[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-19 Thread The Doctor via cctalk
--- Original Message --- 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

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-19 Thread The Doctor via cctalk
--- Original Message --- 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

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-18 Thread Wayne S via cctalk
Off the original subject but here’s Google’s description of robots.txt and how Google can show your page in results. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/intro Sent from my iPhone On Aug 18, 2023, at 13:39, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: On Fri, Aug 18,

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-18 Thread Sellam Abraham via cctalk
On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 12:35 PM Paul Koning via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > On Aug 18, 2023, at 12:48 PM, The Doctor via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > --- Original Message --- > > On Thursday, August 17th, 2023 at 13:29, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-18 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Aug 18, 2023, at 12:48 PM, The Doctor via cctalk > wrote: > > --- Original Message --- > 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?

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-18 Thread The Doctor via cctalk
--- Original Message --- 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,

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-17 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 8/17/2023 2:14 PM, John Herron via cctalk wrote: I'm a little surprised noone mentioned Google sheets or something that's cloud native? Probably only accessible from newer systems though but I've debated it since it would be instantly accessible from phone also. Why would you give all

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-17 Thread Ali via cctalk
> I'm a little surprised noone mentioned Google sheets or something > that's cloud native? Probably only accessible from newer systems though > but I've debated it since it would be instantly accessible from phone > also. Sheets is a spreadsheet program, right? Spreadsheets, while nice for

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-17 Thread Wayne S via cctalk
Is Sheets free or do you have to have a paid google account? I just used it at work (paid account) and wondered if a normal consumer could get it for free. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 17, 2023, at 11:14, John Herron wrote:  I'm a little surprised noone mentioned Google sheets or something

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-17 Thread John Herron via cctalk
I'm a little surprised noone mentioned Google sheets or something that's cloud native? Probably only accessible from newer systems though but I've debated it since it would be instantly accessible from phone also. On Thu, Aug 17, 2023, 1:02 PM Wayne S via cctalk wrote: > If you’re okay using a

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-17 Thread Wayne S via cctalk
If you’re okay using a MS product that you can find cheap, Microsoft Access is pretty good. Lotsa tutorials and works well for small databases. Only drawback is it’s Windoze. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 17, 2023, at 08:31, Ali via cctalk wrote: > >  >> >> That may be the rub. The

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-17 Thread Ali via cctalk
> That may be the rub. The installation and update process is... well, > let's just say it > gives me fits and I spent a non-trivial amount of time working out the > procedure. Suffice > it to say that I think quite poorly indeed of composer and yarn, and > really don't think > that there needs

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-16 Thread The Doctor via cctalk
--- Original Message --- 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:

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-15 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Aug 15, 2023, at 12:24 PM, Hans-Ulrich Hölscher via cctalk > wrote: > > I can provide SQL database dumps (PostgreSQL, but adaptable for other SQL > databases) for: > > * ~38,000 hardware items (table "hwr"), e.g. "KA630" "MicroVAX II CPU"(99% > DEC items) Does it use the information

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-15 Thread Hans-Ulrich Hölscher via cctalk
I can provide SQL database dumps (PostgreSQL, but adaptable for other SQL databases) for: * ~38,000 hardware items (table "hwr"), e.g. "KA630" "MicroVAX II CPU"(99% DEC items) * ~117,000 hardware item variants (table "hwrvar"), e.g. "KA630-AB" "1MB without floating point" There are tables for

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-15 Thread Ali via cctalk
> I can think of a couple of options that might be what you're looking > for. The first is > Part-DB-server (https://github.com/Part-DB/Part-DB-server). It was > originally meant for > managing inventories of parts but I've found that it's also good for > managing my inventory > of retrotech.

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-15 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
Here is a good place to start, dump this into a database table https://www.pdp-11.nl/fieldguide.html Bill On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 11:06 AM Douglas Taylor via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > How many items do you need to keep track of? Is it less than 100, a > thousand? > > I tried

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-15 Thread The Doctor via cctalk
--- Original Message --- 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

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-15 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
An XML DTD for computer inventory might be an interesting and useful tool to attempt for injecting and querying parts from a database. The actual table structure should be easy enough. The key is to streamline to use only fields that are shared by all items. I would much rather create my own

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-15 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
How many items do you need to keep track of?  Is it less than 100, a thousand? I tried using LibreOffice Calc to keep track of what I had so I wouldn't go and buy something I already had.  Alas, you know the rest of the story. In order to help organize things at the physical level, I use a

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-15 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 8/14/23 21:40, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: I've been using Libre Office Calc (Linux) to keep track of my new computer collection. I use gnumeric.  When it first came out, it was a toy.  Now, it is a VERY good spreadsheet, with excellent graphing capability, wide import and export

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-14 Thread Dennis Boone via cctalk
> I would also appreciate any recommendations for database software. In addition to GCstar, which is an application you run on your workstation, there are some open source collection management tools aimed at museums and the like. Most of the latter probably require some server side support. A

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-14 Thread Sellam Abraham via cctalk
On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 4:32 PM 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 revision, bus type, where used, etc. > > If you

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-14 Thread Richard via cctalk
In article <20230814235627.9b9f64ab...@yagi.h-net.msu.edu> you write: > > 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 revision, bus type, where

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-14 Thread Mike Stein via cctalk
What do you find lacking in the spreadsheet? Which one, BTW? On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 7:32 PM 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

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-14 Thread Dennis Boone via cctalk
> 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 revision, bus type, where used, etc. If you're using a unix-like operating system, GCstar seems