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

2024-04-26 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 01:51:48PM -0700, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 7:25 PM Tomasz Rola via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > Well, if you are into this kind of stuff (I am)... Stross is an s-f > > author, formerly a progr

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

2024-04-25 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
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) and he has a blog. This time, he explores the idea that internet "bub" delivered on its promises, rather than

[cctalk] Re: Turbo Prolog

2024-02-25 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 08:36:35PM +, Just Kant via cctalk wrote: > Has anyone used it or something contemporaneous? Not me, at least not yet. I am kind of wet dreaming about it, so maybe one day. > Is it at all applicable to any degree to today's approach to > AI/machine learning tasks? I

[cctalk] Re: fredmacs?

2023-08-23 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 12:01:35PM -0700, Adam Thornton via cctalk wrote: > I have heard rumors of one "fredmacs" which is a more-or-less emacs that > will run on PDP-11 v7 Unix. Since I've gotten "s" onto v7 and behaving > mostly happily, now I'd like an editor I actually _like_ rather than >

[cctalk] Re: Any RSX-11 fans able to identify file types?

2023-06-25 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 12:34:04PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 6/25/23 12:15, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 04:39:01PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > > > > > If you have those files accessible from some Unix-like OS, then

[cctalk] Re: Any RSX-11 fans able to identify file types?

2023-06-25 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 04:39:01PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 6/24/23 12:38, Wayne S wrote: > > Chuck, why not post the catalog snd we’ll all take a look? > > Power of the internet! > > Okay, I guess that's okay. Here's the data from the MFD: > >

[cctalk] Re: Did Bill Gates Really Say That?

2023-06-16 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 02:43:06AM -0500, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote: > I don't think Gates ever actually said this - but that's just based on my > own examination into this from a few years back. > > But, over the years I've done some thread programming, and I was once > solving a problem by

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

2023-05-23 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 09:01:58AM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 5/19/23 04:36, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > > 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. > > > >

[cctalk] Re: AI applied to vintage interests

2023-01-19 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 07:42:41PM -0800, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: > Me: Translate the disassembly of the boot sector code for PC DOS 1.0 into > 7080 autocoder. > > ChatGPT: "It is not possible to simply translate the disassembly of the > boot sector code for PC DOS 1.0 into 7080

[cctalk] Re: what is on topic?

2022-12-21 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 04:17:19PM -0800, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: > I am going to ditto Zane because I basically could've written that same > exact message like an infinite monkey on an infinite typewriter. > > Sellam Turing Monkey? Does it have infinite roll of paper? -- Regards,

[cctalk] Re: what is on topic?

2022-12-21 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 04:28:35AM +, Chris via cctalk wrote: [...] > Transcoding as in vcr to mpegs? I wasn't suggesting XP was utterly > entirely useless. Video editing in a modern sense requires loads of > processing h.p. to be efficient. And no transcodimg is > necessary. Certainly not an

[cctalk] RIP Fred Brooks (1931-2022)

2022-11-18 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
As the subject (and wikipedia) say: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home** ** directory. And then the C programmer became

[cctalk] Re: Disk imaging n00b

2022-11-03 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 03:07:00PM -0600, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > Hi, > > n00b alert > > Does anyone have a 101 level boot strap guide for someone wanting to get > into creating better-than-dd disk images? [...] > So, does anyone have a 101 level boot strap guide for someone wanting to

[cctalk] Re: LC:M+L (Living Computer Museum)

2022-10-30 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 12:34:29PM -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > [...] > > Even if it doesn't reopen, I'd hope that its collection would not > simply be scrapped. I imagine a lot of people here would be > interested in parts of it. I'm one of them... If I was a donator, I would now

[cctalk] Think millenia [was Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012]

2022-10-18 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 12:12:16PM -0500, John Foust via cctalk wrote: > At 09:15 AM 10/18/2022, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote: > >>Own your land. > >>Museum or individual. > > > >You never own your land. They can always take it. > > Far more probable than someone taking your property? Wanting

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

2022-08-21 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 01:26:44PM -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: [...] > > Oh, I am well aware that you know far more about such things than I > ever did, nor ever will. > I was explaining it for the youngsters on the list, who may not have > ever encountered such. And, who might not even

[cctalk] (fwd) [cpunks] Google Program to Free Chips Boosts University Semiconductor Design

2022-08-15 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
Howdy, I guess this might be of interest to some people here... - Forwarded message from jim bell - Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 06:12:59 + (UTC) From: jim bell To: CypherPunks Subject: Google Program to Free Chips Boosts University Semiconductor Design

[cctalk] Re: Agenda VR3 MIPS cross-gcc

2022-07-30 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 07:58:15AM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 10:09:28PM -0700, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: > > There used to be a cross-compiling gcc for MIPS specifically for the VR4121 > > in > > the Agenda VR3 PDA, but it doesn't seem to be on any of the

[cctalk] Re: Agenda VR3 MIPS cross-gcc

2022-07-29 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 10:09:28PM -0700, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: > There used to be a cross-compiling gcc for MIPS specifically for the VR4121 in > the Agenda VR3 PDA, but it doesn't seem to be on any of the remaining sites. > Anyone out there got it or, he asked hopefully, the entire

Re: List migration

2022-07-15 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 01:38:36AM -0400, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote: > Friends, > > The process of migrating the cctalk and cctech mailing lists to a new > host in Chicago is underway. This evening, I've moved the list mail [...] > > Many thanks to Jay West for hosting the lists for 20

Re: Writings on AI from 17 years ago....

2021-05-31 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 11:27:40AM +, P Gebhardt via cctalk wrote: > > > >Don't trust that museums will abide by your wishes when you donate an item. > >They almost never will no matter how secure you think your agreement with > >them is. > > > >I believe that enthusiastic and competent

Re: Writings on AI from 17 years ago....

2021-05-24 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 09:34:03PM -0400, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > I was looking through some old journal entries and found this: > > AI is lonely... > > She has been sitting quietly in my house for the past 8 years. She > runs, but is old now and tired. Most of the time she sits in her >

Re: COMPAQ ISA PC to ethernent

2021-05-20 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 02:01:51AM +, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote: > If anyone has ideas about boards or software to connect this > original Compaq to the net let me know! > Browsing the ebay, I do not find a PC 8 bit ethernet board but > still looking. > Then, the rest, a net set of

Re: Classic browsing and duckduckgo

2021-03-12 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 09:11:34AM +, U'll Be King Of The Stars via cctalk wrote: > On 12/03/2021 06:47, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: > > Today I noticed that duckduckgo redirects my classic browsers to > > lite.duckduckgo.com and I can use the results. Cool! > &

Re: Classic browsing and duckduckgo

2021-03-12 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 11:43:59PM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: [...] > > Tried with dillo and w3m. > > There's a compromise--google with a browser plug-in that removes the > redirection in google results. > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search-link-fix/ > >

Classic browsing and duckduckgo

2021-03-11 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
Howdy, I more often than not use one of the old style browsers (lynx, dillo etc). Using search engines with them was rather uncool (unusable links in search results, wanting to load some bs or js, etc). For this reason I type my searches using mozilla and very rarely trying this with duckduckgo

Re: Serial numbers intelligence

2021-01-31 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 03:59:27PM -0800, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: [...] > I know nothing of any actual details about tanks. > But, "Oddball" (Donald Sutherland) in "Kelly's Heroes" said that the > only way that they could take on a Tiger, "Yeah. Look, a Tiger has > only one weak point. That's

Re: Serial numbers intelligence

2021-01-31 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 05:47:49PM -0500, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote: > > I'm curious to what degree people have used serial number > > intelligence gathering and countermeasures in the industry. Like > > were/are there market research firms that would go to Fry's and > > record numbers off

worlds of classic objects [was Re: DEDICATED HOBBYIST ALERT: IBM AS/400 9406-F2 for cheap sale in Germany]

2021-01-06 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
goodwilling strangers. > Am 06.01.2021 um 03:35 schrieb Tomasz Rola via cctalk > [...] > > I think I am truly lousy hobbist. > > Don't worry too much. I have a lot of games in my Steam Library > „just in case“, and because there once was a huge discount in > price. A l

Re: DEDICATED HOBBYIST ALERT: IBM AS/400 9406-F2 for cheap sale in Germany

2021-01-05 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 12:57:42AM +0100, Patrik Schindler via cctalk wrote: > Hello Tomasz, Ahoy, > Am 05.01.2021 um 22:45 schrieb Tomasz Rola via cctalk : > > > I guess it is more complicated to check mainframe's correct operation. > > If you’re new to the platform, I ag

Re: DEDICATED HOBBYIST ALERT: IBM AS/400 9406-F2 for cheap sale in Germany

2021-01-05 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 10:02:02PM +0100, mazzi...@tin.it wrote: > Well, > > The whole translation is more on the lines that it hasn't been > started since 3 years and they can't be bothered to check if it > still works with the mains not plugged since then. Thus the risk to > turn it on is on

Re: DEDICATED HOBBYIST ALERT: IBM AS/400 9406-F2 for cheap sale in Germany

2021-01-05 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 06:41:30PM +0100, Patrik Schindler via cctalk wrote: > Hello, > > to fellow readers in Germany and surrounding areas: > > HUGE 9406-F2, 300€, pickup in Heidelberg, Germany. Might be a > Multiprocessor-Machine. > > https://cgi.ebay.de/174577267021 > > I’m not related to

Re: Emails going to spam folder in gmail

2020-12-30 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 11:25:13AM -0500, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > >Google need to review their motto and start living by it. > > Google ditched their "Don't be evil" motto a long long time ago. Now > it's "what is best for google?". Well, I do not think goog needs to do anything other

Re: removing melting rubber from metal?

2020-11-01 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 12:14:41PM -0500, Kelly Fergason via cctalk wrote: > Hi All, > > I have an EP-1 eprom programmer from BP Microsystems. > > The rubber feet melted. It was in my closet. I have no clue how it got > that hot, or if they > are just some composition for them to melt. > > My

Re: Old mainframes in Finland

2020-10-10 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 01:10:55PM -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > > > > On Oct 8, 2020, at 12:08 PM, Jim Manley via cctalk > > wrote: > > > > If you try to access the paper describing the 2017 - 2018 restoration work, > > you soon crash into an academic publication paywall, but if

Re: Small C ver 1.00 source?

2020-07-16 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 02:30:37PM -0400, Phil Budne via cctalk wrote: > I can't make ANY assertions about version or pedigree of the files > (which came to me in 1981 when I was using a PDP-10), but they APPEAR > to be from Ron Cain himself, from SRI-KL (TOPS-20): > >

MUA again [was: Re: Future of cctalk/cctech]

2020-06-17 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 07:24:40PM +, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: > > Use modern email program that sees expanded char. Sets and > graphics it is a brand new world !    I love old hardware to > look at but if communicating  I like  the ability to see graphical  > things...  and I think

Re: Future of cctalk/cctech

2020-06-17 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 07:28:22PM +0200, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: [...] > > I concur. And I also would like to mention a simple, easily navigable > web interface to list archives, which works well in text based > browser. Just like the current one. Having such interface is a

Re: Future of cctalk/cctech

2020-06-17 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 02:45:42PM +0100, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Al Kossow via > > cctalk > > Sent: 17 June 2020 13:55 > > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > > Subject: Re: Future of cctalk/cctech > > > > > > > > > I wonder what you

Re: Amiga Vendors?

2020-06-16 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 03:02:57PM +0200, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > 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 a

Re: Amiga Vendors?

2020-06-13 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 12:31:09PM -0600, 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 You know, we have so many letters in alphabet, what a pity to not use them all...

Re: Amiga Vendors?

2020-06-11 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 03:58:24PM +0200, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > 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

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:42:54PM -0700, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: > > Seems of interest.  Will be interesting to play with. > > https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/microsoft-open-sources-gw-basic/ > Around 1992 I tried to use Basic on my Amiga to compute some stuff from the

Re: ICL1501 Cobol manual available

2020-04-17 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 08:05:42PM -0500, wrco...@wrcooke.net wrote: > > [...]> And of course there is this :-)http://www.keil.com/cobolad.pdfOh > > goad. Have they ported it to Arduino? > > Well, the ad was fake. Ran in the April issue of some magazines. > Apparently they did get calls for

Re: ICL1501 Cobol manual available

2020-04-17 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 10:00:17PM +, Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk wrote: [...] > Tomasz, forgive me but I have to ask. You did note the date on which > that announcement appeared, right? Yeah. I do not have to look at it again to tell you it was dated April 1st 2005 :-). But it is ok you

Re: State of New Jersey needs COBOL programmers

2020-04-16 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 01:20:09PM -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: [...] > well, close. > His BASIC quote is: > "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students > that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers > they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of

Re: HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

2020-03-11 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 05:57:16PM +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: [...] > Indeed so. AIUI this is the case with Symbolics OpenGenera. The > company went broke, the domain name sold off, all employees > terminated, etc... I am sure many of those workers were a little bit surprised about

Re: HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

2020-03-10 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 07:59:49PM -0500, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote: [...] > > > Nope. All you have to do is go to eisner.decuserve.org and register > (follow my earlier instructions).  They don't care what country you > are from. All are welcome.  Do it now and get your OpenVMS Hobbyist

Re: HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

2020-03-10 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 09:48:55AM -0400, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: [...] > They would not care and it would have no effect on their bottom > line so why should they? I think it actually affects their bottom line, just in a way that would not make anybody fired, and this is why nobody

Re: Please make sure your messages have a Subject: line

2020-02-20 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:06:30PM +0100, Tomas By wrote: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:40:03 +0100, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: > > > Can you devise a way to have [CCTALK] in the subject of every > > > message that does NOT mention politics? > > > > I have rea

Re: Please make sure your messages have a Subject: line

2020-02-20 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 12:40:11PM -0800, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > >>In that case, perhaps there could be a special dispensation, > >>that messages that mention politics don't need a subject line? > On Wed, 19 Feb 2020, Ethan O'Toole wrote: > >Maybe the list could at something like (cct) in

Re: from Discord

2020-01-25 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 03:50:05AM -0800, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > 9:10 PM jwest > > and now the image of the classiccmp mailing list server should be > back to where it was the day of the failure. > As per above, no data lost except a handfull asking if the server > was up. Many thanks...

ZedRipper

2019-12-11 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
Hello, Surfaced on Ycombinator. This one looks good. Something old, something new, etc. Like my kind of project :-) :: ZedRipper: A 16-core Z80 laptop http://www.chrisfenton.com/the-zedripper-part-1/ and some comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21756243 -- Regards, Tomasz Rola

Re: OT(?): Emulation XKCD

2019-10-31 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 07:36:18PM +, Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk wrote: > All, > my daughter is well aware of my affinity for old computers and > software, and, as usual, she pointed out that there’s an XKCD for > that: > > https://xkcd.com/2221/ > > I found this remarkably accurate. > -

Re: I apparently have Spacewar for Unix?

2019-10-15 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 02:29:39PM -0500, John Foust via cctalk wrote: > At 01:57 PM 10/15/2019, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: > >I would say, after very quick looking, it is rather for SunOS, not for > >anything DEC-made. I wonder if others may come to different conclusions? >

Re: I apparently have Spacewar for Unix?

2019-10-15 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 09:51:02AM -0500, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk wrote: > While dumping lispm tapes, I found one with a label saying "Read it > into DRAL" (may be "DRAC"?) "and sent a message to cap's bboard > saying where it can be found. -Bob”. There was another paper label > that had

Re: Searching cctalk/cctech

2019-09-02 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 11:48:57AM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: [...] > Anent that--Google does have a search language of sorts: > > https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/ > > These elements can reduce the eyestrain from looking at too many results. Many thanks. I

Re: Photos from VCF West 2019

2019-08-27 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 07:54:21PM +0200, Ed C. via cctalk wrote: > Thanks for sharing! Yes, thanks for sharing. I have finally came to reading this thread (I am of the anonymous time waster type) and I find the photographs very interesting. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked

Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-16 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 02:21:36AM -0400, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: [...] > Yeah, I added "CHWiki" to the text on the Main Page to make it a > little easier Because of curiosity, I tried. On gog: === chwiki - because gog discovers I type from Poland and "chwiki" looks like Polish word

Re: OT^2: Marketish fever [was: Reflowing GPUs and the fruit company (was Re: Resurrecting integrated circuits by cooking them.)]

2019-07-29 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 09:21:34AM -0400, Ray Arachelian via cctalk wrote: [...] > Overall though I think the $40 I spent to get another 1.8 years out the > machine was worth the trouble - not that it's performant or anything > like that, but because it is the last of its line. Supposedly next

Re: Lots of Apple 1 computers @ VCF West

2019-07-08 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 09:04:38PM -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jul 2019, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: > >That is him. > >I thought that some fun could be made of him: invent some stories [...] > > Be careful about taunting a time traveller. > He m

Re: Lots of Apple 1 computers @ VCF West

2019-07-08 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 10:02:27PM -0500, John Herron wrote: > Maybe I should Google this but I thought John Titor was the man claiming to > be from the future and looking for an IBM 5100 for the ability to run APL. That is him. > I'm not familiar with any apple 1 story but I remember him

Re: Lots of Apple 1 computers @ VCF West

2019-07-08 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 01:30:36PM -0500, John Foust via cctalk wrote: > At 01:09 PM 7/8/2019, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: > >Now they tell me (bastards!) that said keyboard > >alone can go for 1000+ euros. And never mind the big box, mem extender > >and the rest. > &g

Re: Lots of Apple 1 computers @ VCF West

2019-07-08 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 09:19:09AM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 7/8/19 8:25 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > > > > > Spoken like a non-collector. :-) > > I suppose that's the root of it. I'm basically a pragmatist. I give > away old hardware that no longer has any use to me.

Re: gunkies.org is down or?...

2019-07-04 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 07:49:16AM -0400, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > Tomasz Rola > > > However, I have added this line to my /etc/hosts: > > L-rd, I must be getting old - it never dawned on me to do that. Anyway, > that shows the server was fine, it was just the missing DNS

Re: gunkies.org is down or?...

2019-07-04 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 07:19:53AM -0400, Diane Bruce wrote: > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 03:57:04AM +0200, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: [...] > > > > 158.36.191.230 gunkies.org www.gunkies.org > > Which is exactly what I did to make it work. I thought that was clear >

Re: gunkies.org is down or?...

2019-07-03 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 08:21:39PM -0400, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > From: Diane Bruce > > > Works fine. > > Probably a left-over cached entry; neither my ISP's DNS, nor MIT's ("Host > gunkies.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)") can resolve it at the moment. Yeah. And so it cannot be

gunkies.org is down or?...

2019-07-03 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
I have just noticed that. => (885 3):host gunkies.org Host gunkies.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Looks like it fell off the edge of the world. Gog still has pages in cache, time of caching for one particular page I am reading is May 30th, 09:38:55 GMT. Is it really down? Could it come back?

Re: NASA Ames (Moffet Field) Computation Division?

2019-07-02 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 08:34:15PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > Anyone know what hardware was at NASA Ames in the late 70s? I've got > some tapes from there and would like to avoid guessing. > > --Chuck I remember that few years ago someone wrote a short note about competing with NASA

Re: Modems and external dialers.

2019-06-10 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 01:43:40PM +0200, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 20:06, Fred Cisin via cctalk > wrote: > > > > I don't think that my Fossil (Palm-OS WATCH) does IRDA. > > I should find somebody who will pay me money for such a piece of > > crap^H^H^H^H NEAT

Re: Kids these days...

2019-06-10 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 07:56:29AM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote: > Get a load of this: > http://www.gopherprotocol.com > > I pointed them to RFC 1436 in case they haven't been paying attention. The lousy page does not open in any of four browsers I tried (lynx, w3m, dillo, even firefox).

Re: Service for converting CD-ROMs into ISO files?

2019-05-05 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 11:30:49AM +0100, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote: > Paul, > > I assumed you wanted some one else to do the work! > I suspect that if these are commercial CDs you will run into issues with > Copyright. > Commercial services that do Photos to CD etc. will generally want to be

Re: TI Explorer Lisp machine tapes

2019-02-20 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 03:47:08PM -0800, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > http://bitsavers.org/bits/TI/Explorer/cartridge_tapes > > the 2.6.0 diag 6.0 bootable and 6.0 patches are probably the most interesting > > has there been ANY posts about the Explorer simulator in the last decade? Now

Re: RS/6000 7043-140 boot floppies

2019-02-18 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 09:49:30AM -0800, Alan Perry via cctech wrote: > > Is there some trick to making boot floppies for the RS/6000 7043-140 > (a mid-90s PReP architecture machine)? > [...] > The NetBSD boot floppy images are confusing to me. The files are too > large to fit on a 1.44M

Re: Amiga, AtariST, soft repos [was: Re: Looking for: 68000 C compilers]

2019-02-10 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
Guys, Thanks for the tips and info. Wrt: - C-Lab Notator - I do not think I will need this, as it seems to be musician's stuff. - Amiga vs Atari quality - I have never had any hands on experience with AtariST, so I will stick to other people's opinions for a while... - TOSEC - I have

Amiga, AtariST, soft repos [was: Re: Looking for: 68000 C compilers]

2019-02-07 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 09:06:03AM -0600, John Foust via cctalk wrote: > At 03:13 PM 2/6/2019, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: > >Lattice was the thing, back when I had Amiga. Too bad I could not > >afford a harddisk :-). > > As I related here back in 2005 and 2007: > >

Re: Looking for: 68000 C compilers

2019-02-06 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 10:13:57PM +0100, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: [...] > quite a few compilers in there: > > http://aminet.net/tree?path=dev And on page 1 of 5 in /dev/asm section I have spotted at least two disassemblers, there might be more. Caution: never used any. http://a

Re: Looking for: 68000 C compilers

2019-02-06 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 06:44:27PM +0100, Götz Hoffart wrote: > Hi, > > I could offer Lattice C 3 and 5 for 68k / Atari ST. > > Regards > Götz Lattice was the thing, back when I had Amiga. Too bad I could not afford a harddisk :-). BTW, I just recalled the Aminet is still there and seems to be

Re: Looking for: 68000 C compilers

2019-02-06 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 03:08:14PM +, Phil Pemberton via cctalk wrote: > Hi, > > I'm (still) trying to reverse-engineer a ton of M68K ROM code which > was apparently compiled with a circa-1990 C compiler. > > Does anyone have copies of any of the following -- or any other C > compilers for

Re: EmuVR & videogames & monitors...

2019-01-17 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 02:50:01PM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 1/17/19 12:57 PM, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 11:29:54AM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > >> On 1/17/19 10:04 AM, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: > >> > >

Re: EmuVR & videogames & monitors...

2019-01-17 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 11:29:54AM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 1/17/19 10:04 AM, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: > > > Monolith in a bedroom, anybody? > > Speaks of the generation, I guess--a bookcase with no books. Just in case you have just judged me: if I pos

EmuVR & videogames & monitors...

2019-01-17 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
Hi there, Those who complained about diminishing stash of 4:3 monitors, soon you will have them all emulated, together with your favourite pdps and standing in vr recreation of your bedroom of the era: [ EmuVR Lets You Play '80s/'90s Videogames--in '80s/'90s Virtual Reality Settings

Merry Christmas

2018-12-25 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
Folks, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, thanks for all interesting reading matter and let there be plenty of interesting stuff to read about in a future, too. :-) -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did

Re: remove bad yelpMATERIAL INGEST. adams associates COMPUTER CHARACTERISTICS QUARTERLY 1963

2018-12-16 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 05:06:06PM -0500, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: > CORRECTION>>>   Should have  said  there are  some  days  I wish I > could  cut  out HALF the nerve  fibers in my  hands to destroy them Sorry about that. However, there is a chance you (or your device) has been posessed by

Re: meHp lOi semimuG

2018-12-08 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 06:28:51PM -0800, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > Yes. > I replied to the spam, as shown below, although I switched it from > cctech to cctalk. [...] > Other than your reply to Michael Mulhern's message, I never received > the post from Michael Mulhern that you were replying

Re: cctalk/cctech

2018-11-27 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 08:59:35AM -0700, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > On 11/27/2018 12:15 AM, Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk wrote: > >I think if everyone can refrain from posting non-cc stuff (and in > >this I would include: Queries about modern HW or SW without a > >direct CC relevance, long

Re: Text encoding Babel. Was Re: George Keremedjiev

2018-11-25 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 04:46:50PM -0800, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: [...] > Is FORTRAN considered modern enough? [...] > What about APL? Although its structure is fairly straight-forward, > it does, indeed, have a unique character set. To supply this train of thought with some numbers: - my

Re: Text encoding Babel. Was Re: George Keremedjiev

2018-11-23 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 11:44:23PM +0100, Tomasz Rola wrote: [...] > Just my wet phantasies about how such things work or might work. It > only requires one lousy admin to make it true, or a good one fired and > never to be heard from again. > > Perhaps asking your ISP could give you some clues.

Re: Text encoding Babel. Was Re: George Keremedjiev

2018-11-23 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 08:56:09AM +1100, Guy Dunphy wrote: > Resend, just in case that screen-cap image attachment fails. It is also here: > http://everist.org/6F2a/cctalk_rcvd.png > > >Will require > >some way to compare mailboxes in search of pattern in missing > >emails... Which may or may

Re: Text encoding Babel. Was Re: George Keremedjiev

2018-11-23 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 07:01:17PM +0100, Liam Proven wrote: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 at 18:54, Tomasz Rola via cctalk > wrote: > > > > Turn off trashing mails with Unicode in Subject and see if this solves > > a problem? > > *Loud laughter in the office*

Re: Text encoding Babel. Was Re: George Keremedjiev

2018-11-23 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 11:55:18AM +1100, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: [...] > > I see them because I'm using an old email client - Eudora 3 (1997.) > I stick with this specifically _because_ it doesn't understand UTF-8 > or any other non-ASCII coding, especially in the header, and hence > simply

Re: George Keremedjiev

2018-11-23 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 07:20:25PM -0500, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: > wrong not everybody sees it this is the only list serve problems... > I suppose modern email programs either do not see or know what to do > with the characters... please consider using the delete key and not > reading things

Re: George Keremedjiev

2018-11-21 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 02:24:55PM -0600, John Foust via cctalk wrote: > At 02:03 PM 11/21/2018, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: > >I sold him my extra classic 8 with the plexi covers on it... sn 200 > > series we kept sn #18 > > Side question: What process is turning

Re: Looking for optical grid mouse pad

2018-11-13 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 07:12:49PM +0100, Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctech wrote: > On 11/10/18, 6:49 PM, "Rico Pajarola" wrote: > > > > I have tried to print my own mousepad, but the mouse only works in > the y direction on it. > > there were 2 versions of that mousepad, and the symptom of

Re: Object-oriented OS [was: Re: Microsoft-Paul Allen]

2018-10-29 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 05:40:54AM +0100, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: [...] > Anyway, I think it is obvious that doing mere OO system was not really > big deal. Some of those projects were dying of old age by then. Some > frameworks, like PVN, are nearly 30 years old today. PVM, not P

Re: Object-oriented OS [was: Re: Microsoft-Paul Allen]

2018-10-29 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 05:53:30PM -0400, Sean Conner via cctalk wrote: > It was thus said that the Great Tomasz Rola via cctalk once stated: > > Ok guys, just to make things clearer, here are two pages from wiki: > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-orie

Re: Desktop Metaphor

2018-10-29 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 01:14:32AM +, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > On 10/29/18 8:59 PM, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: [...] > > and there are packages for dosbox, qemu and simhm albeit I cannot say > > if versions are acceptable. The rest could perhaps be compil

Re: Desktop Metaphor

2018-10-29 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 05:43:37PM +0100, Holm Tiffe via cctalk wrote: [...] > For mission critical stuff this may be ok, but what's the > advantage for the desktop if you can't even run Virtualbox or Qemu, > simh, cpmsim, dosbox and other related stuff? > The same problem on Dragonfly, Nice File

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 06:11:14AM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote: > First up is the addition of Crescent Software's entire product line. > The company produced a number of good library suites in the late 80s > and early 90's. Note these are all DOS products - the Windows > product line was sold

Object-oriented OS [was: Re: Microsoft-Paul Allen]

2018-10-26 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
ght have swallowed that. I think it was possible to have this. But, not from MS. And as time shows, not from anybody. On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 07:34:32PM -0700, Chris Hanson wrote: > On Oct 20, 2018, at 10:31 AM, Tomasz Rola via cctalk > wrote: > > > > > Oooh.

  1   2   >