In Hong Kong any old computing places to go?

[Christian Liendo via cctalk]

Im working in Hong Kong the next few weeks and I was wondering if there is
a place of interest I should check out

Re: In Hong Kong any old computing places to go?

[Christian Liendo via cctalk]

Thanks everyone for the ideas, however I cannot leave Hong Kong and enter
China.  That requires a different visa that I didn't obtain and I don't
have the time to travel that far.

Re: TRS-80 bits

[Christian Liendo via cctalk]

I live in Manhattan, ping me off line maybe I can help.

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 9:37 AM, Bill Degnan via cctalk
 wrote:
> I like that area of NYC, nice place to get a good meal.  I'll be around the
> area in a few weeks, it's kind of near the Lincoln tunnel IIRC, the Javits
> Convention Center, etc.  Just off my memory.
> b
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 7:03 AM Peter Cetinski via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>> I just emailed him.  There’s no way I can get there in the next few days.
>>
>> Pete
>>
>> > On Jun 25, 2018, at 12:27 AM, Jim Brain via cctalk <
>> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Anyone live near this Hotel?  I am just getting home and am just now
>> seeing this.  Evidently, this is a rescue attempt, but I don't have a bunch
>> of detail as yet.
>> >
>> >
>> > Jim
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi Jim
>> >
>> > I sent the below email to Peter yesterday. Have not heard from him.
>> > It would be a pity if neither of you can arrange to get hold of this
>> > stuff. Can you maybe provide backup if Peter can't make it?
>> >
>> > W
>> >
>> > Hi Peter
>> >
>> > TRS-80 bits will be at the Watson Hotel. 440 57th Str. Hell's
>> > Kitchen, NY 10019.
>> >
>> > Fellow is called Marius Killian and he's there today and tomorrow
>> > (24th and 25th). Sorry about short notice but I only came home last
>> night.
>> >
>> > Please make plan to pick up, or for hotel to hold for you. Let me know.
>> >
>> > W
>> >
>>

Re: Cray Origin 2000 From Indiana University Scaamp Project- Rescued

[Christian Liendo via cctalk]

That's awesome. I did Origin 2000 and Onyx 2 repair training over at
the SGI building that now houses the Computer History Museum.

I don't have any parts, but keep us in the loop. I would come down to see that

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 7:58 PM, PhreakShow Telephone Company via
cctalk  wrote:
> I won an auction down at Indiana University for an SGI Origin 2000 System
> and 19 racks.
>

Re: SGI IRIX 6.5 Screen Savers (emulated Indy w/ 24-bit XL graphics) running in MAME

[Christian Liendo via cctalk]

On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 1:52 PM Al Kossow via cctalk
 wrote:
>
> pretty cool..
>

I agree..
I remember someone ported GLTron as a screen saver for SGI and Mac as
well. Probably my favorite screensaver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8FWro9sFJc

Raymond Check discusses MS DOS Floppy Disk Cache

[Christian Liendo via cctalk]

How did MS-DOS decide that two seconds was the amount of time to keep
the floppy disk cache valid?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190924-00/?p=102915

Re: Raymond Check discusses MS DOS Floppy Disk Cache

[Christian Liendo via cctalk]

I meant to say Raymond Chen and it didn't notice the spell check change

Sometimes modern technology sucks.

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 3:18 PM Christian Liendo  wrote:
>
> How did MS-DOS decide that two seconds was the amount of time to keep
> the floppy disk cache valid?
>
> https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190924-00/?p=102915

Re: Nuke Redmond!

[Christian Liendo via cctalk]

Ugh this is old and has nothing to do with what we do

Also is has nothing to do with what anyone is discussing.

The guy make exact copies of restore CDs with Dell and Microsoft
labels, so they were counterfeit.

Re: Nuke Redmond!

[Christian Liendo via cctalk]

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 11:58 AM Ali  wrote:
> In none of the stories I have read, and I admit I haven't been following this 
> closely, there has been no mention of labels being copied (i.e. logos, 
> graphics, etc.). If he did do this then yes he screwed himself royally.
>
> -Ali
>

https://mashable.com/2018/06/07/microsoft-right-to-repair-eric-lundgren-pr-nightmare/

>From the article:


"One thing Microsoft and Lundgren do agree on: it was wrong for him to
put a Dell logo on the discs, which he said he did to make the discs'
purpose less confusing to consumers."

"What I’m guilty of is printing a logo on a worthless piece of
plastic," Lundgren said. "But that’s a civil issue," he said, and
worth a fine, not jail time."


https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-microsoft-restore-disc-20180215-story.html

>From the article:

"In 2013, federal authorities intercepted shipments of 28,000 restore
discs that Lundgren had manufactured in China and sent to his sales
partner in Florida. The discs had labels nearly identical to the discs
provided by Dell for its computers and had the Windows and Dell logos.
“If I had just written ‘Eric’s Restore Disc’ on there, it would have
been fine,” Lundgren said."


I think he should not have gone to jail, this is a civil matter.
However what he did was wrong and it badly affected the recycling
business as a whole. Now other people are not wanting to persue
recycled computers

Chuck Peddle passed away

[Christian Liendo via cctalk]

https://www.team6502.org/

This was on the Team 6502 facebook page

I just received an email from Bill Mensch that Chuck Peddle has died.
He died on December 15. Chuck Peddle was one of the team of eight
Motorola employees and engineers who worked on the 6800 microprocessor
and left the company for MOS Technology in 1974 along with Harry
Bawcom, Wil Mathys, Rod Orgill, Ray Hirt, Mike Janes, Terry Holdt, and
Bill Mensch.

Peddle considered the $300 price point of the 6800 a disadvantage, and
urged Motorola management to pursue a more affordable microprocessor
that could be used in a wider array of applications. When they
refused, Peddle convinced seven other Motorola employees, including my
father Terry Holdt, to pack up their homes and move across the country
to begin work on what would become the 6502 microprocessor at MOS
Technology, a wafer-fab company in Valley Forge, PA founded by a
former colleague of his from General Electric, John Paivinen. After
Commodore Business Machines purchased MOS Technology in 1976, Peddle
oversaw the creation of the Commodore PET computer, the predecessor of
the Commodore 64, the best-selling personal computer of all time.

While curating the information for the team6502.org website, one of my
favorite anecdotes comes from MOS Technology employee, Frank Slattery,
who wrote:

"What a great bunch of guys the Motorola eight were. I was the manager
of the layout people and it was my duty to make sure that the Motorola
eight had every opportunity to do their design work with no problems.
I was standing next to Chuck Peddle when he said to Jack Tramiel, the
CEO of Commodore Business Machines, 'With this chip we can build a
personal computer.' It was the first time I ever heard the words,
'Personal Computer.'"

The rest, as they say, is history...

Chuck was one of the giants of the personal computing industry. Now he
belongs to the ages.

Re: Interesting photos of a computer graphics lab from 1968

[Christian Liendo via cctalk]

I just wanted to say thank you for sending us the link, they are great

Jim Warren has passed away

[Christian Liendo via cctalk]

https://web.stanford.edu/~allison/JimWarren.html

For those who do not know about Jim Warren

Jim Warren's wiki page
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Warren_(computer_specialist)

Re: Women of Computing

[Christian Liendo via cctalk]

I actually created an account to support this but I think it already
has enough votes to get it made. I ended up giving private feedback.

I like vintage computing legos and I have a few of Chris McVeigh's
sets before he went to work for LEGO. I would like to see these sets
get made.

These sets were designed and proposed by an individual and unless
someone takes the time to do one for people like Babbage, Mauchly,
Eckert, or Englebart then you won't see it. Someone designed one for
Alan Turing, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. If you want to see ones for
people who you admire, you need to make it or ask for it.

[cctalk] Re: SGI vs. Mac

[Christian Liendo via cctalk]

I went to Onyx2/Origin 2000 training in Mountain View in the building that
is now the Computer History Museum and I met a lot of Gov folks but I also
met a lot of oil people who used SGIs to crunch data. At the time no one
could touch them but that too changed

As for workstations the one I remember being a real competitor was
Intergraph. They had dual pentium pro boxes with proprietary cards that ran
NT and Softimage. Microsoft bought Softimage to compete with SGI and SGI
bought Alias Wavefront

On Sat, Dec 24, 2022, 4:15 PM Ethan O'Toole via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:

>
> Really without the US government as a customer I wonder how many of these
> companies could have made it on industry alone.
>
> - Ethan
>

[cctalk] Re: Intel 4004

[Christian Liendo via cctalk]

I have a box from Comstar that I was told was a "programmer" that
allowed you to burn ROMs for a much larger computer. I did some
research and found that COMSTAR made a Microcomputer based on the
Intel 4004

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6368812   Page 26

"Compiler programmer I noted with interest the article in the December
1974 issue /pp. 53-55) enti­tled "Self-contained microcomputers ease
system implementation." Comstar Microcomputers, a part of the Warner &
Swasey Company, also provides micro­computer development systems. As a
part of these systems, Comstar developed a Process Control Language
(PCL), which allows the engineer to create mi­crocomputer programs
using English lan­guage commands. This language allows the engineer to
express on/off control functions in ladder-diagram terms and also
provides a simple method for ex­pressing most other control modes. "


"Comstar offers a process control com­piler that is used to compile
the English language program into programmable read-only memory"
(PROM) chips. This system can also erase chips, and edit and program
chips in machine language. These chips are then plugged into a PROM
memory module to provide pro­gram memory for a microcomputer. The
Compiler is built around a Com-star-4 Microcomputer which uses the
INTEL 4004 chip • LeRoy H. Anderson The Warner & Swasey Co. Solon,
Ohio "