Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 10/17/2019 8:02 PM, Ali via cctalk wrote: The groups are free as long as you use less than 1GB of storage. More storage costs. Unfortunately, since this past February, you also have to pay in order to have Groups.IO do the moving of your messages, files and photos. No freebie for that

Re: Looking for DEC RA80 (or RM80, R80) service manual (EK-ORA80-SV or similar)

2019-10-17 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 8:59 PM Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 8:45 PM Josh Dersch via cctalk > wrote: > > > > I haven't been able to find the actual service manual for the R80 (or the > > very closely related RA80 and RM80 drives). Anyone have a copy stashed > >

Re: Looking for DEC RA80 (or RM80, R80) service manual (EK-ORA80-SV or similar)

2019-10-17 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 8:45 PM Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: > > I haven't been able to find the actual service manual for the R80 (or the > very closely related RA80 and RM80 drives). Anyone have a copy stashed > somewhere? Have you already seen this one? RA80 Disk Drive Service Manual,

Looking for DEC RA80 (or RM80, R80) service manual (EK-ORA80-SV or similar)

2019-10-17 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
Hi all -- I have an R80 drive in my VAX-11/730 cabinet that I'm trying to get running. Symptoms are: most of the time when the Run/Load switch is depressed, the drive will begin spinning up for 1-2 seconds (sometimes as long as 3-4 seconds) and then stop, faulting with error code 01 ("Spindle

RE: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Ali wrote: I saw a posting about this on one of the groups I am in (XXCopy) and it seems as if groups.io is not free. At least there was talk of a $110 payment. Groups.io has a free level. But, if you subscribe to "premium" for one year ($110), then they will do the

RE: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Ali via cctalk
> The groups are free as long as you use less than 1GB of storage. More > storage costs. Unfortunately, since this past February, you also have > to pay in order to have Groups.IO do the moving of your messages, files > and photos. No freebie for that anymore. That explains it. BTW: is

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread John H. Reinhardt via cctalk
On 10/17/2019 9:49 PM, Ali via cctalk wrote: The guy who runs groups.io is the one who created onelist, which became e-groups, with got swallowed up by Yahoo!, and then he left. He knows how to do it. People who have switched over seem happy with it. BUT, does he have an appropriate level of

RE: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Ali via cctalk
> > The guy who runs groups.io is the one who created onelist, which became > e-groups, with got swallowed up by Yahoo!, and then he left. > > He knows how to do it. People who have switched over seem happy with > it. > BUT, does he have an appropriate level of resources to handle THAT much >

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > Yeah, it sucks. The Tomy Tutor users group has been there for years, and I > > guess we'll jump over to groups.io. I managed to archive everything last > > night. > > What's your strategy for archiving material off YahooGroups? Their Files and > Photo (photostreams) sections are so heavily

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 10/17/2019 6:08 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote: Cameron said Yeah, it sucks. The Tomy Tutor users group has been there for years, and I guess we'll jump over to groups.io. I managed to archive everything last night. What's your strategy for archiving material off YahooGroups? Their

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote: Yes, other groups i belong to that moved have previously said that groups.io has a method of pulling groups over. Pull rather than push seems to be the way to go. Best to attack it from the groups.io end after setting up the new group there.

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Nigel Johnson via cctalk
Yes, other groups i belong to that moved have previously said that groups.io has a method of pulling groups over. Pull rather than push seems to be the way to go. Best to attack it from the groups.io end after setting up the new group there. On 17/10/2019 21:12, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote: What's your strategy for archiving material off YahooGroups? Their Files and Photo (photostreams) sections are so heavily Javascript-encrusted that it's not at all easy to bulk archive from them. I tried a few tools (httrack, wget, curl) with

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
Cameron said > Yeah, it sucks. The Tomy Tutor users group has been there for years, and I > guess we'll jump over to groups.io. I managed to archive everything last > night. What's your strategy for archiving material off YahooGroups? Their Files and Photo (photostreams) sections are so heavily

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> So if you subscribe to any Yahoo groups, or value any of that content, be > sure to archive it before your friendly telco sends ALL of it to the bit > bucket. Yeah, it sucks. The Tomy Tutor users group has been there for years, and I guess we'll jump over to groups.io. I managed to archive

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
Thanks for the link! Groups are already jumping ship. The popular destination seems to be groups.io, which has some good features. Zane Sent from my iPod > On Oct 17, 2019, at 1:51 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk > wrote: > > A bit off topic, but I figure a number of us are interested in this

Yahoo Groups going away

2019-10-17 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
A bit off topic, but I figure a number of us are interested in this older "social media" mechanism. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/yahoo-is-deleting-all-content-ever-posted-to-yahoo-groups/ So if you subscribe to any Yahoo groups, or value any of that content, be sure

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 16 Message 11 - computer game

2019-10-17 Thread Dr Iain Maoileoin via cctalk
> > Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 12:55:09 -0400 > From: Bob Smith > To: Dr Iain Maoileoin via cctalk > Subject: Re: looking for a program - last gasp questions > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > are you thinking of conquest? >

Re: looking for a program - last gasp questions

2019-10-17 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
Was it in use at Berkeley? I might have it stashed away in some of my BSD-related tapes. --Chuck

Re: looking for a program - last gasp questions

2019-10-17 Thread Bob Smith via cctalk
are you thinking of conquest? https://github.com/jtrulson/conquest conquest Conquest is a top-down, real time space warfare game. It was originally written in RATFOR for the VAX/VMS system in 1983 by Jef Poskanzer and Craig Leres. I spent incredible amounts of time playing this game with my

looking for a program - last gasp questions

2019-10-17 Thread Dr Iain Maoileoin via cctalk
Not star-trek I am trying to track down the source of a unix game . Years and years ago - 1980s - I was in the Computing Science Department at Strathclyde Uni.  and we had a bunch of BSD4 systems running on VAXen. I have memory of - but have never located - a curses based 24 x 80