On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Ali wrote:
Next up is a HUGE CD-ROM and FTP site archive I've been working on.
http://www.retroarchive.org/cdrom/index.html
What I've done here is pull CD-ROMs from the Internet Archive and make
them easily browseable. I've also extracted the contents of each of
the
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
in the early 90's.
http://annex.retroarchive.org/crescent/index.html
On Wed, 24 Oct 2018, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 10/24/18 10:53 AM, ben via cctalk wrote:
I have no idea what is in a modern home computer, but I suspect
it still follows the same design of the IBM PC. Single CPU
with segmented memory and bit of DMA here and there.
Wow...
You are out
On Mon, 22 Oct 2018, Jim Manley via cctalk wrote:
windowing desktop per user, while X Window not only supports multiple
desktops per user (each with its own context that can be swapped in to
occupy the display area), but natively supports remote desktop access from
a number of users over
On Fri, 10 Aug 2018, John Many Jars via cctalk wrote:
I'm sure it's been years since I've darkened anyone's door around here.
I still have this idea that someone should write a proper BBS system (and
run it) for RSTS...
...the age old problem is getting data in and out of it to connect it to
IBM DOS Technical Reference (the 3 ring binder + box)
Greenleaf Software Comm Library (3 ring binder + box)
I would be interested in these. Shipping would be to 98338.
I don't think any of these will be a problem mailing to U.S.
P.S. I am still waiting on confirmations for the two
On Sat, 14 Jul 2018, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk wrote:
Got the call yesterday. Transplant operation was a success. Still at the
hospital recovering. Will update when able.
\o/
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, Jason T via cctalk wrote:
Summer is almost here and that means it's time to get it in gear and
start planning our next Vintage Computer Festival Midwest. Astute
Ping me when the shirts are ready. :)
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On Tue, 5 Jun 2018, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Ed,
*throws rocks at Fred for top posting*
:D
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On Tue, 22 May 2018, Len Shustek via cctalk wrote:
For the last five years I've been working with Qualcomm and others to allow
the Computer History Museum to release the source code of what was, in my
opinion, the finest email client ever written: Eudora. It's finally done!
On Thu, 17 May 2018, Ed Sharpe via cctalk wrote:
wonder how many are running that version of alpine that exists errors?
The problem isn't on the destination end, it's on the origin.
Asking me to adjust my email client to fix your problem is like a noisy
neighbor demanding I wear earplugs.
On Thu, 17 May 2018, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, 16 May 2018, geneb wrote:
On Wed, 16 May 2018, Ed Sharpe via cctalk wrote:
OK I see there is a mix of photos in this directory!
some tape reader some drum 2 separate topics.
Ed, I don't know if you (or anyone else)
On Wed, 16 May 2018, Paul Koning wrote:
On May 16, 2018, at 8:28 PM, geneb via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Wed, 16 May 2018, Ed Sharpe via cctalk wrote:
OK I see there is a mix of photos in this directory!
some tape reader some drum 2 separate topics.
On Wed, 16 May 2018, Ed Sharpe via cctalk wrote:
OK I see there is a mix of photos in this directory!
some tape reader some drum 2 separate topics.
Ed, I don't know if you (or anyone else) can see this, but there's two
junk characters at the end of every word you write. I see
On Thu, 10 May 2018, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
On 05/10/2018 07:18 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote:
Rich, if you point a reader at nttp.olduse.net, you can start reading in
1988 again. :) The most recent messages posted are from 05/10/88. The
messages that appear on the server are exactly
On Wed, 9 May 2018, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
From: Seth Morabito
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2018 9:23 AM
As an aside: If you were active on Usenet in 1989, what software were you
using?
1988-89 is about when I started reading Usenet newsgroups. At first, I used
rn under Ultrix (on a VAX
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Then they upgraded the model 1 to reduce the cords and cables, and made the
Model 3. I don't know whether the resemblance to the Northstar Dimension was
deliberate.
I think the primary driver for the Model III was that the Model I would no
On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, Curious Marc via cctalk wrote:
On Apr 16, 2018, at 6:31 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
On 04/16/2018 06:11 PM, CuriousMarc via cctalk wrote:
And lifting the sticker reveals the BIOS chip is just a W29C020P-12, a
regular 256k x 8 Flash
On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, geneb via cctalk wrote:
I'm probably WAY over simplifying this because I don't have a grasp of the
optics involved, but wouldn't it be possible to get a good image of
individual pages on a microfiche by using a DSLR
On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, et...@757.org wrote:
I'm probably WAY over simplifying this because I don't have a grasp of the
optics involved, but wouldn't it be possible to get a good image of
individual pages on a microfiche by using a DSLR with the right lens and a
CNC X/Y table made from one of
On Wed, 28 Mar 2018, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
The Illumitran uses bellows, but for a lot of DEC fiche, the page size is
constant so extension tubes might actually be better - they won't slip.
Initially I was going to suggest an Illumitran, but I don’t think it
would work that well with
On Wed, 28 Mar 2018, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
I wonder if you could use a photographic enlarger and a flatbed
scanner to do this.
This is a rather interesting question, it’s highly impractical, BUT, it
might be a way for someone like me to get copies of single pages. A
slightly more
On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
It's probably foolish and irrational, but I somehow just don't trust the
bargain-basement 4TB drives to perform long-term.
Am I being silly?
Not really. Have you looked at the drive statistics published by
Backblaze? Here's a report for
From: "cctalk"
To: et...@757.org, "cctalk"
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 11:48:22 AM
Subject: Re: PATA hard disks, anyone?
On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Ethan via cctalk
wrote:
and well... let's just say that "newer"
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Zane Healy wrote:
I’ve been using the HP SFF systems. I think the i5 I got specifically
to run SIMH is a 6300. It’s an i5-3470 3.2Ghz system with 4 GB RAM. I
had to add a hard drive, but had an old 500GB drive laying around.
That’s plenty big to backup and migrate the
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Zane Healy wrote:
Really on the VAX side, emulation makes sense. For $75, I picked up a
HP i5 system that’s dedicated to running SIMH 24x7, and I also have
SIMH running on my HP i7 ESXI system, and on a RPi2. The i7 is my
fastest “VAX”.
Zane, what's the host OS
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
storage into my Cluster. Long-term I’m looking to drastically cut my
power needs by taking physical systems offline, except when needed.
A billion times this. :) I turned four physical machines (x86 servers)
into 8 virtual machines on a
On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
Really on the VAX side, emulation makes sense. For $75, I picked up a
HP i5 system that’s dedicated to running SIMH 24x7, and I also have SIMH
running on my HP i7 ESXI system, and on a RPi2. The i7 is my fastest
“VAX”.
Zane, what's the
On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Marc Howard via cctalk wrote:
Umm, I'm missing something here. It can't possibly be $149.50 as listed on
the webpage. I would think that would be the price for the bare board if
anything.
As far as I know, it's a complete kit. It's been the same price since
it's
On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
This turned up on Fess Bouc yesterday and it was news to me.
It's a DIY replica of an original IBM PC motherboard:
http://www.mtmscientific.com/pc-retro.html
That's actually been around for 3 or 4 years. So far I've made successful
saving
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018, Charles Anthony wrote:
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 6:44 AM, geneb via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
What do they have up there for Honeywell? Any DPS-8’s? I know they
should have at least a box of GCOS-8 m
On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
What do they have up there for Honeywell? Any DPS-8’s? I know they
should have at least a box of GCOS-8 manuals (in hindsight, the only
manuals I regret sending up there).
Zane, they've got a DPS-8 maintenance/operator/? panel sitting right
Here's another pile of photos. These are mostly of the basement and 3rd
floor storage areas.
https://imgur.com/a/ti86K
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2018, Evan Koblentz via cctalk wrote:
Here's a sneak preview of the shirt design for all of the 2018 Vintage
Computer Federation events. As usual, each event will have a different shirt
color.
Dan Roganti aka Ragooman used to design the VCF East shirts. Any similarity
to him
On Tue, 30 Jan 2018, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:38 AM, Bill Degnan wrote:
https://archive.org/details/LOGIC_AppleII_Disk-CPM014
is this what you mean?
While that's useful (thanks!), I'm really looking for the complete ZCPRn
On Fri, 17 Nov 2017, Liam Proven wrote:
On 17 November 2017 at 16:44, geneb via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
Liam, if you need me to I can build a full distro of OpenDOS 7 - I've got a
machine that I can build the original sources on.
Thanks!
For now, I'm trying to avoid bu
On Fri, 17 Nov 2017, william degnan via cctalk wrote:
I have a few original Dr dos disks. Versions 5, 6, 7. Would these help if
I am imaged and uploaded to my site?
Liam, if you need me to I can build a full distro of OpenDOS 7 - I've got
a machine that I can build the original sources
On Mon, 6 Nov 2017, Walter Irizarry via cctalk wrote:
Hey friend,
This is merely something really amazing, I'm telling you, you have to
take a look
http://www.spaaam
No spammer, I don't.
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On Wed, 1 Nov 2017, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Ethan via cctalk
wrote:
I'd get a RS232toWIFI dongle, they're cheap and easy to make a connection
via simple terminal software to an outside telnet target.
I don't think the RS232 to
On Wed, 1 Nov 2017, Ethan via cctalk wrote:
I'd get a RS232toWIFI dongle, they're cheap and easy to make a connection
via simple terminal software to an outside telnet target.
I don't think the RS232 to WIFI dongles from the one guy are often
unavailable. I think the creator hand solders
Advanced Electronic Applications PK-64 PAKRATT-64 - packet radio modem for
Commodore 64; excellent condition - $60
Is this complete? (cables, manual, etc)
Thanks!
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On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
I'm considering doing something that actually
downloads my Gmail content locally and keeps it
in sync periodically, but I haven't really
looked at what's necessary for that.
On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, Angel M Alganza via cctalk wrote:
Have a look
On Wed, 18 Oct 2017, Geoffrey Oltmans via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
??
VisiCalc was written and developed in Massachusetts. 3 thousand miles
from Silicon Valley.
Right. That was sarcasm on my part, since we
On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
> From: Jack Harper
> I HATE and LOATHE bloatware - e.g., so much MicroSoft stuff.
Some of us consider contemporary Linux/etc bloatware.
systemd.
'nuff said. :)
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On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote:
I think he has a few of these left. The big problem is the RAMPACK
plastic cases are recycled from old ROMPACKs and these are in short
supply.
I googled "tektronix rampack" to see what they looked like. That would be
absurdly easy to 3D
On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, Ethan via cctalk wrote:
Hi,
trying to check some MFM drives I have on my shelf.
Have an IBM PC AT, with an WD1003 controller in it.
So, what is the best(?) or easiest piece of software,
to format the drives, check for bad blocks, etc.?
I think I remember something like
On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
From what I can determine off the web, Digiac made quite a range of
training tools, both analog and digital. One particular one could be a
prize for some collector--a 25-bit (!) mini capable of running FORTRAN:
I'm trying to find out more information about a Digiac 4500 S-100 bus
system that will eventually be coming my way. The machine was originally
obtained through an estate sale and all the docs were thrown out. :(
It appears to be some kind of computer system trainer, but information on
the
Jason, can I order a 2x shirt from you?
tnx!
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Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies.
ScarletDME - The red hot Data
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
complaint over at godaddy.com's hosting forums.
There's your problem. It's the cost of hosting with that dumpster fire
known as "godaddy".
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2017, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 08:33:16AM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote:
[...]
For example, if you sent classiccmp.org an email with your "from" header
tweaked to be from ge...@deltasoft.com, the mail server will reject it
because your m
On Tue, 25 Jul 2017, Paul Koning wrote:
It's a pretty safe assumption considering the fact that any mail admin
worth their salt (and Jay certainly is) will have their mail systems
configured to reject mail from non-authorized senders. For example, if
you sent classiccmp.org an email with
On Fri, 7 Jul 2017, Michael Brutman via cctalk wrote:
Vintage Computer Federation is pleased to announce an expansion of the
Vintage Computer Festival series to the Pacific Northwest.
Finally! :)
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On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
I have therefore come to the conclusion that people don't want my scans
(for whatever reason). And I am not going to waste my time scanning manuals
as a result. So no Philips P800 schematics, etc.
Instead of that, why not just upload the scans
On Mon, 22 May 2017, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, 22 May 2017, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Does your PC have real RS232? A lot of "RS232" ports are serial ports, but
not with correct RS232 levels. If you have "TTL RS232" [sic] it won't work
with an actual RS232 port.
The
On Fri, 19 May 2017, John Labovitz via cctalk wrote:
Another BBS obscurity —
I ran a BBS in the early 80s called The Bethesda RCP/M. Those of us who
couldn’t afford dedicated lines often used a method called ‘ringback.’
This was a clever way to share a regular home phone with a modem.
The
On Fri, 19 May 2017, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On 18 May 2017 at 22:06, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
The plate on the back of my 11/93 says 345 Watts. That's about a fifth what
your
wifes hair dryer draws. Or slightly more than 3 100 watt light bulbs
On Thu, 18 May 2017, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
8250 is a VAX, not a PDP-11. I doubt it even ran off of 120v single phase.
Um, yeah. It did. I bought the machine for $500 from Mannesmann Tally in
Kent, WA. A friend and I removed the 8250 from their machine room and
transported it
On Thu, 18 May 2017, allison via cctalk wrote:
Never forget, BBS were about storage and cheap which at that time were mostly
opposed (disks weren't cheap!). The amount of Ram and CPU were less
important
considering what had to be done. Often the modem and hard disk were as
costly
as the
On Thu, 18 May 2017, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
As for power, if you have a wife and/or kids, a PDP-11's power
consumption is not even above the noise floor in your electric bill.
(Unless your trying to do it with RA disks!!)
I used to have an 8250 with four RA-81s and a TU-81+. The
On Thu, 18 May 2017, allison via cctalk wrote:
On 5/18/17 12:51 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote:
So a 11/03 aka a lsi11 would be to slow for such things? Such as those
Heathkit h11 lsi11 macheans? Witch was a hobyist pdp11 for those that are
unfamiliar with the hearhkits
No, BBSs were
On Thu, 18 May 2017, Mike Whalen wrote:
The machine is plenty fast. There's been BBSes run on a VIC-20. You
can't get much slower than that. :)
In New Orleans, there was a rumor someone ran a VIC-20 BBS with no
persistent storage.
Maybe true but you also might not be able to tell!
I seem
On Thu, 18 May 2017, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote:
So a 11/03 aka a lsi11 would be to slow for such things? Such as those
Heathkit h11 lsi11 macheans? Witch was a hobyist pdp11 for those that are
unfamiliar with the hearhkits
The machine is plenty fast. There's been BBSes run on a VIC-20.
On Thu, 18 May 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 05/18/2017 08:16 AM, allison via cctalk wrote:
The real question is why BBS? What is it trying to fix or enable?
You put the words into my mouth. Thank you.
Because. That's why. :)
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On Thu, 18 May 2017, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 06:07:03AM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote:
I'd be surprised if you did. This is however, an excellent opportunity to
write your own. :) (At least to me, it would be a fun project.)
FACEBK-11
*ducks*
You can run
On Thu, 18 May 2017, william degnan wrote:
That's what I was thinking. I have some FidoNET files and mail from the
Rainbow. My guess the BBS would have been written in Pascal or C if for
the Rainbow (guess only) so if you wanted to attempt to port, after you
find a Rainbow BBS? I'd start
On Wed, 17 May 2017, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
If someone had done such, it might have been in boardwatch if anywhere. I
tossed tons of those in previous moves, so can't help with that. Plus as has
been stated it would have been rare, and looking thru paper copies would be
a long
On Wed, 17 May 2017, william degnan via cctalk wrote:
There may have been Rainbow BBS programs, but I doubt anything for the
11/34. You may have to write this.
That reminds me of a bit of obscure trivia...
Back in the early days of FidoNet, one or more of the Fido BBS sysops had
DEC
On Wed, 17 May 2017, devin davison via cctalk wrote:
I have both a pdp 11/34 and 11/23 and am trying to find some bbs software
to run. Preferably something that will run under an os and not monopolize
the whole machine.
Any suggestions? i have not had much luck finding anything.
I'd be
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Jay West via cctalk wrote:
But the classiccmp server... has significantly more than that, due to all
the classiccmp related websites and archives/repositories that are hosted
there.
One of these days you should post a list. :)
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2017, Rick Bensene via cctalk wrote:
ATHANA was a magnetic media manufacturer. They made floppy disks and
cartridge hard disk drives that were compatible with many vendors' hard
disk system.
IS. http://www.athana.com/
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On Thu, 13 Apr 2017, geneb via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, 13 Apr 2017, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
From: allison
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 3:18 PM
BASIC, why is that the most universal language implemented on nearly every
micro and many other systems.
Because it was the language
On Thu, 13 Apr 2017, geneb via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, 13 Apr 2017, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
From: allison
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 3:18 PM
BASIC, why is that the most universal language implemented on nearly every
micro and many other systems.
Because it was the language
On Thu, 13 Apr 2017, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
From: allison
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 3:18 PM
BASIC, why is that the most universal language implemented on nearly every
micro and many other systems.
Because it was the language offered on the GEIS timesharing system when a
On Wed, 12 Apr 2017, Adrian Stoness wrote:
Modicon, ge faunic, Allen Bradly, Allen Heath, hewert Rand, Siemens, abb,
idec, square d, some I know I'm forgeting
You don't "program" an STL file. It's a 3D object layout for a 3D printed
part. :)
(also, don't top post!)
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On Wed, 12 Apr 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
You might find more fertile ground plowing the plctalk.net forum when
your questions relate to the STL/SCL/FBD/LAD/CSF area.
FWIW, "STL" in Siemens-talk is an acronym for "Statement List". Why it
isn't "SL" is anyone's guess.
I kept trying
On Mon, 3 Apr 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 9:37 AM, AJ Palmgren via cctech <
cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hi, Plamen & Al,
I'm just catching up on some of these past threads involving QIC
cartridges. What ever became of these Paragon tapes? Were you able
to
On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
I need to study if there is a way to get push feed from interesting threads
or such. I don't peruse much on sites
anymore, and prefer to have an RSS feed or such and scan that with one liners
or so.
You can subscribe to threads or
On Sun, 19 Mar 2017, william degnan via cctalk wrote:
Has anyone made a ROM that runs BASIC and allows use of the disk drive to
save on an IBM PC? This always bugged me that if you forgot to insert your
dos disk before the computer powered up that one could not enter a basic
command to tell
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
I'm waiting for the rise of cell phones to make it
202x All the world's an ARM running Android
on Linux. :)
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Warner Losh wrote:
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 1:13 PM, geneb via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Below the user interface, is Android very similar to Linux?
I'm pretty sure Android runs on top of Linux.
A
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Below the user interface, is Android very similar to Linux?
I'm pretty sure Android runs on top of Linux.
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Liam Proven wrote:
Yeah, god forbid you confuse the poor user with more than one button.
Jeez, Gene, can't you find some _new_ nonsense?
Why? The old nonsense still works! I gotta bring it out now and again to
keep the rust off and the joints moving freely. :)
This
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Raymond Wiker wrote:
On 14 Mar 2017, at 23:49 , TeoZ via cctalk wrote:
Jobs had to get fired for Apple to recall the expansion capabilities of the
Apple II days and start making the Mac II series.
Jobs left Apple in 1985 and returned in 1997. The
On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Chris Hanson wrote:
On Mar 14, 2017, at 1:46 PM, geneb via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
Although I suppose you might have been talking about the software. I mean,
without that whole display/windows/menu/mouse thing he copied from Xerox, to
allow ordinary
On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Zane Healy wrote:
I’m reminded of the current, and ludicrous, Mac Pro. :-(
I wish the reply-to pointed at cctalk@classiccmp.org!
I just took a peek at the Mac Pro. People actually buy that thing? I
just got a Dell Dimension 7910 workstation at work. It cost around
On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
When people decided Steve Jobs had become a god?
Right about the time that whole "computer for the rest of us" started...
an unreliable source, who was working in Apple at the time, said that it was
being touted "for the unwashed masses, or
On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
> From: geneb
>> When people decided Steve Jobs had become a god?
> Right about the time that whole "computer for the rest of us" started...
Yes, of course: nobody had thought of a cheap personal computer before him.
I'm going to
On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
> From: Zane Healy
> Good grief! When did Lisa stuff get so expensive?
When people decided Steve Jobs had become a god?
Right about the time that whole "computer for the rest of us" started...
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
> From: geneb
> A lot of /completely irrelevant/ technicalities, especially considering
> the material in question is a physical object, not software.
Doesn't matter. The various matters I raised (copyright, restricted rights,
trade
On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote:
All that being said, the entire contents of the binder is obviously a
photocopy! Sellable or not? Of interest or not?
Sellable.
g.
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk wrote:
Folks,
Well I recently retired and was asked to return all training materials
to my employer. I refused as the contracts included in the front of the
books clearly stated that these were licenced to me personally not to
whoever paid for
On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, David Griffith via cctalk wrote:
I'm almost out of Atmel 29C256 flash roms. I use these primarily for P112
boot roms. I'd like some more because I still have P112 boards to sell...
and I want them for other projects. Mouser, Digikey, and Jameco don't have
it anymore.
On Sun, 12 Mar 2017, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
On 3/12/2017 3:15 PM, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote:
I have a number of binders that have pretty thorough AIX documentation, but
the trouble is, there are from security classes that were taught by private
companies. Am I legally allowed
On Sat, 11 Mar 2017, Raymond Wiker via cctalk wrote:
Could it be that your FT232R adapter is using a counterfeit chip? FTDI
changed their drivers some time back so that they refuse to work with
chips that are not manufactured by FTDI.
It's not that the driver wouldn't work, it would
On Tue, 28 Feb 2017, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Tapley, Mark via cctalk
wrote:
On Feb 28, 2017, at 9:55 AM, Jim Brain via cctalk wrote:
Analog, which is my nemesis, curses me again.
In my opinion, I fail to
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