Re: Sparc Laptops

On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 03:21:21PM -0500, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote: > I have to laugh. The Sun dealers think these are absolute junk, and most > have been destroyed. I was warned to avoid Sun laptops at all costs. > If more are wanted than these 6 please let me know. Maybe I can scare up

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Re: Old newsreader source code

On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 09:23:26AM -0700, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote: [...] > Does anyone have better Google-fu than I do? Or perhaps you've got earlier > sources squirreled away? I likely have some on one of the various Unix shovelware CDs of the early 1990s. It's probably quicker for you to

Re: '90s era PC recommendation.

On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 10:02:38PM -0600, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: Sadly, I have long had a soft spot for Pentium Pros. Which probably means that I'll pay through the nose for one some day. You're not the only one :) I've owned a few over the years, including a Dell Optiplex GXpro that

Re: Sparc Laptops

> > I have to laugh. The Sun dealers think these are absolute junk, and most > > have been destroyed. I was warned to avoid Sun laptops at all costs. > > If more are wanted than these 6 please let me know. Maybe I can scare up > > some more. I know the recyclers just kill them as useless old junk.

Re: Sparc Laptops

> On May 9, 2018, at 2:18 AM, Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk > wrote: > > Let's hope that can change and we can save some of them. Anything > non-x86 from Tadpole is interesting for many here I think. I would love > an Alphabook! > >

Re: R: Sparc Laptops

I'd be interested as well if any are left. I sold a Sparcbook a while back that was missing the hard drive caddy. I just couldn't find a caddy and had a random buyer that wanted it for a museum. It did have it netbooting though, and they are fun machines! On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 8:15 AM, Bill

Re: Old newsreader source code

On 05/08/2018 12:23 PM, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote: > I'm experimenting with setting up UUCP and Usenet on a cluster of 3B2/400s, > and I've quickly discovered that while it's trivial to find old source code > for Usenet (B News and C News), it's virtually impossible to find source code >

Re: R: Sparc Laptops

If they were cheap enough I would take a couple, too.  Haven't used a Sparc in quite some time but always liked the architecture. bill On 05/08/2018 04:52 PM, Mazzini Alessandro via cctalk wrote: > Uh this is going to turn interesting... you mean it would be possible to get > one very, very

Re: Sparc Laptops

Next time I am in the storage building, I will bring the box marked "Tadpole" home with me and see how much is inside it. Then will see about finding it a new home May take a month -pete On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 10:08 AM, Bill Degnan via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I have a

Re: Old newsreader source code

On Wed, 9 May 2018, Mike Loewen via cctalk wrote: I recall using 'trn' as my goto reader, back in the day. Some of us still use trn to this day Gordon

RE: Old newsreader source code

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 3600, the staff Ultrix system at LOTS), but soon

Re: '90s era PC recommendation.

On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 03:46:35PM +0100, Michael-John Turner via cctalk wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 10:02:38PM -0600, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > > Sadly, I have long had a soft spot for Pentium Pros. Which probably > > means that I'll pay through the nose for one some day. > > You're

Re: Old newsreader source code

On 05/09/2018 02:17 PM, 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

Re: Sparc Laptops

I have a Tadpole S1 but before I could so much the disk drive stopped working. I've not had much time to figure out what the problem was. It acts like it isn't getting power to the drive but I've not been able to get schematics for that part of the machine. I have schematics for the processor

R: Sparc Laptops

Remote storaging ? -Messaggio originale- Da: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] Per conto di Pete Lancashire via cctalk Inviato: mercoledì 9 maggio 2018 19:29 A: Bill Degnan; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Oggetto: Re: Sparc Laptops Next time I am in the

Re: Old newsreader source code

On 05/09/2018 03:23 PM, Frank McConnell via cctalk wrote: It occurred to me (and before I saw Peter Corlett’s post) to go looking for some of the old CD-ROMs that have been uploaded to archive.org, and I found this one: https://archive.org/details/CDROM_March92 While browsing through the

Re: Old newsreader source code

> On May 9, 2018, at 4:38 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk > wrote: > > On 05/09/2018 03:23 PM, Frank McConnell via cctalk wrote: >> It occurred to me (and before I saw Peter Corlett’s post) to go looking for >> some of the old CD-ROMs that have been uploaded to archive.org,

HP 2100 prototyping card

https://www.ebay.com/itm/163039837440 obviously NOT used..

Re: Old newsreader source code

On May 8, 2018, at 9:23, Seth Morabito wrote: > I'm experimenting with setting up UUCP and Usenet on a cluster of 3B2/400s, > and I've quickly discovered that while it's trivial to find old source code > for Usenet (B News and C News), it's virtually impossible to find source code > for old

Re: Old newsreader source code

Just a quick look at http://sources.vsta.org/comp.sources.unix/ found "rn version 4.3" from 1985 in volume 1. Others may be available if you look thru the archive. bill On 05/09/2018 05:23 PM, Frank McConnell via cctalk wrote: On May 8, 2018, at 9:23, Seth Morabito wrote: I'm

RE: HP 2100 prototyping card

bought some,at a computer Faire in silicon val. that did not even have the buss and flag goodies you see on that one.. had 20 wish I still had some more.. we used them to build voice cards for 1000 systems using national digitalker... chip set and would haunch along with heat treating

Re: Sparc Laptops

I have a pretty cool DEC 486 laptop. I am unsure if they made a Pentium laptop before they were bought out. http://www.vintagecomputer.net/digital/DECpc_433SLC/DECpc_433SLC_Premium_open2.jpg b On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 11:46 AM, Zane Healy via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > On May 9,

Re: Sparc Laptops

I have a DEC Pentium 200 Laptop... It appears to be like this hinote https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-Digital-HiNote-VP-Laptop-Notebook-PC-Windows-95-Pentium-200MHz-MMX-32MB/362199249233?hash=item5454c1f151:g:tGUAAOSwrFtaRriI Warner On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 11:08 AM, Bill Degnan via cctalk <