Re: Core Memory Photo

2020-04-14 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, keith--- via cctalk wrote: "Ouch. Looks like that core took a serious hit." Yep it did. We ran the microscope into it at the lab. Ouch. Someone had asked for a picture of core memory without the cover so I thought it would do. It is beautiful!

Re: Core Memory Photo

2020-04-14 Thread keith--- via cctalk
"Ouch. Looks like that core took a serious hit." Yep it did. We ran the microscope into it at the lab. Ouch. Someone had asked for a picture of core memory without the cover so I thought it would do.

Re: Prime Sample System Releases

2020-04-14 Thread Dennis Boone via cctalk
> I just noticed on comp.sys.prime that I missed a couple of sample > system releases. I have a process set up to dump messages from some > news groups into my IMAP server for easy reading with my mail client, > but I don't have anything set up to easily reply via the news groups. > Does

Prime Sample System Releases

2020-04-14 Thread Kevin Monceaux via cctalk
Prime Fans, I just noticed on comp.sys.prime that I missed a couple of sample system releases. I have a process set up to dump messages from some news groups into my IMAP server for easy reading with my mail client, but I don't have anything set up to easily reply via the news groups. Does

Computing and communicating in a COVID-19 world

2020-04-14 Thread Murray McCullough via cctalk
The virus-world we are living in has seen Internet usage dramatically increase world-wide. Thanks to pioneers like Cerf, Kahn, Crocker and Kleinrock, sounds like a law firm, paved the way for the packet-switch system Bell & others fought to prevent. I recall the early days of computing, classic,