Re: Ann Arbor Ambassador XL / Re: pile of gear for sale (DEC, Sun, PC, ephemera, v.35 cables, etc etc)

> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 02:22:34PM -0700, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: >>(Not sure what the XL designates, I knew them as just Ann Arbor Ambassador). > John Wilson via cctalk writes: > It's a newer version. I think maybe 60 lines vs. 48 for the classic AAA? > Could

Re: PreOwned machine privacy - Was: Acclaim Entertainment Indy (with data, emails, etc) on eBay

On 03/28/2017 06:21 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > When I did media conversion for people, I ignored their content, > other than monitoring for quality control. Same as when I used to do > photographic color printing, and did some for other people. Anything > else would be seriously unethical.

Re: PreOwned machine privacy - Was: Acclaim Entertainment Indy (with data, emails, etc) on eBay

How do you feel about reading dead presidents personal letters? At some point personal information ends up being historic information. The item in question seems to be ten years old. THAT doesn't sound like "historical" can or should over-ride current rights holders. At some point, "grave

Re: PreOwned machine privacy - Was: Acclaim Entertainment Indy (with data, emails, etc) on eBay

On 3/28/2017 6:38 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: the guy on ebay made a big deal on the net about one SGI machine that he knew had video game source code on it. Not unusual. The more people crow about it the more hammers will swing on good hardware that could otherwise be repurposed. I

Re: PreOwned machine privacy - Was: Acclaim Entertainment Indy (with data, emails, etc) on eBay

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 6:51 PM, TeoZ via cctalk wrote: > How do you feel about reading dead presidents personal letters? At some > point personal information ends up being historic information. > > If there is money (or more money) to be made associating a Computer to a >

Re: PreOwned machine privacy - Was: Acclaim Entertainment Indy (with data, emails, etc) on eBay

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/turok-source-code-ebay On 3/28/17 6:36 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 3/28/17 6:21 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > >> Anything else would be seriously unethical. > > the guy on ebay made a big deal on the net about one SGI machine that

Re: PreOwned machine privacy - Was: Acclaim Entertainment Indy (with data, emails, etc) on eBay

On 3/28/17 6:21 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > Anything else would be seriously unethical. the guy on ebay made a big deal on the net about one SGI machine that he knew had video game source code on it.

PDP-11/20 in Iowa (x3)

> From: Philipp Hachtmann > The 11/20 is the simplest 11 as far as I know. 'Simplest' in what sense? They certainly aren't the easiest ones to understand, with all that random control logic! The -11/04 is far easier to understand (for me, at least; YMMV). > From: Ethan Dicks >

Re: PreOwned machine privacy - Was: Acclaim Entertainment Indy (with data, emails, etc) on eBay

When I did media conversion for people, I ignored their content, other than monitoring for quality control. Same as when I used to do photographic color printing, and did some for other people. Anything else would be seriously unethical. THAT is simple professional ethics. Otherwise, it's on

Re: PreOwned machine privacy - Was: Acclaim Entertainment Indy (with data, emails, etc) on eBay

On Mar 28, 2017, at 2:36 PM, JP Hindin via cctalk wrote: > > While I'm not specifically crapping on the guy selling this Indy - I'm kind > of curious how others feel about this sort of thing as it's something I've > been confronted with personally lately. It’s going to

Re: PreOwned machine privacy - Was: Acclaim Entertainment Indy (with data, emails, etc) on eBay

On 03/28/2017 02:36 PM, JP Hindin via cctalk wrote: > But... eMails? I dunno. I've been pulling a lot of data off a Cray > J90 and I've had a lot of people ask me to release it to the public > and I just can't bring myself to do so. I'm _pretty sure_ that it > belonged to NASA, which might mean

Re: Ann Arbor Ambassador XL / Re: pile of gear for sale (DEC, Sun, PC, ephemera, v.35 cables, etc etc)

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 02:22:34PM -0700, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: >(Not sure what the XL designates, I knew them as just Ann Arbor Ambassador). It's a newer version. I think maybe 60 lines vs. 48 for the classic AAA? Could be wrong. John Wilson D Bit

Re: PreOwned machine privacy - Was: Acclaim Entertainment Indy (with data, emails, etc) on eBay

On 2017-03-28 6:51 PM, TeoZ via cctalk wrote: How do you feel about reading dead presidents personal letters? At some point personal information ends up being historic information. I am not a lawyer, but it almost seems like something that actual law should cover. *

Re: PreOwned machine privacy - Was: Acclaim Entertainment Indy (with data, emails, etc) on eBay

How do you feel about reading dead presidents personal letters? At some point personal information ends up being historic information. If there is money (or more money) to be made associating a Computer to a company or specific somewhat famous people then sellers will play this angle for all

PreOwned machine privacy - Was: Acclaim Entertainment Indy (with data, emails, etc) on eBay

On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Michael-John Turner via cctalk wrote: Own a piece of gaming history! This Indy workstation was once owned by Acclaim Entertainment, the legendary game publisher, and was liquidated at Acclaim's bankruptcy sale in 2004. It sat untouched in a Brooklyn warehouse for

Ann Arbor Ambassador XL / Re: pile of gear for sale (DEC, Sun, PC, ephemera, v.35 cables, etc etc)

On 2017-Mar-28, at 2:08 PM, Andrew K. Bressen via cctalk wrote: > I have about four or five hundred things I'm ready to stop owning. > I'm in Boston. If anyone wants a number of objects, I could deliver > to VCF East this weekend. > > Inventory list at: >

Re: DEC VT520 in San Jose

The VT520 is one of my favorite modern DEC terminals. Small and doesn't take up a lot of room but still perfectly readable in 50 line mode if the CRT isn't too old and tired. It also supports dual simultaneous sessions as well, doesn't it? You get color with the VT525, but then you need to hook

pile of gear for sale (DEC, Sun, PC, ephemera, v.35 cables, etc etc)

I have about four or five hundred things I'm ready to stop owning. I'm in Boston. If anyone wants a number of objects, I could deliver to VCF East this weekend. Inventory list at: http://threefingered.com/2017_inventory_3.html I have someone interested in getting all of the TK-50s, OSF/1 and

Acclaim Entertainment Indy (with data, emails, etc) on eBay

Hi, I came across this on eBay today: www.ebay.com/itm/162446083760 To quote from the listing: Own a piece of gaming history! This Indy workstation was once owned by Acclaim Entertainment, the legendary game publisher, and was liquidated at Acclaim's bankruptcy sale in 2004. It sat

RE: Not Getting Emails

> > I received this one on the list. > > I haven't had any problems with list mail. at all. > But, that doesn't mean that everybody else has been so fortunate. > > -- Thanks. I saw it appear in the archive. I have checked junk mail, but have found nothing. I don't know how to diagnose it. My

Re: Not Getting Emails

I have not had any emails from cctalk for 2 or 3 weeks. I went to my subscription details and saw that emails were disabled for me. I re-enabled them a few days ago but I still have not received any new emails. I can see that there is traffic by looking at the archives, and if I am not

Re: Not Getting Emails

On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote: I have not had any emails from cctalk for 2 or 3 weeks. I went to my subscription details and saw that emails were disabled for me. I re-enabled them a few days ago but I still have not received any new emails. I can see that there is traffic by

Not Getting Emails

I have not had any emails from cctalk for 2 or 3 weeks. I went to my subscription details and saw that emails were disabled for me. I re-enabled them a few days ago but I still have not received any new emails. I can see that there is traffic by looking at the archives, and if I am not getting

Re: DEC VT520 in San Jose

I’d already arranged to pick it up by the time you posted this. ;) It works great! The seller only had an HP keyboard for it though (as shown), not an LK411, and those are terribly expensive right now on eBay. Still, it works just fine, and is nice and crisp amber on black even at 132×50. --

Re: Floating point routines for the 6809

On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Systems Glitch via cctalk wrote: Then it's a regional thing. "Scrounge up," or to "scrounge around," is certainly commonly used to mean, "find something in a pile of mess" in the southeastern US. Mostly equivalent to "scare up." California: "Scrounge the keyboards,

Re: QIX game on PDP-11

> Likely a J11 power Q or Unibus CPU of late vintage. Looks similar to a Mentec KDJ11-B workalike, I don't remember their designation. Onboard RAM and DLV11-J from what I remember... Thanks, Jonathan

Re: QIX game on PDP-11

On Mar 28, 2017, at 1:09 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Henk Gooijen via cctalk > wrote: >> >> Hi PDP-11 game players  >> >> I found that the famous QIX game was ported to the PDP-11 !! >> See

Apple 1, Commodore 65, Enigma Machine, Inventor of C++

"What do an Apple 1, Commodore 65, Enigma Machine, and the inventor of C++ all have in common?" "They all be at VCF East this weekend." You should go, too. Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation a 501(c)3 educational non-profit e...@vcfed.org

Re: QIX game on PDP-11

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 04:35:46PM +, Henk Gooijen via cctalk wrote: >Does anybody have a lead to the software? That would be awesome! Here's a link to the VAX version: www.decuslib.com/decus/vax_games/mqix/ So it's written in three languages ... and it's multi-user. Could be a

Re: Floating point routines for the 6809

> Then it's a regional thing. "Scrounge up," or to "scrounge around," is certainly commonly used to mean, "find something in a pile of mess" in the southeastern US. Mostly equivalent to "scare up." Thanks, Jonathan

Re: QIX game on PDP-11

> On Mar 28, 2017, at 12:09 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk > wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Henk Gooijen via cctalk > wrote: >> >> Hi PDP-11 game players  >> >> I found that the famous QIX game was ported to the PDP-11 !! >> See

Re: QIX game on PDP-11

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 04:35:46PM +, Henk Gooijen via cctalk wrote: >I found that the famous QIX game was ported to the PDP-11 !! [...] >Does anybody have a lead to the software? That would be awesome! Nope, but I remember a VAX version that also used VT100 graphics. Possibly the same one?

Re: QIX game on PDP-11

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Henk Gooijen via cctalk wrote: > > Hi PDP-11 game players  > > I found that the famous QIX game was ported to the PDP-11 !! > See http://imgur.com/a/gtPfh I don't know which PDP-11 that is either. It's a 3rd party card. Anyone recognize

Re: Floating point routines for the 6809

On 2017-03-28 11:23 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: On 28 March 2017 at 08:54, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: I need to scrounge around Hmm. That is not a possible usage of "scrounge" the way I know it. You can't scrounge something you already have. It doesn't mean

Scrounging - was Floating point routines for the 6809

- Original Message - From: "Liam Proven via cctalk" To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 11:23 AM Subject: Re: Floating point routines for the 6809 On 28 March 2017 at 08:54, jim stephens via

QIX game on PDP-11

Hi PDP-11 game players  I found that the famous QIX game was ported to the PDP-11 !! See http://imgur.com/a/gtPfh Back in the days, I spend quite a few Guilders on this addictive game. Does anybody have a lead to the software? That would be awesome! Thanks, Henk

Re: Floating point routines for the 6809

On 28 March 2017 at 08:54, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: > I need to scrounge around Hmm. That is not a possible usage of "scrounge" the way I know it. You can't scrounge something you already have. It doesn't mean "search for", it means "to pilfer", to get something off

Re: Floating point routines for the 6809

That's cool. I need to scrounge around and find my copy of Forth we used on a 6809 tape controller firmware. I had forth in the diagnostic firmware that we had on a snapon module and you could compose whatever diagnostic exercises you chose by executing the basic test functions we had in