to carry and Newtons. He was even opening programs
in a some sort of editor and comparing things. I distinctly remember
him saying that he thought there was some relationship between the
Newton and Palm. But I've never seen nor heard anything to corroborate
this.
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to preferences were
done less often than queries therefor.
Grant. . . .
concurrently on the same system. But I'm fairly
certain that I've installed SCO OpenServer 5.x in VirtualBox.
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in question is:
Link - Protoweb - Reviving the '90s Internet! (Overview & Demo)
- https://youtu.be/1FSd-XhGLqk
I'm interested in checking out Protoweb for various reasons, but I
figured that I'd let you, and fellow cctalk subscribers, know about the
ftp.compaq.com archive.
Grant. . . .
On 7/10/23 1:18 PM, Ali wrote:
Hi Grant,
Hi Ali,
I am currently looking for the following:
Firmware for the MSL5000 Tape Library (version 5.20). The file name
would be something like Nextgen_520.bin. The MSL5000 is a rebranded
Overland library. Apparently you could have used the original
plastic that I have related to ProLiants and / or StorageWorks stuff.
Please clarify what you're looking for and I'll see if anything I have
is germane.
Grant. . . .
to the unencrypted
passwords. Because it can't do it's job if it doesn't have access to
the unencrypted passwords.
Grant. . . .
throughout their life cycle.
It's not just desktop software.
*nix isn't and end-all be-all cure.
Grant. . . .
.
PSA: Not all password managers are created equally.
Grant. . . .
On 7/7/23 2:24 PM, Sellam Abraham wrote:
How else are we to know that the capacitor is charged, or that the
link is dangerous?
You touch your neighbor with it. }:-)
Grant. . . .
of like making sure that 400V capacitor was discharged before
handing it to your lab mate in class :-)
What?!
Grant. . . .
SMTP envelope and message headers.
It's somewhat more difficult to successfully spoof some domains than
others, depending on the spoofed domain's security posture; e.g. SPF,
DKIM, DMARC.
Grant. . . .
On 6/28/23 12:13 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
It is sometimes caalled that.
;-)
With many boxes of used cables, often there will be cables that are
DB-25, but with 16 pins missing in the 25 pin connector, often leaving
pins 1-8 and 20, and gaps where other pins could have been.. I call
THAT a
On 6/28/23 8:48 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
I was being a bit of a smart alec too.
I'm glad that I was / you were / we are as I think this is shaping up to
be another very interesting thread where I learn a lot of minutia that I
wouldn't otherwise learn.
#todayIlearned :-D
is Pro/380 and connect it to an AUI port on a
hub / switch. My concern being that both AUI ports would be the same
gender and assuming that there are (at least) a pair of transceivers
converting each device from AUI to 10Base to connect to each
other.
Grant. . . .
, independent of the
physical connector?
DB-15??? Did you mean DA-15?
I'll see myself out now. ;-)
Grant. . . .
if I remove the tails from
the motherboard and drives? Or do I need to have some sort of load on
the power supply? E.g. a sacrificial hard drive that I don't care about.
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> research, including A.T.C.. I'll
likely try to acquire the parallel port test harness.
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On 3/8/23 9:18 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
I acquired an IBM PS/2 Model 80 (8580-071) today and am looking for
advice on what I should do to check it out before, during, and after
applying power for the first time.
After many comments here and elsewhere indicating that nothing should
smoke, I
ld battery is still in there I have the make and
model. Then there's all the documentation around the web.
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.
But if everything is, and has been, at zero volts for a while, then
there's quite likely not anything to be saved.
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if there's anything
at all. If it's dead, then there's not any point in hurrying.
I used to work at IBM when they sold these.
:-)
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nk you. You're sharing things that seem familiar. Which is
appreciated because it means that my memory isn't that far out of
calibration or bit rot.
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battery.
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nefit from knowing.
Thank you and have a good day.
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when git is not completely happy;
e.g. a change on both the local file and the remote file, or how to
restore a specific version of a file, or other less common things.
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On 1/23/23 6:36 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
There's a chance that any existing Reply-To: is overwritten by the
mailing list. -- Maybe I should test that. }:-)
It seems as if the list adds its' self to the Reply-To: header.
"General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts&qu
r posted with a
Reply-To:. I don't currently have logic in place to extract their
Reply-To, if it exists, and preserve it. But, I think I'll simply live
with that bug for now. There's a chance -- I've not looked -- that any
existing Reply-To: is overwritten by the mailing list. -- Maybe I
should test that. }:-)
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in exact due to the odd way the
listsrv is configured.
I suspect that many of us will agree that Gmail leaves a lot to be
desired when compared to what more traditional MUAs can do.
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On 1/8/23 8:41 PM, Doc Shipley via cctalk wrote:
I avoid Disk Utility like the plague.
Doc, will you please elaborate on why you avoid the Disk Utility (.app)?
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/DrScriptt/status/1187958760901414913
Yes, that's me.
I took your statement to be that I knew / had seen your bird soft font
shape. I had not. I have not done anything with soft fonts.
Yes, I have done more than the average bear with Sixel and ReGIS.
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. :-)
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get to see the pictures.
Aside: Would you please take a picture of some of the output from the
samples on a VT220 or other soft font supporting terminal (emulator) so
those of us under equipped can enjoy them too?
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On 12/22/22 2:24 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
For PC’s, being able to run WinXP is an interesting cutoff
Why use a cut off that's based on a date?
After all, the list is a moving / sliding window.
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On 12/22/22 3:41 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Win95/Win98 would be happy with a PC/AT 286, with appropriate RAM
I don't think "happy" is how I would describe that.
Would it run? Maybe.
Would I want to run it like that? Nope. Not at all.
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RAID.
You probably have many more tools available in Linux to image the
logical volume(s), whether they be hardware and / or software.
PartImage comes to mind.
Once you have the image, you can then do away with the RAID as it exists
and do whatever you want with the rest of the drives.
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dea behind that is still valid,
but these days a 10 year old system isn’t that much different from
a current one. I think at one point someone suggested it should be
shifted to 20+ years.
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320134](https://www.ebay.com/itm/255471320134?mkcid=16=1=711-127632-2357-0=bA8yIY8bS72=2349624=XChl81rOQ3-=_ver=artemis=COPY)
Notice that there are actually two links there, one that's trimmed, the
one you provided, in addition to the normal one with all the tracking
metadata. ;-)
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de the bag between (like jelly) the two cards (bread) as a buffer.
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ggest unknown is where the $NAME.imd.dd file is coming from. It seems
as if img (the main ImageDisk command?) is creating $NAME.imd file.
Does it also create $NAME.imd.dd file at the same time?
I like using mcopy (from mtools?) to extract the files to create a zip.
Nice technique.
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the biggest thing with dd for CD-ROMs / DVD-ROMs is when there
are multiple tracks.
I know /of/ CUE & BIN file pairs. But I can't describe their
differences other than my understanding is that they deal with
multi-track 'ROMs.
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On 11/3/22 4:35 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Also GCR, not MFM. NOT readable with a PC FDC.
Please expand "GCR".
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iles.
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s and something that does cue / bin files
for multi-track disks. -- I think
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On 11/3/22 3:26 PM, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote:
I am (slowly) on my way to use ddrescue for similar thing(s).
I've used ddrescue for a /few/ of my disk images. Thankfully /most/ of
the 3½ disks that I've imaged have not needed ddrescue / SpinRite / et al.
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ng IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, and then COMMAND.COM to
the floppy disk in that order. I think the same methodology can be used
with PC-DOS. But that's /just/ /DOS/ and doesn't cover boot disks for
other operating systems that I play with.
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trap guide for someone wanting to
get into creating better-than-dd disk images?
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On 10/29/22 4:35 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
Does anyone have a copy of DAEMON Tools Ultra 4.x install file(s)?
Shortly after I posted this message, someone from DAEMON Tools /
Disc-Soft responded to my support ticket and worked with me to get
things resolved.
I've got to say
version of QuickBooks
to appease my wife, things that don't have a Linux / macOS counterpart.
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this to work on an ancient Windows XP system that I'm
messing with as part of retro computing.
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comment was directed at Ryan's sale of lower value to
him equipment, not your loss. -- I am sorry for your loss Sellam.
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strapped someone into the collecting hobby. }:-)
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breath for the SAN to support older versions of NFS.
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the command options nearly off the tip of their fingers.
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around with both you and Sellam.
I have pontificated writing my own search engine. But I've never found
neither sufficient round-2-its nor motivation to do so.
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. No need to even
passively insult someone.
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Any of these are yours for the price of shipping; local pickup is OK
too.
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your email to him rather than sharing his email address.
Here's hoping that he will reach out to you.
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On 8/13/22 12:52 AM, ben via cctalk wrote:
Would a serial to Wi-Fi converter work in your case as well?
No it would not.
I'm explicitly wanting to support things that are used over modems.
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started this thread.
The more that this thread, and others like it continues, I'm feeling
more and more like the retro X.25 network that people like æstrid and co
are making is something I need to look into more.
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the distance to the cell site to make much difference.
At least not as long as there were no drop outs in the cell signal /
connection.
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AT commands might be more
reliable than trying to do dial up connections across VoIP.
It's been *YEARS* since I've tried to connect a modem to a serial port
on a PC, universal or otherwise.
Does anyone have any experience with or thoughts about doing this?
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have some of the biggest chromosomes in nature: you can see
and count genes down an optical microscope. And a student can be
taught how to anaesthetise and sort the sexes of fruit flies using
an easy-to-use binocular microscope.
To each their own. I'll be messing with old computers / networks / phones.
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yard? :-D
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.
If it ever becomes a blocker for other parts of the kernel, it's removal
will be expedited. Much -- as I understand it -- how Token Ring was
removed in the 4.x kernels.
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the case for a good while. ;-)
No offense, people, but the sky is not falling.
Agreed.
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ail.
So, in the future, Redhat, for example, might be the only distro
left supporting it so if you need Decnet you’ll want Redhat. This
Creates a niche market by default.
I question if there is enough demand for it to be worth Red Hat's /
etc's time and effort to do so.
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u
they can realistically avoid it.
Red Hat is notorious for avoiding the bleeding edge and porting things
across kernel versions. So I suspect that they would have support
longer than something like Debian et al.
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network access and / or VMs running
old versions that still support hardware.
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/ how big the potential problem is / will be.
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are aware of places where DECnet is being used that
doesn't involve DEC system(s) / OS(s).
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for questionable reasons.
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hook your dumb terminal to it, and Robert's your
male parental sibling.
I'd be afraid that such a traditional terminal server would be
physically larger than desired and may cost more than something like an
older Raspberry Pi, et al. Depending on the fans, there's a good chance
tha
maybe the cheapest option as you suggested.
;-)
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.
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do many
things when I need device about the size of (a pair of) a deck of
playing cards.
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On 7/31/22 11:05 AM, Ali via cctalk wrote:
Well after looking around a bit last night and my Google fu failing to
provide anything worthwhile
:-/
Grant may be right i.e. there is no device that make a shell or a
telnet client available to a terminal and I will have to roll my
own.
I
for this nicely.
Oh yeah and if it is super cheap even better.
IMHO, the Raspberry Pi, et al. qualify here too.
Thanks!
:-)
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On 7/30/22 10:15 AM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
I just saw an unknown to me connector listed on an eBay auction and was
wondering if anyone knows more about an "FS/2" connector.
Thank you all. It seems as "FS/2" is not a /type/ /of/ /connector/ so
muc
/ faded label / etc. that I assumed it was before
clicking on the link.
So ... does anyone know what an "FS/2" connector is?
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r to a DEC VT340 with a bring
your own monitor, plus built in BASIC.
Interesting.
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how much of what you're testing would work in XTerm w/
ReGIS support.
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doing. If you can share. ;-)
I'm basically working on a GIGI demo, and would like to be able to
take existing vector files and convert them to ReGIS.
I'm not familiar with "GIGI" and my attempts to search for it (and
vector) are having collisions with a brand that I've never heard of.
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On 7/21/22 5:53 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
You might do some sleuthing to see if any vector programs will do what
you want.
My Gentoo system w/ ReGIS and Sixel USE flags has the following things
installed that include ReGIS (case insensitive / whole word) in the man
page
run into few people that
work with ReGIS and am always curious what others are doing with ReGIS
(and Sixel).
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that they can do to help with the vacation auto-responder.
I asked the list administrator(s) to temporarily moderate Jan Mleczko
(manna5@safe...).
Here's hoping that the unnecessary / unrelated noise will clear up.
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subscribed to
cctech and recently migrated to cctalk with the discontinuance of
cctech? Your digest setting may have not come across.
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person's trash is another person's treasure.
(including, of course, a Tek 564 that I have been lugging around for
a few decades. Does anyone want to give it a good home? Fair warning:
it's *heavy*.)
~chuckle~
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eard / seen the name "Rank" prefixing
"Xerox" before.
Can anyone elaborate on that?
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mailing lists are having
more and more problems getting messages that they re-send into inboxes.
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not. It depends what the underlying problem is.
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tion), not inbound filtering (DNS
/ SPF / DKIM / DMARC).
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ith DECnet of any form ... yet. But it looks
like the commands in the autoexec.bat file are loading keyboard /
display drivers and not networking.
I agree and think the c:\cjr command (batch file?) is probably where the
network commands are coming from.
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.
I have more than just the items I've listed in the link above that
also have to go, but these I will sell one at a time and as time
permits.
I'd be interested in looking at such listings in the future. If nothing
else, living vicariously through others. :-)
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f
I can continue the metaphor.)
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.
If they are Sun servers, there are probably people that will give you
the asking price just for them.
The TiVo will probably attack some attention to.
Sadly, the pictures probably aren't doing this much justice.
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is suffering bit rot faster
than I realized.
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On 4/22/22 12:03 PM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
I decided to invest in a Hakko FR-301. It worked almost
immediately. Hours of trying before, I did it in 10 minutes!
Thank you for the feedback and the comparison of without and with it.
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that the floppy was built on.
I'd swear that I've used a PCI Adaptec card with a floppy controller.
2942 comes to mind.
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