Re: The Prolok Saga (Was: Applesauce FDC

Just as my first product was about to go to market, the company president decided we needed copy protection. He wanted Prolok. I objected, and proposed that if I could break it in 24 hours, we wouldn't use it. I took 25 hours, and we did use it (fair is fair). I finally found my notes and the

Re: Found my favorite DOS editor

I used pmate in my early DOS years (1982-83) eventually switching back to vi when it was available. That might have been the MKS (Mortice Kern Systems) version. I have a copy of pmate but its two or three files are tangled up on a disk image with some unrelated .com files. When I can sort them out

Re: More cleaning out the Bob basement

On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 4:01 PM Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > Went over to chip away at the Bob basement, and this time Alex came with > me. > Are you taking pictures of the inventory and posting them somewhere?

Re: Linearizing PDF scans

On Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 6:15 PM J. David Bryan via cctech < cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Friday, August 13, 2021 at 17:23, Alexandre Souza wrote: > > > Is any kind of standard, recomendation, group, mail list, to discuss > > the subject? > > I am not aware of any. I started with Al Kossow's

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

You are conflating the OS kernel with the developer A On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 10:11 AM Liam Proven via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Sun, 1 Aug 2021 at 04:21, Tony Aiuto via cctalk > wrote: > > > > I would argue that this is totally wrong. iOS, > > Whi

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 9:21 PM Grant Taylor via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 7/27/21 4:27 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > > This was a talk at a recent Chaos Computer Club congress: > > https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-525180-what_have_we_lost#t=1707 > > > > « We have ended up in a

Looking for the person I sold an eMachines eOne to at the VCF Swap Meet on April 24

*I found more related goodies you can have for the shipping. You can reply direct to me or on this thread.*

Re: Looking to buy any of the IR. INTERNATIONAL RECTIFIER KITS WITH SOLAR RADIOS OR SOLAR RADIO EXIMERMENTS FOR SMECC MUSEUM'S SOLAR ELECTRONICS DISPLAY. -- ALSO INTERESTED BY SOME BY OTHER MAKERS TOO

ly use. > > On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 8:17 PM Tony Aiuto via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> Ed. When you type in all caps it looks like you've been owned. Can you >> tone >> it down so we know it is real mail. >> >> On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 6

Re: Looking to buy any of the IR. INTERNATIONAL RECTIFIER KITS WITH SOLAR RADIOS OR SOLAR RADIO EXIMERMENTS FOR SMECC MUSEUM'S SOLAR ELECTRONICS DISPLAY. -- ALSO INTERESTED BY SOME BY OTHER MAKERS TOO

Ed. When you type in all caps it looks like you've been owned. Can you tone it down so we know it is real mail. On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 6:54 PM ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: > > > > Looking to buy any of the IR. INTERNATIONAL RECTIFIER KITS WITH SOLAR > RADIOS OR SOLAR RADIO EXIMERMENTS FOR SMECC

Re: DEC pin

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 3:34 AM Curious Marc via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I’ll blame it on Kyle and Fritz, I could not resist… > > https://curiousmarcs-store.creator-spring.com/listing/VAXinated > > Marc > > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 17:50 Fritz Mueller via cctalk < >

Any Interpress fans out there?

I'm in the middle of imaging a set of 5 1/4" diskettes from 1988 containing the Interpress conformance test suite. My plan is to - convert the MS-DOS backup format images to files (trivial) - find interpress to postscript converter to print the files. - compare them to the reference pictures to

Re: VCF Swap Meet in Wall, NJ

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 10:03 PM Richard Pope wrote: > Tony, > What ever went wrong with my body 20 years ago when I came down > with the flu damaged my metabolism. The extra heat load on my lungs and > my core causes me to become sick in about 5 minutes. In 15 minutes I am > unresponsive,

Re: ODE 2.1.1 documentation

It looks like I have the ODE source (with doc sources) for 2.3.4 and 2.3.6 2.3.4 is from 1997, 2.3.6 from 1998. Is that old enough for you? IANAL, but the copyright doc looks good Copyright (c), 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 The Open Group Research Institute ("TOG RI"),

Re: ODE 2.1.1 documentation

On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 2:16 PM Ben Huntsman via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Hello! >Does anyone have any old documentation for ODE 2.1.1, or relatively > close versions? I know "newer" versions have been released and have > documentation available, but there are some changes in

Re: VCF Swap Meet in Wall, NJ

classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 7:58 PM Tony Aiuto wrote: > > > > > Nice. I have a lot of stuff I want to clean out of my basement. > > > > > > Will you be requiring masks for all attendees? Not doing so is a > > > deal brea

Re: VCF Swap Meet in Wall, NJ

Nice. I have a lot of stuff I want to clean out of my basement. Will you be requiring masks for all attendees? Not doing so is a deal breaker for me. On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 6:50 PM Jeffrey Brace via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Announcing our second Annual Vintage Computer

Re: Wagner WAC40

Joshua: I have one of those too. They do make a great display piece. If you collect any information off list, I would love to hear it. On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 11:20 AM Paul Koning via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > On Mar 13, 2021, at 1:34 PM, Joshua Rice via cctalk < >

Re: Tymshare PDP-10 tapes

I sent a PR. https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/pdp10-its-disassembler/pull/71 >

Re: Tymshare PDP-10 tapes

cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Tony Aiuto wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 11:48 PM Jim Carpenter > wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 8:07 PM Tony Aiuto via cctalk > >> wrote: > >> > I think that is an artifact of the files being creat

Re: Tymshare PDP-10 tapes

On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 11:48 PM Jim Carpenter wrote: > On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 8:07 PM Tony Aiuto via cctalk > wrote: > > I think that is an artifact of the files being created with the wrong > names. > > For example, with tape 169249, after you skip the UFDs, tito -t p

Re: Tymshare PDP-10 tapes

On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 1:54 AM Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > Tony Aiuto wrote: > >> What problem do you have with my tito tool? > > > > $ ./tito -x -f 169249.tape > > fopen: Is a directory > > This appears to be because creating an output file was attempted,

Re: Tymshare PDP-10 tapes

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 1:37 PM Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > Tony Aiuto wrote: > > that gets lots of files with names like 'dsk:[1,4]specdf525].mic' > > That just seems wrong. > > Correct, back10 does get some things wrong. It also puts some data at > the beginning of fi

Re: Tymshare PDP-10 tapes

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 4:55 AM Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Hello, > > Someone sent me these magtape images from Tymshare and said "they fell > off the back of a truck on route 62 in Hudson, MASS." I don't know > their provenance. > > Sorry, I don't have any good

Re: Intellec MCS-8 8008 monitor program ROM files

FWIW, I have an MCS-8 User Manual I was about to give away. https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipPxTeFNI5YY-Ig_xZihpEyeaVjivCjDrU1_vmOa If either of you want it, it's yours. On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 11:48 AM Bill Degnan via cctech < cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Although this may not be what

Re: Keyboard storage (Alan Perry)

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 2:47 AM Paul Koning via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > On Dec 22, 2020, at 6:41 PM, Raymond Robinson via cctech < > cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > Hi Alan, > > > > I go to my local shopping center. > > The fish shop there, has the fish delivered in

Re: Votrax Type N Talk or PSS, Intextalker, Microvox

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 7:05 AM Jules Richardson via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 12/1/20 7:28 PM, Tony Aiuto via cctalk wrote: > > Oh.. That brings back memories. We had a Votrax with a serial interface > in > > the computer room. > > I configured i

Re: Votrax Type N Talk or PSS, Intextalker, Microvox

Oh.. That brings back memories. We had a Votrax with a serial interface in the computer room. I configured it as a printer so I could yell into the room.. echo Hey Alan. Look at the console and change the tape to the one requested | lpr -Pvotrax On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 8:24 PM Robert Stek via

Re: [TUHS] Seeking wisdom from Unix Greybeards

Every time I see discussions about terminal control sequences and Unix, I can not help but be reminded of Johnny Zweig's eloquent analysis, as quoted in The Unix Haters Handboodk. https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf Forcing programmers to be aware of how their programs talk to terminals is

Re: Systems Engineering Laboratories - SEL History

t; > -Eric > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 10:46 Tony Aiuto wrote: > >> I found some MPX -32 items this week. Rough scans here: >> >> >> https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOBnMkRJvzAsOCloK4NBQM9iDoROPk-QPXBANxNg2yjsJhWlEj9Z0TN50wYKgwJkA?key=YjNyYndsLXhKZ2VYT

Re: Systems Engineering Laboratories - SEL History

arently. I also would really like to find more info on the > ampex videofile. > > -Eric > > On Sun, Nov 8, 2020, 21:02 Tony Aiuto wrote: > >> Eric: >> >> Thanks for starting this. I've been doing little updates to the SEL >> wikipedia pages recently, but

Re: Systems Engineering Laboratories - SEL History

Eric: Thanks for starting this. I've been doing little updates to the SEL wikipedia pages recently, but a dedicated site would be great. I used the machines heavily from 1977-1995, most of the 32/X series, as well as the NP1. AFAIK, I was the first person to get C++ (cfront) working under

Re: Comp.lang.forth: banned on google groups?

etup a > radio station, go fishing or sailing - just do something that makes you > happy. > > ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G- In more laid back days this line would literally > sing ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G > > > > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 10:33 AM Tony Aiuto via cctalk <

Re: Comp.lang.forth: banned on google groups?

People are working on restoring comp.lang.forth and comp.lang.lisp >From what I can gather, this was because of numerous defamation complaints. https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93=%22comp.lang.lisp%22 On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 6:55 PM Dave Wade via cctalk wrote: > Al, >

Re: Future of cctalk/cctech

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 9:47 AM geneb via cctalk wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jun 2020, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: > > > ED SHARPE wrote: > >> Use modern email program that sees expanded char. Sets and graphics > it > >> is a brand new world !I love old hardware to look at but if > >>

Re: Attachments

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 5:01 AM Peter Corlett via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 10:50:20PM +0100, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote: > [...] > > Easy, pictures of unidentified components, sending out schematics that > have > > been reverse engineered, documentation,

Re: Living Computer Museum

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 4:36 PM William Donzelli via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > This is one of the things that disappointed me most about the Computer > History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Sure you can’t let the public interact > with *everything*, but since so much of computing

Re: Unusual Punched Cards (Peter Van Peborgh)

Can you give us a clue as to the locale of those renaissance festivals. That might prompt me to go. On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 7:40 PM brianb1224 via cctech wrote: > There is a lady who collects them also plus the wooden blooms usually at > the renaissance festivals. Sorry I forgot her name.Sent

Re: Core Memory Photo

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 6:02 PM Jules Richardson via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 4/15/20 6:22 PM, keith--- via cctalk wrote: > > I have three others with the cover still on :) I want to make a clear > > plexiglass cover for them. > > Just for fun, this is what I have from a

Re: IBM Type 31 Alphabetical Duplicating Keypunch available, Seattle area

Wow. That is gorgeous. On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 7:24 PM William Donzelli via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > How did you end up with that? > > Anyway, I forwarded your message to see if the Techworks! Binghamton > Bunch wants it. > > -- > Will > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 6:35 PM Josh

Re: Discord

> > On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 11:25:41 -0600 > jwest--- via cctalk wrote: > ... > > > In addition, mostly as an exercise to see how to do it, I set up a > > ClassicCMP discord server. That Discord server is NOT meant to > > replace this list, nor should it be taken to signal any less > > commitment

Re: One of the deeper dives into RISC vs CISC I've seen

On a related note, a fun talk about ARM https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2045=_6sh097Dk5k

Re: How were 32-bit minis built in the 70s/80?

On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 10:17 PM Charles Dickman via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 8:50 PM Steve Malikoff via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > I could be remembering incorrectly but I think the Gould PN6080 mini we > > had exclusively for third

Re: DG Nova 4 for pickup on Lon Gisland

t; > > > > > > -- > > > > > Will > > > > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 10:34 PM Anders Nelson via cctalk > > > > > wrote: > > > > >> > > > > >> I'm about an hour drive away and somewhat interested, but

Re: DG Nova 4 for pickup on Lon Gisland

It is close enough to me to rescue, but I really don't have the space to store it. Will anyone take it if I hold it a while? On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 9:24 PM Anders Nelson via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Would this system fit in a standard 19" wide equipment rack? > > =] > -- >

Re: Manual for Documation TM200 punched card reader

Thanks! Seeing your wiring makes me realize what I was doing wrong with my attempt. On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 12:16 PM Jay Jaeger via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > The information on my Documation card reader interface have now been > uploaded, and is available at: > > >

Re: VCF East Photo Thread

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 6:58 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 at 04:14, Tony Aiuto via cctalk > wrote: > > > > Mine here. It includes some bits from my other museums at the facility > > >

Re: VCF East Photo Thread

Mine here. It includes some bits from my other museums at the facility https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipO6j53IKGboKAmsUmAdDoj4ugeEGd1igUOgfRMtBpIqaibPJX2USBG0crSDeICWsQ?key=aFpMdFNxYlBUZTBjTldJajN6RDlHVmJtblRhUTBn On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 8:09 AM, Evan Koblentz via cctalk <

For the price of shipping. Oddball telephones

I have two rare desktop telephones taking up space in my basement. I know I never will play with or display them. - Pingtel Xpressa PX-1. An early IP telephone - ATT 8130 "Computer Phone". It has an RS-232 port in the back for bi-directional comms. I reverse engineered the protocol when I used

Re: Interest Check: Belden Thicknet 10base5 Ethernet Coax

Hi. I almost forget about this.i amat vcf.today. did you ever get the cable On Sat, Feb 3, 2018, 6:17 PM systems_glitch via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > It looks like there's probably enough interest for me to pick up a spool of > the stuff. I haven't heard back from the eBay guy,

Re: Interest Check: Belden Thicknet 10base5 Ethernet Coax

Interesting. Count me in for 20'. I would want to pick up at VCF east. These people have taps, but no transceivers. https://www.connectorpeople.com/Connector/TYCO-AMP-TE_CONNECTIVITY/2/228752-1 Has anyone found the right terminators? On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 7:55 PM, systems_glitch via cctalk

Re: GT-40 etc.

So sad. It is local pick up for me, but I have no place to store it. On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 12:01 AM, Fritz Mueller via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > On Jan 13, 2018, at 1:09 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Ah; the dual-wide plug-in connector

Re: Slightly Meta: Travel tips for people traveling internationally with vintage equipment?

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 6:10 AM, Michael Brutman via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I'm actively working on show planning for VCF PNW and I'm noticing that we > have a few international travelers planning to attend and exhibit their > machines/projects. I'd like to put together a FAQ

Re: XKCD on what we're doing

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > https://xkcd.com/1909/ > > Our community isn't just about that, but it's part of what makes us tick. > Preserving knowledge is an ongoing problem and getting harder to solve. Vint Cerf talks about it a lot.

Re: Can anyone identify what this board is/does?

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 11:05 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 2017-Dec-01, at 7:12 AM, Tony Aiuto via cctalk wrote: > > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/263005049078 > > > > EBay listing for a "Soviet Magnetic Ferrite Core Memory Boa

Can anyone identify what this board is/does?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/263005049078 EBay listing for a "Soviet Magnetic Ferrite Core Memory Board". It looks like 20 something gigantic cores and a lot of diodes. I am guessing it is some kind of ROM, but it doesn't look like a rope memory. And maybe the cores are not cores at all, but some

Re: ModComp II on Ebay

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 1:06 PM, william degnan via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Ebay item 272914490265 > > This is a ModComp IIC I think. It's all broken up in parts and half > assembled. > That's an incredibly bad set of pictures. I can't tell if it is really disassembled or if

Re: PDP 11/73 and 11/34 CPUs for sale

Hmmm, old computer collector. Are you the Mike Niswonger who used to work for SEL (or was a SEL VAR) in the 1980s? On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Mike Niswonger via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Sellam, > Did this 11/73 ever find a home? > > -- Mike Niswonger > > On

Olivetti Programma 101 on EBay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/152665094101?ul_noapp=true In good visual condition. Very expensive. Purposefully not powered up. I used one of these in high school, so it has always had a special place in my heart. But not a $34K place.

Re: Champaign, IL to Iowa City, Iowa and back trip

A well priced PDP8 just went on sale in Iowa. I can't get it back from Champaign to NYC, but someone else might be able to snatch it.

RIP: Daniel Bobrow

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=daniel-bobrow=184794881 I think Ken Thompson paid him the greatest tribute in his Turing Award paper. *"I suspect that Daniel Bobrow would be here instead of me if he could not afford a PDP-10 and had had to "settle" for a PDP-11. *

Re: Trip to CHM - Hotel/Restaurant Advice

You want the Hampton Inn. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hampton+Inn+%26+Suites+Mountain+View/@37.3950988,-122.0791475,15.53z/data=!4m8!1m2!2m1!1shotels+near+Mountain+View,+CA!3m4!1s0x0:0xc7d978e934c5a2ca!8m2!3d37.3988499!4d-122.0754889 It is walking distance to the light rail station and

Re: PreOwned machine privacy - Was: Acclaim Entertainment Indy (with data, emails, etc) on eBay

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 6:51 PM, TeoZ via cctalk wrote: > How do you feel about reading dead presidents personal letters? At some > point personal information ends up being historic information. > > If there is money (or more money) to be made associating a Computer to a >

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

I have a Minivac 601, but it is in storage and I am not sure if it is working. I'm thinking of restoring it and bringing to VCF East. The video is not mine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6OA8HfnxxU On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Bob Rosenbloom wrote: > On 1/14/2017

Re: Gould 32/77 (was: NWA auctions)

ns up now for 32/75 on bitsavers.org/pdf/sel and > some software > under bits/SEL > > I'll be working on MPX documentation next > > > On 10/14/16 7:29 PM, Tony Aiuto wrote: > > > Bob: I may have a lot of software for it, if I can find the tapes and > they > > are s

Re: Gould 32/77 (was: NWA auctions)

Yes. The 8 & 9 machines were ECL, the rest were TTL. IIRC, those were the 32/87, 9780, PN9600. David mentioned disks on the PN (Unix) series. Those were formatted with multiple of 512 byte sectors. The RTM/MPX machines used 768 byte sectors, which was super optimal for the disks they happened to

Re: Gould 32/77 (was: NWA auctions)

I used most of the SEL/Gould/Encore machines. The 32/77 was an original SEL design, from before Gould bought them. It ran MPX-32, their real-time OS. TTL based. The 32/87 was ECL, in a much bigger cabinet. They made slight hardware changes to the 32/77 and 32/75 and released them as the PowerNode

Re: X Windows System Design Principles, a lecture by James Gettys

I used to tell people he wrote the *getty* program. Of course, that was a long time ago, when people actually used serial terminals. On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:03 AM, tim lindner wrote: > I think it is dated 1988. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdmNHM9BKY0 > >

Re: Complete DisplayWriter on eBay

This one? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-IBM-Display-Writer-/201657298867?hash=item2ef3b62fb3:g:McUAAOSwv2JXwaQw On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:34 PM, Ali wrote: > > ah.. I see > > local pickup only now > > fsck him > > Yup. I checked with him with the original listing on how

Re: Halt and Catch Fire Tonight

Taking this forward 30+ years, Silicon Valley is a period drama that gets significant details spot-on right - both in the gross generalizations that are network TV and in the nuances targeted to the cognoscenti. I work with several people who could be the template for Gilfoil. There was recently

Re: http://hackaday.com/2016/05/29/dragging-teletypes-into-the-21st-century/?utm_source=feedburner_medium=feed_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29_content=FeedBurner+user+vie

Handy link. I have need of exactly that interface myself and didn't want to design my own.

Re: shell accounts [was RE: strangest systems I've sent email from]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 1:45 PM, John Willis wrote: > > > > > That's another thing I remember and miss from those days... your > average > > > ISP would provide NNTP and UNIX shell accounts, as well as a few megs > of > > > space to put up a personal web site in

Re: OT: where I've landed

Well played. On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 9:07 PM, Ian S. King wrote: > Hi all, > > I informed the list when I left the Living Computer Museum, so it seems > appropriate to tell you where I've landed. My new employer was in the news > this week: > > >

Re: TOP POSTING

> Of course, gmail could have broken their interface since then. If they make it impossible to edit quotes for relevance, then they have no place in civilized email, like any other MUA with that property. Not broken, on web or android (I can't speak for iPhone). On web, click the a little 3 dot

Re: mail hosting

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > On 12/10/15 8:47 AM, et...@757.org wrote: > > Self hosted mail systems for the win. >> >> > Sadly, I'm seeing more and more organizations abandoning hosting their own > mail > servers (and mailing lists) because it has

Re: (OT?) Copyright and IP

Yes. Information by itself has no behavior. Water and electricity are especially bad analogies, because they are both tangible. When you use the water or charge, it is gone. You can't take one water molecule have share it between 100 people. You can, however, share the same bit of information to

Re: out-of-mainstream minis

I've heard of that design too. It was back in the late 70'r or early 80's. A quick search leads to Apollo, but I seem to recall others trying the same. Onyx and Dual systems come to mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Computer On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Mouse

Re: Wright Line punch manual

Like this one? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wright-Punch-Model-2600-/331580084313 I'm not sure it really needs a manual. I repaired one with a careful disassemble and cleaning. On mine, the cord linking the tension spring to the mechanism had broken. A trip to the hardware store found something