Re: Lotus Notes and Domino

2018-05-24 Thread Garrett via cctalk
Lotus notes was great! I was a system administrator back around 1997 or so, managing Lotus notes running on a larger AIX server at HQ, and a bunch of smaller AIX systems at various remote offices. I really enjoyed working with it.Sadly, it was the only place I ever got to work with it! *Ga

Re: OT- Thunderbird ugliness, Was: Eudora email client source code released

2018-05-24 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 05/24/2018 04:54 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: I'm not entirely sure that I do use gmail for SMTP. I rarely use it to send mail--i use it mostly as a "junk mail collector" or for something that requires a gmail address. Fair. I don't recall if I used my own relay for outgoing SMTP fr

Re: OT- Thunderbird ugliness, Was: Eudora email client source code released

2018-05-24 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 05/24/2018 02:43 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > I was meaning to imply that "gmail as a server" can mean multiple > things.  As in stating "gmail as a server" by itself is not enough to > I also suspect that you are using Gmail as an SMTP server, despite not > saying such. I'm not entir

RE: Original CAD code in the wild?

2018-05-24 Thread Rick Bensene via cctalk
Many moons ago, at Tektronix, I did a stint working in the Scientific Computer Center's Computer-Aided Design Development group. There was a software package, written in FORTRAN (77, I believe) on Tek's Control Data Cyber 73 system running KRONOS, called PIRATE. It was an automated circuit board

FS: HP 2116C Manual Set

2018-05-24 Thread Sellam Ismail via cctalk
Ahoy HP Aficionados! I have for sale here one nice set of documentation for the HP 2116C. There are a total of three original HP binders, each with a multitude of individual documents, as follows: Binder No. 4 HP BASIC (April 1970) HP FORTRAN (April 1970) Small Programs Manual - SIO Teleprinter

Re: OT- Thunderbird ugliness, Was: Eudora email client source code released

2018-05-24 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 5/23/2018 9:28 AM, JP Hindin via cctalk wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 May 2018, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: >> so I use Thunderbird on a Linux platform.  It is awfully slow. >> Sometimes it takes 5 minutes to download 3 messages when I start it up. >> >> At home I use Thunderbird with standard Linu

Re: OT- Thunderbird ugliness, Was: Eudora email client source code released

2018-05-24 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 05/24/2018 02:30 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: You haven't been paying attention, Grant. I mentioned a bit earlier that I used POP3 with gmail. I have. You mistook my meaning. I was meaning to imply that "gmail as a server" can mean multiple things. As in stating "gmail as a server

Re: Nekochan has been shut down :(

2018-05-24 Thread Ethan via cctalk
I didn't see it being mentioned here on cctalk :( http://archive.is/dJgyQ but I'm hearing some refugees saying that the chances of the site going back online are not looking good I just posted my SGI Indigo PSU repair to that site and was planning to copy it over to my personal blog this weeke

Re: Nekochan has been shut down :(

2018-05-24 Thread Ben Sinclair via cctalk
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 3:37 PM, Mazzini Alessandro via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I didn't see it being mentioned here on cctalk :( > There is a new site up at http://irix.cc that's hoping to fill the void. Hopefully it takes off! -- Ben Sinclair b...@bensinclair.com

Nekochan has been shut down :(

2018-05-24 Thread Mazzini Alessandro via cctalk
I didn't see it being mentioned here on cctalk :( http://archive.is/dJgyQ but I'm hearing some refugees saying that the chances of the site going back online are not looking good

Re: OT- Thunderbird ugliness, Was: Eudora email client source code released

2018-05-24 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 05/24/2018 10:08 AM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > On 05/23/2018 09:41 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: >> I'd prefer to keep my own messages > > I do too. > >> and just use gmail as a server. > > What sort of server?  IMAP, POP3, SMTP, file & printer, fax? You haven't been paying attent

RE: Extracting and viewing the original Mac bitmap fonts today

2018-05-24 Thread Marc Verdiell via cctalk
Thanks! Great find. Marc -Original Message- From: cctalk On Behalf Of Liam Proven via cctalk Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 10:12 AM To: Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Extracting and viewing the original Mac bitmap fonts today https://medium.com/@bzotto/hidden-sheep-and-

Lotus Notes and Domino

2018-05-24 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 05/24/2018 11:08 AM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: Though I've got to say, I think the absolute very BEST online / offline email client integration that I've ever seen was Lotus Notes and Domino.  (I'll send a follow up email with details as to why I was /so/ impressed.) I was EXTREMELY

Re: OT- Thunderbird ugliness, Was: Eudora email client source code released

2018-05-24 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 05/23/2018 09:41 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: I'd prefer to keep my own messages I do too. and just use gmail as a server. What sort of server? IMAP, POP3, SMTP, file & printer, fax? I'm asking sort of to be ornery but it does make a difference which you mean in the context of th

Re: OT- Thunderbird ugliness, Was: Eudora email client source code released

2018-05-24 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 05/24/2018 07:55 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: It's about the best browser-based email I've ever seen, though, and I've tried most of them since Elonex HTMaiL in 1995. Most suck. A few are OK. Gmail is actually good. They're dropping useful features all the time, though. Gmail's web UI

Re: VCF East Photo Thread

2018-05-24 Thread Evan Koblentz via cctalk
Many are appearing on the VCFed mailing list already To clarify: that's the VCF/Mid-Atlantic list. The only VCFed-wide discussion board is VC Forum. :) I had a good time and recommend the show to all who can make it out there Thanks!

Re: Eudora email client source code released

2018-05-24 Thread Wouter de Waal via cctalk
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! Yay! Now someone can fix the bugs :-) (6.2 here. Massive archive of

Re: OT- Thunderbird ugliness, Was: Eudora email client source code released

2018-05-24 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Thu, 24 May 2018 at 14:51, Peter Corlett via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > There are two parts to this. The first is that Thunderbird is a bloated > monstrosity ejected when Mozilla collapsed under its own weight and went > supernova. It's had years of feature creep since. Up to a p

Re: OT- Thunderbird ugliness, Was: Eudora email client source code released

2018-05-24 Thread Peter Corlett via cctalk
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 09:28:40AM -0500, JP Hindin via cctalk wrote: [...] > It's slower than molasses in january. Moving eMail around between 'folders' > often has it sit and spin the beachball for 2-3 seconds - dozens of times a > day. And I just can't work out why - I mean, yes, it's a lot of r