Interdata extender board

[Al Kossow via cctalk]

In case someone needs it.
It is for a 70 series.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/283652630301

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

[Steve Malikoff via cctalk]

Jim said
> On 10/17/2019 6:52 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote:
 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 Javascript-encrusted that it's
>>> not at all easy to bulk archive from them. I tried a few tools (httrack, 
>>> wget,
>>> curl) with no valid results, but I only used some basic settings.
>> For the messages, I used
>>
>>  https://github.com/andrewferguson/YahooGroups-Archiver
>>
>> Unfortunately, the (rather inadequate) Y!G API for files makes it difficult
>> to iterate over files in a directory tree. I ended up manually downloading
>> them, since it was only about 30 files and not worth ginning up something
>> to scrape them. Some people have used
>>
>>  https://github.com/csaftoiu/yahoo-groups-backup
> I didn't get that to work.  Has anyone here got suggestions? Contact off
> list.  It is getting errors, and I spent about an hour trying to figure
> it out.
>
> every issue was a bug in either Python that was unresolved, or the tools
> they were using, not errors in the tool, so I'm not really interested in
> a lot more debugging.
>
> I suspect it ran at some point, maybe I've got the wrong versions of
> some sort.
>
> thanks
> Jim
>> to get everything but it needs a MongoDB instance which seemed kind of
>> overkill for a one-time dump.


I set it up with python 3.7.3, pip installed the required modules such as
Selenium, installed geckodriver for Firefox (but I don't run Firefox on this
machine, I use a popular fork) and it emitted an error that referes to Selenium
not being the correct match to Firefox.
I have other things to do so that's where I left it for now, will try it out
again sometime soon with an earlier actual Firefox.

Steve.

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

[Al Kossow via cctalk]

On 10/23/19 5:44 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:

>> https://github.com/csaftoiu/yahoo-groups-backup
> I didn't get that to work.  Has anyone here got suggestions? Contact off 
> list.  It is getting errors, and I spent about
> an hour trying to figure it out.

I couldn't make it work either.
This is what archiveteam knows currently
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Groups

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

[Fred Cisin via cctalk]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2019, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
I suspect it ran at some point, maybe I've got the wrong versions of some 
sort.


I have no special knowledge.  this is just uninformed speculation, . . .

If it is old enough, could it be that the changes for "NEO" broke it?
(possibly deliberately, since Yahoo had no desire for anybody to access 
below the user level)

Re: Yahoo Groups going away

[jim stephens via cctalk]

On 10/17/2019 6:52 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote:

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 Javascript-encrusted that it's
not at all easy to bulk archive from them. I tried a few tools (httrack, wget,
curl) with no valid results, but I only used some basic settings.

For the messages, I used

https://github.com/andrewferguson/YahooGroups-Archiver

Unfortunately, the (rather inadequate) Y!G API for files makes it difficult
to iterate over files in a directory tree. I ended up manually downloading
them, since it was only about 30 files and not worth ginning up something
to scrape them. Some people have used

https://github.com/csaftoiu/yahoo-groups-backup
I didn't get that to work.  Has anyone here got suggestions? Contact off 
list.  It is getting errors, and I spent about an hour trying to figure 
it out.


every issue was a bug in either Python that was unresolved, or the tools 
they were using, not errors in the tool, so I'm not really interested in 
a lot more debugging.


I suspect it ran at some point, maybe I've got the wrong versions of 
some sort.


thanks
Jim

to get everything but it needs a MongoDB instance which seemed kind of
overkill for a one-time dump.

Vigra MMI-210 (VME DSP/audio card) documentation?

[Chris Hanson via cctalk]

I just acquired a Vigra MMI-210 VME DSP/audio card that I’d like to get 
working. Does anyone happen to have manuals or know where I could find them?

The Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive provides some programming 
information 

 so if I can configure the card, I can make it do things.

Unfortunately I have yet to find an installation guide. Since it’s a VME card, 
it has plenty of jumpers that will need to be properly set before it’ll 
actually work.

Anyone have a source for more information, or another place to dig for it?

  -- Chris

IBM 129 keypunch: How to remove the complete mechanics unit?

[P Gebhardt via cctalk]

Hello all,

I may get a 129 IBM keypuncher soon and was wondering, if for transportation- 
and weight-related reasons, the punch mechanics can be carefully removed 
with the cables from the rest of the sytem?
>From the IBM documents, it seems that after removing the top cover from the 
>table, the mechanics connected to two holders (one one each end) could be 
>separated from the table by removing two screws and two bolts (one of each on 
>every side) and deconnecting all cables down in the electronics cabinet.

See for instance: UvA Computermuseum

UvA Computermuseum




Did anybody make any experiences with this?
I am grateful for any suggestions and/or recommendations.

Best regards,
Pierre


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