In Hong Kong any old computing places to go?

2017-05-26 Thread Christian Liendo via cctalk
Im working in Hong Kong the next few weeks and I was wondering if there is a place of interest I should check out

Re: In Hong Kong any old computing places to go?

2017-05-27 Thread Christian Liendo via cctalk
Thanks everyone for the ideas, however I cannot leave Hong Kong and enter China. That requires a different visa that I didn't obtain and I don't have the time to travel that far.

Re: TRS-80 bits

2018-06-25 Thread Christian Liendo via cctalk
I live in Manhattan, ping me off line maybe I can help. On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 9:37 AM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: > I like that area of NYC, nice place to get a good meal. I'll be around the > area in a few weeks, it's kind of near the Lincoln tunnel IIRC, the Javits > Convention Center,

Re: Cray Origin 2000 From Indiana University Scaamp Project- Rescued

2018-03-11 Thread Christian Liendo via cctalk
That's awesome. I did Origin 2000 and Onyx 2 repair training over at the SGI building that now houses the Computer History Museum. I don't have any parts, but keep us in the loop. I would come down to see that On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 7:58 PM, PhreakShow Telephone Company via cctalk

Re: SGI IRIX 6.5 Screen Savers (emulated Indy w/ 24-bit XL graphics) running in MAME

2019-06-06 Thread Christian Liendo via cctalk
On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 1:52 PM Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > pretty cool.. > I agree.. I remember someone ported GLTron as a screen saver for SGI and Mac as well. Probably my favorite screensaver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8FWro9sFJc

Raymond Check discusses MS DOS Floppy Disk Cache

2019-09-24 Thread Christian Liendo via cctalk
How did MS-DOS decide that two seconds was the amount of time to keep the floppy disk cache valid? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190924-00/?p=102915

Re: Raymond Check discusses MS DOS Floppy Disk Cache

2019-09-24 Thread Christian Liendo via cctalk
I meant to say Raymond Chen and it didn't notice the spell check change Sometimes modern technology sucks. On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 3:18 PM Christian Liendo wrote: > > How did MS-DOS decide that two seconds was the amount of time to keep > the floppy disk cache valid? > >

Re: Nuke Redmond!

2019-10-07 Thread Christian Liendo via cctalk
Ugh this is old and has nothing to do with what we do Also is has nothing to do with what anyone is discussing. The guy make exact copies of restore CDs with Dell and Microsoft labels, so they were counterfeit.

Re: Nuke Redmond!

2019-10-07 Thread Christian Liendo via cctalk
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 11:58 AM Ali wrote: > In none of the stories I have read, and I admit I haven't been following this > closely, there has been no mention of labels being copied (i.e. logos, > graphics, etc.). If he did do this then yes he screwed himself royally. > > -Ali >

Chuck Peddle passed away

2019-12-20 Thread Christian Liendo via cctalk
https://www.team6502.org/ This was on the Team 6502 facebook page I just received an email from Bill Mensch that Chuck Peddle has died. He died on December 15. Chuck Peddle was one of the team of eight Motorola employees and

Re: Interesting photos of a computer graphics lab from 1968

2021-06-25 Thread Christian Liendo via cctalk
I just wanted to say thank you for sending us the link, they are great

Jim Warren has passed away

2021-11-25 Thread Christian Liendo via cctalk
https://web.stanford.edu/~allison/JimWarren.html For those who do not know about Jim Warren Jim Warren's wiki page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Warren_(computer_specialist)

Re: Women of Computing

2021-12-05 Thread Christian Liendo via cctalk
I actually created an account to support this but I think it already has enough votes to get it made. I ended up giving private feedback. I like vintage computing legos and I have a few of Chris McVeigh's sets before he went to work for LEGO. I would like to see these sets get made. These sets

[cctalk] Re: SGI vs. Mac

2022-12-30 Thread Christian Liendo via cctalk
I went to Onyx2/Origin 2000 training in Mountain View in the building that is now the Computer History Museum and I met a lot of Gov folks but I also met a lot of oil people who used SGIs to crunch data. At the time no one could touch them but that too changed As for workstations the one I

[cctalk] Re: Intel 4004

2023-11-28 Thread Christian Liendo via cctalk
I have a box from Comstar that I was told was a "programmer" that allowed you to burn ROMs for a much larger computer. I did some research and found that COMSTAR made a Microcomputer based on the Intel 4004 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6368812 Page 26 "Compiler