On Sunday, May 19th, 2024 at 13:31, ben via cctalk
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> My mind is fine, it the eyes that are going.
> Screens are getting bigger and text is getting smaller.
> I must be dreaming that.
HiDPI flatpanel displays definitely don't help with this. :/
The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]
On Saturday, April 27th, 2024 at 07:14, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
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> > Magazine cover january, and into 1975 the revolution. So I'd say all
>
> I had that magazine. Wish I hadn't thrown it away oh so many
> years ago.
This one?
https://archive.org/details/197511PopularElectronics
On Saturday, March 30th, 2024 at 13:37, Just Kant via cctalk
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> Clearly all or virtually all chineseum, correct?
> That being the case, um, what type.of.quality can be expected? Some are
> fairly cheap. I
> guess thenworld isn't to be expected.
I've only bought a few in the last
On Thursday, March 28th, 2024 at 19:26, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
> > You forgot Mickey Mouse.
>
> Is the mouse's immortality due to his army of intellectual property
> lawyers?
There's a joke to be made here about Walt Disney being in cryonic suspension[0]
and
Mickey Mouse is his
On Saturday, March 23rd, 2024 at 16:35, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> > > You say that like fsck is reliable now...
> > There's a reason it's only one letter off.
>
> I've always wondered, . . .
> "Feature" or "bug"?
> Deliberate, or one of possibly many errors in development?
I recall
On Tuesday, February 27th, 2024 at 13:30, ben via cctalk
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> I had z80/s100 kit once, but the power supply failed taking every thing out.
Ouch.
> I think the PI is too cheap of computer build wise for emulation
> of any system. It might blink your lights, but never run 20 users
>
On Wednesday, January 31st, 2024 at 10:04, 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?
The only place many of us might (might) have heard of them was in the
On Wednesday, January 10th, 2024 at 13:34, John Robertson via cctalk
wrote:
> > Jason Scott has indicated he has archiving under control.
>
> I would also suggest you get archive.org in on it...
If Jason's on the case, the Archive's on the case. As far as I know he hasn't
posted a status
On Saturday, December 30th, 2023 at 23:24, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
The Bosch unit may be very difficult to find. Will a Sony
> DVR-1000/2000/2100 do the same job for those tapes? At least a few of
> those seem to be around.
None of us are sure. The Sony DVR units have been pretty
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On Saturday, August 19th, 2023 at 19:49, Dennis Boone via cctalk
wrote:
> > Surely you hyperbole.
>
> Since it's used in Android for various things, and in Firefox and
> Chromium for various things, he's not in the least.
SQLite is used extensively in
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On Sunday, August 20th, 2023 at 11:55, Adam Thornton via cctalk
wrote:
> My understanding of sqlite (and it could be wrong) is that concurrent
> writes aren't supported, and reads should block if a write is in progress
> until the write completes. In practice
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On Friday, August 18th, 2023 at 13:38, Sellam Abraham
wrote:
> Not to mention that that could well be a criminal act since it would
> constitute unauthorized
> access of a computer system.
Maybe. Possibly. I'm not a lawyer, I just know what I learned for my
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On Friday, August 18th, 2023 at 12:35, Paul Koning via cctalk
wrote:
> Really? It would be interesting to have evidence supporting that, because if
> so, they
> could be subjected to pain for violating an explicit order not to do so.
There are some of us
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On Thursday, August 17th, 2023 at 13:29, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
> On 8/17/2023 2:14 PM, John Herron via cctalk wrote:
>
> Why would you give all your data to Google?
They pretty much have it all anyway. Even if you use /robots.txt to block
them,
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On Tuesday, August 15th, 2023 at 09:19, Ali via cctalk
wrote:
> This sounds like something I have been looking for and was actually thinking
> of
> learning SQL so I could implement myself. But if someone has already done the
> heavy
> lifting... One question:
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On Monday, August 14th, 2023 at 15:47, Mike Katz via cctalk
wrote:
> I'm looking for a good inventory program to help me keep track of all of
> my PDP-8 stuff.
>
> I would like to keep track of physical location, board etch revision,
> board modification
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On Saturday, July 1st, 2023 at 13:10, Sellam Abraham via cctalk
wrote:
> Don Lancaster passed away on June 7.
> I hope his website is well preserved:
> https://tinaja.com/
I just set Leandra to mirroring it, just in case. Her mainboard's been a little
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On Thursday, May 18th, 2023 at 13:19, Mike Katz via cctalk
wrote:
> I have just acquired a number of PDP-8 paper tapes. My reader/punch is
> not working at the moment (neither is my PDP-8 but that's another story).
>
> I am looking to beg, borrow or buy a paper
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On Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 at 09:36, Dani Werts via cctalk
wrote:
> As part of our NGVLA upgrades, we are seeking to get rid of old data tapes
> from the tape
> reel days of Computing. These contain things such as the boot loaders, OS,
> specific
>
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On Monday, April 24th, 2023 at 22:48, Tarek Hoteit via cctalk
wrote:
> I learned today about Dave’s Old Computer website
> http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/ which is
> listed as a subdomain under classiccmp.org. I wasn’t aware of subdomain
> sites. Can any
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