Re: Rainbow Disk Imager

On 14/09/2017 17:02, Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: Hi I have a bunch of .dsk RT11 400k image files I need to write to RX50 disks so I can boot from them on my 11/73 Somewhere there is a utility that will write the images to RX50 on a DEC Rainbow 100 under MS-DOS . Anybody know where

Re: Interlace/interleave, skew, side pattern (Was: Rainbow Disk Imager

> On Sep 14, 2017, at 10:44 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk > wrote: > > ... > Alternatively, you could leave the sectors in sequential order, but not put > each data block of the file into the sector of the same number. > Thus, you could put the first data block of the file

Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle - Firsts

Wow... that really doesn't make him look good at all! On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:47 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Shoppa, Tim via

Re: Rainbow Disk Imager

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 1:47 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, Warner Losh wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: >> >>> On the IBM PC/AT (5170) with 1.2M, admittedly the only one that is easily >>>

Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle - Firsts

> On Sep 13, 2017, at 12:47 AM, Eric Smith via cctalk > wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Shoppa, Tim via cctalk >> wrote: >>> He seems

Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle - Firsts

On 9/15/2017 10:49 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans via cctalk wrote: Wow... that really doesn't make him look good at all! On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:47 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:

Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle - Firsts

On 9/15/17 12:36 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > I recall that he was a bit of a pompous a** on his Usenet postings, but > you have to realize that the tenor of online conversation was very My one interaction with him was at a Hackers. insert DRUNKEN between pompous and a**

RE: RIP Jerry Pournelle - Firsts

From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Geoffrey Oltmans via cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2017 2:27 PM To: Jim Brain; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle -

Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle - Firsts

On 09/15/2017 11:54 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > Never understood why Byte kept him around, unless for his humor > value. And, even being a long time SciFi fan I didn't like his books > either. I recall that he was a bit of a pompous a** on his Usenet postings, but you have to

Re: Rainbow Disk Imager

What Chuck says. +1 on ImageDisk. I also tried OmniDisk which allows you to do just about anything with the formats, including a lot of wrong things. I found it much more difficult to use, but it taught me quite a few things. I made 3 videos on YouTube about it, mostly to remember what I did,

Re: Rainbow Disk Imager

On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, Warner Losh wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: On the IBM PC/AT (5170) with 1.2M, admittedly the only one that is easily readily available, there is trivial software tweaking required to format/write "720K"/"quad" density, instead

RE: DEC H9xx rack parts needed

or find some one with a brown and sharpe... screw machine... keep them employed! Sent from AOL Mobile Mail On Friday, September 15, 2017 Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: Hi, does anyone have any spare "pivot bushings" for the DEC H9xx series cabinets (H950, H960, etc)?

Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle - Firsts

On 2017-Sep-12, at 9:47 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Shoppa, Tim via cctalk >> wrote: >>> He seems to have been the first to mention

Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle - Firsts

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Jim Brain via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 9/15/2017 10:49 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans via cctalk wrote: > >> Wow... that really doesn't make him look good at all! >> >> >>> It does not surprise me. Not that I knew the man, but it seems in > general, our

Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle - Firsts

> I used to read his column for its humor value but I always thought > of him as an idiot as far as comuters were concerned. Apparently this opinion is fairly widely shared: http://www.panix.com/~clp/humor/computers/general/Jerry-Pournelle-parody.html --

DEC H9xx rack parts needed

Hi, does anyone have any spare "pivot bushings" for the DEC H9xx series cabinets (H950, H960, etc)? (These are the short pieces with a conical top which fit over the hinge pins, at the bottom.) I need at least one to hang a back door which I have. If nobody has any, they'd be easy to machine, so

Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle - Firsts

On 9/15/2017 2:25 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: (~mid-80s, well before opening of the 'net to public access), some guy-off-the-street came into the uni. comp sci department wanting a connection to the arpa/internet I had to finesse my way onto the internet pre Software Tool and Die. 

RE: RIP Jerry Pournelle - Firsts

From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Al Kossow via cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2017 3:40 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle - Firsts On 9/15/17 12:36 PM, Chuck Guzis via

BitNET (Was: RE: RIP Jerry Pournelle - Firsts)

While all this talk of the ARPANet is cool and brings back some fine memories, what about BitNET? Anyone here remember it? Any chance someone has a copy of the source for a BitNET Node? I have seen UUCPNet and DECNet revived. It might be fun to bring