I had never heard of the Jim Austin Computer Collection before...
https://www.computermuseum.org.uk/
«
The Computer Sheds
The Computer Sheds hold the Jim Austin Computer Collection, over 1500
computers and many thousands of other artifacts such as books,
calculators, spares, test equipment a
On Wed, 4 Sept 2024 at 15:28, Murray McCullough via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I had not realized it was 27 yrs. ago that Microsoft ‘gave’ Apple $150-$200
> million. It was done to keep Microsoft safe from regulators - for its
> monopoly practices.
No, it was not.
This is an oft-repeated lie.
It was an
On Sun, 1 Sept 2024 at 13:13, Rob Jarratt wrote:
>
> Have to say I would like a 510 for completeness but can’t really house all of
> these, so I can’t make an offer if they have to go as a single lot.
Get them all, keep the 510, sell the others for a starting bid of
£0.01 on eBay UK?
That's wha
On phone, so please excuse the mangled posting.
<<
Thanks to the various people who have messaged me with various help which
has enabled me to be a bit more specific on some of the details.
Looks like I have...
Vt420
Vt510
Data general 6501
Rack mount screen x2
Various keyboards that you can se
On Sat, 3 Aug 2024 at 15:17, Sellam Abraham via cctalk
wrote:
> >
> > Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave,
> > Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma, Sequoia.
> >
>
> Specifically, place names of California.
Yes, that's what I remembered, but I wasn't sure. Never b
On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 at 00:29, Royce Taft via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Wasn’t Vista “Mojave”?
No. That is Mac OS X 10.14.
Apple used big cats for a decade or more:
Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion.
Then it ran out of cats. It switched to iconic places in North A
On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 at 21:32, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
>
> Was 2000 called “Longhorn” internally? If so, the source code for it escaped
> out onto the internet. You can still find it out there.
No.
The planned successor to "Whistler" (NT 5.1, sold as WinXP) was
"Blackcomb", the planned NT 6.
On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 at 13:23, cz via cctalk wrote:
>
> Windows NT and 2000 did not have the "cut through" ability for apps to
> talk to video without going through security proxies, thus games were
> always terrible on them.
>
> Windows XP was the first OS (well aside from Windows 95/ME/whatever)
>
On Wed, 31 Jul 2024 at 13:11, Liam Proven wrote:
>
> So, yes, if replacing just the CPU is possible, replacing the rest of
> the logic board as well is just an implementation issue.
The entire case can just be 3D-printed:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5532530
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/3
On Wed, 31 Jul 2024 at 15:33, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk
wrote:
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> Am i the ONLY person who preferred the win 3.1 user interface? Probably,
> since I have never seen one like it on linux, and everybody else complains
> about it.
Pretty close. I customised it heavily with shortcuts for all my apps
On Wed, 31 Jul 2024 at 06:14, Jim Brain via cctalk
wrote:
>
> In the interest of facts, I don't think this is correct.
>
> Windows NT 3.1 utilized the Windows 3.1 UI look and feel
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.1
>
> Windows NT 3.5 continued the 3.1 look and feel.
>
> https://en.wi
On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 at 23:10, Ali via cctalk wrote:
>
> Unfortunately FreeDOS (as expected given the nature of the project)
> progresses very slowly.
Fair.
There are quarterly updates but they keep very quiet about them.
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/tes
On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 at 17:28, The Doctor via cctalk
wrote:
>
> But, can you integrate the Pico into the Mac Plus chassis and peripherals in
> the same way?
> Replica and cloned boards are probably going to be more important as time
> goes by.
It's a fair point. That would be a lot more work bu
On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 at 09:42, Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk
wrote:
> Yes it started life as NT5 but at some point in got renamed to 2000 and DEC
> Alpha support was dropped. I may have some NT5 Beta CDs in the loft.
I think *all* the non-Intel versions were dropped, weren't they?
There was an unre
On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 at 01:28, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
> Gordon Letwin at Microsoft developed OS/2. But Microsoft sold it off to
> IBM, and it became known as an IBM product.
That is not quite how I remember it...
> Microsoft used some key technology from it in developing WindowsNT.
> With
On Sun, 28 Jul 2024 at 03:18, Murray McCullough via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I came across this today: “Electronics engineer builds 1986 Macintosh Plus
> clone”. Is there some reason one would want to do this? Not sure what the
> point is but it proves it can be done!
It can be done on a Raspberry Pi P
On 24/07/2024 2:12 pm, Paul Koning wrote:
The original is here:https://ir.cwi.nl/pub/13534 and that shows the citation
you should use.
Done.
https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/91041.html
Here's what I wrote:
ARRA was the first ever Dutch computer.
There's an account of its creation entit
Would anyone like to rescue a vintage Pick minicomputer in Manitoba, Canada?
https://discuss.systems/@ahelwer/112836345012817998
«
A wide ask here so please boost: my grandfather is trying to get rid of
an old business computer, and I was wondering whether any vintage
computer people might wan
On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 at 19:18, Gavin Scott via cctalk
wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 7:11 AM Paul Koning via cctalk
> wrote:
> > It's interesting that the designers of ARRA spoke about what they did, and
> > were quite honest about their mistakes. Quite refreshing. Unfortunately
> > that n
On 15/07/2024 9:56 pm, Joshua Rice via cctalk wrote:
https://imgur.com/a/GjiB44R
For all of those not in the group, images above.
BTW you missed the motherboard pic.
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On 15/07/2024 8:52 pm, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
Unfortunately, that link is also a total blank because it's locked behind a
private FaceBook group.
Yes it is, and it's not my post, so I don't feel it's my right to grab
the pix and upload them elsewhere.
There's little info.
It see
This seems to be a Belgian computer that draws a total blank on Google.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/vintagecomputerclub/posts/8562290167137607/
Anyone ever heard of it?
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On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 at 19:28, Mike Katz via cctalk
wrote:
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> Look in the for sale forums at vcfed.org.
>
> The Vintage Computer Federation.
In my experience this is effectively US-only, or perhaps at best North
America only. There is a lot more of the world than the USA+Canada and
I've lived in
On Sat, 15 Jun 2024 at 21:01, Eric Moore via cctalk
wrote:
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> FYI, RIP Ed
Oh no. Awful email style but an interesting chap. Ave, atque, vale.
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On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 at 06:10, Sellam Abraham via cctalk
wrote:
> If you use
> a computer that simultaneously is or can be used by other people via
> multiple concurrent user sessions across whatever signal path, whatever the
> setting, it is *not* "personal".
I disagree. You are trying to make a
On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 at 05:10, Sellam Abraham via cctalk
wrote:
> If you ride a bus, where multiple random people get
> on and off at various stops, it's not a "personal" conveyance.
I refute your argument thus:
If you buy a bus and start driving it yourself everywhere, for your
own exclusive us
On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 at 13:30, Bill Degnan via cctalk
wrote:
> that's an important distinction, affordability. You define personal
> computers to contain microprocessors, which made them affordable. The
> demand was always there, it's the point in the demand curve that allowed x%
> of the populat
On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 at 14:32, Joshua Rice via cctalk
wrote:
> That's a terrible analogy. The first cars were indeed ludicrously
> expensive and owned almost exclusively by the wealthy and upper classes.
> It took a good 20 years for the car to become affordable to the masses,
> in the shape of the
On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 at 21:11, Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
wrote:
> Yes, I can confirm that I am real.
:-D
And better still, extant.
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> With no expectation of changing the opinion of anyone who thinks they have
> the definitive definition of ‘first’ or ‘personal’, I will just mention that:
>
> • the HP9830 (1972),
> • Wang 2200 (1973),
> • IBM 5100 (1975)
> were all:
> • single-user,
> • d
On Fri, 31 May 2024 at 18:57, Harald Arnesen via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Liam Proven via cctalk [31/05/2024 18.07]:
>
> > My first fiancée's dad had what he reckoned was the first mainframe in
> > Norway.
>
> Was it this:
>
> <https://snl.no/NUSSE> - in Nor
On Tue, 28 May 2024 at 19:32, Jon Elson via cctalk
wrote:
> There's a story about a guy in Australia that found an
> abandoned IBM 360/30 in a storage/shipper's warehouse and
> dragged it to a rented office space that had no elevator. He
> carefully dismantled it, dragged the pieces up to at leas
On Tue, 28 May 2024 at 22:21, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> We can never agree on the definition. The blind men are fixxated on
> individual features of the elephant.
You have a point. You usually do, Fred.
I am surprised one thing hasn't been mentioned yet.
Any computer can be "personal" i
On Sat, 4 May 2024 at 17:28, Gianluca Bonetti via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I am helping Museo del Computer with this fundraising effort in order to
> save a large number of machines with significant historic value, including
> some Sperry Univac systems.
I shared the links on Vintage Computer Club on Fa
On Fri, 3 May 2024 at 16:31, Gavin Scott via cctalk
wrote:
> It has 8,064 commodity CPUs, "E5-2697v4 (18-core, 2.3 GHz base
> frequency, Turbo up to 3.6GHz, 145W TDP)" which may still sell new
> (NOS?) for up to $2K each
Bad news...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235507916254
$47.99 each. Plus ship
On Fri, 3 May 2024 at 10:58, Gordon Henderson via cctalk
wrote:
>
> The original Acorn Archimedes (First ARM CPU system) had an OS initially
> called "Arthur" which was written in BBC Basic and assembler. It supported
> a graphical user interface - later re-written in assembler and called
> RISC-O
On Thu, 2 May 2024 at 20:51, Lee Courtney wrote:
> Too bad because the language itself lends itself to learning by anyone with
> an understanding of high school algebra.
You remind me -- and _not_ in a good way -- of the first day of my
undergrad 1st year statistics course at university. I did
On Thu, 2 May 2024 at 00:51, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> What would our world be like if the first home computers were to have had
> APL, instead of BASIC?
To be perfectly honest I think the home computer boom wouldn't have
happened, and it would have crashed and burned in the 1970s, with th
On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 at 18:08, Mike Katz via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Does anybody have any extra 720K (double sided, double density) 3.5"
> Floppy Disks that could use a good home?
>
> If so, please email me directly at bit...@12bitsbest.com.
In what country? That massively impacts many people's willing
On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 at 21:52, Sellam Abraham via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Seems like a hormonal problem.
No, there is a problem, but it's your knee-jerk reactions.
Sorry, man, but it is. Charlie's bang on. Also, he's very British and
very sarcastic, in that British way many Americans of my personal
acq
On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 at 03:25, Tomasz Rola via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Well, if you are into this kind of stuff (I am)... Stross is an s-f
> author, formerly a programmer (ages ago but I think it still shows -
> perhaps he secretly writes his own tools in Perl)
He wrote the Linux column in the UK versio
On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 at 13:31, Paul Koning wrote:
> Yes. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2321_Data_Cell . By the
> standards of the time it was an unusually high capacity storage device, way
> faster than a room full of tapes and much larger than the 2311 disk drive.
Fascinating. T
On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 at 19:32, Van Snyder via cctalk
wrote:
>
> An IBM salesman convinced them to try out a 360/30 with a Data Cell.
No idea what a "data cell" is.
I found this:
https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/data-cell
At the Eastercon last week, I met a chap who learned to code on an
On Sun, 7 Apr 2024 at 20:43, Van Snyder via cctalk
wrote:
> I know the main focus of the list.
No, you don't, because then you say:
> The Vostro 1700 is almost old enough
> to be a semi-antique.
And it isn't.
> I don't know another list where people might know
> why the display flashes once
On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 at 00:47, Van Snyder via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Both extremely helpful. Thanks.
This is mainly a list for pre-PC era kit. Windows PCs and 64-bit x86
kit are offtopic here, and most members, I suspect, regard them as
disposable office equipment with no more personality than a stapler
On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 at 22:46, Diane Bruce via cctalk
wrote:
>
> sync;sync;sync
> power off
>
> I remember it well.
In my 1st journalist job, at PC Pro Magazine in 1995, I used that to
turn off a review SPARC portable. My new boss was delighted and
apparently, unbidden, I thereby proved my xNix c
On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 at 14:50, Alexander Schreiber via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Reminds of something that happened at a previous job, where I was part
> of the small Unix team. We had bought an expensive pile of HP-UX related
> kit from HP and apparently also some HP consultant time for training
> on said
On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 at 14:12, Murray McCullough via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I look back fondly on the IBM PC-XT of 41 years ago.
I think I briefly used one at university.
I wrote about it recently. Its startling price put the Apple Lisa,
launched the same year, into context:
«
The Lisa flopped partly
On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 at 09:33, Stefan Skoglund wrote:
>
> Liam, TriPOS ?
>
> If i'm not wrong it was a OS developed in Cambridge (Cambridgeshire).
>
> Did someone port it to other arch than ARM ?
I am mystified.
This appeared in a thread about the VCF SoCal and apropos of nothing
with no quote.
On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 at 21:01, Marvin Johnston via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Note to those people too lazy to update their subject line...
Oh come on, you can't say that and not quote properly.
For just me, I intentionally don't do it. For better or worse, Gmail
is the best webmail I know if, it does plai
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 19:15, mark audacity romberg via cctalk
wrote:
>
> BBC BASIC is the best BASIC there ever was, and I feel sad for those who have
> never used it to see how powerful BASIC can be with proper structured
> programming. It’s honestly like a different language.
Strongly concur
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 19:05, Sellam Abraham via cctalk
wrote:
> Probably because Americans in Futtbuck, Idaho never heard of any British
> computers but Brits certainly knew about American computers, eh wot?
Oh, yes, naturally!
It is something of a national characteristic, though.
I had someo
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 18:35, Henry Bent via cctalk
wrote:
To answer a different part of the question that I missed first time around:
> As an American it's true that the vast majority of my vintage computer
> experience is completely americentric, but I'm aware that Acorn had a
> significant pr
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 18:52, Ali via cctalk wrote:
>
> That would be very interesting. I always thought Apricot made some beasts and
> remeber the cover of Byte for the first 486 system being an Apricot VX. I
> would love to see that machine in person.
I put one of those in.
First and only SC
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 18:35, Henry Bent via cctalk
wrote:
> Surely by this definition UNIX would take the crown? The "core of the OS"
> dates from 1969 and modern derivatives are everywhere.
Good point, but the OS I was referring to is RISC OS, *the* original
ARM OS and it has only ever run on
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 19:40, Wouter de Waal via cctalk
wrote:
> Computers are much like motorcycles: many of the most interesting
> ones were TERRIBLE!
Oh, very good. I may quote that. :-D
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 14:23, Christopher Satterfield via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I'm going to be presenting a (fine? idk) collection of British Computers.
> Dragging along at least an Acorn RiscPC 700, a Castle Iyonix, Sinclair
> Spectrum 48k and a Q68. Possibly static Apricot FP1/F1 if I can be bother
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 07:30, Andrew Diller via cctalk
wrote:
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> Hope this helps, I put it together to keep track of them all.
I think you forgot something.
There was no link or anything there, and the list doesn't allow attachments.
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 03:56, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
> Besides, most of us had solidified our wrong perspectives and incorrect
> beliefs and assumptiond long before Wikipedia came along.
Ha! Excellent. Well said.
As it happens I'm trying to do a quick retrospective for El Reg right
now,
My 1st contribution to the Register's "retro tech week" may amuse...
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/16/ql_legacy_at_40/
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IoM: (+44)
Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and
an OS was 89
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/niklaus_wirth_obituary/
The great man has left us. I wrote an obituary.
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On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 at 21:18, brian--- via cctalk wrote:
>
> >
> > The one I haven't found yet is:
>
> f29bdg00.boo
>
>
> The Google suggests:
> http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Common_User_Access
> which has working links to f29al000.boo and f29bdg00.boo on IBM servers
Well spotted.
If I was uncle
On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 at 22:06, David Schmidt via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I ran the Windows reader over the f29al000.boo file, and the results weren't
> as good as the ones that IBM printed out in 1992 as available on the Internet
> Archive; the main problems I can see is the lack of font support (ever
On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 at 18:48, David Schmidt via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I have it running in a Windows NT VM, and it prints to PDF using BullZip
> just fine. Do you want to point to the library you want to convert, and
> I can run this over them?
Thank you!
I found one on the Internet Archive already
Does anyone have any experience with the IBM BookManager format and the
tools to read it?
I've not found any way to open them on a Mac. No joy on Linux yet
either; there's an old unmaintained tool that uses a 32-bit Java app.
I found 2 Windows tools.
One, IBM Library Reader, won't install on
On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 at 06:27, Mark Perullo via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Hey Steve
You're not talking to Steve, but a whole mailing list of hundreds of
people. The rest of us don't know which Steve you mean.
> I know this is a year later but I have the Nortronic Read Write heads you
> were looking for.
On Sat, 16 Sept 2023 at 01:45, Tony Jones via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Suggestions on what to look for welcomed.
Just FWIW there is now a bare-metal Transputer emulator for the
Raspberry Pi Pico which is accurate enough that you can interconnect
several Pi Picos *using the original INMOS silicon* for th
On Sun, 10 Sept 2023 at 18:49, Peter Corlett via cctalk
wrote:
> One unusual and interesting thing about the Amstrad PCW is how it uses a
> display list system, unlike basically any other home computer of the era
> apart from the Atari 8-bits and the Amiga.
Fascinating... thanks for that.
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On Sun, 10 Sept 2023 at 23:12, Will Cooke via cctalk
wrote:
> I make an official motion that Fred write his own "Everything I Know About
> Floppy Disks" page / book /encyclopedia.
>
> I suspect that what is inside his head is the greatest collection of
> knowledge about floppies on the planet.
On Sun, 10 Sept 2023 at 16:09, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
>
> UK readers are certainly
> familiar with 3.0 inch CF drives used on Amstrads.
Oh yes indeed. I think I have, in my basement in Prague, two Amstrad
PCW 9512 machines, an original 9512 (1987, one 3" drive) and a 9512+
(1991, one 3.5"
On Sun, 10 Sept 2023 at 15:16, Jay Logue via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Has anyone reached out with corrections?
Yes, me. I pointed him at Fred's response, he was very pleased, and
he's updated it. (I can't see much difference but I am not so expert
as Mr Cisin at this stuff. There's a revision history o
On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 22:53, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> When Ronald Reagan got into politics, I wrote him a postcard pleading him
> NOT TO. I said, "Hollywood needs you."
It's a real shame that didn't work.
AIUI the repeal of Glass-Steagal caused a lot of the problems we're in
today, and
On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 22:41, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> He has an "About Me" page,and even his CV, but goes to some effort to
> avoid stating his NAME! (Jonathan Pallant)
I noticed that, too. I think it's [a] the modern internet way, and [2]
may be connected with his efforts to get into p
On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 22:24, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> It's got some really good stuff, but some things that are awkward,
> although few totally WRONG.
[...]
> Overall, a good start, for MOST aspects.
That is high praise indeed, I think! :-)
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«
Everything I know about floppy disks
2023-08-28
Floppy disk drives are curious things. We know them as the slots that
ingest those small almost-square plastic "floppy disks" and we only
really see them now in Computer Museums. But there's a lot going on in
that humble square of plastic and
On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 19:23, Wayne S wrote:
>
> I have an ipad 3 and it was absolutely great. Everything worked well on it
> until apple 🍎 made IOS 10 which doesn’t run on it. Then, gradually, some
> apps, like Amazon Prime TV, were upgraded to use 10 and above and simply
> stopped working.
I
On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 17:25, Seth Morabito via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I swear to God, Discord will be the end of the open Internet, it's where
> information goes to die. I hate it with every fiber of my being. And yes, I
> use it, I'm on many servers. I'm still allowed to detest it.
100% agreement
On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 02:59, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
>
> I used a newton and still have it a box.
I have 2 of them myself.
> It was heavy and very slow. Graffiti didn’t work very well either.
The OMP was.
I later bought a Newton 2100 and it's a very different beast. It's
quite usable by com
On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 01:29, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Then, one of the Sci-Fi magazines [...] in which the capsule settled down
> onto the moon, and
> immediately sank irrevocably below kilometer thick layer of dust.
I am strongly reminded of _A Fall of Moondust_ by Arthur C. Clarke.
On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 01:05, KenUnix via cctalk wrote:
>
> I have been experimenting with GhostBSD 64bit. It runs quite well under
> Virtualbox
Sorry for the very slow reply... Work is burying me, and I am somewhat
crippled due to a pulverised right forearm.
I am glad you've found something you
On Thu, 3 Aug 2023 at 19:21, KenUnix via cctalk wrote:
>
> Has anyone got SCO Unix to successfully install and run on Virtualbox?
>
> My efforts have failed. My host is Ubuntu 22.04 with Virtualbox 7.0.10.
No, but I have read that it is doable, with a very constrained VM.
Some more info:
https:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 at 01:10, Murray McCullough via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Dear sir;
>
> I can't access your site. Not sure why! It mat be due to the email
> address I employ.
Wrong email address, Murray?
I am sure none of us have any idea what you're talking about...
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On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 at 10:03, silcreval via cctalk
wrote:
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> I recently dug out my V880 and all seems to be working brilliantly. I've
> always liked these machines and it would be nice to upgrade this to the V880z
> spec, ie by adding the mighty
> XVR-4000 graphics module.
I had no idea what a
On Thu, 6 Jul 2023 at 15:42, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I doubt this will go thru either but other attempts to send to the list are
> now getting rejected as SPAM. Doesn't the list check addresses to see if
> the poster is a member?
I am hearing you loud and clear.
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On Tue, 30 May 2023 at 19:56, Jeff Woolsey via cctalk
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> I'm also amazed that I can put together a still reasonably impressive
> 14-year-old MacBook Pro for < $100. That's $40 for the empty laptop
> as-is at a flea market, ~$15 for 8GB RAM, ~$45 for 960GB SSD. I lucked
> out in that ther
On Mon, 22 May 2023 at 10:40, Tony Duell wrote:
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> I am sorry, but I think this is a stupid suggestion for many reasons.
I forgot whom I was dealing with.
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> I am not sure I
> would want to trust something from an unknown seller on the web.
That is unreasonable, IMHO, but it is on-brand.
> An
On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 23:40, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> On Fri, 19 May 2023, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> > I do remember that, because I carried around a USB key with an
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> Thanks, everybody for the reminders of the Windoze history.
;-)
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> I hereby forma
On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 17:00, Glen Slick via cctalk
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> The Intel Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) specification revision
> 1.0 is dated March 12, 2002, almost 2 years after Windows Me RTM.
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> Windows XP SP1 was released on September 9, 2002, which was the first time
> Microsoft r
On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 13:42, Glen Slick via cctalk
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> On Fri, May 19, 2023, 4:36 AM Liam Proven via cctalk
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> > [3] Win98SE was, I _think_, maybe the first version to support USB _2_
> > and maybe the first version with USB key support as stan
On Thu, 18 May 2023 at 20:10, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> a 386 desktop running Win98SE (first version to support USB)
Hang on a minute.
[1] Win98 on a 386? Really? It might work but it will be horribly horribly slow.
Win95 was just barely usable on a 386; I benchmarked it at release.
[2]
On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 05:29, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> Have they stopped making ones that include 720K?
I have 2 USB floppy drives and have successfully read 720 kB disks
with them, and also MacOS 1.4 MB disks.
I think they should also write 720 kB disks.
What they won't handle are DD f
On Fri, 5 May 2023 at 21:26, Mike Stein via cctalk
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> No doubt many folks do have a need for speed but FWIW I get by fine with 6
> Mbps D/L speed, streaming Youtube and local cable channels, browsing the
> web, email & fora, etc.;
... wow.
I had 500Mb/s for ~CzK 1000/mth in Prague. Ballp
On Thu, 4 May 2023 at 18:49, Johan Helsingius via cctalk
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> Unfortunately my local ISP doesn't run a server any more. :(
I use Eternal September, via Thunderbird. Works very well.
Password requirements are annoying, and the initial setup is very
non-intuitive, but follow the documentatio
On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 17:41, Bernd Kopriva via cctalk
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> Does anyone have a pointer to the datasheet ?
A comment on book said:
«
For me, 'National Semiconductor' and 'RTC' together mean their own
design of the MM58167 that was used on the AST multi-I/O and memory
expansion adapters fo
On Thu, 9 Feb 2023 at 23:27, ben via cctalk wrote:
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> I wish a custom clock made. A nixie tube alarm clock
> with a real bell. Ben.
Talk to Dalibor Farny:
https://www.daliborfarny.com/
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On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 13:14, Chris via cctalk wrote:
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> I take pains to clearly differentiate what I'm saying from what I'm quoting
> (and usually on a phone). All the while I have to struggle readimg others
> mish mosh, often there not even being a single line separating the 2. So
> please
On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 at 08:09, Christian Corti via cctalk
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> Chris, can you *please* correctly indent and cite messages you are
> referring to? I am getting annoyed by guessing what part is from whom.
Agreed.
It's dead easy if you're using Gmail. I am doing it right now in the
standard w
On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 21:26, Doc Shipley via cctalk
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>This Subject: line is damaging my brain.
It's such an old name, the 2nd E has worn right out of it. I mean it
is the most commonly-used letter. It was always likely to fail first.
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 at 21:59, Angel M Alganza via cctalk
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> Well, nobody teaches that... At least, nobody has taught me that, nor
> have I ever seen anybody do that.
In the early days, Apple did when it first introduced them, and some
of the 1st PC laptops with them played little tutorial
On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 at 20:38, Angel M Alganza via cctalk
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> On 2023-01-23 20:59, Adrian Godwin via cctalk wrote:
> > There was the Amstrad floppy. I think it was 3". Hopefully didn't get
> > out
> > of the UK.
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> Why would you say such a thing? Of course it got out of the UK and came
> i
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