Re: Firing up the pdt11

[Glen Slick via cctalk]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 2:29 PM Chris Zach via cctalk
 wrote:
>
> I do have a card around here called an RXV21 from Plessy or something
> like that, maybe it could talk to an RX01 drive and format the disks?
>

Several of the 3rd party controllers could low level format disks.

For example:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/microTechnology/MXV21_floppyCtlr.pdf
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sigmaInformationSystems/SDC-RXV21um_1981.pdf

Re: FYI sunhelp.org down

[Grant Taylor via cctalk]

On 10/14/20 8:07 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
Last Mon, Oct 12th.  The last message I received from the mailing 
list was on Oct 1st.


The last message I see (prior to mine) from geeks@sunhelp was last 
Thursday, October 8th.


so I take it the original domain went down on Oct 11th at ~7am; OTOH 
sunhelp.org itself has yet two years to go (as you have also observed).


*nod*

I suppose the list server relies on the same nameservers in a way 
that prevents e-mail distribution from happening.


I don't think so.  At least I thought that the hot wiring that I did to 
my mail server only effected /sending/ of email.


The changes I made to the DNS server would have effected /receiving/ of 
email.


I have successfully sent a message to the geeks@sunhelp mailing list 
/and/ received my copy of said message from said mailing list.


I have since resubmitted the same message manually to sunhelp.org's 
SMTP receiver (the original message is still in the outgoing mail 
queue:


smtp/sunhelp.org: B/W/23993316: (196 tries, expires in 2d17h) smtp; 
466 (No DNS response for host: sunhelp.org; h_errno=0)


) to see what happens and got a DSN ack even, but the message did 
not get through.


Were you sending a message to geeks@sunhelp or a different address?

I accidentally sent a message to geeks@sunhelp from the wrong address 
and did receive the DSN from Mailman stating that I wasn't subscribed 
(with that address) and thus the message was rejected.


So local hot wiring of name resolution (which I suppose could be as 
easy as adding a /etc/hosts entry rather than going through the hoops 
of setting up a manipulated name server) might be good enough to get 
at the web pages, but not to get the list going.


Ya ... email tends to be more reliant on DNS.  At least unless you 
explicitly tell it to not use it for specific domains.  And that's 
exactly what I did.  I hard (hot) wired email routing so that email for 
sunhelp.org goes to ohno.mrbill.net, which is resolvable do to my DNS 
hot wiring (forwarders).


You can probably do similar or configure the email routing to go to the 
IP directly.




--
Grant. . . .
unix || die

Re: FYI sunhelp.org down

[Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:

> > I posted to  and saw my message got stuck in the mail
> > queue.
> 
> When did you send your message?  I'm trying to judge when the problem started.

 Last Mon, Oct 12th.  The last message I received from the mailing list 
was on Oct 1st.  WHOIS has this though:

   Domain Name: MRBILL.NET
   Registry Domain ID: 137_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN
   Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namecheap.com
   Registrar URL: http://www.namecheap.com
   Updated Date: 2020-10-11T07:01:46Z
   Creation Date: 1996-10-11T04:00:00Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z
   Registrar: NameCheap, Inc.
   Registrar IANA ID: 1068
   Registrar Abuse Contact Email: ab...@namecheap.com
   Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6613102107
   Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited 
https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
   Name Server: DNS101.REGISTRAR-SERVERS.COM
   Name Server: DNS102.REGISTRAR-SERVERS.COM
   DNSSEC: unsigned
   URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/

so I take it the original domain went down on Oct 11th at ~7am; OTOH 
sunhelp.org itself has yet two years to go (as you have also observed).

> > I can still reach Bill Bradford's personal page when I connect to the server
> > by its IPv4 address at: .
> 
> Thanks to John's quick thinking, it's now possible to hot wire things so that
> you can get to sunhelp.org, et al.
> 
> The hot wiring that I did seems to have been sufficient to allow email to flow
> to sunhelp.org.  I've since sent a message to a few people inquiring about the
> current state of the ongoing rescue operation.
> 
> The last I knew, some of Bill's co-workers were going to take things over.
> 
> If anyone cares to similarly hot wire things on their end, I configured my
> recursive DNS servers to forward Bill's domains to John K.'s DNS server
> (192.80.49.4).  I also configured my email server to route sunhelp.org
> directly to ohno.mrbill.net.

 I suppose the list server relies on the same nameservers in a way that 
prevents e-mail distribution from happening.  I have since resubmitted the 
same message manually to sunhelp.org's SMTP receiver (the original message 
is still in the outgoing mail queue:

smtp/sunhelp.org:
B/W/23993316: (196 tries, expires in 2d17h) smtp; 466 (No DNS response 
for host: sunhelp.org; h_errno=0)

) to see what happens and got a DSN ack even, but the message did not get 
through.  So local hot wiring of name resolution (which I suppose could be 
as easy as adding a /etc/hosts entry rather than going through the hoops 
of setting up a manipulated name server) might be good enough to get at 
the web pages, but not to get the list going.

  Maciej

Re: FYI sunhelp.org down

[Grant Taylor via cctalk]

On 10/14/20 4:08 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk wrote:

Hi,


Hi,

I posted to  and saw my message got stuck in 
the mail queue.


When did you send your message?  I'm trying to judge when the problem 
started.


Upon a further inspection I saw that the domain has expired along with 
`mrbill.net' where the nameservers used to reside and both have been 
taken by someone else, taking the name service down for `sunhelp.org'.


Eh ... sunhelp.org doesn't expire for a couple of years yet.  The 
problem is that it uses mrbill.net for DNS, which did expire and seems 
to have been taken over by undesirables.


I can still reach Bill Bradford's personal page when I connect to 
the server by its IPv4 address at: .


Thanks to John's quick thinking, it's now possible to hot wire things so 
that you can get to sunhelp.org, et al.


The hot wiring that I did seems to have been sufficient to allow email 
to flow to sunhelp.org.  I've since sent a message to a few people 
inquiring about the current state of the ongoing rescue operation.


The last I knew, some of Bill's co-workers were going to take things over.

If anyone cares to similarly hot wire things on their end, I configured 
my recursive DNS servers to forward Bill's domains to John K.'s DNS 
server (192.80.49.4).  I also configured my email server to route 
sunhelp.org directly to ohno.mrbill.net.




--
Grant. . . .
unix || die

HP1000 A990, A900, & A600 systems, parts, pieces, cable, panels, connectors... etc for sale

[Jesse Dougherty via cctalk]

I'm getting in a lot of the HP1000 systems and parts in next week. If 
anyone needs any 1k A990, A900, & A600 systems, CPU, memory & interface 
cards, cables, panels, connectors or anything else associated with those 
lines, let me know as I probably have them. Just note that I'm a 
re-seller and not a hobbyist and am selling these items as part of an 
end-user consignment deal.. two types of complete HP1000 A990 and A600 
are below. Let me know if you need anything, want pictures, or have any 
questions.


A990 Server 14-slot Micro 1000 Server (Configured with)
1 x 12990x A990 CPU
1 x 12221B 8MB Memory
1 x C2490A 2GB SE SCSI Internal disk drive
1 x x  DDS DAT Internal Tape Drive
1 x 12016A SCSI Controller board
1 x 12009A HP-IB Interface board
1 x 12005A Serial Interface board
1 x 12006A Parallel interface board
1 x 12040A Asynchronous Multiplexer Interface (MUX) board
1 x 02430x Voltage Jumper Board
1 x 12230A Front-plane memory connector (CPU to memory connector)
$3,500.00

A600 Server 14-slot Micro 1000 Server (Configured with)
1 x 12105x A600 CPU
1 x 12101B Memory Controller
1 x 12103D 1MB Memory
1 x 12103C 512kb Memory
1 x 12022x disk controller board
1 x x  floppy drive
1 x C2490A 2GB SE SCSI Internal disk drive
1 x 12016A SCSI Controller board
1 x 12009A HP-IB Interface board
1 x 12005A Serial Interface board
1 x 12040A Asynchronous Multiplexer Interface (MUX) board
2 x 12038x Jumper board
1 x 02430x Voltage Jumper Board
$2,500.00

Feel free to email direct at jesse(at)cypress-tech.com

Thanks
Jesse
Cypress Technology Inc

Re: Maynard MaynStream

[Sean Ellis via cctalk]

That'd be a pretty cool accessory to have as part of my retro homelab.
I don't think it's really ever been documented, either from a quick
search online.

On 10/13/20, Van Snyder via cctalk  wrote:
> I have a Maynard MaynStream tape backup unit from the 1980's.
>
> It uses audio-format cassettes with 1/4" tape, but it's a different
> tape composition, and the cassette has a notch in it to tell the device
> it's not just plain audio tape. The capacity was 80 MB per cassette.
>
> I also have four ISA controller cards, four cables, and several
> cassettes. We used it for backup with IBM PC/AT boxes many years ago.
>
> Does anybody want it? It seems a shame to throw it in the e-waste bin.
>
> Van Snyder
> van.sny...@sbcglobal.net
>
>

Re: Informix for SCO XENIX

[Sean Ellis via cctalk]

Thanks Al. For those of you not on LisaList I've uploaded the ZIP to OneDrive:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApXzHz2ZC305hscHvjo3mOu8loaSxw?e=uOFV9G

The one downside is that while the disks seem to read error-free, it
needs an activation key which I don't have. I have to wonder if the
info on OS/2 Museum is of any use here?
http://www.os2museum.com/wp/tales-from-the-xenix-crypt/

On 10/14/20, Al Kossow via cctalk  wrote:
> On 10/14/20 8:09 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>> On 10/13/20 6:53 PM, Sean Ellis via cctalk wrote:
>>> Just wanted to let you all know that I've found a copy of Informix
>>> 3.11 for SCO XENIX on the Lisa 2... anyone interested?
>>>
>>
>> please get these to ray arachelian
>> https://lisalist2.com/index.php/board,1.0.html
>>
> https://lisalist2.com/index.php/topic,118.15.html
>
>

Re: FYI sunhelp.org down

[John Klos via cctalk]

There is no content on any other those sites, and some goto malware it 
seems.. So ..


Having known bill for 15+ years.. yeah hard break for him.. rip..respect.


Well, I'm happy to host any of Bill's content forever.

If you visit the sites as they are, you'll see content based on the 
current owners of mrbill.net, lispmachine.net, fiftieshouse.com... 
sunhelp.org doesn't resolve because it uses mrbill.net DNS servers, 
and no DNS servers are configured by the new owners of mrbill.net.


If you use 192.80.49.4 as your only DNS server, then try to visit any of 
those domains, you'll get answers for any / all of them that point to 
Bill's old address (184.94.207.190). When you visit one of those domains 
using this DNS server, the server at 184.94.207.190 will recognize the 
virtualhosts and will provide the proper content.


John

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 73, Issue 13

[Adam Thornton via cctalk]

I agree that whether a student learns has much more to do with the student
than what in particular they're studying.

I quit my undergraduate physics degree when I had a moment of clarity that
even if I managed to squeak through my Partial Differential Equations class
with a C (I did) I'd still be on a trajectory where _solving PDEs was what
I would be doing with my life_.

My undergrad degree is in Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations.  My MA is in
History (but, hey, the History of Computing).  I dropped out of the Ph.D.
program I was in for a variety of reasons, to be honest crushing depression
probably chief among them, but also because I was a fairly decent
practitioner, and I had more fun playing with computers than I did writing
stories about people who'd played with computers a couple generations
before I had.  It being the late 90s, my job prospects were decidedly
better on the Not A Professional Historian side of the fence.

That was 22-ish years ago.  I'd been making beer money all through college
and grad school with IT jobs, and I've stayed in IT-related fields ever
since.  Consulting, systems administration and engineering, these days
software development-but-also-devops.  My lack of appropriate degrees
probably only didn't hurt because I started a not-unsuccessful consulting
business with my mentor after I quit grad school, and by the time I was
ready to move on from that, I had enough years of broadly varied experience
under my belt that it didn't really matter.

But that's tangential.  The actual point was: the fuzzy stuff is only
contemptible if you've got Physicists' Disease.  History is hard, and it
has a lot more in common with debugging that is obvious at first glance.
In both cases you are presented with "Here's what happened," and it's your
job to figure out "why?"  In both cases, the ability to break the end-state
down into a set of much smaller components which contribute to it is
key--and although that ability probably _does_ have a lot to do with innate
personality or preference, it's also very, very much a learned (and
trained!) skill.  The thing with debugging is that you usually are afforded
the opportunity the repeat the experiment while changing parameters.  With
history, you're not so lucky, and thus you never _really_ know the root
causes (you also usually don't know "what really happened", but by
cross-referencing your sources you may be able to emerge with some sort of
decent-consensus guess), but you can make more or less plausible and
persuasive hypotheses about them.  The idea that you are interrogating a
recalcitrant witness is common to both history (and I would guess many of
the humanities and social sciences) and creating and maintaining working
software.

I'll grant that it's _harder_ to surf blithely through an engineering
degree than it is through a liberal arts degree, mostly because there are
less-subjective metrics (particularly in lab courses) as to whether you
actually learned something about what you're supposed to be doing.  If I
were being snarky, perish the thought, I'd say that the engineers who
didn't really want to understand what they were doing were pre-meds.
Nevertheless, a degree--and particularly an advanced one--is indeed much
more about the discipline to put your head down and swallow what's put in
front of you than about smarts.

I was told a couple of decades ago I'd regret not having stuck it out for
my Ph.D.  I'm still waiting for that regret to kick in; in the meantime,
many others have come and gone.

Adam

Re: FYI sunhelp.org down

[Kevin Lee via cctalk]

There is no content on any other those sites, and some goto malware it seems..
So .. 


Having known bill for 15+ years.. yeah hard break for him.. rip..respect. 



> On 14 Oct 2020, at 22:08, John Klos via cctalk  wrote:
> 
>> I posted to  and saw my message got stuck in the mail
>> queue.  Upon a further inspection I saw that the domain has expired along
>> with `mrbill.net' where the nameservers used to reside and both have been
>> taken by someone else, taking the name service down for `sunhelp.org'.  I
>> can still reach Bill Bradford's personal page when I connect to the server
>> by its IPv4 address at: .
> 
> I noticed this, too. Since sunhelp.org uses mrbill.net DNS servers, and 
> because the server at 184.94.207.190 is still up, we can still see the 
> content if we make our own DNS, so I configured my server at 192.80.49.4 
> (athena.zia.io) to answer for mrbill.net, for sunhelp.org, for 
> fiftieshouse.com, and for lispmachine.net, so if you want to see any of 
> these, temporarily set your DNS server to 192.80.49.4.
> 
> I did this in part to mirror sunhelp.org, but I suspect there are already 
> mirrors out there.
> 
> Sorry to hear about Bill :(
> 
> John Klos

Re: FYI sunhelp.org down

[John Klos via cctalk]

I posted to  and saw my message got stuck in the mail
queue.  Upon a further inspection I saw that the domain has expired along
with `mrbill.net' where the nameservers used to reside and both have been
taken by someone else, taking the name service down for `sunhelp.org'.  I
can still reach Bill Bradford's personal page when I connect to the server
by its IPv4 address at: .


I noticed this, too. Since sunhelp.org uses mrbill.net DNS servers, and 
because the server at 184.94.207.190 is still up, we can still see the 
content if we make our own DNS, so I configured my server at 192.80.49.4 
(athena.zia.io) to answer for mrbill.net, for sunhelp.org, for 
fiftieshouse.com, and for lispmachine.net, so if you want to see any of 
these, temporarily set your DNS server to 192.80.49.4.


I did this in part to mirror sunhelp.org, but I suspect there are already 
mirrors out there.


Sorry to hear about Bill :(

John Klos

Re: Searching for (DOS?) Backup Software

[Bill Degnan via cctalk]

maybe there is an OEM version or driver that can read a tape formatted by
Genoa without need for the software but yah, does not ring a bell.  At that
time I used Colorado something or another.
Bill

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 12:25 PM Patrik Schindler via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> anyone heard of Genoa GenWare Backup Software and probably has a copy
> floating around? Someone was asking me to restore tapes, and the original
> diskettes aren't readable anymore.
>
>
> https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Books/Business/IDX/1987-04-OCR-Page-0107.pdf
>
> :wq! PoC
>
> PGP-Key: DDD3 4ABF 6413 38DE - https://www.pocnet.net/poc-key.asc
>
>
>

Searching for (DOS?) Backup Software

[Patrik Schindler via cctalk]

Hello,

anyone heard of Genoa GenWare Backup Software and probably has a copy floating 
around? Someone was asking me to restore tapes, and the original diskettes 
aren't readable anymore.

https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Books/Business/IDX/1987-04-OCR-Page-0107.pdf

:wq! PoC

PGP-Key: DDD3 4ABF 6413 38DE - https://www.pocnet.net/poc-key.asc

Re: Looking For Computer Automation LSI-3/05 Documentation

[TangentDelta via cctalk]

I actually just found those documents the other day. There's a lot of stuff 
there that isn't anywhere else! They've been extremely helpful in identifying 
and working with a pair of LSI 4/30 systems that were previously unidentified.




‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
On Tuesday, October 13, 2020 2:59 AM, Pontus Pihlgren  
wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> This seems to be mostly about the Naked Mini 4. But perhaps you can find 
> something useful:
>
> http://www.update.uu.se/~pontus/CA-mirror/www.sdu.se/
>
> or maybe here:
>
> ftp://ftp.update.uu.se/pub/pontus/alpha_lsi
>
> Regards,
> Pontus

Re: Informix for SCO XENIX

[geneb via cctalk]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:


On 10/14/20 8:09 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:

On 10/13/20 6:53 PM, Sean Ellis via cctalk wrote:

Just wanted to let you all know that I've found a copy of Informix
3.11 for SCO XENIX on the Lisa 2... anyone interested?



please get these to ray arachelian
https://lisalist2.com/index.php/board,1.0.html


https://lisalist2.com/index.php/topic,118.15.html


Oh without a doubt!  I recind my request!

g.

--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby.  Geeks collect hobbies.

ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!

Re: Maynard MaynStream

[Liam Proven via cctalk]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 01:08, Van Snyder  wrote:

> I'll send it for a PDF of a shipping label for a 20" x 10" x 10" 10lb box, 
> your choice of carrier.

That is a very kind offer and I appreciate your generosity, but I
think perhaps you mistake what I was trying to say.

It's too old to be of direct interest to me, sadly. What I was saying
was that if you put it on eBay, for instance, for a token price -- I
used to start my auctions at 1 penny -- you will reach a far wider
potential audience than here on ClassicCmp, or indeed on the VCF
forums.

I'm happy to put it on the Facebook Vintage Computer Club for you, if
you'd like, and act as intermediary for comms (assuming you're not on
FB). I think it has over 15,000 members now.


-- 
Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven
Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com
Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven
UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053

Re: Informix for SCO XENIX

[Al Kossow via cctalk]

On 10/14/20 8:09 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:

On 10/13/20 6:53 PM, Sean Ellis via cctalk wrote:

Just wanted to let you all know that I've found a copy of Informix
3.11 for SCO XENIX on the Lisa 2... anyone interested?



please get these to ray arachelian
https://lisalist2.com/index.php/board,1.0.html


https://lisalist2.com/index.php/topic,118.15.html

Re: Informix for SCO XENIX

[Al Kossow via cctalk]

On 10/13/20 6:53 PM, Sean Ellis via cctalk wrote:

Just wanted to let you all know that I've found a copy of Informix
3.11 for SCO XENIX on the Lisa 2... anyone interested?



please get these to ray arachelian
https://lisalist2.com/index.php/board,1.0.html

Re: Informix for SCO XENIX

[John Many Jars via cctalk]

Would be interesting to see, as I am stuck working with Informix on a daily
basis. (:

On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 13:39, geneb via cctalk 
wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Sean Ellis via cctalk wrote:
>
> > Just wanted to let you all know that I've found a copy of Informix
> > 3.11 for SCO XENIX on the Lisa 2... anyone interested?
> >
>
> YES! :)
>
> g.
>
> --
> Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
> http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
> http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
> Some people collect things for a hobby.  Geeks collect hobbies.
>
> ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
> A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
> http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!
>


-- 
Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems:  "The Future Begins Tomorrow"
Visit us at: http://www.yoyodyne-propulsion.net


"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign,
that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." -- Jonathan Swift

Re: Informix for SCO XENIX

[geneb via cctalk]

On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Sean Ellis via cctalk wrote:


Just wanted to let you all know that I've found a copy of Informix
3.11 for SCO XENIX on the Lisa 2... anyone interested?



YES! :)

g.

--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby.  Geeks collect hobbies.

ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!

Re: FYI sunhelp.org down

[Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Diane Bruce wrote:

> He was an old friend of mine he died August 15 2019 of cancer. :-(
> https://www.gray329.org/bro-william-c-bradford-1974-2019/

 So sorry to hear that. :(

  Maciej

Re: FYI sunhelp.org down

[Diane Bruce via cctalk]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 11:08:00AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I posted to  and saw my message got stuck in the mail 
> queue.  Upon a further inspection I saw that the domain has expired along 
> with `mrbill.net' where the nameservers used to reside and both have been 
> taken by someone else, taking the name service down for `sunhelp.org'.  I 
> can still reach Bill Bradford's personal page when I connect to the server 
> by its IPv4 address at: .
> 
>  I do hope nothing bad has really happened to Bill in these difficult 
> times.  Anybody knows?

He was an old friend of mine he died August 15 2019 of cancer. :-(
https://www.gray329.org/bro-william-c-bradford-1974-2019/

> 
>   Maciej

Diane
-- 
- d...@freebsd.org d...@db.net http://www.db.net/~db

Re: FYI sunhelp.org down

[Patrick Finnegan via cctalk]

Umm, Bill passed away a bit over a year ago. May he rest in peace.

He had said that there was some sort of plan to hand off Sunhelp, but I'm
not sure what happened.

Patrick Finnegan

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 06:08 Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  I posted to  and saw my message got stuck in the
> mail
> queue.  Upon a further inspection I saw that the domain has expired along
> with `mrbill.net' where the nameservers used to reside and both have been
> taken by someone else, taking the name service down for `sunhelp.org'.  I
> can still reach Bill Bradford's personal page when I connect to the server
> by its IPv4 address at: .
>
>  I do hope nothing bad has really happened to Bill in these difficult
> times.  Anybody knows?
>
>   Maciej
>
>

FYI sunhelp.org down

[Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk]

Hi,

 I posted to  and saw my message got stuck in the mail 
queue.  Upon a further inspection I saw that the domain has expired along 
with `mrbill.net' where the nameservers used to reside and both have been 
taken by someone else, taking the name service down for `sunhelp.org'.  I 
can still reach Bill Bradford's personal page when I connect to the server 
by its IPv4 address at: .

 I do hope nothing bad has really happened to Bill in these difficult 
times.  Anybody knows?

  Maciej