https://youtu.be/8_33Yv5LsSs
Professor Steve Thurber -- co-inventor of the ARM processor, the BBC
Micro and much more -- donates his first ever computer, and arguably
the first prototype of the BBC Micro, to The Centre for Computing
History in this fascinating (& very cute) video.
https://youtu.be
On 25 May 2017 at 02:12, Win Heagy via cctech wrote:
> The adapter on top is a male to female adapter. Not sure what that was
> for. The SCSI terminator is plugged in the back below the DMA/SCSI adapter.
Just a standard Amphenol terminator, I think.
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On 26 June 2017 at 16:44, Tapley, Mark via cctech wrote:
> All,
> having problems with my iMac G3. Ethernet stopped working, but still
> shows some signs of life. Any suggestions welcome!
Some superficially odd questions...
What OS is it running?
Is the firmware up to date?
If the f
On 27 June 2017 at 16:56, Tapley, Mark wrote:
> Next order of business for me is probably net-surfing for G3 firmware
> upgrade info, then trying to build a USB boot disk and use it. As always
> suggestions most welcome!
G3s can't boot off USB.
But if you have Classic installed, you s
On 28 June 2017 at 18:05, Tapley, Mark wrote:
> I did spend some time running a USB stick upstairs and down. The
> self-mounting image (.smi) firmware update I found (4.1.9) is 1.3 MB on my
> MacBook Pro before it goes onto the stick, but only 1 MB on the G3 when it
> comes off the stick (in OS
On 29 June 2017 at 17:34, Tapley, Mark wrote:
>
> I think i virtually did that - I switched to using my 1st-gen iPod
> (shuffle, no screen) as a USB transfer device. However I’m not certain,
> because something else fixed the problem.
Nah, the Shuffle isn't first gen. It's about 5th gen
Peter Naulls is the creator of the Unix Porting Project, which
successfully created Acorn RISC OS versions of some FOSS Unix apps
such as Firefox:
http://www.riscos.info/index.php/Unix_Porting_Project
Alas it never really caught on as Acorn users tend to be very insular
and did not understand the
On 18 September 2017 at 16:51, Zane Healy wrote:
> I can’t help but think that in the US, this belongs in a museum.
I agree and that is Peter's thought as well.
>
> For those wanting to give RISC OS a try, it’s available for the Raspberry Pi
> (and yes, that’s why I bought a Pi).
Yes, I have a
On 2 October 2017 at 14:22, Jules Richardson via cctech
wrote:
>
> Does anyone know why IDE/ATA even came about? I mean, why SCSI wasn't used?
Sure, yes.
It was cheap.
SCSI was expensive, and that was aside from any licensing issues. A
working SCSI bus effectively means 2 smart devices, communi
On 2 February 2018 at 22:16, Wayne S via cctech wrote:
> Notice: Downloaded this from the link and Norton says it is a virus.
> PUA.InstallCore
Please bottom-quote on mailing lists.
Are you running an ad-blocker? If not, you should.
I recommend UBlock Origin.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
On 22 February 2018 at 22:56, Thomas B via cctech wrote:
> Recently, I’ve started working on a Canon BX-1 machine dated 1977.
Some info in French:
http://mo5.com/musee-machines-bx1.html
Might be worth asking them...?
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Email: lpro...@cix.co
On 21 March 2018 at 09:46, GerardCJAT via cctech wrote:
> Hello Guys,
>
> It seems that YOU can reply to cctech message(s) with "quoting" the answered
> message.
>
> How do you do that ???
>
> Thanks for your help. Gerard
Er, yes. Same as any other email.
But how depends on your mail client.
On Wed, 23 May 2018 at 17:47, Chuck Guzis via cctech
wrote:
> The same situation applied to the Fairchild 9440 MicroFlame, which was
> essentially a clone of the MicroNova architecture.
This led me to some fascinating stuff. Thanks!
The CPU:
http://www.cpushack.com/2017/11/14/cpu-of-the-day-fa
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 20:09, John Ames wrote:
> There's also the Afterstep/Window Maker crowd, open-source
> reimplementations of the NEXTSTEP desktop environment, which predates
> even Windows 3.x.
That sort of echoes my point, really, I think.
As I said, it's ludicrous to counter my claim th
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 15:13, allison via cctech wrote:
> During my days at DEC in the later 80s the definition of workstation was
> 1MIPS processing power,
> 1M pixels, Desktop or desk side (fairly compact). Graphics and
> processing power were high
> and lots of ram and sufficient local disk as
On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 at 11:40, Bill Degnan via cctech
wrote:
>
> Refined question - When would I have to depart the museum in order to
> travel by rental car (driving legal speeds) from Bletchley to Gatwick
> Airport in time for a 4PM flight on 7/11 (A Thursday)?
To echo what others have said:
* y
On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 19:20, Roger Addy via cctech
wrote:
>
> I'm
> wondering if it's possible to connect it to a modern ethernet network?
Run a single piece of thin Ethernet into the back of an old 10base-T hub.
Cable the hub into a modern switch.
Job done.
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On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 21:40, John Ames wrote:
> Agreed. While I'm much more favorably disposed towards C than you are,
> the increasing homogeneity of almost all modern languages is
> discouraging and, I think, detrimental to the field as a whole. Forth
> and Smalltalk alike were eye-openers whe
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 at 02:30, W2HX via cctech wrote:
>
> Could it be related to the fact that it is a 2GB SD card and I believe IDE
> controllers of that day could only address something like 500MB?
It could well be, yes.
> Should I consider trying to partition the SD card into a 500MB partitio
On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 at 19:46, David Schmidt via cctech
wrote:
>
> AIX 3.2.5 was so much leaner and meaner than 4.x that came along next...
> I never did warm up to it the same way.
Twas ever thus, no?
I remember an ad campaign for AIX when it was quite new... "We took
UNIX and added millions of
On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 15:10, David Schmidt via cctech
wrote:
>
> On 4/12/21 1:00 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> >> AIX 3.2.5 was so much leaner and meaner than 4.x that came along next...
> >> I never did warm up to it the same way.
> >
> > Twas ever thus, no?
>
> A universal truth.
>
> > I remember a
On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 18:44, Kevin Bowling wrote:
>
> Linux tends to churn that amount of code in a release. I find it interesting
> how large systemd has become as well:
> https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/06/linux_2020_kernel_systemd_code/
I didn't know but I can well believe it. Virtual
On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 at 19:15, Douglas Taylor via cctech
wrote:
>
> Does anyone have experience with the Reflection software that will
> emulate a DEC VT340 color graphics terminal?
I did try Reflection waaa back in the day, possibly around 1990 or
so. It worked, but I had no need of graphics
On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 at 19:51, r.stricklin via cctech
wrote:
>
> > Regarding your "IDE HDDs were extremely rare" comment, did *anyone* other
> > than Quantum release an IDE drive in that 5.25" form factor? I can't think
> > of any, everything else was 3.5", although some early vendor's drives wer
On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 at 23:21, Wayne Sudol via cctech
wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity, is there a reason you do not use Acrobat for creating
> pdfs?
I have been making PDFs for at least 20 years now, probably more.
AFAIK I have _never_ used Acrobat to create them. I print from
LibreOffice to its PDF g
On Mon, 27 Sept 2021 at 22:14, Yeechang Lee via cctech
wrote:
>
> This was true in more wealthy countries outside the US, too. Sinclair never
> got anywhere in Germany compared to Commodore, for example.
This may be true; I work for a German company but I've never lived
there. I know Amstrad-aff
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