Re: OT: Excessive bounce notices?

On 22 October 2016 at 17:27, Adrian Graham wrote: > Ditto, and ditto. I also thought it was due to the dyndns attack so just > resubbed after emailing Jay, but if everyone did that who got an excessive > bounce message the poor chap will have quite a full inbox.

Re: Unibus disk controller with modern storage

Hello Dave, exactly! But in place of a plain FPGA, nowadays I would choose a FPGA-ARM board, for example the ZedBoard MicroZed or the Myirtech Z-turn, both of them have a Zynq onboard, and they can run linux for the software side and programmable logic for the interface side. Very nice and

Re: Unibus disk controller with modern storage

Hello Dave, exactly! But in place of a plain FPGA, nowadays I would choose a FPGA-ARM board, for example the ZedBoard MicroZed or the Myirtech Z-turn, both of them have a Zynq onboard, and they can run linux for the software side and programmable logic for the interface side. Very nice and

Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

On 22 October 2016 at 18:54, Terry Stewart wrote: > My copy of AVG detected the stoned virus on an old floppy on my WinXP > machine a couple of years ago. :-) A good 5-6y or more ago I restored an old Mac Classic II a friend gave me. I got it dual-booting System 6.0.8

Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

On 22 October 2016 at 00:05, Steven M Jones wrote: > I didn't think modern A/V products included complete historical sets of > signatures. I I would certainly expect them to, yes! I used to work for AVG; I can ask if you like. But yes. Also, they include malware

Re: Old versions of Emacs

> I seem to have stumbled upon a GNU Emacs 13.8. I'll post this > src/display.c snippet as evidence: > [...skull-and-crossbones with text warning...] That looks identical to the comment at the head of display.c from the Gosling derivative I use. Presumably one is derived from the other...?

Re: Old versions of Emacs

Mouse writes: >> I seem to have stumbled upon a GNU Emacs 13.8. I'll post this > >> [...skull-and-crossbones with text warning...] > > That looks identical to the comment at the head of display.c from the > Gosling derivative I use. Presumably one is derived from the

Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

On 22 October 2016 at 19:36, Ali wrote: > > Just wondering are you guys not running AV SW on your old HW? I personally > run period specific AV SW on my older machines. Granted I have mostly IBM > 51xx series machines and later Macs so AV SW is easier to find. > > Since I

Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

> I used to work for AVG; I can ask if you like. My copy of AVG detected the stoned virus on an old floppy on my WinXP machine a couple of years ago. Terry (Tez)

Re: Unibus disk controller with modern storage

> From: shad > they can run linux for the software side Maybe it's just me, but running Linux on an interface card strike me as somewhat grotesque. It's bad enough running a far faster chip than the vintage CPU, but... a majorly complex operating system to boot? > I'm trying to

MOTD: It is amazing how many ways you can make mistakes with 32-bit instructions

Published in the National Computer Conference, 1976. Full quote: "He bought an RPC-4000 "at a graveyard-type disposal sale," and later noted, "My RPC is working but I can't get an assembly program more than two-thirds loaded. This produces lots of messages telling me my programs are bad" I

Weird List Post Error

Hmmm... I just sent a message to the list and got the following error: "Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject: RE: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system? Sent: 10/22/2016 10:30 AM The following recipient(s)

RE: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

> > I didn't think modern A/V products included complete historical sets > > of signatures. I > > > I would certainly expect them to, yes! Just wondering are you guys not running AV SW on your old HW? I personally run period specific AV SW on my older machines. Granted I have mostly IBM 51xx

Re: OT: Excessive bounce notices?

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Tor Arntsen wrote: > On 22 October 2016 at 04:07, Sam O'nella wrote: >> Just curious, I probably could have just asked Jay but incase this was wider >> spread I received a message that my subscription at my Gmail was

Re: OT: Excessive bounce notices?

On 22/10/2016 12:10, "Torfinn Ingolfsen" wrote: > On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Tor Arntsen wrote: >> On 22 October 2016 at 04:07, Sam O'nella wrote: >>> Just curious, I probably could have just asked Jay but incase this was wider

Altos 686/886 (i286) MFM drive parameters

micropolis 1325 --sectors 16,0 --heads 8 --cylinders 1024 --header_crc 0x,0x1021,16,0 --data_crc 0x,0x140a0445,32,5 --format WD_1006 --sector_length 512 40 meg disk in the system used a 1323, 4 heads instead of 8

Re: Blown Tantalum Capacitor Advice

sigh.. found a series of posts in comp.sys.perq and Tony and RD Davis (RIP) were discussing this twenty years ago :-( where did you find the information about the guard band pattern at the ends? On 10/9/16 10:29 AM, shad wrote: > Then try to insert some small pieces of paper over one limit

Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

On Oct 21, 2016 8:30 PM, "Steven M Jones" wrote: > > On 10/21/2016 14:15, william degnan wrote: > > Any disk or archive you come upon from the early 90's should be scanned for > > viruses before use on a vintage machine. USe a modern PC as it's no biggie > > to clean old

Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

On 10/21/2016 09:43 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > > Certain college administrators declared that every machine that was > infected would have to be destroyed; "it is impossible to remove the > virus". Have I mentioned a colleague whom they tried to terminate for > removing machines from dumpsters? > At

Re: Looking for HP98034 / HP9895 ROM images

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Craig Ruff wrote: > I’ve sent F.Ulivi the contents of the single ROM version from my 9895A, > along with some preliminary reverse engineering work on the contents that > I’ve done in conjunction with Eric Smith. I've put the partially

Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

On 10/21/2016 18:22, william degnan wrote: > > Stoned Monk is still detectable by modern anti virus software, 25 or > whatever years later, at least last time I tested using a win 7 machine. > So, that was maybe 4 or 5 years ago. Well, glad to hear there's nothing to worry about. Like I said,

Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

On Sat, 22 Oct 2016, Liam Proven wrote: :-) A good 5-6y or more ago I restored an old Mac Classic II a friend gave me. I got it dual-booting System 6.0.8 and 7.1 and had both of them online via an Asanté EtherSCSI interface. To do this involved downloading a lot of ancient Mac software on my B

Re: OT: Excessive bounce notices?

On 10/22/2016 10:27 AM, Adrian Graham wrote: Ditto, and ditto. I also thought it was due to the dyndns attack so just resubbed after emailing Jay, but if everyone did that who got an excessive bounce message the poor chap will have quite a full inbox. Me too, apart from the emailing Jay bit. I

Re: OT: Excessive bounce notices?

Got the excess bounce warning and membership disabled too. Just clicked the link on the message to re-enable myself. Hopefully it worked, since I'm still here... Marc > On Oct 22, 2016, at 9:22 AM, Liam Proven wrote: > >> On 22 October 2016 at 17:27, Adrian Graham

Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

On 22/10/16 20:21, Fred Cisin wrote: > But "Marketing" convinced the public that Macs were IMMUNE TO GETTING > VIRUSES!:-) And "Engineering" (aka some teenager playing on their parents' Mac) decided to convince Marketing that they were wrong? And the whole scene unfolds with a tedious

Re: Altos 686/886 (i286) MFM drive parameters

also, did the Altos Xenix 3.2F distribution floppies ever surface. It is installed on the disks, but the images I wrote would have to be scrubbed of the user stuff on there. On 10/22/16 11:55 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > micropolis 1325 > > --sectors 16,0 --heads 8 --cylinders 1024 --header_crc

Re: Looking for HP98034 / HP9895 ROM images

Very interested, I have one in the restore queue Marc Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 22, 2016, at 1:50 AM, F.Ulivi wrote: > > Thanks, I'd appreciate it if you could dump the "revised" 98034 firmware. > By the way, I'm working on R.E. of the 9895 hardware. I should have >

DEC bus transceivers (was Re: Unibus disk controller with modern storage)

On 10/22/2016 12:44 PM, shad wrote: > What kind of bus transceivers did you used for the QSIC, specially > because you have > to go from 5V open-drain logic to 3.3V logic? To add to Noel's answer, here's a picture of our current prototype board.

Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

I wouldn't dismiss it if you're using images or any used software. Yes some platforms are more susceptible than others but unless you have no hard drive, power your system off after every use, and never switch disks while system is running it's still something that can infest your originals or

Re: Old versions of Emacs

>>> [...skull-and-crossbones with text warning...] >> That looks identical to the comment at the head of display.c from >> the Gosling derivative I use. > Yes, it's the same in the copy of Gosling Emacs I got. I asked > Gosling himself, and he referred me to Brian Reid. He got it from > Gosling

Re: Maslin archive "virus"? (Was: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

On Sat, 22 Oct 2016, Eric Christopherson wrote: Where is this image? I found what I think is the Maslin archive at http://www.retroarchive.org/maslin/ but I don't see any Sharp stuff there. http://www.vcfed.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-34683.html includes a post: MasawVx July 30th, 2014,

Re: Maslin archive "virus"? (Was: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016, Fred Cisin wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, Sam O'nella wrote: > > > Does that archive on classiccmp.org have the infected images removed or > > > cleaned? (Just curious as I remember this came up in a couple other forums > > > that I think one or two of the images did have a

Re: OT: Excessive bounce notices?

On 22 October 2016 at 17:27, Adrian Graham wrote: [..] >> Same story from me, and I also wondered about the excessive bounces - >> because of gmail. > > Ditto, and ditto. I also thought it was due to the dyndns attack so just > resubbed after emailing Jay, but if

Re: OT: Excessive bounce notices?

I get hit by that every couple of weeks.  I still have no idea what a 'bounce' is or what I'm doing or not doing to cause it to drop me.  Kind of frustrating because it just drops me and then I miss chunks of conversations I'm watching. Sent from my Samsung device Original

RE: Excessive bounce notices?

> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of > drlegendre . > Sent: 22 October 2016 07:10 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: Excessive bounce notices? > > Had the notice here, can

Re: Excessive bounce notices?

FWIW, this was the first time for me, far as I can recall.. if it has occurred previously, it's so uncommon that I haven't noticed it. On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 2:01 AM, Rob Jarratt wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: cctalk

Re: Excessive bounce notices?

Had the notice here, can confirm. On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 1:01 AM, jim stephens wrote: > maybe the bounces from the DDNS attack today? Wouldn't be surprised. It > was that serious. 8.8.8.8 may not have had problems, but anyone else using > something from the attacked DNS

Re: Looking for HP98034 / HP9895 ROM images

Thanks, I'd appreciate it if you could dump the "revised" 98034 firmware. By the way, I'm working on R.E. of the 9895 hardware. I should have something useful in a few days. Is anyone interested in it? It would be a sort of "dump" of my notes on the hardware, nothing very polished. --F.Ulivi

Re: Looking for HP98034 / HP9895 ROM images

Ah, by the way, I've already asked for 98034 firmware to the owner of hp9845.net site. He should be working on the dump. --F.Ulivi