On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 17:50, Liam Proven wrote:
> So I resubbed online and now I get it again. providing that warm
> comforting sensation of intellects vast and cool, as immeasurably
> superior to my own as mine is to that of the transient creatures that
> swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 17:44, Gavin Scott via cctalk
wrote:
>
> APL is still a going concern in a few places
Oh, definitely. I subscribed to the British APL Association's
newsletter from an advert in UK magazine PCW in the 1980s and
continued to get its publication, _Vector_, for over 20Y.
On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 17:21, Nemo Nusquam via cctalk
wrote:
>
> In 1999, a fellow student in a UML course worked for a large information
> company (Reuters, I think?) and told me that they had embarked on an
> expensive s/w conversion project. Their back-end systems were
> implemented in APL
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 17:42, Bill Degnan wrote:
>
> Agreed.
>
> A fully provisioned IBM PC / XT in 1981-4 was pretty expensive too, that's
> why 8-bit machines continued to sell well into the later 80's. 16-bit was
> overkill for most home needs. Apple would not have survived the 80's
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 15:35, emanuel stiebler wrote:
>
> I guess we have to be careful, comparing machines & CPUs.
> 68000 came out as a CPU in 1980/1981 (available on the market (?))
>
> You're comparing it to a ARM2 machine of 1987, where Motorola had the
> newer 68020, and 68030 by than ...
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 03:07, jwest--- via cctalk wrote:
>
> (not to be confused with the other APE, for Atari)?
There's also an Apricot emulator by that name:
https://ai.ansible.uk/ape.html
from
https://ai.ansible.uk/freebies.html
Plan 9 has an APE too...
On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 03:53, Boris Gimbarzevsky wrote:
>
> Ran into 68000 processor for
> first time in 1986 when my father bought a 512 K
> Mac and couldn't believe performance of this CPU
It is odd. I had read of it, of course, but for me the revelation was
getting an Acorn Archimedes in
This may be old news -- it was new to me, though.
https://suddendisruption.blogspot.com/search/label/Booting%20Sage%20Computer
I'm not really familiar with SAGE machines. They were not as
well-known in the UK, I think, being upmarket from the Apple ][ and
IBM PC, both of which were
On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 at 00:29, Nemo Nusquam via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Thank you both for your information but I am still mystified as to why
> Gmail marks Google alerts (from Google!) as spam.
That is particularly amusing/irritating, yes.
I have 3 or 4 connected accounts -- AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 at 23:50, Bill Degnan wrote:
>
> Liam,
> As I said I can set up a filter but that does not really solve the problem it
> compensates for it in the cctalk world only.
OK, that's fair. If I stuck a finger in the air and guesstimated, I'd
say about 95% of my email is filtered,
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 at 23:12, Bill Degnan via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have noticed the same email addresses' messages routinely end up in the
> spam folder of gmail.
I have 2 nested folders (labels/tags/whatever) in Gmail:
classiccmp/talk and classiccmp/tech. In my rule which filters messages
On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 21:23, geneb wrote:
>
> Hopefully Cancel Moose can return too. :)
http://cm.org/
...?
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On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 17:46, Jon Elson via cctalk
wrote:
> Do it yourself HEART surgery??!!?? Yikes!
As close as I've heard of:
(1 b pic but not for the squeamish)
https://web.archive.org/web/20121107053510/http://www.doctorross.co.za/antarctica/self-operation-tracking-down-a-good-story
On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 18:20, geneb wrote:
>
>
> That would be glorious. :)
Looks like it's happened.
https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Board_members
https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSLO/program/proposals/3028
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On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 17:12, Peter Coghlan via cctalk
wrote:
>
> What's Livejournal?
:-o
It was one of the first free blogging sites, before WordPress or
Blogger or the like. It has a number of forks, one of which is extant
and alive: Dreamwidth. It's the site that memcached was written for.
On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 21:31, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Other than "Buy It Now" I have pretty much given up on
> ebay. Never had luck selling anything and very seldom
> had any luck winning a bid. Got better ways to waste
> my time.
If you _really_ want something that is _not_ BIN,
On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 01:02, Mark J. Blair via cctalk
wrote:
>
> USENET is still around. But much like the rest of the infinite groups, it's
> not where everybody is. Sigh.
True. In fact a colleague of mine at $DAYJOB is trying to resurrect
the Big 8 committee and get some active management
On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 20:09, Johan Helsingius via cctalk
wrote:
>
> This is one of the reasons why I miss good old USENET - with a public list
> of groups, and a clear hierarchy.
I was thinking exactly the same thing.
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On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 10:35, Johan Helsingius via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Seems to be the usual FB problem - too many similar groups. :)
How do you mean? Has it already appeared in some I'm not in?
It's nothing new. 15y ago or something, there were umpteen Communities
on Livejournal for any
On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 22:52, Don Stalkowski via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I'm listing this stuff just in case someone is desperate for
> any of it.
Would you like me to post these lists on the Facebook vintage-computer
collectors' groups for you, Don?
I can suitably anonymise your email, if you
Does anyone know anything much about this early desktop computer and its OS?
Example:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Perkin-Elmer-3600-PETOS-Like-Microsoft-BASIC-Computer-6800-CPU-Works-/303540134722
Although it predated the PC, MS supplied the BASIC and apparently the
CLI resembles early DOS.
I ask
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 12:28, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>
> Well, I guess for some anything that does not require you to toggle in
> the boot loader or doesn't have a teletype console terminal is surely too
> modern to even consider.
:-D
One of the things I enjoy about this group is that some of
https://www.ebay.de/itm/254795423667
€1
«
LISP MACHINE INC 1/2" Reel Tapes
Anyone who opens this auction will know what this is - and how unique
these tapes are.
The lot is consisting of 13 tapes, which are labeled as follows:
LMI FORTRAN 77 #1352- LMI Release 2.0 two tapes
LMI Boot / SDU
On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 22:36, Van Snyder via cctalk
wrote:
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> I found a box of 45 Atari ST diskettes in my basement, from my 1980's
> 520 ST (or maybe my brother's 1040 ST).
>
> I don't have a floppy drive, so I can't tell whether they're readable.
>
> Some are originals, for example for 1St
On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 at 23:33, keith--- via cctalk wrote:
>
> Hi Liam,
>
> As stated in my OP, I was using Windows 10 and USB adapters.
*Goes back and re-reads*
Ah, OK. I did not follow before.
I think Windows is a really poor choice for this. Worse, it might have
tried to mount the filesystem
On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 01:32, keith--- via cctalk wrote:
> I have tried to copy it to an industrial CF
> card but no luck. I have used Rufus, Active Disk Image, and Macrium
> Reflect.
First question: how did you try to copy it?
You've not given us anywhere near enough info to try to
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 at 13:19, Doug Jackson via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Have you considered asking them what they are doing?
As my only offspring is only 1y old, [a] I'm not too worried and [b]
it would elicit no coherent response. However I've been doing my
research and I am given to believe that
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 17:58, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> As an American, I think Hugh Laurie and Bob Hoskins have quite
> acceptable American accents
AIUI, most people do. I think it's just to their countrymen that they
sound artificial.
> as does Jamie Bamber (Lee "Apollo" Adama
> in Battlestar
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 21:20, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> And the machines that Calcomp made (570, etc.) were called "plodders"
I am well-used to that one; I think all Brits are, from TV and cinema.
(Aside: it is amusing to me, at least, that some British actors
succeeded in Hollywood or
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 17:15, Diane Bruce wrote:
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> My expat FIL was from Lancs. Good part is I learned how to make a decent pot
> of tea. The bad is, I couldn't understand him half the time.
Being from Lancashire myself, I can't see the problem, but the rest of
the UK regards us as
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 04:21, Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On Nov 17, 2020, at 7:03 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk
> mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
>
> Argh! I was not posting to the list that I thought I was. I apologise
> for using that nickname. :-(
>
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 02:53, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Most of us "merkens" haven't truly mastered one language.
I was very surprised to discover a couple of years ago that many in
the USA pronounce "squirrel" as "skwerl". My surprise was subsequently
pushed to its limits when I
On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 15:36, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
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> Most "Merikens" just let the bank do the conversion when they buy
> from overseas.
Argh! I was not posting to the list that I thought I was. I apologise
for using that nickname. :-(
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On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 10:26, Peter Corlett via cctalk
wrote:
> Five MyBooks bought 18 months ago had debranded He8 disks in there: very nice.
> The three Elements a few months back have (non-SMR) WD Reds in them, which is
> OK. Three more are supposedly turning up tomorrow.
Oh blast, I wish I
On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 19:27, Angel M Alganza via cctalk
wrote:
> Most of them, yes. Then there is K-9 mail for Android,
> which almost makes me to not miss Mutt, when using the phone.
Which is what I proposed in the first reply, complete with links.
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On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 11:31, Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk
wrote:
>
> That is like asking how do you fix Windows/10 MAIL app. It’s the default, it
> sends and receives mail. If you want something that works better and gives
> you control then you switch to a supported app.
> There is also Outlook
On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 00:44, Ali via cctalk wrote:
> Any
> ideas/suggestions? TIA!
https://k9mail.app/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fsck.k9=en=US
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On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 21:41, ben via cctalk wrote:
>
> Is the Author find able? Do he still have 8" floppies?
Dude. Really. Pay attention. The author has been posting in this thread.
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On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 22:48, Grant Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On 10/15/20 2:32 PM, Kevin Lee wrote:
> > Link for the prodigy work please? Seems interesting..
>
> Sorry, I don't have a link per say.
That's _per se_, BTW. Latin. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/per_se
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On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 22:28, Adam Thornton via cctalk
wrote:
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> I agree that whether a student learns has much more to do with the student
> than what in particular they're studying.
>
> I quit my undergraduate physics degree when I had a moment of clarity that
> even if I managed to squeak
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 01:08, Van Snyder wrote:
> I'll send it for a PDF of a shipping label for a 20" x 10" x 10" 10lb box,
> your choice of carrier.
That is a very kind offer and I appreciate your generosity, but I
think perhaps you mistake what I was trying to say.
It's too old to be of
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 00:19, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Do you want the degree?
> Or do you want to LEARN?
Fair!
Both.
> Take a course in your limited "spare time".
> Then another.
> and another
>
> I did grad school (UC Berkeley) while teaching full time plus running a
> business, and
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 at 21:51, Van Snyder via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I have a Maynard MaynStream tape backup unit from the 1980's.
>
> It uses audio-format cassettes with 1/4" tape, but it's a different
> tape composition, and the cassette has a notch in it to tell the device
> it's not just plain
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 at 21:17, Paul Koning via cctalk
wrote:
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> It depends. In sciences, people understand that it's a lot of work. In what
> Robert Heinlein called the "fuzzy subjects", you can often be a party animal
> who does very little real work and get a degree anyway. If so, it
On Sat, 3 Oct 2020 at 18:14, Jonathan Haddox via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I'm researching Multiuser DOS out of my own interest. A version made by
> Concurrent Controls specifically. However, I have been unable to find
> documentation on it to satisfy my curiosity on how it works and how it is
>
On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 19:20, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
wrote:
>
> (For those are are not familiar with Mini-Unix and LSX, they are both V6 Unix
> variants lobotomized to run on PDP-11's without memory management:
Aha!
Like this?
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/03/its-unix-on-a-microcontroller/
On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 00:58, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
wrote:
>
> No, it looks like it uses a different fie-system layout.
>
> Besides; there's not much point: the big adantage of using V6 is that one can
> use the V6 tool-chain to prepare Mini-Unix binaries; XV6 wouldn't allow
> that. If all one
On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 at 23:35, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
wrote:
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> Good basic idea (using a different system to build on), but there's a
> better/easier approach (in the same basic vein): bring up V6, and mount the RK
> pack with Mini-Unix on it (it's a V6 file system, so is mountable); V6 is rock
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 18:56, Jules Richardson via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On 9/8/20 6:04 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> > Date and time of Command.com and any other DOS files will identify the
> > version number.
Only after DOS 5 or so, I fear.
> I've got 11/26/85 on command.com.
>
> > DIR /A or
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 06:34, Grant Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On 9/8/20 7:18 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> > I haven't tested that specific ISO.
>
> The particular ISO that you linked to is Novell NetWare 5.1 (Support
> Pack 0). So it needs support packs installed on it.
But that's
On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 06:47, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
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> 1) If the drive is larger than 32MB, then boot with DOs 3.31 or newer.
> Although even with the older ones, you can still do quite a bit. 3.31 is
> the first where DOS supports a partition larger than 32MB
> MS-DOS 5.00 is first where
On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 08:18, Grant Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any idea where I can get install media at various
> support pack levels and / or support pack install files for NetWare 5.1
> and / or BorderManager 3.5?
Something like this any help?
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 at 11:02, Stefan Skoglund via cctalk
wrote:
> Textilmuseet (textiles and clothes museum in Borås, Sweden) have a
> number of items which was haute couture in the 70s and 80s. Some of
> them was done in a plastic which today is basically an awful mess...
>
> And so they are
On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 at 15:09, Paul Koning via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Unfortunately access to the pictures is restricted, silly of them.
Agreed but this is normal for VCFED. I do have an account but I've not
used it in years -- the forums are a bit too US-centric for me, and I
hate web fora in general.
On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 at 08:24, Mattis Lind via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I have been working on a project for some time to connect a IBM3270
> compatible Alfaskop terminal with its IBM 3274 compatible cluster
> controller to the Hercules mainframe emulator.
>
> Yesterday I eventually succeeded. I was able
On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 at 15:33, Tom Hunter via cctalk
wrote:
> About 70% of the PCB had solder joints that were nice and shiny like brand
> new. The remaining section near the front of the drive was quite badly
> corroded and it also looked like there was some liquid spilled over that
> section of
On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 at 18:07, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
wrote:
>
> After having a run of almost half a dozen IDE hard drive failures recently in
> a short period of time (on my older desktops which use them, I've decided that
> I should see if there's an IDE emulator (using SD cards)
SD (and the
On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 15:10, Bill Degnan wrote:
>
> I remember when the IBM XT was too new for a VCF exhibit, back when Sellam
> ran shows.
I can believe that.
I gutted 2 original working PC-ATs in about 1996 for cases for
Pentium-class machines. I deeply regret it now but it was 25y ago --
I found this blog post quite interesting. I've left what I hope is an
informative, helpful comment. I wonder if anyone else here would have
more to add?
https://www.forsure.dev/-/2020/05/19/640-kilobytes-of-ram-and-why-i-bought-an-ibm-5160/
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On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 09:43, Tom Hunter via cctalk
wrote:
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> Has SIMH been ported to a low overhead (instant-on) platform?
>
> I ask the question because the startup time of Linux is distracting when
> powering on a PiDP-11/70 or similar clone systems based on SIMH.
Not that I know of.
I have
On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 08:36, Boris Gimbarzevsky via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Was about to toss a 1987 box containing DOS 3.3 but then figured
> someone might want it. Have a couple of XT systems kicking around
> somewhere
A chap on the FB Vintage Computing group was seriously asking if an
original
On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 14:09, Chris Zach via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Funny story about that: In 1990 I installed a Compaq systempro for
> Hechinger's that cost over $100,000.
I just about remember the SystemPro machines. One of my bigger clients
in my first job got one, but they hired a full-time guy
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 at 22:09, Ali via cctalk wrote:
>
> > There is no good use case for them in 2020, which is why they're all
> > suddenly
> > quite cheap.
>
> Peter,
>
> Why do you say that? Not disagreeing per se but just wondering the reasoning
> behind it.
Happily for me I don't do stuff
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 18:14, Alessandro Mazzini via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Flebay is quite overpriced, sadly ( personal opinion anyway, from the point
> of view of someone that's now looking at finding a thing since months and is
> fixated about a real price vs an enflated one
I often hear comments
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 04:08, STAN IRWIN via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I recently found an IBM System/36 5360 for sale, with 5251 Terminal and
> Keyboard. System is supposed to be in good running condition, taken out of
> service in September 2019, single owner. Asking price seems to be about 10k
>
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 17:05, Johan Helsingius via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Thanks - good hint. I was a bit surprised to see the prices people are asking
> on fleabay.
I think I sold my last 2 or 3 before I emigrated for circa €50 each.
5.25" HD floppy drives went for more than that.
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On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 at 22:19, Johan Helsingius via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I have a box full of Compaq SCSI server disk caddies (with 9.1G disks in
> them). Feels silly to dump them into e-waste recycling, but there
> probably isn't much point in shipping them very far either (I am in
>
On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 at 22:55, Richard Pope via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Will,
> Ultimate Zip is showing that the file is empty. Hum! I have been
> using Ultimate Zip for decades. Hum! I wounder what is going on!
I've never even heard of this tool before. I looked it up, and
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 at 02:30, W2HX via cctech wrote:
>
> Could it be related to the fact that it is a 2GB SD card and I believe IDE
> controllers of that day could only address something like 500MB?
It could well be, yes.
> Should I consider trying to partition the SD card into a 500MB
On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 17:36, Peter Corlett via cctalk
wrote:
> There are *no* "modern" newsreaders,
> apart from the occasional kitchen-sink monstrosity which does nothing well.)
There was...
https://panic.com/blog/the-future-of-unison/
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On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 07:27, Stan Sieler via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Back in 2017, I posted something about seeing a possible first-ever
> reference to the idea of 3-D printing in a 1951 issue of Galaxy Science
> Fiction magazine.
>
> I stumbled over an even earlier one tonight...
>
> The
On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 11:10, ED SHARPE via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Dave -- I suppose the solve is to write it out long hand as in
> One Dollar One Cent One Pound...
Dear hypothetical deities, no. That causes problems with translation,
people not knowing the name of another country's
On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 10:42, Dave Wade via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I wrote this as one dollar => $1.00
Dollar symbol, one
> This as one pound => $1
Dollar symbol, 1
> And this as one euro => €1
Euro symbol, one
> Lastly one cent => ¢1
Cent symbol, one
Fascinating.
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On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 19:04, ED SHARPE via cctalk
wrote:
> I do not know, anyone using a text only mail reader anymore!
Several of my colleagues at a Prominent German Linux Distributor use
Mutt/Neomutt. I don't, I am on Thunderbird and rather like it.
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On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 02:15, Tomasz Rola via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I would say that was cool.
Me too! :-)
> I guess so, too. Connecting Amiga to plasma was probably the least
> hassle of all alternatives. PC would need something special (either
> card or converter?), and a hard drive, and a big
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 21:59, Bill Degnan wrote:
>
> Liam,
> I rescued a Linotype and gave it to Bob Roswell for his museum in Hunt
> Valley, MD USA...should you ever be in the Washington/Baltimore area.
> Syssrc.com is the URL and the museum is housed within their consulting and
> training
On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 21:29, Fred Cisin wrote:
>
> Q: Is that link adequate to unambiguously identify any specific location
> within any sub-atomic particle in the universe? (such as far more
> detail than is required for the PHYSICAL LOCATION of the start of the file??)
It's simple. All we
https://archive.org/details/FarewellEtaoinShrdlu
28min documentary on the last ever edition of the NY Times to be
printed using hot metal -- before they switched to what are now a
quite choice assortment of late-'70s minicomputers. I think I spotted
a PDP, a Data General and some IBM device, but
On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 16:51, Peter Van Peborgh via cctech
wrote:
>
> Guys,
>
> I have acquired this board and have trouble assigning it to a particular
> computer manufacturer and type:
>
> https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/byRPH3wCR2aqxGX9U8BZfFTT_XtF7QCKSyVXoNmGIk
>
On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 15:25, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk
wrote:
>
> > Actually, Al was hired as an Apple Fellow in 1985. His first project was
> > "Trojan" a 68000 mac on an ISA card that mixed EGA and square pixel Mac
> > video. I was the Mac-side programmer on the project. Marketing killed it
> >
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 20:31, ben via cctalk wrote:
>
> And soon another version of something so marketing has new something
> to make you buy a new version hardware and software.The problem was with
> Amiga it was designed as 'game box' rather than a computer. (Nowdays you
> phone is PC and the
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 19:51, Tomasz Rola via cctalk
wrote:
>
> From time to time I behave like a normal human and, for example, zip
> channels on my cable tv. Few years ago, while stopping at their "see
> what we have on offer to you, prospective viewer" kind of channel, it
> cracked open and I
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 14:45, David Brownlee wrote:
>
> The big issue with the Hydra was its lack of cache coherency between
> processors, which made conventional SMP somewhat... challenging. You
> could do very cool multiprocessor stuff with it, just not in a
> conventional SMP capable OS (I
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 13:41, Jules Richardson via cctalk
wrote:
>
> The 4000T that I have was built in May of '96, and it amazes me that there
> was any kind of market for it in light of how widespread PCs on the desktop
> had become by that time.
Agreed.
VideoToasters might have been the main
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 09:52, Ethan Dicks via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I'd say the Amiga really lost its shine around 20 years ago, about the
> time Linux was getting serious and Windows 98 dominated the desktop.
Unfortunately, yes, I think you're right.
Ditto the Acorn RISC OS platform -- I know,
On Sat, 23 May 2020 at 03:52, Richard Cini via cctalk
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> You know, reading about this made me dig out the info I had on the Character
> Oriented Windows ("COW") library. I was reading some of the docs and it
> occurred to me that it operated much like Windows (probably Windows 1), but
On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 01:57, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> A Tesla is a rather expensive electric car, a product of Elon Musk.
> STARTING (minimal stripped down) at 40,000 pounds, and some models over
> 80,000 pounds.
>
> Sell one of THOSE, and you can buy a car AND a lot of great computer
>
On Fri, 29 May 2020 at 19:56, Tony Duell wrote:
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> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 7:24 PM Liam Proven via cctalk
> wrote:
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> There were also some pretty high-spec British microcomputers, but they
> tended to flop owing to the price. Things like the HH Tiger (did it
> ev
On Fri, 29 May 2020 at 18:17, Toby Thain via cctalk
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> > And I have had earnest youngsters on Twitter and elsewhere very
> > seriously tell me that _no_ language could even theoretically be
> > immune to the problems of C, because _all_ languages are implemented
> > in C at the lowest
https://ajk.me/building-an-ibm-3270-terminal-controller
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On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 21:40, John Ames wrote:
> Agreed. While I'm much more favorably disposed towards C than you are,
> the increasing homogeneity of almost all modern languages is
> discouraging and, I think, detrimental to the field as a whole. Forth
> and Smalltalk alike were eye-openers
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 21:47, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> On Tue, 26 May 2020, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> >>> I do not know what a "sheering section" means.
> >> Typo: "cheering". :-)
> >
> > Aha! I still didn't know, but t
On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 21:11, geneb wrote:
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> CP/M was huge in the US, especially among the S-100 system users. It was
> a pretty narrow window though - from probably 1978-1982. Kaypro had a
> good portion of the market as well, but like pretty much all the other
> manufacturers of CP/M
On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 06:01, ben via cctalk wrote:
> What keyboard are you using to get the fancy arrows?
Unmodified IBM Model M from 1991 in my case.
⇒ is compose, equals, greater-than
Snag is, I can't get one going the other way... I get
less-than-or-equal-to etc: ≤ ≥
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On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 21:52, Jim Brain via cctalk
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> Well, *I've* heard of them, but I enjoy knowing about such things. Most
> in the US do not.
*Nod* Shame but it's fair enough.
I think there is at the least an article (and possibly an entire
university course module) comparing
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 21:35, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> Well, there were some products whose role was to SHEAR THE SHEEP.
> The Apple3 belonged in a shearing section. Maybe even the Lisa, although
> that wasn't its intended role.
(?)
> When I taught C, we gave the course a prerequisite
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 19:22, Chris Elmquist via cctalk
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> A friend has unearthed approximately (5) of these IBM keyboards in his
> dad's shed in MN. These are not PC keyboards but instead likely 3178
> terminal keyboards. They probably came out of 3M a very long time ago.
>
>
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 18:50, Jim Brain via cctalk
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> TO help save a few bits in everyone's mailbox, I will link to some docs:
>
> http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=4=1514
Whoah. OK, TMI for this dilettante.
I think the only CBM kit that went through my home was a C16 I fixed
for a
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 18:25, Tony Duell wrote:
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> Err, the Acorn Atom could do colour at least in some graphics modes.
> It used the 6847 video chip that turned up in the Tandy Color
> Computer/Dragon. Maybe the base machine was monochrome video only, but
> there was a PAL encoder board
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 17:49, Adrian Graham via cctalk
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> > On 26 May 2020, at 12:57, Liam Proven via cctalk
> > wrote:
> >
> > & the Isle of Man. :-)
>
> Suddenly your comments about Trash-80s and MSX machines makes perfect sense
> too :)
Fair enoug
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