Re: First Internet message and ...
On 23/12/2019, Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk wrote: > On Mon, 2019-12-23 at 12:00 -0600, cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote: >> Re: First Internet message and ... > > I read the caselaw in the GUI war cases of the 80's. Microsoft and > apple were battling over features and everyone else was being weighed. > There are nice comparative tables, TOS/GEM vs OS/2, vs Amiga, vs, > Windows. Vs. Smalltalk. Would you have the citations handy? I would be interested to read that. N. > > The Xerox btw, comes out ahead of everyone. > > Jeff
Re: 50 yrs. ago today
On 29/10/2019, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote (in part): > The first inter-computer communication happened 50 years ago today. L. > Kleinrock part of that historic moment, said, and I paraphrase here, > ARPANET was the instrument that was to enable computers to talk to each > other remotely. He sent “LO” because the system crashed(how surprising was > that!) According to "Where Wizards stay up late", the FEP crashed because of an "optimization" that stuffed "gin" into the buffer faster than the FEP could handle it. N.
Re: [Simh] Fwd: VAX + Spectre
On 18/09/2019, Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk wrote: > [...] > Yea, I had to make a trip to a “secure facility” once and there were entire > “tempest” rooms with conditioned power and no external communications > equipment. We had a secure (but not tempest) room built for us by an authorised contractor and they forgot to install A/C. It was unusable until a portable A/C was placed in it with complicated baffles letting the hot air out. N.
Re: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR
On 01/07/2019, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote (in part): > On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 14:01, William Donzelli wrote (in > part): >> There are still a few institutions and older folks that still use >> checks (like the annoying people that hold up the line in a grocery >> store, writing out a check), so the image deposit system is just an >> effort to cut down the foot traffic to banks. > > And freighting trucks full of cheques from bank to bank, I thought? Yes. Most FIs and clearing houses scan them in and transmit signed batches around, saving boatloads of money. The smaller FIs are still an exception. N.
Re: %20 nonsense
On 09/04/2019, Jeff Woolsey via cctech wrote: >> whats with the weird tag on this thread? > > Oops, sorry. > > Clicking on an address in the mailing list viewed as a web page via > http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2019-April tries to fire up > MacOS X Mail, which I don't want because I use Thunderbird. That can be changed. N.
Re: sun 88780 on ebay
On 11/02/2019, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote (in part): > I haven't yet unboxed it. I took photos of the outside of the destroyed box > to send to the shipper. The front bottom left corner of the 88780 is > visible through a hole in the box, and is visibly mangled. Who was the seller? (The ebay link did not list the seller.) N.
Re: Original AGC restoration / was Re: Apollo 8 Mission Control printers, or not?
On 30/12/2018, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk wrote: > >> On Dec 30, 2018, at 12:37 AM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk >> wrote: >> >> What is dox? > > New-era-internet term for illegally gaining access to someone's real world > “documents" (place of employment, home address, phone numbers, medical > records, family members’ info, etc) for harassment, stalking, or worse. > Interesting, as the OED describes dox (n.) as an abbreviation for doxy (2.), which is an abbrevations for orthodoxy. First reference to 1756: T. Amory J. Buncle (1825) III. 19 Orthodox and other dox. N
Re: Microsoft-Paul Allen
On 24/10/2018, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote (in part): [...] > Come to think of it, most Linux users I know are Windows converts. > Very few are Mac converts -- once you go Mac, you can't go back, > apparently. Why would you? (Mac is certified POSIX and works very nicely with Sun mice and UNIX keyboards. #6-) N.
Re: Desktop Metaphor
On 23/10/2018, Geoffrey Oltmans via cctalk wrote (in part): > I’d say that Windows 95’s UI blew the doors off of anything I’d used up that > point in terms of usability. Interesting... I recall gathering around a colleague's PC many years ago. One of us noticed his screen and said "Hey, you switched to OS/2." He replied, "No. Win95". It really fooled a lot of us. N.
Re: looking for out-of-print computer book
On 22/09/2018, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: >> I am trying to find an out-of-print tech book for a research project I'm >> doing. The book is called Porting Macintosh Applications to Windows 95 >> and NT by Greg Stone, dated December 1996, ISBN 0471118516, published by >> Wiley. >> > > I wonder if the book was announced and never released. > It's pretty rare when something that new doesn't show up anywhere. > Very likely as the LC has no such entry (and they receive all titles published in the US). N.
Re: Advice requested on proper disposal of Seagate ST3000DM001 disk drives
On 20 September 2018 at 23:20, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: > Anyone have advice on making thermite? Ingredients, sources, proportions? > NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1? There is some milspec about sanding the platters that actually specified what grit to use but I do not remember the title. N.
