Re: OT: Newsreader for Windows

2021-04-01 Thread Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk
Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: On Apr 1, 2021, at 3:55 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 4/1/21 12:51 PM, Zane Healy wrote: Did USENET news readers exist for IBM Mainframes? I don't know. Spending time reading Usenet (sometimes of questionable value) on a system that frequently

Re: OT: Newsreader for Windows

2021-04-01 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Apr 1, 2021, at 3:55 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk > wrote: > > On 4/1/21 12:51 PM, Zane Healy wrote: >> Did USENET news readers exist for IBM Mainframes? > > I don't know. > > Spending time reading Usenet (sometimes of questionable value) on a system > that frequently charged for

Re: OT: Newsreader for Windows

2021-04-01 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 4/1/21 12:51 PM, Zane Healy wrote: Did USENET news readers exist for IBM Mainframes? I don't know. Spending time reading Usenet (sometimes of questionable value) on a system that frequently charged for access seems counterproductive to me. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

RE: Newsreader for Windows

2021-04-01 Thread Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Rob Jarratt via > cctalk > Sent: 01 April 2021 18:36 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: OT: Newsreader for Windows > > I am hesitant to post this because I don't want to start a massive debate, but > what

Re: OT: Newsreader for Windows

2021-04-01 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Apr 1, 2021, at 11:15 AM, Grant Taylor via cctalk > wrote: > > - Gravity (S.G. is updating it at GRC; https://www.grc.com/discussions.htm) > - Thunderbird (I use this on Linux) > - Xnews (I think?) Sadly “Xnews" for Windows hasn’t been updated in 15 years, it was pretty good when I

Re: OT: Newsreader for Windows

2021-04-01 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 4/1/21 11:36 AM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote: what Newsreader programs do people use on Windows? I run Linux, so I don't have first hand experience with news readers on Windows. But I do know that people use the following: - Gravity (S.G. is updating it at GRC;

Re: Any Interpress fans out there?

2021-04-01 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Al Kossow > Dover was not an Interpress printer Yeah, it used Press format. BTW, here: http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/s2/press.c is the program from our V6 Unix machine to produce PRESS format files for the MIT Dover. (.v was the format for the Varian printer, a poor

Re: OT: Newsreader for Windows

2021-04-01 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Thu, 1 Apr 2021, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote: I am hesitant to post this because I don't want to start a massive debate, but what Newsreader programs do people use on Windows? Rob, you might want to give Xananews a shot. https://github.com/graemeg/xananews g. -- Proud owner of F-15C

RE: Newsreader for Windows

2021-04-01 Thread Ali via cctalk
> > I don't want to use Google Groups because it wants me to sign in to > Google. > I am generally reluctant to use a browser based reader because it will > want > to track me. So I am after an installable client. Back in the day I used Forte Agent. It is still in development. -Ali

OT: Newsreader for Windows

2021-04-01 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
I am hesitant to post this because I don't want to start a massive debate, but what Newsreader programs do people use on Windows? I don't want to use Google Groups because it wants me to sign in to Google. I am generally reluctant to use a browser based reader because it will want to track me.

Re: IBM cpu tear down

2021-04-01 Thread Anders Nelson via cctalk
Welp, there went an hour of billable time... =D -- Anders Nelson +1 (517) 775-6129 www.erogear.com On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 12:56 AM D. Resor via cctalk wrote: > I thought I had seen this before... > > EEVblog teardown of a ES9000 processor. > > https://youtu.be/xQ3oJlt4GrI > > Don Resor >

RE: Any Interpress fans out there?

2021-04-01 Thread D. Resor via cctalk
I did not say it was The Dover was a SLOT (Scanned Laser Output Terminal) using the EARS protocol (Ethernet, Alto, Research character generator, Scanned laser output terminal). The Dover Laser Printer however was used with the Xerox Alto. Was the 9700 the first Xerox Interpress Laser