On Sat, 4 May 2024 at 17:28, Gianluca Bonetti via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I am helping Museo del Computer with this fundraising effort in order to
> save a large number of machines with significant historic value, including
> some Sperry Univac systems.
I shared the links on Vintage Computer Club on
On Fri, 3 May 2024 at 16:31, Gavin Scott via cctalk
wrote:
> It has 8,064 commodity CPUs, "E5-2697v4 (18-core, 2.3 GHz base
> frequency, Turbo up to 3.6GHz, 145W TDP)" which may still sell new
> (NOS?) for up to $2K each
Bad news...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235507916254
$47.99 each. Plus
On Fri, 3 May 2024 at 10:58, Gordon Henderson via cctalk
wrote:
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> The original Acorn Archimedes (First ARM CPU system) had an OS initially
> called "Arthur" which was written in BBC Basic and assembler. It supported
> a graphical user interface - later re-written in assembler and called
>
On Thu, 2 May 2024 at 20:51, Lee Courtney wrote:
> Too bad because the language itself lends itself to learning by anyone with
> an understanding of high school algebra.
You remind me -- and _not_ in a good way -- of the first day of my
undergrad 1st year statistics course at university. I did
On Thu, 2 May 2024 at 00:51, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
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> What would our world be like if the first home computers were to have had
> APL, instead of BASIC?
To be perfectly honest I think the home computer boom wouldn't have
happened, and it would have crashed and burned in the 1970s, with
On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 at 18:08, Mike Katz via cctalk
wrote:
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> Does anybody have any extra 720K (double sided, double density) 3.5"
> Floppy Disks that could use a good home?
>
> If so, please email me directly at bit...@12bitsbest.com.
In what country? That massively impacts many people's
On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 at 21:52, Sellam Abraham via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Seems like a hormonal problem.
No, there is a problem, but it's your knee-jerk reactions.
Sorry, man, but it is. Charlie's bang on. Also, he's very British and
very sarcastic, in that British way many Americans of my personal
On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 at 03:25, Tomasz Rola via cctalk
wrote:
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> Well, if you are into this kind of stuff (I am)... Stross is an s-f
> author, formerly a programmer (ages ago but I think it still shows -
> perhaps he secretly writes his own tools in Perl)
He wrote the Linux column in the UK
On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 at 13:31, Paul Koning wrote:
> Yes. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2321_Data_Cell . By the
> standards of the time it was an unusually high capacity storage device, way
> faster than a room full of tapes and much larger than the 2311 disk drive.
Fascinating.
On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 at 19:32, Van Snyder via cctalk
wrote:
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> An IBM salesman convinced them to try out a 360/30 with a Data Cell.
No idea what a "data cell" is.
I found this:
https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/data-cell
At the Eastercon last week, I met a chap who learned to code on
On Sun, 7 Apr 2024 at 20:43, Van Snyder via cctalk
wrote:
> I know the main focus of the list.
No, you don't, because then you say:
> The Vostro 1700 is almost old enough
> to be a semi-antique.
And it isn't.
> I don't know another list where people might know
> why the display flashes once
On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 at 00:47, Van Snyder via cctalk
wrote:
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> Both extremely helpful. Thanks.
This is mainly a list for pre-PC era kit. Windows PCs and 64-bit x86
kit are offtopic here, and most members, I suspect, regard them as
disposable office equipment with no more personality than a
On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 at 22:46, Diane Bruce via cctalk
wrote:
>
> sync;sync;sync
> power off
>
> I remember it well.
In my 1st journalist job, at PC Pro Magazine in 1995, I used that to
turn off a review SPARC portable. My new boss was delighted and
apparently, unbidden, I thereby proved my xNix
On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 at 14:50, Alexander Schreiber via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Reminds of something that happened at a previous job, where I was part
> of the small Unix team. We had bought an expensive pile of HP-UX related
> kit from HP and apparently also some HP consultant time for training
> on
On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 at 14:12, Murray McCullough via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I look back fondly on the IBM PC-XT of 41 years ago.
I think I briefly used one at university.
I wrote about it recently. Its startling price put the Apple Lisa,
launched the same year, into context:
«
The Lisa flopped partly
On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 at 09:33, Stefan Skoglund wrote:
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> Liam, TriPOS ?
>
> If i'm not wrong it was a OS developed in Cambridge (Cambridgeshire).
>
> Did someone port it to other arch than ARM ?
I am mystified.
This appeared in a thread about the VCF SoCal and apropos of nothing
with no quote.
On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 at 21:01, Marvin Johnston via cctalk
wrote:
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> Note to those people too lazy to update their subject line...
Oh come on, you can't say that and not quote properly.
For just me, I intentionally don't do it. For better or worse, Gmail
is the best webmail I know if, it does
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 19:15, mark audacity romberg via cctalk
wrote:
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> BBC BASIC is the best BASIC there ever was, and I feel sad for those who have
> never used it to see how powerful BASIC can be with proper structured
> programming. It’s honestly like a different language.
Strongly
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 19:05, Sellam Abraham via cctalk
wrote:
> Probably because Americans in Futtbuck, Idaho never heard of any British
> computers but Brits certainly knew about American computers, eh wot?
Oh, yes, naturally!
It is something of a national characteristic, though.
I had
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 18:35, Henry Bent via cctalk
wrote:
To answer a different part of the question that I missed first time around:
> As an American it's true that the vast majority of my vintage computer
> experience is completely americentric, but I'm aware that Acorn had a
> significant
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 18:52, Ali via cctalk wrote:
>
> That would be very interesting. I always thought Apricot made some beasts and
> remeber the cover of Byte for the first 486 system being an Apricot VX. I
> would love to see that machine in person.
I put one of those in.
First and only
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 18:35, Henry Bent via cctalk
wrote:
> Surely by this definition UNIX would take the crown? The "core of the OS"
> dates from 1969 and modern derivatives are everywhere.
Good point, but the OS I was referring to is RISC OS, *the* original
ARM OS and it has only ever run
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
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 14:23, Christopher Satterfield via cctalk
wrote:
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> I'm going to be presenting a (fine? idk) collection of British Computers.
> Dragging along at least an Acorn RiscPC 700, a Castle Iyonix, Sinclair
> Spectrum 48k and a Q68. Possibly static Apricot FP1/F1 if I can be
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 07:30, Andrew Diller via cctalk
wrote:
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> 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.
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 03:56, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
> Besides, most of us had solidified our wrong perspectives and incorrect
> beliefs and assumptiond long before Wikipedia came along.
Ha! Excellent. Well said.
As it happens I'm trying to do a quick retrospective for El Reg right
now,
My 1st contribution to the Register's "retro tech week" may amuse...
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/16/ql_legacy_at_40/
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IoM:
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.
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On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 at 21:18, brian--- via cctalk wrote:
>
> >
> > The one I haven't found yet is:
>
> f29bdg00.boo
>
>
> The Google suggests:
> http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Common_User_Access
> which has working links to f29al000.boo and f29bdg00.boo on IBM servers
Well spotted.
If I was
On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 at 22:06, David Schmidt via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I ran the Windows reader over the f29al000.boo file, and the results weren't
> as good as the ones that IBM printed out in 1992 as available on the Internet
> Archive; the main problems I can see is the lack of font support
On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 at 18:48, David Schmidt via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I have it running in a Windows NT VM, and it prints to PDF using BullZip
> just fine. Do you want to point to the library you want to convert, and
> I can run this over them?
Thank you!
I found one on the Internet Archive
Does anyone have any experience with the IBM BookManager format and the
tools to read it?
I've not found any way to open them on a Mac. No joy on Linux yet
either; there's an old unmaintained tool that uses a 32-bit Java app.
I found 2 Windows tools.
One, IBM Library Reader, won't install
On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 at 06:27, Mark Perullo via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Hey Steve
You're not talking to Steve, but a whole mailing list of hundreds of
people. The rest of us don't know which Steve you mean.
> I know this is a year later but I have the Nortronic Read Write heads you
> were looking
On Sat, 16 Sept 2023 at 01:45, Tony Jones via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Suggestions on what to look for welcomed.
Just FWIW there is now a bare-metal Transputer emulator for the
Raspberry Pi Pico which is accurate enough that you can interconnect
several Pi Picos *using the original INMOS silicon* for
On Sun, 10 Sept 2023 at 18:49, Peter Corlett via cctalk
wrote:
> One unusual and interesting thing about the Amstrad PCW is how it uses a
> display list system, unlike basically any other home computer of the era
> apart from the Atari 8-bits and the Amiga.
Fascinating... thanks for that.
--
On Sun, 10 Sept 2023 at 23:12, Will Cooke via cctalk
wrote:
> I make an official motion that Fred write his own "Everything I Know About
> Floppy Disks" page / book /encyclopedia.
>
> I suspect that what is inside his head is the greatest collection of
> knowledge about floppies on the planet.
On Sun, 10 Sept 2023 at 16:09, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
>
> UK readers are certainly
> familiar with 3.0 inch CF drives used on Amstrads.
Oh yes indeed. I think I have, in my basement in Prague, two Amstrad
PCW 9512 machines, an original 9512 (1987, one 3" drive) and a 9512+
(1991, one 3.5"
On Sun, 10 Sept 2023 at 15:16, Jay Logue via cctalk
wrote:
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> Has anyone reached out with corrections?
Yes, me. I pointed him at Fred's response, he was very pleased, and
he's updated it. (I can't see much difference but I am not so expert
as Mr Cisin at this stuff. There's a revision history
On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 22:53, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> When Ronald Reagan got into politics, I wrote him a postcard pleading him
> NOT TO. I said, "Hollywood needs you."
It's a real shame that didn't work.
AIUI the repeal of Glass-Steagal caused a lot of the problems we're in
today,
On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 22:41, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
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> He has an "About Me" page,and even his CV, but goes to some effort to
> avoid stating his NAME! (Jonathan Pallant)
I noticed that, too. I think it's [a] the modern internet way, and [2]
may be connected with his efforts to get into
On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 22:24, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
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> 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! :-)
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Everything I know about floppy disks
2023-08-28
Floppy disk drives are curious things. We know them as the slots that
ingest those small almost-square plastic "floppy disks" and we only
really see them now in Computer Museums. But there's a lot going on in
that humble square of plastic and
On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 19:23, Wayne S wrote:
>
> I have an ipad 3 and it was absolutely great. Everything worked well on it
> until apple made IOS 10 which doesn’t run on it. Then, gradually, some
> apps, like Amazon Prime TV, were upgraded to use 10 and above and simply
> stopped working.
On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 17:25, Seth Morabito via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I swear to God, Discord will be the end of the open Internet, it's where
> information goes to die. I hate it with every fiber of my being. And yes, I
> use it, I'm on many servers. I'm still allowed to detest it.
100% agreement
On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 02:59, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
>
> I used a newton and still have it a box.
I have 2 of them myself.
> It was heavy and very slow. Graffiti didn’t work very well either.
The OMP was.
I later bought a Newton 2100 and it's a very different beast. It's
quite usable by
On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 01:29, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Then, one of the Sci-Fi magazines [...] in which the capsule settled down
> onto the moon, and
> immediately sank irrevocably below kilometer thick layer of dust.
I am strongly reminded of _A Fall of Moondust_ by Arthur C. Clarke.
On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 01:05, KenUnix via cctalk wrote:
>
> I have been experimenting with GhostBSD 64bit. It runs quite well under
> Virtualbox
Sorry for the very slow reply... Work is burying me, and I am somewhat
crippled due to a pulverised right forearm.
I am glad you've found something
On Thu, 3 Aug 2023 at 19:21, KenUnix via cctalk wrote:
>
> Has anyone got SCO Unix to successfully install and run on Virtualbox?
>
> My efforts have failed. My host is Ubuntu 22.04 with Virtualbox 7.0.10.
No, but I have read that it is doable, with a very constrained VM.
Some more info:
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...
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On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 at 10:03, silcreval via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I recently dug out my V880 and all seems to be working brilliantly. I've
> always liked these machines and it would be nice to upgrade this to the V880z
> spec, ie by adding the mighty
> XVR-4000 graphics module.
I had no idea what
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.
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On Tue, 30 May 2023 at 19:56, Jeff Woolsey via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I'm also amazed that I can put together a still reasonably impressive
> 14-year-old MacBook Pro for < $100. That's $40 for the empty laptop
> as-is at a flea market, ~$15 for 8GB RAM, ~$45 for 960GB SSD. I lucked
> out in that
On Mon, 22 May 2023 at 10:40, Tony Duell wrote:
>
> I am sorry, but I think this is a stupid suggestion for many reasons.
I forgot whom I was dealing with.
>
> I am not sure I
> would want to trust something from an unknown seller on the web.
That is unreasonable, IMHO, but it is on-brand.
>
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
On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 17:00, Glen Slick via cctalk
wrote:
>
> The Intel Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) specification revision
> 1.0 is dated March 12, 2002, almost 2 years after Windows Me RTM.
>
> Windows XP SP1 was released on September 9, 2002, which was the first time
> Microsoft
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
On Thu, 18 May 2023 at 20:10, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> a 386 desktop running Win98SE (first version to support USB)
Hang on a minute.
[1] Win98 on a 386? Really? It might work but it will be horribly horribly slow.
Win95 was just barely usable on a 386; I benchmarked it at release.
On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 05:29, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Have they stopped making ones that include 720K?
I have 2 USB floppy drives and have successfully read 720 kB disks
with them, and also MacOS 1.4 MB disks.
I think they should also write 720 kB disks.
What they won't handle are DD
On Fri, 5 May 2023 at 21:26, Mike Stein via cctalk
wrote:
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> No doubt many folks do have a need for speed but FWIW I get by fine with 6
> Mbps D/L speed, streaming Youtube and local cable channels, browsing the
> web, email & fora, etc.;
... wow.
I had 500Mb/s for ~CzK 1000/mth in Prague.
On Thu, 4 May 2023 at 18:49, Johan Helsingius via cctalk
wrote:
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> Unfortunately my local ISP doesn't run a server any more. :(
I use Eternal September, via Thunderbird. Works very well.
Password requirements are annoying, and the initial setup is very
non-intuitive, but follow the
On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 17:41, Bernd Kopriva via cctalk
wrote:
> Does anyone have a pointer to the datasheet ?
A comment on book said:
«
For me, 'National Semiconductor' and 'RTC' together mean their own
design of the MM58167 that was used on the AST multi-I/O and memory
expansion adapters
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/
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On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 13:14, Chris via cctalk wrote:
>
> I take pains to clearly differentiate what I'm saying from what I'm quoting
> (and usually on a phone). All the while I have to struggle readimg others
> mish mosh, often there not even being a single line separating the 2. So
> please
On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 at 08:09, Christian Corti via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Chris, can you *please* correctly indent and cite messages you are
> referring to? I am getting annoyed by guessing what part is from whom.
Agreed.
It's dead easy if you're using Gmail. I am doing it right now in the
standard
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.
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 at 21:59, Angel M Alganza via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Well, nobody teaches that... At least, nobody has taught me that, nor
> have I ever seen anybody do that.
In the early days, Apple did when it first introduced them, and some
of the 1st PC laptops with them played little
On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 at 20:38, Angel M Alganza via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On 2023-01-23 20:59, Adrian Godwin via cctalk wrote:
> > There was the Amstrad floppy. I think it was 3". Hopefully didn't get
> > out
> > of the UK.
>
> Why would you say such a thing? Of course it got out of the UK and came
>
On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 at 00:00, Ali via cctalk wrote:
>
> I am the exact opposite. I love my track point.
Agreed.
Trackpads are tolerable, but I preferred the era of trackballs. But if
my laptop is on my actual lap, I turn off the trackpad and just use
the trackpoint. Easier, less arm and hand
On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 at 19:52, Zane Healy via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I’m now aware of the GreaseWeazle, but what I’ve not seen is if it allows
> standard access to the data on a floppy, or only provides a way to image the
> disk. With an USB attached 3.5” floppy the disk mounts on my Mac, and I can
On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 at 17:02, Doc Shipley via cctalk
wrote:
>
>Short version is that the GUI Disk Utility hides too much of what
> it's doing AND, more to the point, makes assumptions by default. Yes,
> it's possible to override the default but after [holy crap!] 2 decades
> of using it I
On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 at 03:45, Ethan Dicks via cctalk
wrote:
> I have a memory of installing Windows 95 on a monochrome 386SX laptop
> w/4MB of RAM in August, 1995 at McMurdo because that's the equipment
> we had on hand when Win95 arrived on the continent. It was
> unpleasantly slow but it did
On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 at 06:05, skogkatt007--- via cctalk
wrote:
>
> preferably working. Or known screen issues but otherwise working.
> the mono version intrigues me (model 700). But I need a color unit to test
> out all these screens I have sitting here.
> Now if anyone should need a NOS screen
On Fri, 23 Dec 2022 at 07:54, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
> Well, if you want to pedantic about it, you certainly could emulate a
> 32-bit processor on any reasonably Turing-equivalent processor, given
> sufficient memory. It might be incredibly slow, but you could do it.
Noted Australian
On Thu, 22 Dec 2022 at 23:41, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
> > You've apparently never heard of Tony Duell: last I read he was running
> > Windows 98 on an IBM PC/XT or something like that :)
Linux on a heavily-upgraded PC-AT with a '386
On Sun, 6 Nov 2022 at 00:05, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
> >
> > One of these?
> >
> > https://www.reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/comments/vud92z/weve_found_a_beehive_international_bee_1_or_b1_in/
>
> Isn't that just a B1 terminal?
>
> http://bitsavers.org/pdf/beehive/ads/Beehive_Micro_B1.jpg
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/
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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...
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On Thu, 3 Nov 2022 at 23:47, Grant Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Please expand "GCR".
Group-coded recording.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_coded_recording
Specifically:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_coded_recording#Apple
As opposed to Modified Frequency Modulation:
On Sun, 30 Oct 2022 at 17:01, Grant Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I will give that a try.
>
> Thank you for the pointer.
I hope it helps. There seem to be multiple versions there.
> I'm also exchanging emails with DAEMON Tools support. They /are/
> responding and /trying/ to help. Sadly XP is
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.
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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.
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On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 at 08:20, Kevin Parker via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Problem is my GoogleFoo can't find any diagrams, illustrations etc on how
> the internals are put together
What? I am *amazed*. I don't know how you could _not_ find the info.
There is loads of it.
This is the first hit on "apple
https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2022/09/24/ibm-aix-for-ia64-itanium-aka-project-monterey-runs-again/
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On Sat, 24 Sept 2022 at 05:50, Ali via cctalk wrote:
>
> I always thought the i960 was an upgrade to the i860 (sort of like i386 to
> i486 upgrade). However, based on the info on wiki it seems as if the i960
> actually came first and although a RISC chip it was in no way in the same
> league
On Fri, 23 Sept 2022 at 23:57, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
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> I believe (I'll have to check) that in the Osborne-McGraw-Hill/Intel
> i860 book there's a quote from BillG saying that Microsoft was committed
> to developing for the 860 as a personal computer CPU.
>
> I think that never
On Fri, 16 Sept 2022 at 21:37, Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk
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> Psion bought my former employer, Teklogix, Inc., of Mississauga, ON., to
> provide early wireless connectivity for industrial warehouse and
> inventory control.
And Zebra bought Psion Teklogix:
On Thu, 1 Sept 2022 at 16:36, Chris Zach via cctalk
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> 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!
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Someone on Fesse Bouc just found a sealed box of SS/SD 8" floppies in
their garage.
Most FB types are too young to know 8" disks existed, of course.
Someone suggested punching a notch in them and using both sides.
Was that even possible on 8" disks?
(TBH single-sided actually-floppy floppies
On Tue, 16 Aug 2022 at 23:51, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> 1) because they need to keep reinforcing until the very last SA400 is
> buried.
>
> 2) It became the recognizable indicator for which disks were which,
> especially for those who wouldn't read the label.
> With a hib-ring is prob'ly a
On Sun, 7 Aug 2022 at 00:02, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> People who have never actually tried doing it constantly claim that you
> can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
:-D I see what you did there.
Depends on the flies, of course. I discovered it by accident. I'm a
Brit (and
On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 at 21:56, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
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> 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.
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On Sun, 10 Jul 2022 at 10:10, Christian Corti via cctalk
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> Actually I knew them only as Rank Xerox many years ago, when they were
> commonly known as office suppliers, e.g. photo copiers and printers.
Ditto.
I think this may be another of those US/rest-of-world things.
To this Brit,
A chap I know -- not on the list -- has some old LispM bits that he
would like to find good homes for.
Quote:
«
LISP Machine boards - attached are a couple of pictures of the two
sizes of boards we have. The smaller boards are two ESDI "paddles" and
two console boards. The larger boards are six
On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 at 19:11, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
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> Back in the 90s, we bought these things by the carton, modified them to
> work with Japanese DOS 2.0 format (PC98) 3.5" floppies, rewrote the
> drivers, added a VxD for Win3.1 compatibility and sold a bunch of them.
> Popular with
On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 at 13:44, Liam Proven wrote:
> 5¼":
> https://www.amazon.com/MICRO-SOLUTION-1-44MB-Backpack-Parallel/dp/B512MS
Oops, sorry, badly-chosen link. Both of those are, of course, 3½
drives. The company *did* also offer 5¼" units, though, as did
others...
On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 at 01:48, Charles Dickman via cctalk
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> Were there ever any floppy controllers for the (parallel) PCI bus?
Floppy *controllers*, no. Floppy *drives*, yes.
The Backpack range were the most well-known, I'd say.
e.g.
5¼":
On Wed, 13 Apr 2022 at 03:42, Ryan Eisworth via cctalk
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> Hi folks,
>
> I'm looking for a keyboard and mouse for a Mega ST. Please contact me if you
> have either available. I'm in Texas, USA, 77833.
I have a keyboard. Possible snag: I live in Prague, Czechia.
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On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 at 00:34, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
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> And, as you say, an Arduino or a Pi that fits in my pocket is orders
> of magnitude more powerful and costs pocket money.
The comparisons of size, power, storage, cost, power usage, heat
output and so on are often made.
What is
On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 at 22:38, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
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> I could do it, but I'm a little squeezed for time and energy right now.
>
> Spending my mornings under the LINAC.
Oh no. :-( Very sorry to hear that. I hope it's worth it and it works!
(So far they've got 'em all early, but had
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