Re: Emails going to spam folder in gmail

ers messages into those folders, I ticked the box that says never to send messages matching the filter to spam. Problem solved. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lpr

Re: misc stuff - free

On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 21:23, geneb wrote: > > Hopefully Cancel Moose can return too. :) http://cm.org/ ...? -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liam

Re: misc stuff - free

ory -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053

Re: misc stuff - free

On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 18:20, geneb wrote: > > > That would be glorious. :) Looks like it's happened. https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Board_members https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSLO/program/proposals/3028 -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@

Re: misc stuff - free

his happen?) Also could be, of course. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053

Re: WTB: CompuPro / Godbout RAM 17

mething that is _not_ BIN, the key is to use a sniping tool. I only use them very sparingly as I think it's a bit unethical, but sadly, I think a lot of people use them. I personally use a Polish one: https://snip.pl/ -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.u

Re: misc stuff - free

anagement occuring again. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053

Re: misc stuff - free

On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 20:09, Johan Helsingius via cctalk wrote: > > This is one of the reasons why I miss good old USENET - with a public list > of groups, and a clear hierarchy. I was thinking exactly the same thing. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Em

Re: misc stuff - free

or any conceivable subject or interest -- most created by kids without the wits to check for others' before creating their own. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liam

Re: misc stuff - free

ou prefer, and broker comms for you... No charge, of course! :-D -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegr

Perkins-Elmer 3600 and PETOS

because there is someone in the Free Pascal Compiler fora looking for help getting data off one -- they're still using it for data monitoring! https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,52458.0.html -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail

Re: Atari ST diskettes

is that some of the discussions and the memories make me feel young... -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Tel

Anyone want some LMI Lisp Machine tapes?

label, not assignable to the tapes unlabled The tapes were not tested for readability by me and will be sold as is. Shipment world wide, please ask for shipment costs - additional insurance cost might be apply. » -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/

Re: Atari ST diskettes

> somebody else has already sent one. So I guess you are in the USA? If you don't get much response here, for many of whom I suspect the ST is a bit modern, let me know and I can share it on some relevant groups on FB for you. Anonymised or obscured as you prefer. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://a

Re: NEC NEAX IVS2 PBX with NEAXMAIL AD-8 - hard drive clone, issues

but still maintained) dd_rescue which is the product that inspired the GNU one; the newer one is more capable. It images but skips and continues on error, whereas ``dd`` will simply fail. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts

Re: NEC NEAX IVS2 PBX with NEAXMAIL AD-8 - hard drive clone issues

fo to try to troubleshoot the issue. • What did you connect it to? • How did you connect it? • What did you try to copy it onto? • Partitioned how? • Formatted with what FS, using what tool? • What OSes did you try? • What errors did you get? -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Em

Re: evil thing to ask but I need keystroke logger

elieve that this leads to inaccurate information. Not exactly a citation but... https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/picture/2020/nov/14/berger-wyse-on-emojis-cartoon -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Fa

Re: Regional accents and dialects (Was: The best hard drives??

ritish" than he did in the days of Fry and Laurie. :-) > We have a Wooster, Ohio, but owing to the local rural accent, there's > a "Wster/Wuhster" pronunciation split. The local joke is > "Wooster, where the cows say 'Muh'". :-D -- Liam Proven – Profile:

Re: Regional accents and dialects (Was: The best hard drives??

on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfIWX5vGTEk ← sweary but highly amusing > (The most significant landmark is the B R O M O S E L T Z E R clock - what > time is it when both hands are on 'O's?) *Googles it* Coo... -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix

Re: The best hard drives??

egards us as impenetrable. Prime example: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6u0reg Discussion: https://www.goodiesruleok.com/articles.php?id=17 -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lprove

Re: The best hard drives??

On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 04:21, Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk wrote: > > On Nov 17, 2020, at 7:03 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk > mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote: > > Argh! I was not posting to the list that I thought I was. I apologise > for using that nickname. :-( >

Re: The best hard drives??

ed in some regions of the US, and mere surprise was no longer adequate and I was forced to resort to astonishment. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053

Re: The best hard drives??

On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 15:36, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > Most "Merikens" just let the bank do the conversion when they buy > from overseas. Argh! I was not posting to the list that I thought I was. I apologise for using that nickname. :-( -- Liam Proven – Profil

Re: The best hard drives??

I wish I had known then... > It also turns out that £1 ≈ €1 ≈ $1. Indeed so. Sadly, most Merkins don't know this and wail about not understanding Weird Forrin Money. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twit

Re: Way off topic: posting to the list using default Samsung Android Mail Client

On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 19:27, Angel M Alganza via cctalk wrote: > Most of them, yes. Then there is K-9 mail for Android, > which almost makes me to not miss Mutt, when using the phone. Which is what I proposed in the first reply, complete with links. -- Liam Proven – Profile:

Re: Way off topic: posting to the list using default Samsung Android Mail Client

then use K9Mail. It is the only mobile client I know of that can handle bottom-posting, trimming quotes etc. You can do it by hand with a lot of work in the Gmail client, but it means manual selection and trimming etc. I have not found any way to force plain text on mobile. -- Liam Proven – Profile: h

Re: Way off topic: posting to the list using default Samsung Android Mail Client

On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 00:44, Ali via cctalk wrote: > Any > ideas/suggestions? TIA! https://k9mail.app/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fsck.k9=en=US -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gma

Re: Floppy disk: one drive per face

On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 21:41, ben via cctalk wrote: > > Is the Author find able? Do he still have 8" floppies? Dude. Really. Pay attention. The author has been posting in this thread. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHan

Re: AOL CD and other old PC software...

On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 22:48, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > > On 10/15/20 2:32 PM, Kevin Lee wrote: > > Link for the prodigy work please? Seems interesting.. > > Sorry, I don't have a link per say. That's _per se_, BTW. Latin. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/per_se -- Lia

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 73, Issue 13

more about the discipline to put your head down and swallow what's put in > front of you than about smarts. Definitely. > I was told a couple of decades ago I'd regret not having stuck it out for > my Ph.D. I'm still waiting for that regret to kick in; in the meantime, > many others ha

Re: Maynard MaynStream

the Facebook Vintage Computer Club for you, if you'd like, and act as intermediary for comms (assuming you're not on FB). I think it has over 15,000 members now. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Fac

Re: college study

ull time plus running a > business, and over 40 years old. This may be tricky in a country where I do not usefully speak the language -- but if we get through the newest pandemic outbreak and out the other side next year some time, when Ada is a little older, it's worth investigating. Thanks for

Re: Maynard MaynStream

n. At least offer it for sale! I had a later model, which used VHS-C cassettes. I should get another one, as I have a bunch of backup tapes and some stuff on there is probably the only copy I own now... -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTal

Re: college study

t studies. I studied 23 hours per week (3x5h days, 1x8h day) and consistently had a weekday off. I really could have handled more, and I think I should have been pushed to do that. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro..

Re: Concurrent Controls Multiuser DOS

it on customers' systems in the late 1980s. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053

Re: [TUHS] Fwd: Choice of Unix for 11/03 and 11/23+ Systems

ler/ http://www.jcwolfram.de/projekte/mxe11_en/main.php -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +42

Re: [TUHS] Fwd: Choice of Unix for 11/03 and 11/23+ Systems

the noise, then. May I ask, for my continuing education: what's a "Mini-Unix binary"? -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 –

Re: [TUHS] Fwd: Choice of Unix for 11/03 and 11/23+ Systems

; V6 is rock > solid running under simulators. Would the x86-32 "reimplementation" of v6 UNIX be able to mount and/or read-write such filesystems? https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gM

Re: AW: CGA card (Mitsubishi Electric) with 192K RAM?

by the DOS 6 era, IIRC. So I'd expect a later-era machine to be compatible enough that Norton etc. would have no problem. I ran things like PKARC and PKZIP successfully on DOS-compatibles in the late '80s, because they only did legal file access and wrote plain text to the screen. I wouldn't expect SP

Re: NetWare 5.1 / BorderManager 3.5

d ROW versions? > I've learned that there are different Support Packs, "Domestic" and > "International" having to do with the 128-bit vs 56-bit encryption woes > of the '90s. Oh dear... TBH I have a suspicion nobody may have kept stuff like that, even inside Novell... :( -- Li

Re: AW: CGA card (Mitsubishi Electric) with 192K RAM?

s MS-DOS 3.3 but offers most of the benefits of MS-DOS 4 and some of MS-DOS 5 (both of which take a *lot* more RAM on an XT-class machine.) -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven

Re: NetWare 5.1 / BorderManager 3.5

.com/product/netware/5x I have physical media of this somewhere: https://archive.org/details/Netware_5_Operating_System_3_User_Demo_Novell -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Fli

Re: Brittle plastic

gt; > And so they are basically forced to thwrow away items which cost them a > fair bit to buy. :-o I did not know it affected fabrics, too, but I guess it makes sense. That's awful. Perhaps the problems of accumulating microplastics in the biosphere will resolve itself sooner than expected... -- Lia

Re: Basement Haul

eneral. Otherwise I'd share this on FB for increased interest/attention. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Te

Re: IBM 3270 compatible terminal connected to Hercules IBM mainframe emulator.

are attracting some approving comments, too. :-) -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053

Re: Sun SPARCstation LX boot from CDROM?

his happened prematurely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague But it is a general problem with almost all capacitors. I could be wrong but this seems more likely than rodent pee... Personally, I have failed caps in 3 Apple Macs -- one PowerPC and two MC68000. All are awaiting repai

Re: Looking for an IDE simulator

which is probably going to involve multiple convertors and controllers: micro-SD to SD, then maybe to SATA to PATA, and associated points of failure etc. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedI

Re: Buying and running an IBM PC-XT in 2020

-XTs, it's a smooth continuum, but it's easy to forget that it really hasn't been, and the days of text-only single-tasking command-line machines with moving parts are last century... -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro.

Buying and running an IBM PC-XT in 2020

I found this blog post quite interesting. I've left what I hope is an informative, helpful comment. I wonder if anyone else here would have more to add? https://www.forsure.dev/-/2020/05/19/640-kilobytes-of-ram-and-why-i-bought-an-ibm-5160/ -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven

Re: SIMH on low overhead platform

Rasbian: https://sites.google.com/site/beebox68k/news/beepi10 But by the same token it ought to be possible to do this with SimH or anything else... -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/

Re: Any interest in "newer" hardware, software?

it is worth... I was. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053

Re: Compaq Smart Array 3200 Controller as a SCSI Controller

. Because that way, if the machine died, you could restore the backup onto a new, totally different box, so long as it was running ESX, and it would Just Work™ with no driver or activation issues -- the virtualised hardware was the same. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lp

Re: Compaq Smart Array 3200 Controller as a SCSI Controller

it's also very powerful and flexible. Dedicated hardware just can't do stuff like this any more. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087

Re: About to dump a bunch of Compaq SCSI disk caddies (and disks)

re saying go to some obscure website or other instead, but most of those are US-based. I am not in the USA and don't want to be. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype

Re: IBM System/36 5360 For Sale - Alabama

The items are in Alabama, in the USA. This seems to be the keyboard: https://www.almostanythingopelika.com/product-page/vintage-1979-ibm-5251-beam-spring-mechanical-keyboard-7361073-system-36-34 -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangout

Re: About to dump a bunch of Compaq SCSI disk caddies (and disks)

On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 17:05, Johan Helsingius via cctalk wrote: > > Thanks - good hint. I was a bit surprised to see the prices people are asking > on fleabay. I think I sold my last 2 or 3 before I emigrated for circa €50 each. 5.25" HD floppy drives went for more than that. -

Re: About to dump a bunch of Compaq SCSI disk caddies (and disks)

nticity, or they want the speeds, noises etc. too. I suspect you will easily find people who would take them for _at least_ the cost of shipping them. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Lin

Re: A tool many of you may make find useful!

rely run Windows. Won't cost you a penny/cent, runs on any version of Windows, no licensing or anything ever. https://www.7-zip.org/ -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – S

Re: IDE-SD adapter question

into a 500MB partition? Won't help. It's at a level underneath partitioning. A disk manager might help. Here's a legit freeware download: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/ontrack-disk-manager.html This is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_Manager -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven

Re: Future of cctalk/cctech

On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 17:36, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote: > There are *no* "modern" newsreaders, > apart from the occasional kitchen-sink monstrosity which does nothing well.) There was... https://panic.com/blog/the-future-of-unison/ -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://abo

Re: Origin of 3-D printing (again)

ne, vaguely and > inaccurately. One of them was, at that moment, molding the bodies of > fighting planes out. of plastic, all in one piece and in one operation. That is really quite remarkable! Good find! -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMa

Re: E-Mail Formats RE: Future of cctalk/cctech

country's currency in a foreign language, etc. There is a standardized internationally-agreed set of 3 ASCII letter symbols for this reason and this is why people use them. USD = US dollar GBP = GB pound EUR = Euro CZK = Czech crown (korun/koruny/koruna, depending on quantity, in Czech) Etc etc.

Re: E-Mail Formats RE: Future of cctalk/cctech

On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 10:42, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote: > > I wrote this as one dollar => $1.00 Dollar symbol, one > This as one pound => $1 Dollar symbol, 1 > And this as one euro => €1 Euro symbol, one > Lastly one cent => ¢1 Cent symbol, one Fascinating.

Re: Future of cctalk/cctech

On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 19:04, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: > I do not know, anyone using a text only mail reader anymore! Several of my colleagues at a Prominent German Linux Distributor use Mutt/Neomutt. I don't, I am on Thunderbird and rather like it. -- Liam Proven – Profile: ht

Re: Amiga Vendors?

. Exactly. Maybe once a week, turn it off, put in the new floppy from HQ, turn it back on, or something like that. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamprove

Re: Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu

and > training facility. Actually, I have a good friend in Baltimore whom I've never met F2G. We hope to visit each other one of these days. I will try. Thanks! BTW, I found the Fredric Brown short story: https://www.you-books.com/book/F-Brown/Etaoin-Shrdlu -- Liam Proven – Profile

Re: Ancient transistor ?computer board

too obscure. Gregor Mendel, yes; my doctor's office was on Mendelova Namesti, Mendel Square. I went to the Mendel musem. Janaček gets a theatre. All the others are only famous if you're Czech. But poor Gödel, one of the 20th century's greatest mathematicians -- nothing. -- Liam Proven – Pr

Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu

o I should know more about this stuff, but I never worked at the repro end of things... -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (

Re: Ancient transistor ?computer board

SimCE8mToI35IWS3Ty8j01-6bibKH_kB-t35aIdkv7JIC-YZ1sDoguSdyk8h1xbM2d9i_U > LFQYVC0oCHESgEGdqzGO3ntgwmV4khjgaQkcp2Bk-TuC7Nwrl57JI=w654-h871-no?authuser= > 0 Um. Gosh. Yeah, you are going to need to use a URL shortener. Bit.ly is pretty good as it lets you create your own memorable links. -- Liam Proven – Profile: h

Re: Aquarius (was Re: Apple 1)

e QL! Language issues meant I did not find out much more... http://www.bytefest.cz/ -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053

Re: Amiga Vendors?

e state and run natively on the Raspberry Pi. Linux is still UNIX™, which is a complicated OS which requires a lot of maintenance, whereas children kept Amigas running for years. AROS on a £25/$30 computer could be a good fun/educational toy OS for kids. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.m

Re: Amiga Vendors?

I guess it was good at its job, and probably required very little maintenance... -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053

Re: Amiga Vendors?

out 4-CPU MP might have been a rather nice box for running MacOS 10.2 or 10.3 on. https://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Framework.cfm?page=XPostFacto3.html -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter

Re: Amiga Vendors?

of those still (which will probably need a home one day > as I no longer have any hardware that supports it). I got it from somewhere > back in my "collect all things Acorn-related" days, but I don't think I > ever even plugged it in. Wow! -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://ab

Re: Amiga Vendors?

he single most expensive component in a computer, and drew the most power. ARM boxes circumvented both of these. https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/55562.html -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

t; > Just looking for something new/interesting to learn about. Thanks! Relevant to your interests, as they say: « Hacking the Planet (with Notcurses) A Guide to TUIs and Character Graphics Nick Black, Consulting Scientist nickbl...@linux.com March 24, 2020 » https://nick-black.com/htp-notcurses

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

broken to really ride any more. Sensible ICE cars I could afford do not interest me at all. But electric cars do. I don't know why. And to my great surprise, at 52, I have a baby daughter. A car would be useful. A motorbike wouldn't. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email:

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On Fri, 29 May 2020 at 19:56, Tony Duell wrote: > > On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 7:24 PM Liam Proven via cctalk > wrote: > > There were also some pretty high-spec British microcomputers, but they > tended to flop owing to the price. Things like the HH Tiger (did it > ev

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ge that is the problem when you're having trouble with it." "So, I'm curious what are these so called better languages, and what were they built on seeing as it couldn't have been any modern operating system that I could find." Sometimes I despair... -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://ab

Building an IBM 3270 terminal controller

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- and all > the while CP/M had been losing ground to MS-DOS in the business market > for years! But marketing promised it, so it had to happen... :/ This amazes me, but I think the evidence is incontrovertible now. It's been a very educational discussion! Thanks to all who have joined it!

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On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 21:47, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > On Tue, 26 May 2020, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > >>> I do not know what a "sheering section" means. > >> Typo: "cheering". :-) > > > > Aha! I still didn't know, but t

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urns the 6502 Beeb into a Z80 CP/M machine. They had both CP/M files (trivial to convert) and BBC files (_not_ trivial and took us some work). I think in my first decade at work, that is the only time I ever saw an old DR CP/M system -- but I came in about a decade after CP/M's peak. --

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On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 06:01, ben via cctalk wrote: > What keyboard are you using to get the fancy arrows? Unmodified IBM Model M from 1991 in my case. ⇒ is compose, equals, greater-than Snag is, I can't get one going the other way... I get less-than-or-equal-to etc: ≤ ≥ -- Liam Pro

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ce of a very cheap clone PC.) Amstrad didn't learn from this -- after 3 million-selling PCW models, the 2 successor models couldn't run CP/M and both flopped. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053

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usiness" computer with 8" drives, with CP/M available. > Model 16 had coprocessor board with 68000. Er. Right. So it goes: Model I → Model III → Model 4 *And* ↘ Model 2 → Model 12 → Model 16 ... ? Where do the VideoGenie and Coco fit in? -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://ab

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t; > w0ghz(-at-)comcast.net > > if you are interested in them. I'd be tempted by 1 but I'm on another continent. :-( -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Sky

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wn, and maybe you think that was super important. But > maybe you mean the choice of putting the Z80 in there. I can't believe > CBM let him do it, since that piece was so expensive, compared to MOS > parts. But, it happened. Still, I' m not sure your context here. I am just surprised th

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gt; the Hitachi drives I have IIRC -- very possibly erroneously -- Amstrad bought in the early units, then realised that there was a good margin on the media and took over making its own, around the time that the OEM discontinued them because 3.5" had won in the market. -- Liam Prov

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On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 17:49, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: > > On 26 May 2020, at 12:57, Liam Proven via cctalk > > wrote: > > > > & the Isle of Man. :-) > > Suddenly your comments about Trash-80s and MSX machines makes perfect sense > too :) Fair enoug

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ce > or Super Expander, I forget which. Again, Commodore promised *ALL* > Commodore released carts would be compatible [ except the CP/M cart, > which they could ignore, on a technicality], and Bil had to use the Z80 > to boot the machine to accommodate that one cart!) Astonishing. But then

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On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 23:17, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: > > > Wait, PETs didn’t have graphics and Tic Tac Toe didn’t exist? Where did you > LIVE? The _name_ was new to me. & the Isle of Man. :-) -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@c

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nded like Wikipedia all right. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053

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ey > want to force me to switch to 10, and probably have to search to find > suitable software for what I want. I put Windows Thin PC on an old Sony Vaio P recently and yes, I had forgotten how much I liked it... but I am happier with MacOS and Linux now. > I have always been impr

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ally, yes, I am using the web interface -- also note that it is able to bottom-post plain-text replies just fine. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamprov

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it for the RAM check before turning off. Or hit C-A-D, let it boot all the way, then turn it off! Great bit of work, if I may say so! -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lprov

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product he was given to salvage. It became OS/2 NT which became Windows NT. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053

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ned. I > think the C128 only got greenlit because CBM needed some cash flow and > the Amiga was taking too long to ramp up sales. In my opinion, the C65 > was an early retro machine, trying to bring back some of that 80's home > computer vibe. That's an interesting take. I think I

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if possible, as it overlaps with Copy-On-Write, a major modern filesystems feature. TUI is the term used in the Oberon context and is a bit more distinctive; the only overlap I know is a defunct travel company. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk –

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On Sat, 23 May 2020 at 22:24, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > On Sat, 23 May 2020, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > > It is pretty much the *same* BASIC in the PET, VIC-20 and C64. It got > > trivial adjustments for the hardware, but bear in mind: the PET had no > > graphi

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