[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012
Don't pay your taxes and it goes quick. -Original Message- From: William Donzelli via cctalk Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2022 10:36 AM To: Ethan O'Toole ; William Donzelli via cctalk Cc: William Donzelli Subject: [cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012 Don't be pedantic. You know what I mean. Anyway, in the US, there are *significant* barriers to cross for people taking your land. -- Will On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 10:15 AM Ethan O'Toole wrote: > Own your land. > Museum or individual. You never own your land. They can always take it. - Ethan -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com
[cctalk] Re: Minicomputer front panel.
I assume some of that stuff was purchased for TV show or movie props. Anyway you can't really complain unless you know the origins of those front panels. Some of that equipment was scrapped a long time ago and somebody found the front panel or other parts cool and kept them. You can't really expect people to keep everything from being made into razor blades 20+ years ago and kept in heated and cooled low humidity storage so somebody down the road could snag it for lunch money. If somebody pays a decent amount of cash to mount something on a wall it will sooner or later end up being resold to a collector so its not really lost in the long view of things. If there is enough demand or it is worth the economics to recreate somebody will 3D print parts and have boards made. -Original Message- From: Tom Hunter via cctalk Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2022 10:44 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Cc: Tom Hunter Subject: [cctalk] Re: Minicomputer front panel. I cannot understand the mindset of people who buy up components desperately sought by others who want to restore machines just to nail them to their man cave or living room wall. These same types of people vacuum up core memory boards, keyboards, disk platters, 9-track tapes, etc just for bragging rights and as a result depriving those who restore and preserve computer systems from doing so. For some time I have been looking for a PDP-8/e front panel PCB needed to make a machine complete. Until now I had no luck. No doubt there are dozens of these hanging off people's walls. Like Peter I don't care if the PCB is functional, but unlike Peter I can and will repair it. Peter please consider the negative impact of your hobby on historically valuable computer systems. Tom -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com
Re: Not just slashed zeroes/ohs
I watched the screen and it works very well. His only problem is he sometimes forget to click a button to start the input going. There is a box where what he speaks gets transcribed and then he cuts and pasts it to the correct spot in the patients worksheet. -Original Message- From: Fred Cisin via cctalk Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2022 11:19 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Not just slashed zeroes/ohs On Wed, 27 Apr 2022, Teo Zenios via cctalk wrote: One of my mothers doctors just talks into a microphone and it does the typing for him in real time. YIKES! I hope that he MANUALLY edits the results! People that aren't familiar with such OFTEN have excessive confidence that it is getting it right. When a human transcribes, they filter through "common sense"; people sometimes ASSUME that the dictation program also does so. An auto-corrupt could be dangerous. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
Re: Not just slashed zeroes/ohs
One of my mothers doctors just talks into a microphone and it does the typing for him in real time. -Original Message- From: Ali via cctalk Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2022 5:31 PM To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: RE: Not just slashed zeroes/ohs > Cameron, do they teach indecipherable handwriting in med school? Seems to be universal! It's probably the hand cramping after writing clinic notes all day. Unexpectedly, electronic medical records have made my handwriting worse, not better. Well the old excuse was too many notes not enough time So you scribbled and went... Now with electronics records (EMRs) we just get legible but junk notes - copy and paste for a week straight And of course information overload... But that is partly the insurers fault as they pay more for more useless info... -Ali -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
Re: The precarious state of classic software and hardware preservation
I agree there should be a way to archive and distribute classic software for as long as enough people care about it. The problem is most people don't care enough about it until it is actually lost. There is a long time between something being actively used and cared about to being obsolete and then to be collected. -Original Message- From: Michael Kerpan via cctalk Sent: Friday, November 19, 2021 9:21 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: The precarious state of classic software and hardware preservation The recent discussion of the sudden disappearance of DtCyber and the various classic CDC software to run on it from the Internet has got me thinking about just how precarious so much of computer history is in. So much of what's out there online (and in person) today is at risk just vanishing if whoever maintains the archive either loses interest (lots of projects over the years succumb to this) , or rage quits (see the expungement of DtCyber and Controlfreaks from the internet), or ends up dying without having made proper arrangements (See the sad fate of the Living Computer Museum, which was killed by its new owners as soon as COVID gave them an excuse to do so) What are we, as a community, to do to fix this and make sure that our history stays peserved and isn't one bad day away from vanishing. Mike -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
Re: An American perspective on the late great Sir Clive Sinclair, from Fast Company
-Original Message- From: Jecel Assumpcao Jr via cctech Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 3:21 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Subject: Re: An American perspective on the late great Sir Clive Sinclair, from Fast Company I had a choice between the MC-10 and the Timex 2068 in 83' and went for the Timex. The Timex 1000 was useless without a RAM expander which added to the cost. All the cheap machines like the 1000, MC-10, C-16 etc were DOA because of the lack of software because everyone was making software for the best selling C64, Apple II and Atari 800. I played around with the 2068 for a while and finally went for a used C64. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
Re: What's left of the Houston Museum stuff
Nice selection of dirty and yellowed computers in unknown condition. -Original Message- From: Al Kossow via cctalk Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2021 6:49 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: What's left of the Houston Museum stuff https://www.facebook.com/groups/2103793056560583/permalink/3118441161762429/ -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
