On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 20:53, Jim Brain via cctalk
wrote:
> Too late to fix silicon, the 6522 issue surfaced.
What 6522 issue?
This is way more depth about a machine I never owned than I personally
ever knew, I have to admit...
> Oh, and re-use all the VIC peripherals to save NRE costs!
I
On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 23:17, Adrian Graham via cctalk
wrote:
>
>
> Wait, PETs didn’t have graphics and Tic Tac Toe didn’t exist? Where did you
> LIVE?
The _name_ was new to me.
& the Isle of Man. :-)
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On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 20:51, Adrian Graham via cctalk
wrote:
> Quite a few Australians might not share your view that Dick Smith was
> ‘niche’, Europeans may, largely because they’ll have never heard of him in
> Europe. For proper niche see the RCA-1802 powered COMX-35.
I do remember the
On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 20:49, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I apologise for offending you. Sloppiness and insnesitivity on my part,
> not a deliberate attempt.
Just saddened, Fred, not offended.
I never had a ZX81, but the door-wedge joke is as old as the machine.
I think its historical
On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 20:42, Bill Degnan via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I find Gmail
> sends a lot of group posts and replies straight to the spam folder.
If you filter ClassicCmp.org replies into a folder, then there is a
checkbox in the "filter messages like these" screen that says "never
mark as
On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 20:22, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
>
> I hadn't thought about IBMCACHE.SYS in *years*. I wrote it in its
> entirety (there's even a patent that covers some of its operation). I
> was in an AdTech (Advanced Technology) group at the time and was
> looking at how to make disk
On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 05:30, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I played briefly with Xenix on an XT (or MAYBE an AT) on a 15MB? drive
> partition. MS-DOS was a better match for that hardware.
Never tried Xenix on an XT, but it was the 2nd OS on my PC-AT in my
first ever job. That machine was
On Sun, 24 May 2020 at 05:14, Jim Brain via cctalk
wrote:
> The serial interface would have been fast enough, if the MOS folks had
> talked to the design team about the bug and squashed it early. But, they
> did not, and on the VIC-20, which did not expect to move many drives, no
> one cared.
On Sun, 24 May 2020 at 03:42, Richard Cini wrote:
>
> Thanks Liam. Oberon is pretty interesting. I may download that just to see it
> in action. I’ve used a ton of 3Com cards so the setup program is pretty
> familiar. I haven’t used DESQview, well, since I had it installed on my
> Compaq
On Sat, 23 May 2020 at 22:24, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On Sat, 23 May 2020, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> > It is pretty much the *same* BASIC in the PET, VIC-20 and C64. It got
> > trivial adjustments for the hardware, but bear in mind: the PET had no
> > graphi
On Sat, 23 May 2020 at 03:52, Richard Cini via cctalk
wrote:
>
> 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 Fri, 22 May 2020 at 21:56, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Microsoft did a BASIC for the Commodore PET. I wasn't aware that they did
> the C64.
It is pretty much the *same* BASIC in the PET, VIC-20 and C64. It got
trivial adjustments for the hardware, but bear in mind: the PET had no
On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 21:34, ben via cctalk wrote:
> >
> Confused here. Pirates or Micosoft history?
> Runs.
Yes.
He meant that PoSV is a fictionalised, sanitised, MS-approved account
and not very reliable.
As is MS' own history. Written by the winners, etc.
However, I'd say PoSV will give
On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 19:50, Al Kossow via cctalk
wrote:
>
> > Recently found a movie Pirates of Silicon Valley which had some of early
> > Microsoft history
>
> It is a work of fiction, and should be taken as such.
You're right, but it contains the broad strokes of the story, more or
less
On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 18:21, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
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> Similarly, I have a few 3.25" drives. NO, not 3.5"; not 3.0". 3.25" was
> the entry in the "shirt pocket disk" wars that Dysan bet the company on.
> (remember their disks?)Another discussion.
I remember the Zenith Minisport, a
On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 05:26, Rico Pajarola via cctalk
wrote:
> >
> The whole concept of "if the plug fits, it will at least not blow up" is
> kind of a late invention.
Ha!
I have an old external 3.5" IDE disk enclosure. It's a good enclosure,
too -- Firewire 800 _and_ USB 2 _and_ eSATA. It has
On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 03:53, Eric Moore via cctalk
wrote:
>
> https://youtu.be/L743MjJthHY
>
> I recently got my SEL 810A working. I hope you guys enjoy the video :).
Very nifty indeed. Shared with the VCC on FB so you may see a few more
viewers from there! :-)
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On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 23:05, Kyle Owen via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I also wrote a version for the PDP-8; I was sure someone else had beat me
> to it (an assembly version, that is), but I didn't find any versions online
> other than for BASIC and FOCAL—neither of which supported very many cells
> nor
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 13:55, Chris Elmquist wrote:
>
> This might be one of those jokes that if you have to explain it, it looses
> the punch ... but I’ll try,
>
> There used to also be something called a Hong Kong Whore House, similarly
> staffed with young Asian women, but they didn’t make
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 04:05, Chris Elmquist via cctalk
wrote:
>
> CDC had a memory manufacturing facility in SE Asia, staffed with mostly young
> Asian women.
> An older colleague at ETA helped set it up (he just passed away; RIP Carl).
>
> He called it the Hong Kong Core House.
There's a few
On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 at 11:28, Jim Manley via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Speaking of COBOL and Admiral Grace Hopper, I have one of her actual
> nanoseconds, a piece of insulated solid wire about 11.2 inches long, when
> she was a Superintendent's guest lecturer. Since I was a Navy MSCS
> student, she
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 at 23:02, Paul Koning via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I'm reminded of a T-shirt company that was around when I was in college,
> named "Outer products". They had various math and physics related shirts,
> for example with Maxwell's equations (your choice of differential or integral
>
On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 18:00, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> Thanks! Nice talk! I wish I'd stuck around but I was kinda fried after my
> talk...
I understand. I was the same, and went to the café for a couple of beers. :-)
> Surprised you didn't mention that we had 80 column xterms due to 24x80 25x80
On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 21:26, Warner Losh wrote:
>>
> Now I'm going to have to find that talk... :) I was at FOSDEM, but too
> preoccupied with my own talk to go to other talks and run the room too full
> gauntlet.
I know. Your talk was directly before mine in the same room, and I
On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 17:24, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>
> BTW, nice talk at FOSDEM 2020, I was there. :)
Oh wow! Thank you!
*Blushes* :-)
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On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 16:13, Rob Jarratt wrote:
>
> This is the listing:
> https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VIntage-DEC-VS4000-memory-SIMM-50-19464-02/223624600040
That is... not very informative. :-(
I also note that the listing just says VS4000 and does not specify a model.
It could be one of 5
On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 09:08, Rob Jarratt via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I mistakenly bought some memory thinking it was for a VAXstation 4000 VLC.
> It turns out that it isn't. It physically fits a VAXstation 4000 Model 60,
> but putting it in that machine the machine fails to power up. The part
> number
On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 17:46, Paul Koning via cctalk
wrote:
>
> A company may close down, but that doesn't mean it is "gone" as far as its
> property is concerned. Ownership passes to others, perhaps creditors or the
> like, or the majority shareholder. Who that is may be quite hard to find
On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 at 17:58, Joseph Zatarski via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I've started inventorying a lot of the stuff I'd like to pass on here:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19vhF-o6vx9g7l-D8cvLJ5OPJzpdmU9PTTknbxY-mY58/edit?usp=sharing
I can't see these in the Google sheet, for some reason:
On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 at 07:13, Kevin Lee via cctalk wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I forgot to mention it’s an eye phone
> 11 PRO 256gb.
I may be missing something -- *what's* an "eye phone"? I thought you
were listing vintage kit, not smartphones?
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On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 03:49, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Hoo boy. I'll throw my experience in and see if you can avoid nausea...
>
> First of all, you don't need a special controller to run most floppytape
> drives, nor do you need to give up a floppy drive to use them--they
> don't use
On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 19:20, Roger Addy via cctech
wrote:
>
> I'm
> wondering if it's possible to connect it to a modern ethernet network?
Run a single piece of thin Ethernet into the back of an old 10base-T hub.
Cable the hub into a modern switch.
Job done.
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On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 16:10, Al Kossow via cctalk
wrote:
>
> https://www.cultofmac.com/685669/larry-tesler-the-apple-employee-who-invented-cut-copy-paste-dies-at-74/
>
> https://twitter.com/cdespinosa/status/1229996808052469760
Oh no. :-(
"Don't mode me in!" I saw him speak, just once...
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On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 23:43, Alan Perry via cctalk
wrote:
>
> PS I forgot to thank Liam for offering assistance, so thanks, Liam.
You're very welcome. Sorry I misunderstood and couldn't help.
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On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 00:42, jim stephens via cctalk
wrote:
> >
> Liam, he's looking for SMD, which need a Bus and Radial. One Bus can
> daisy chain from drive to drive, and us usually 60 pin. The radial RF
> cables are usually 26 pin ribbon. A separate cable from the controller
> to each
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 19:06, Alan Perry via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I supplied part numbers. How can I be more specific?
Oddly, some of us do not have a mental look-up table of Sun part
numbers. In fact I think I can safely say that I could not identify a
single cable of any form for any machine ever
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 18:46, Alan Perry via cctalk
wrote:
>
>
> Anyone here have a set of Sun external SMD cables (530-1079 and 530-1080)
> that they can loan or want to sell?
>
> I ordered from a set from MemoryX at the beginning of Jan. They haven’t
> arrived and MemoryX isn’t answering my
With his express permission, I'm forwarding a mail from a public list.
I am interested in Gene's comments about the design of SCSI, but I
don't know enough electronics to judge.
I thought others here might.
I have trimmed the mail a little to the relevant parts.
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On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 02:00, Stefan Skoglund wrote:
>
> Well in some way or another i got a copy with the book to Sweden.
>
> Ran it from 1999 to 2002 or so (got a SGI challenge S as NetBSD machine
> and a pc as a linux machine at that time in 2002 or so.)
>
> Host was a 6100 with the Apple tilt
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 06:25, Alan Perry via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On 1/6/20 3:53 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> > Any screeenshot galleries or better still videos anywhere?
>
> I found this photo that I took -
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZjYMdZZrIygvsQas9b40QWW7uNxM
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 00:22, Alan Perry via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I demoed OpenStep Solaris on top of CDE in my last exhibit at VCF PNW.
> It could be awkward trying to figure out where to look for application's
> menu. Just to make things extra ugly, I ran MAE (Macintosh Application
> Environment)
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 00:12, Chris Hanson wrote:
>
> Not quite! Sun was a participant in creating the OpenStep standard (the NS
> class prefix stands for “NeXT/Sun”) and *created their own implementation* of
> OpenStep for Solaris. (Just as GNUstep is an independent implementation of
> the
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 23:30, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Yes. We first started with Mach 3.0 build MK58. We did our final
> fork at MK68. We made some *significant* changes from what CMU
> had (things like changing mach messages from IPC to RPC) and a
> whole lot of work in the area of
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 20:58, Steven M Jones via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Just to clarify, the reference to "i810 RISC" should be the i860
> ("N-10"), their second general-purpose RISC design - versus the 960MX
> from the BiiN project with Siemens in the mid-80s as their first (?),
> which would become
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 19:02, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I had been working on the IBM Microkernel (was one of the original 6
> people onthat team). It was eventually to form the basis of OS/2 for
> PPC. The way thatthe microkernel project was structured was that most
> of the "OS" was
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 09:56, Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2020-01-03 at 12:00 -0600, cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote:
> > On 1/2/2020 1:35 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote:
> > > > > Anyone done anything with Netware *for PowerPC*? Allegedly
> > > > > there was
> > > > >
On Thu, 26 Dec 2019 at 07:51, Nemo via cctalk wrote:
>
> Would you have the citations handy? I would be interested to read that.
I thought the same thing!
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On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 at 18:05, David Barto wrote:
>
> And claimed.
Oh! Well, that was quick. :-)
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On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 at 17:52, David Barto via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Last retry. I’ve still got them and if anyone wants them, let me know.
May I pass this message on, e.g. to one of the many LowEndMac groups?
Anonymised if you prefer.
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On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 at 18:29, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On 11/27/19 7:13 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
>
> Okay, you're right and I'm wrong. Everyone should play games on their
> 8 bit computers because they'll grow up to be real computer scientists.
Play,
On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 at 15:47, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
>
> No, I meant "commercially viable" computers.
[1] You didn't say that, though.
[2] If it sells enough units for someone to make a living off it, that
is the _definition_ of "commercially viable".
As such, my first link qualifies.
On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 at 04:02, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Other than in very low-level MCUs, I don't see 8 bit micros making a
> comeback. And 32/64 bits seems to be the rule for MCUs today.
You might be surprised.
E.g.
https://rc2014.co.uk/ (selling strongly, I believe)
On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 at 05:38, Jim Manley via cctalk
wrote:
>
> One of my special tours at the CHM is "Mistakes That Kept Getting Repeated"
That is something I would _really_ like to hear. Sadly I am on the
wrong continent for it and that's not likely to change in the
foreseeable future. Between
On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 at 23:07, Murray McCullough via cctalk
wrote:
>
> The first Internet message was sent 60 yrs. ago on Nov. 21 between SRI and
> UCLA.
50, not 60.
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/internet-50-years/
Source: ARPA.
On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 02:46, Al Kossow via cctalk
wrote:
> Please feel free to copy the above to the mailing list - I definitely
> want to join (do you know if it is possible to join with a GMail
> account, the last I heard was I was waiting to be approved)
It absolutely is -- that's how I use
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 19:24, Grant Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On 11/18/19 11:10 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
>
> > For example, I'm not sure anyone would call VMS an open system, yet
> > clearly it's distributed (VAXcluster).
>
> What is "open" in this context? Is it open source? Is it open
>
On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 at 16:50, Anders Nelson via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Maybe buy a more modern cable and hack that instead?:
>
> https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F283062451183
That's pretty cool, actually. I have about ½ dozen Model Ms and most
of my
On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 at 15:31, Rob Jarratt via cctalk
wrote:
>
> However, I now have a pang of conscience about hacking around with a
> perfectly good cable, particularly if they are uncommon. How common are
> these cables?
I don't know for sure but I've certainly seen people looking for them.
Not
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 06:59, Kevin Parker via cctalk
wrote:
>
>
> These voltages appear to neatly align with most PC power supplies so I
> should be able to tap into an old AT power supply of which I have quite a
> few.
The PSU apparently outputs AC, not DC, which is unusual... but a PC
PSU can
On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 at 03:34, allison via cctalk wrote:
>
> The whole story of what was going on was far more complex and interesting.
Conceded.
> Funny thing was DECnet was in 1983 the largest world wide network
> period. By then is was well over 300 nodes and climbing fast.
> And none of it
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 at 17:32, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
>
> 50 years ago, inter-computer communication was common enough that it was
> a standard option in most vendors' catalogs.
>
> Maybe you've got a digit wrong?
Tim Berners-Lee says it's the 50th anniversary of the first internet
On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 02:19, Paul Koning via cctalk
wrote:
> > ...
> Speaking of timing, that reminds me of two amazing security holes written up
> in the past few years. Nothing to do with the Spectre etc. issue.
>
> One is the recovery of speech from an encrypted VoIP channel such as Skype,
On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 at 21:09, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
> One student (who later became my best friend and buddy)
> skipped the technical details and said, "The primary design error for
> MacOS and Windoze (sic) is that they placed a lower priority on security,
> than on being able to
On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 10:16, Marvin Johnston via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I'm just curious how many people have powered up their TRS-80 computers,
> and ended up with a bang and a room filled with smoke?
"They all do that, sir."
Computers older than 20y or so, that is. :-(
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On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 at 21:04, Jason T via cctalk wrote:
>
> I took a lot of, uh, "inspiration" from that page :)
:-D
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On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 at 19:28, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Especially the
>
> "Notice: Undefined index: currentpage in /var/www/vcfmw.org/footer.html on
> line 34"
>
> at the bottom. I felt right at home ;)
I liked that too! Reminded me of:
http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM
(c)
1993 article on building a multiprocessor 6809 box.
http://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/6809cpu.htm
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On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 13:23, Jules Richardson via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Someone on one of the Facebook vintage groups
Oh? Which one?
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On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 02:40, Fritz Mueller via cctalk
wrote:
>
> After disassembly, I can see the keyboard assembly are marked "Cherry" and
> part number is B76-07AA. I'm not enough of a keyboard wonk to know if these
> are still-mfg'd cherry key mechanisms?
Cheery are still around. Ask
On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 at 14:41, Ethan O'Toole wrote:
>
> > This LGR guy took 15 min to get to the point. Any point. And his
> > channel doesn't even explain what "LGR" stands for.
>
> LGR is short for Lazy Game Reviews. His channel used to be reviews of old
> MS-DOS games or something. Random dude
On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 at 13:52, William Donzelli wrote:
>
> Cleanouts like this are a big part of my business. CR is by no means
> small, but is also not that big. The last big place I was in - well,
> the entire CR space would have been part of one of the floors of the
> building. One of six
On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 15:00, William Donzelli via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Well, I think he kind of created a shitstorm and gave CR a little too
> much exposure. The CR liquidation seems to have been going at a nice
> controlled rate. Now that the whole world knows, it would not be a
> surprise if
On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 at 06:37, Guy Dunphy via cctalk
wrote:
>
> At 10:14 PM 16/07/2019 -0700, Al Kossow wrote:
> >> Exploring a MASSIVE Retro Computer Warehouse!
> >
> >old news, dredged up again because of a youtube jackass
>
>
> Ah yes, now I see there was exactly one previous mention a month
On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 at 14:04, Dave Wade via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Bill,
> Ask Peter about emulators. Pretty sure some one at the museum did an 803
> emulator, (not in SIMH)
>From a casual Google there seem to be several...
https://sourceforge.net/projects/elliott803/
On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 06:04, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Be careful about taunting a time traveller.
> He might read what you write and it might give him ideas.
Oh no! Roko's basilisk! You've wok+++ATH
NO CARRIER
On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 17:02, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Practically speaking, what's the difference between a close working
> replica and the original? Are the bits somehow imbued with some
> additional spiritual property?
>
> The replica may actually be more reliable.
Spoken like a
On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 14:53, Dave Wade wrote:
>
> I wouldn't like to comment on relationships, but they appeal to very
> different audiences. There is now some signage at the main gate but its
> minimal...
OK, noted.
So apart from my comment that BP depended on the revenues and draw of
TNMOC,
On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 at 11:40, Bill Degnan via cctech
wrote:
>
> Refined question - When would I have to depart the museum in order to
> travel by rental car (driving legal speeds) from Bletchley to Gatwick
> Airport in time for a 4PM flight on 7/11 (A Thursday)?
To echo what others have said:
*
On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 at 00:23, Mattis Lind via cctalk
wrote:
>
> When I visited Bletchley park and TNMOC I went by train from London. Euston
> I believe. From Gatwick there are trains to Victoria which are quite quick.
Me too. But then, I lived in London. Still took nearly 2 hours.
But I think
On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 at 09:12, Guy Dunphy via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I just _love_ being reminded of the circumstances of my NOT buying an Apple
> I, and what that mistake cost me.
>
> http://everist.org/NobLog/20181001_missing_wave.htm
Sad reading...
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On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 17:46, Alan Perry via cctalk
wrote:
> I sold a $3500 car once for cash to a guy who sold his goods at a booth
> at fairs and shows. He received lots and lots of $20 bills in payment,
> so that is what he paid me with. I kept the cash instead of depositing
> it in the bank
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 15:26, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> Checks can be relatively convenient and cheap compared to other options. I
> can (for free) send a check of any size to anyone I want by filling out a
> form on my bank's website to pay someone (mostly limited by my account's
> balance).
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 14:01, William Donzelli wrote:
>
> US currency is the most most seriously counterfeited in the world, due
> to being useful almost anywhere. This is why the bills are not very
> distinctive - you are supposed to look at them. Most counterfeits are
> good, but not good
On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 at 15:57, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> USA makes a pretense of accommodating disabilities, but is actually pretty
> hostile to the disabled.
:-(
> The "new" paper currency, that is s'posedly good for blind people has
> slightly different shades of the same colors.
(!)
On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 at 13:39, William Donzelli wrote:
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> Your knowledge is way out of date.
I was first there about 25y ago, and last there about 17y ago. The
much-vaunted redesign was, to my European eyes, so subtle as to be
indistinguishable. No, I'm not kidding.
> US currency changed about
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 22:55, Steven M Jones via cctalk
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> Two weeks ago I was in London, and had brought my pound notes/coins from
> a visit a few years earlier. When trying to buy lunch, the cashier
> refused my £10 note since new £5 and £10 notes had been issued over a
> year before. I
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 22:50, Warner Losh via cctalk
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> Yea, I'm just the right age to have seen them in circulation and have it as
> a unit of measure for "just bigger than an inch". Sorry for the crazy
> measurement...
It's fine really. It's provoked an interesting if offtopic
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 18:57, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> Oh, FAR FAR FAR less than 5%.
*Chuckle*
> Most residents of USA haven't seen a half dollar or "50 cent piece" in
> decades. They are as much of an oddity as the $2 bill. They are
> nominally still in circulation, most recent being
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 21:47, Electronics Plus via cctalk
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> Just for fun, I went to the bank and bought about $1000 in half dollar and
> dollar coins. My son collects them, and we went through them all. We did find
> some silver half dollars. The ones we are not keeping now go to
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 at 23:11, Bill Degnan via cctalk
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> These look like they're from 486 era file server hardware.
Not even slightly, IMHO.
They're from 1989. That is the year the 80486 was first introduced, so
too early, and also huge wide slots like that aren't from any kind of
Intel
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 at 17:21, Warner Losh via cctalk
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> I saw this
> half-dollar sized plastic fob on the desk and asked what it was for.
If I may just say -- only about 5% of humanity know how big that is. I
don't. I don't even know if a half a dollar is a note or a coin, and
that's
This is *epic*.
https://github.com/stepleton/5100NonExecutableROSDecode/blob/master/WRITEUP.md
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On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 at 12:31, Tony Aiuto via cctalk
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> On a related note, a fun talk about ARM
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2045=_6sh097Dk5k
Remarkable. Thanks for the link. Astounding. Very thought-provoking.
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On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 at 00:36, Grant Taylor via cctalk
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> I too had a soft spot for Windows 98 Second Edition. I ran it for a
> LONG time.
>
> I found it quite stable and used it for a server for a school in '99-'00
> before putting a Linux box in place the following year.
>
> They had
On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 14:53, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
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> I was speaking from a user's perspective; I never did much coding under
> Windows (well, a fair amount under Cygwin, using only the portable I/O
> library, but that's not really _Windows_ programming).
Well, me too. I don't really
On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 20:33, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
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> Great rant.
:-D Thanks!
> I myself much prefer my Windows98 machines to my Windows 10 laptop, which
> I had to buy because i) many Web sites won't work without the latest and
> greatest browser (in many cases because of the
On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 18:55, David wrote:
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> I found it most interesting, thanks for sending out the link.
Oh good. I'm glad to hear that. One "thank you" makes it worth the while. :-)
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AIUI the owner is now in a nursing home.
Thanks to Justin Scott and a group of enthusiasts, rather than sending
all the stock to the scrappers, the store is occasionally re-opening
in an effort to sell as much as possible to collectors.
It's here:
Goes a bit over my head but may be of interest:
https://userpages.umbc.edu/~vijay/mashey.on.risc.html
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On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 01:42, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> IFF your old post had a solution! (rather than being an unresolved
> query)
https://xkcd.com/979/
There are a couple of things now where I know that if I try to find
sources, I'll find myself.
The details of how id Software's game
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