[cctalk] Re: Experience using an Altair 8800 ("Personal computer" from 70s)

have private jets. They exist as private transport but we do not all have personal jets. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: Pragmatically [was: Experience using an Altair 8800 ("Personal computer" from 70s)]

On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 at 21:11, Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk wrote: > Yes, I can confirm that I am real. :-D And better still, extant. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Sk

[cctalk] Re: Experience using an Altair 8800 ("Personal computer" from 70s)

a spreadsheet. "Matrix arithmetic" is of even less relevance to everyday life than algebra. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+4

[cctalk] Re: Experience using an Altair 8800 ("Personal computer" from 70s)

On Fri, 31 May 2024 at 18:57, Harald Arnesen via cctalk wrote: > > Liam Proven via cctalk [31/05/2024 18.07]: > > > My first fiancée's dad had what he reckoned was the first mainframe in > > Norway. > > Was it this: > > <https://snl.no/NUSSE> - in Norwegia

[cctalk] Re: Pragmatically [was: Experience using an Altair 8800 ("Personal computer" from 70s)]

he pieces up to at least > the 2nd or 3rd floor, put it back together and got it running! > > QUITE a story! https://www.ljw.me.uk/ibm360/Saga.html That one? Lawrence is on this list and posts occasionally. He's real: I've met him. He was kind enough to give me some boxed copies of OS/2. :-) --

[cctalk] Re: Experience using an Altair 8800 ("Personal computer" from 70s)

e a Kenbak or some hexadecimal trainer. It needs to have a microprocessor to qualify. Microprocessors are what created the PC. No µP = not a PC. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype:

[cctalk] Re: Help request with fundraising campaign to save historic computers

omputer Club on Facebook, but I agree: you need an English language website, and an English language project description, if you want to raise money internationally. The websites did not successfully go through Google Translate, although the Museo homepage did in Firefox, oddly enough. -- Liam Prov

[cctalk] Re: 5,34 Petaflop System Cheyenne

$47.99 each. Plus shipping, I'm sure. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: BASIC

24/05/02/rool_530_is_here/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: APL (Was: BASIC

"O" level -- school exams at about age 16; you normally do about 8 subjects. I did 12. "A" level -- school exams at ~18, necessary to get into university. You normally do 3. I did 5. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB:

[cctalk] Re: APL (Was: BASIC

Forth I reckon we'd never have had a generation of child programmers. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Tele

[cctalk] Re: Double Density 3.5" Floppy Disks

DS/DD 720K disks Recycled disks--Guaranteed 100% $34.95 Recycled disks are tested, reformated, and relabeled in our facility. » -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+4

[cctalk] Re: Charles Stross, replay the bubble of 1995, alt history plus retrocomp

rsonal acquaintance find hard to parse and hard to handle. I have some very close American friends, but they're the bitter sarcastic type. :-D Try finishing it. It's worth it. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com T

[cctalk] Re: Charles Stross, replay the bubble of 1995, alt history plus retrocomp

few times. I still own 2 of his cast-off Macs. :-) He is very _very_ smart and also extremely technically knowledgeable. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 762

[cctalk] Re: IBM 360

scinating. Thank you. It sounds truly awful. A device that effectively tries to push strips of tape into receptacles? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 2

[cctalk] Re: IBM 360

learned to code on an IBM 1620. He told me of a terrible, terrible storage device which used a robot to load strips of magtape. Cheap but a horrendous failure rate. Is it this thing? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com

[cctalk] Re: Problem with Dell Vostro 1700

f he's that poor. That's how life is. > (His hobby is complaining that most stuff other people would say is > good enough isn't perfect.) That is a privilege that comes with being able to afford better. TBH, ISTM that you actively want to annoy people here. It's working on me, I can tell you

[cctalk] Re: Problem with Dell Vostro 1700

CPU and GPU fans are clean, unobstructed, spin and it's not overheating? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Tele

[cctalk] Re: How to shutdown RT11?

proved my xNix credentials. :-) Good thing, really... My vi skills were minimal and they still are today. Didn't like it then, like it less now. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype:

[cctalk] Re: DEC Processor Books

company did _not_ adopt 3+Open or OS/2. On the basis of my experience we moved to Novell instead. At the time, a good choice, I still think today. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: l

[cctalk] Re: IBM PC-XT

486 PC. » https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/19/windows_nt_30_years_on/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Te

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

hing with no quote. Have I said anything about Tripos anywhere? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Teleg

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

't you just try Google? vcf south california 1st hit: https://www.vcfsocal.com/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ Wh

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

orms. https://bbcbasic.com/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

did we Sinclair fans discover that there was an entire international market in clones and compatibles of the little Spectrum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ZX_Spectrum_clones -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com T

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

ely single-core anyway. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

chair, while running Doom on a PC that wasn't connected to mains power. The world's biggest "laptop". -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

as only ever run on ARM and nothing else. Nobody is making PDP-7s any more, are they? :-) I think the first C-based Unix was 4th edition. Are there any new PDP-11s? If that makes my point any clearer? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMai

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 19:40, Wouter de Waal via cctalk wrote: > Computers are much like motorcycles: many of the most interesting > ones were TERRIBLE! Oh, very good. I may quote that. :-D -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

y. Its native OS is still updated and is FOSS today, and provided the inspiration for a key part of the Windows 95 user interface now used by billions. The core of the OS dates from the late 1970s or so and may be the oldest OS of which a modern derivative still can run on the bare metal of new ha

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 07:30, Andrew Diller via cctalk wrote: > > Hope this helps, I put it together to keep track of them all. I think you forgot something. There was no link or anything there, and the list doesn't allow attachments. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liam

[cctalk] Re: The Mac at 40

ht now, focussing on myth busting. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] The Sinclair QL's legacy at 40

My 1st contribution to the Register's "retro tech week" may amuse... https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/16/ql_legacy_at_40/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven

[cctalk] RIP: Software design pioneer and Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth

Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and an OS was 89 https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/niklaus_wirth_obituary/ The great man has left us. I wrote an obituary. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB

[cctalk] Re: (no subject)

on IBM servers Well spotted. If I was unclear: I have downloads of both. I failed to make a note _where_ I downloaded them from. There are quite a few pages with download links that no longer work. This may have been where I found it! -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro

[cctalk] Re: IBM .BOO format

s not but it certainly sounds fun. :-) -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: IBM .BOO format

rnet Archive already -- it's here: https://archive.org/details/sc34-4399-00 This is: f29al000.boo The one I haven't found yet is: f29bdg00.boo I have a local copy but I did not record where I got it... >_< -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gM

[cctalk] IBM .BOO format

. I found the original IBM CUA documentation and want to convert it to some more modern, open format, but I am not having much luck... -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven

[cctalk] Re: Looking for NORTRONICS Read/Write head for IBM 5100/5110/5106 tape unit

is is what happens when you don't provide a link, or an auction number. > Hope this helps. > Mark It doesn't. > Sent from my iPhone Well that was a bad move for a start. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.co

[cctalk] Re: WTD: transputer multi-cpu isa card

ilicon* for the fabric interconnect. I wrote about it: https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/06/pi_pico_transputer_code/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 2776

[cctalk] Re: For Fred, especially: "Everything I know about floppy disks"

.. thanks for that. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: For Fred, especially: "Everything I know about floppy disks"

ut floppies on the planet. > > Fred, you will be paid with great admiration and appreciation. Sorry, all I > can offer. :-) > > Anyone with me? I second that motion. I defer to Fred's deference to others, but that notwithstanding, Mr Grumpy here has a knack for communicating with w

[cctalk] Re: For Fred, especially: "Everything I know about floppy disks"

s a Centronics port) and masked into a corner of the printer controller chip was a tiny bit of bootstrap code. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44

[cctalk] Re: For Fred, especially: "Everything I know about floppy disks"

think. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: For Fred, especially: "Everything I know about floppy disks"

lems we're in today, and while that happened under Clinton, the process _started_ under Ronnie. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wallstreet/weill/demise.html -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Linked

[cctalk] Re: For Fred, especially: "Everything I know about floppy disks"

his efforts to get into politics... maybe? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: For Fred, especially: "Everything I know about floppy disks"

On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 22:24, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > It's got some really good stuff, but some things that are awkward, > although few totally WRONG. [...] > Overall, a good start, for MOST aspects. That is high praise indeed, I think! :-) -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: http

[cctalk] For Fred, especially: "Everything I know about floppy disks"

of plastic and I wanted to write down what I've learned so far. » https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2023-08-28/ -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamprove

[cctalk] Re: NewtonOS

, that's different. FWIW I always buy them used, from these guys: https://webuy.com/ The company was founded by a friend of mine, sadly long dead now. > Liem, sorry about your forearm. Get well and keep writing ✍️ Thank you! -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@ci

[cctalk] Re: VCFMW vendor tables

0% agreement from this end. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: NewtonOS

te usable by comparison. Last year I played with a friends ReMarkable e-ink tablet, and I nearly wept. It is so utterly braindead by comparison. We have gone backwards, not forwards. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.co

[cctalk] Re: OT: Moon (Was: PDP-8/L $15,000

ur C. Clarke. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: SCO on Virtualbox

something you're happy with! I do actually have GhostBSD on a Thinkpad here. I personally wasn't very impressed by it, but I have got somewhat more used to real FreeBSD and do occasionally use that these days. But if you're happy with it, great! -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liampro

[cctalk] Re: SCO on Virtualbox

info: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/366048/xenix-sco-v-running-in-contemporary-machines-as-vms There are also quite a few Youtube video demos. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lpr

[cctalk] Re: Can't access

On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 at 01:10, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote: > > Dear sir; > > I can't access your site. Not sure why! It mat be due to the email > address I employ. Wrong email address, Murray? I am sure none of us have any idea what you're talking about... -- Liam P

[cctalk] Re: WTB XVR-4000

t's at max spec) » -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: Is the list broken again?

On Thu, 6 Jul 2023 at 15:42, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > I doubt this will go thru either but other attempts to send to the list are > now getting rejected as SPAM. Doesn't the list check addresses to see if > the poster is a member? I am hearing you loud and clear. --

[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

I copied the HDD onto an old SSD a friend gave me, and it was still in use til we left the country. Battery lasted a couple of hours, too. I'm currently working on Hackintoshing a newer laptop for my partner to use... -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk

[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

th. > Having it sent to me is inconvenient Nonsense. The bulk of commerce these days is mail order because it is *more* convenient. > Then there's the problem of keeping it going. Who said you had to? Nobody. But you said it was not of interest. If it fails, replace it. Problem solved

[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 23:40, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > On Fri, 19 May 2023, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > > I do remember that, because I carried around a USB key with an > > Thanks, everybody for the reminders of the Windoze history. ;-) > > I hereby forma

[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

OK, fair enough. I concede. I stand by the 95 stuff, though. 95/95A: FAT16 only, no USB. 95B: FAT32, USB, no IE4, no standard upgrade path. 95C: USB + IE4. 98 onwards: USB as standard; upgrades from 95 supported. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail

[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 13:42, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: > > On Fri, May 19, 2023, 4:36 AM Liam Proven via cctalk > wrote: > > > > > [3] Win98SE was, I _think_, maybe the first version to support USB _2_ > > and maybe the first version with USB key support as stan

[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

_not_ the 1st ver with USB 1 support. That was Win95 OSR2, a.k.a. Win95B, in about 1996. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884

[cctalk] Re: ST-251 Data Recovery for Glenside Color Computer Club (GCCC)

are DD formats that don't use the standardPC disk controller: Amiga disk, DD Mac disks, etc. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884

[cctalk] Re: The World Wide Web

is not > available. I kept a POTS modem around for years but after 2002 or so, it just didn't seem worth it. Even from 512kb/s, dropping an order of magnitude felt like not being online at all. By the time I was on a few megabits/sec I mothballed the dialup device. I haven't had a landline si

[cctalk] Re: The World Wide Web

follow the documentation and it works. https://www.eternal-september.org/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/

[cctalk] Re: Looking for datasheet of RTC M3001 ...

ers for the PC and the PS/2 Model 30. I guess that RTC was sourced differently later. » -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Cz

[cctalk] Re: Store with "vintage" computers and parts

On Thu, 9 Feb 2023 at 23:27, ben via cctalk wrote: > > I wish a custom clock made. A nixie tube alarm clock > with a real bell. Ben. Talk to Dalibor Farny: https://www.daliborfarny.com/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk

[cctalk] Re: Computer of Thesus (was: Re: Re: Computer Museum uses GreaseWeazle to help exonerate Maryland Man)

ad stuff I want to read later. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: Computer of Thesus (was: Re: Re: Computer Museum uses GreaseWeazle to help exonerate Maryland Man)

standard web client. If you use Yahoo or other Oath services, or any MS client, then point Thunderbird at it. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-08788

[cctalk] Re: Computer of Thesus (CRT Risk)

On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 21:26, Doc Shipley via cctalk wrote: > >This Subject: line is damaging my brain. It's such an old name, the 2nd E has worn right out of it. I mean it is the most commonly-used letter. It was always likely to fail first. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://ab

[cctalk] Re: the mouse vs. touch sensitive devices

exclusively while > browsing some very badly designed or heavily graphics loaded web sites). > > Thank you! Oh, well, great. I am very happy I was able to help! -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Linke

[cctalk] Re: in need of 2.5" disks

e to collect it, rather than shipping the 3 large boxes! -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: the mouse vs. touch sensitive devices

and I use LibreOffice and other tools. For now, I have the choice. But modern versions of Windows and Linux are removing menu bars, which are an old-people tool, and replacing them with icons and visual controls. For me, idiot lights, for idiots. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven E

[cctalk] Re: USB Attached 5.25" drives?

-external-5-25-usb-floppy-drive-vintagecomputing-ibmpc/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: Reading Old Floppies

-macos-monterey/ The forthcoming version 13 is anticipated to be a lot more complex than that. For my venerable Intel Macs, I have been known to just boot Ubuntu off a USB key and use Gparted to set up the partitions, then reboot off a macOS USB key and install onto the result. -- Liam Proven ~

[cctalk] Re: [SPAM] Re: what is on topic?

ed into long heavy workloads, so BeOS felt much massively quicker on turn-of-the-century PCs. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsA

[cctalk] Re: WTB: IBM 700/c

ed a NOS screen for a 700c, email me directly. No flim > flam on everyone's screen. The folks behind this site may help? https://www.701c.org/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: l

[cctalk] Re: [SPAM] Re: what is on topic?

ustralian Mac hacker Dana Silbera -- "nanoraptor" on Twitter -- got Mac OS X to boot on a 68040 Mac this way. EXTREMELY slowly, in the PearPC PowerPC emulator, compiled on 680x0 Linux, IIRC. It took 2 days to show the desktop or something. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/lia

[cctalk] Re: [SPAM] Re: what is on topic?

d it at the time of release. And it beat WfWg 3.11 by a significant margin, to everyone's amazement. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Teleg

[cctalk] Re: Beehive Topper help needed

st relates to the Topper II. I just searched for beehive topper "cp/m" and found dozens to hundreds of pages with links and downloads, but most referred to the Topper II. All I am saying is that it is out there but some Google Fu may be required. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.

[cctalk] Re: Beehive Topper help needed

On Sat, 5 Nov 2022 at 17:17, Harten via cctalk wrote: > > Hi folks! > > Is there anyone out there, who can help me with my Beehive Topper > CP/M machine? One of these? https://www.reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/comments/vud92z/weve_found_a_beehive_international_bee_1_or_b1_in/

[cctalk] Re: Disk imaging n00b

On Thu, 3 Nov 2022 at 23:52, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > Such as the classic Montezuma Micro CP/M for TRS80 Model 3, with "JOHN, > EAT SHIT AND DIE" in some sectors? ?! Do tell... -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ g

[cctalk] Re: Disk imaging n00b

odulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_frequency_modulation In ST-506 hard disks, MFM was supplemented by RLL, Run-length Limited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_limited -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com

[cctalk] Re: Does anyone have a copy of DAEMON Tools Ultra 4.x install file(s)?

y cut-down Win7) it is. I haven't got all my drivers and things working yet, though, and the Intel Poulsbo drivers seem to nix Windows' large fonts setting, and its tiny letterbox screen really needs that. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gT

[cctalk] Re: Does anyone have a copy of DAEMON Tools Ultra 4.x install file(s)?

On Sun, 30 Oct 2022 at 00:36, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > > Does anyone have a copy of DAEMON Tools Ultra 4.x install file(s)? Any use? http://www.oldversion.com/windows/daemon-tools/ I don't really use Windows any more here, so I haven't seen or tried this myself. -- Liam

[cctalk] Re: Apple G5 Rebuild

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 at 22:54, Doc Shipley via cctalk wrote: > > Liam, don't be a d**k. I am sorry. :-( I did not think that calling out a bogus claim was a nasty thing to do, but I sit corrected, and I apologise. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix

[cctalk] Re: Apple G5 Rebuild

by step guides etc. 4 words is not "Google-fu". -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Project Monterey booting in 2022

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2022/09/24/ibm-aix-for-ia64-itanium-aka-project-monterey-runs-again/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech

[cctalk] Re: i860 vs. i960 WAS Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

me > league as the i860. Yes, me too. This has come as a bit of a surprise to me in fact. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/

[cctalk] Re: Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

where the "NT" product name originated: https://web.archive.org/web/20110720042038/http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows-server/windows-server-2003-the-road-to-gold-part-one-the-early-years-127432 -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gM

[cctalk] Re: 9-pin mini-DIN serial?

ra.com/us/en/products/mobile-computers/handheld.html -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: Flipping an 8" diskette

On Thu, 1 Sept 2022 at 16:36, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > > Are they IBM preformatted? If so they could work in someone's RX01/RX02. Doesn't say so on the box. Thanks for all the info and clarification, folks! -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix

[cctalk] Flipping an 8" diskette

floppy floppies are before my time and I never used 'em. When they were on low-end American 8-bit home computers, this impecunious young Brit couldn't afford floppy drives at all. By the time I could, 5.25" DS/DD was the cheapest drive and cheapest media.) -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https:/

[cctalk] Re: "Revival" of a dedicated Micropolis webpage on internet

du/object/microcomputer-peripheral-shugart-sa400-disk-drive:nmah_334325 *Sigh* -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

[cctalk] Re: DECnet to be dropped from Linux

me 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. https://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/1996/5/96.05.01.x.html --

[cctalk] Re: DECnet to be dropped from Linux

On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 at 21:56, Wayne S via cctalk wrote: > > Does dropping Decnet mean the the commercial versions like Redhat and any > others that you pay support for will also lose Decnet? When they eventually upgrade to that or later versions of the kernel: yes. -- Liam Proven

[cctalk] DECnet to be dropped from Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DECnet-2022-Removal https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220731190646.97039-1-step...@networkplumber.org/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype

Re: Xerox 800 Word Processor 1974 promo film

bly roughly in my late 20s or early 30s. "To xerox" meaning "to make a photocopy" was something I learned around the same time. This is not a verb in British English, nor I think in any non-North-American dialects of English. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liampr

Lisp machine PCBs

to random keyboard collectors. I am looking for pointers to anywhere that I might find such LispM owners, and anyone who might be interested in the PCBs. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lprov

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