Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, the P350 is alive again! insert cheesy lightning effect here.
"Now all I need is a brain."
"Yes, Herr Doktor Gatesenschtein! At once!"
This time i'm planning to use PC-DOS 2000 instead of MS-DOS 6.22
(which I'm going to keep on a boot-disk. You may
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Besides, dammit, I haven't had the time to screw around with yet another
thing lately. I had no intention of even thinking about linux before the
millenium! I'm desperately seeking work, terrified and depressed and
anxious, volunteering all over to
Bob George [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hah! I'm the true SurvTool guy here. Always carried my trusty SAK "Tinker"
(Swiss Army Knife) right next to the SRU (Screw Retrieval Unit -- that long
"claw" thingie for grabbing little things in tight places)!
Redundant. The Victorinox "Tinker" has a
Lars-Einar Jansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yesterday Sweden and the rest of Europe moved their clocks one hour
backwards. It is "normal" time again. Summertime is over or, as you
Americans call it, if I'm not wrong, Daylight Savings Time. [snip]
However, I also happen to run Windows 95 on
"Samuel W. Heywood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have recently acquired a Cardinal Technologies 14400 modem, model
number 10750. I have no documentation. Cardinal Technologies went
out of business a couple of years ago and of course no longer provides
technical support. I should like to
Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hm.. i've been thinking. Maybe such a server software should
support LFN by using the method that 4DOS uses? (using a
file called descript.ion , not by messing with the FAT.)
Explanation for people who dont understand what i'm talking about:
A certain shell
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] asks:
First, thank you people for the idea to attempt to reconstruct
the destroyed P350 C: partition by using the backup FAT. I didnt
do it yet, but as far as I saw from testing software, the backup
FAT seems to have the data intact. It worth a shot..
But I
hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Two questions:
Did anyone do a systematic comparison between Interlnk/Intersrv and
the DR-DOS Filelink ?
The latter is (still in v.7.02) restricted to COM1 and COM2 in serial
mode, a serious disadvantage; same thing on parallel (only two ports
allowed).
At 12:00 AM 6/2/99 +, Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just came to my mind in the begining of 1999, when I figured
out that we're now in all the "really sci-fi related dates".
Most of the sci-fi stories happen around 1999 or 2000. So guess what?
The future is NOW! lol.
You're just now
At 12:00 AM 5/25/99 +, Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does ANYBODY have any experience with DOS RUNTIME errors??? This is
driving me nuts because since my last upgrade, I can no longer run some
of my most useful DOS utility progs. I am talking VERY SMALL DOS apps
that always give me a
Ben A L Jemmett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
'Foobar' is basically the same thing - however, don't get it confused with
FUBAR which has an ever so *slightly* different meaning.
From which "foo" and "bar" almost certainly derive, however...
BTW, does anyone have a URL for a recent edition of the
Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hammer wrote:
Only it says, on parallel port, that there is a wiring scheme for a
(null-modem-like?) cable "in the documentation" - Filelink.exe
contains a good built-in help, though the wiring is not indicated
there; and there is no additional doc file,
Dale Mentzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bill Gates died in a car accident.
He found himself in Purgatory being sized up by God. "Well, Bill, I'm
really confused on this call. I'm not sure whether to send you to
Heaven or Hell."
You know, I've seen this story before. Only the punchline was
"Chad A. Fernandez" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F.no L X V or I un less you mean
something else??
How many sides does a hexagon have?
[ObComputers] The original, *correct* name for the base-sixteen
number system is "sexadecimal." IBM couldn't stand this name
Ole Juul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi All,
I found that I could use my "legacy" 4 banger (Sharp Elsi
Mate EL-220) calculator to send mail.
Oh yeah. I tried that once, but I found that a Casio TeleMemo 30
is really more pleasant to use for email. It has the letters on
the keypad, and there's
Bjorn Simonsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
COMING TO TERMS WITH BYTES
Computer terminology is becoming more precise: the International
Electrotechnical Commission, which creates standards for electronic
technologies, is adopting new prefixes to describe data values. The new
term "kibibyte" will
Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Skylab lost its happy thoughts and fell out of the sky long before there
was a 486.
So what did it had?
I don't know. Possibly some kind of Intel or Zilog chip, but maybe not
anything we'd recognize today.
(I am told, however, that early space shuttles
P o p [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
...So Bill gets his name and address and the limosine whistles off.
A few days (?) later this kind man is in his local bank, making a
payment on his mortgage, and the bank teller says "you have
nothing owing, Bill Gates came in and payed the $10, 000 (?)
owing on
Ole Juul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes re. Swatch Time:
Besides, I don't know about the idea of changing to base
10 for time measurement. If it should be changed to fit in
better with computers and the internet, perhaps base 16
would be more practical. Anyway, I could rant for a long
time about the
Bernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes re: Disk compression trivia
The biggest problem with 6.0 (and all after) is that ScanDisk is included.
this has trashed several good working floppys for me, and even taken a
piece of my hardrive (w95 starts it every time that I have to close Win
with Crtl-Alt-Del
Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes re: new box?
On 10 Mar 99 at 18:55, Bernie wrote:
This is the reason that NASA aren't using any faster CPU than 386 in space,
the newer will much more easily be destroyed while out there.
Actually, I heard it was a 486 laptop that serves as the
Ben A L Jemmett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
instead of pressing Control-Alt-Delete got nasty surprises. (Yes, me too.)
Well I've always used INT 19h - or is it 18h? - which SmartDrive should hook.
Hopefully.
Ought to. Still, I'd throw in an INT 21/.AH=0D just to be on the safe side.
MS-DOS
Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes re: why a surv. PC?
Well, I really do need the multi-tasking features..
About the windows multi-tasking, the bad side is that it will
multi-task better Windows programs. Unfortunatly, you cant run more
then one DOS programs in most Windows 95 installs i've
Ben A L Jemmett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
OK... MS-DOS 6.0x had DoubleSpace (algorithms stolen from Stac, no
decompress
option, very unreliable).
Yes. However, I'll point out that the majority of the problems reported
with MS-DOS 6.0 (trashed disks) were not caused by DoubleSpace, but by
Constant Brouerius van Nidek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Looking for a DOS driver for my Yamaha OPL3-SAX soundcard I finaly found the
Yamaha site with seemingly drivers which I may use. As downloading was very
slow and finaly broke down I would like to know if what I think I found is
really
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