you've ever used
qcad, I'm wondering what you or others might know/think of it. That one
works on my Unix boxes, that's
On Wed, 11 May 2016, Mike Barnes wrote:
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Swift Griggs wrote:
Has anyone used a 3D printer to make a case for their old machine ? I've
started drafting an SGI Indy "skin" in Sketch, but it's just a box right
now, nothing cool.
Not an actual old machine, but I d
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