[cctalk] Re: NewtonOS

I worked in an Apple repair center when they came out. Customers were bringing them in saying, "this doesn't work." It was working as well as it could, which wasn't very well... great idea though! Ahead of it's technology a bit.

[cctalk] Re: Death of Mitnick

Yeah, when I was young and foolish I never ... (: On Thu, 20 Jul 2023 at 03:36, Murray McCullough via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Maybe this note is off topic but I don't think so: The death of Kevin > Mitnick. His book "Ghost in the Wire" is a classic. Too bad he was a > criminal!

[cctalk] Re: Don Lancaster has passed away at 83

More than anyone else (except maybe Gary Bitter) I owe my lifelong interest in computers to this man. How very sad. What a loss.

[cctalk] Re: Turbo 3.0 Command Line Compiler

On Wed, 31 May 2023 at 16:27, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > \Well, this doesn't directly answer your question, but a few > years ago I resurrected a pretty complex Turbo Pascal > program that I used to run on Win 95 and Win 2K. > > I used Linux and the Free Pascal Compiler (FPC) and it did > an

[cctalk] Turbo 3.0 Command Line Compiler

I don't normally beg for help, but I'm going to beg for help, because this would be really useful if I could get it to work. This guy: TURBO PASCAL (mark-ogden.uk) Has posted .MAC files

[cctalk] Re: Typing class in high school

I took typing at Tempe High because the future ex-Mrs Firestone was in that class. (Ex Mrs. Firestone the 1st) Most useful class (besides algebra) I took in school...

ICL DRS M5 terminal

Does anyone have any info on this terminal? I’ve spent hours searching I used to have a manual… I think my wife has put it away someplace

Re: Overclocked TI Silent 703 at 1200 bauds?

Wow. I used to use one of those for BBSing back in the day, and it required nulls … Sent from my iPhone > On 30 Oct 2021, at 07:36, CuriousMarc via cctalk > wrote: > > It may very well have the double head. It's not dropping any characters at > 1200. I am surprised. That's 4x the expected

Re: An American perspective on the late great Sir Clive Sinclair, from Fast Company

I had a TI 99/4 when I was a kid. It was my first computer (although I used my friend's Apple ][ much more). All I can say is, what a piece of garbage. It was horrible in every way, and it overheated if you left it on too long. SLOWEST BASIC EVER! On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 16:37, Liam Proven

Re: GNO and ORCA Pascal

0vv0 s. Picked up all the Orca > languages and have begin playing around with them but am not an expert > with them by any means. There are others with more knowledge about them > I'm sure. > > I started out (when I was a kid) on the PDP-11 at my dad's work (he was an anthropologist at ASU and

GNO and ORCA Pascal

Does anyone have any experience with GNO (the UnixLike shell for the Apple 2 GS)... particularly accessing GNO from Pascal. I'm afraid I'm a Turbo Pascal kind of guy... so I don't really get it. There are some of C libraries and C code and what have you... but I need to use Pascal (what I am

Lisa Source Code

I keep finding articles about how The Computer History Museum will (note tense) release the Apple Lisa OS (office system) source code in 2018. I can't find any evidence that this actually happened. As a former Pascal programmer, it would be fascinating. Anyone know if this actually happened?

Re: OT: Newsreader for Windows

I kind of wrote my own. I sign my BBS up to the usenet groups I want to read and it treats them like message boards... Not exactly Windows (more like Linux) but it's what I use ON Windows to read Usenet. On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 at 00:23, Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:

Apple ][+ ic

So, I have an Apple ][+. It is missing an IC at location a3 on the motherboard. I don't know why. it used to work... I think my mind is going. I have no memory or removing it. Anyway, I need another one. The board is marked 74166. Can I put any shift register IC with a similar part no, like

Re: Informix for SCO XENIX

On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 14:26, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Depends on your definition of experience. I last used Informix > on XENIX on the TRS-80 Model 16 in the early 80's. :-) > It was quite different from the Univac 1100 running DMS-11 that > was the main

Re: Informix for SCO XENIX

We're on version 12.10. Anyone got experience? Live in the North of England? Want a more relaxing challenge? Under the age of 80 and can fog a mirror? Drop me a resume. (: On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 21:43, Sean Ellis via cctalk wrote: > Thanks Al. For those of you not on LisaList I've uploaded

Re: Informix for SCO XENIX

Would be interesting to see, as I am stuck working with Informix on a daily basis. (: On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 13:39, geneb via cctalk wrote: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Sean Ellis via cctalk wrote: > > > Just wanted to let you all know that I've found a copy of Informix > > 3.11 for SCO XENIX on the

Old Terminals

I've always had a weakness for terminals. I have a question, are all those RJ-11 style keyboards interchangeable? I have an ICL M8 with a bad key... it's only the scroll lock... but still. There is so little information about these things that I've been able to find...

Re: Exploring early GUIs

I have an SGI Indy that some idiot (tm) (okay, it was me) put Linux on. Anyone have any way to undo my mistake? (: I'd like to get the thing running properly again, if it even still powers up. I imagine the HD is probably knackered by now anyway. On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 at 20:30, Ray Jewhurst via

Re: Living Computer Museum

His sister now runs his companies and has been dismantling his dreams. She already wrecked his space launch company. On Thu, 28 May 2020, 00:29 Ethan O'Toole via cctalk, wrote: > > Indeed. This looks bad. Hopefully they can pull a rabbit out of their hat > > and figure out how to reopen, but

Re: Nuke Redmond!

Heh. I'm a Microsoft Admin (in addition to doing all the other IT stuff around here)... and I hate Microsoft too, but somehow I don't want to convert the entire company to Linux (the most important system here, the manufacturing system, runs on Linux). I think that would make my life, not worth

Re: Nuke Redmond!

I'm glad retirement is now only 15 years away... no make that 17, soon to be 20? On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 at 16:13, jwest--- via cctalk wrote: > I'm fairly sure that the (near) future will be OSaaS, and you will be > paying monthly for your Windows Vi... er... OS. Not just your office >

Re: Nuke Redmond!

Ha. I was recently in PC World (gross) buying my son a laptop for University. They tried to sell him (me) a whole load of crap he didn't need. They tried to sell me an Office 365 subscription that he gets for free from the Uni. They tried to sell me A/V software you can get free. They tried to

Re: Test message

601 On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 at 00:33, Alexandre Souza via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Test failed > Please call service > > Enviado do meu Tele-Movel > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 20:30 Mike Ross via cctalk > wrote: > > > I was banned for ages, I've been told I'm not any more; test post; >

DecNet / Linux

Say, can anyone tell me which version of the kernel was the last one to work with Decnet? Does anyone know what the actual issues are? My friend who does kernel stuff wants to know. -- Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems: "The Future Begins Tomorrow" Visit us at: http://www.yoyodyne-propulsion.net

Re: Apple ][+ Keyboard

f: facebook.com/binarydinosaurs >> w: www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk >> >> >> On Thu, 23 May 2019 at 13:22, John Many Jars via cctalk < >> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >> >> > Hi Brian, >> > >> > That's an interesting thread. It proba

Re: Apple ][+ Keyboard

g them on Facebook a week > or so ago. > > -- > adrian/witchy > Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest private home computer > collection? > t: @binarydinosaursf: facebook.com/binarydinosaurs > w: www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk > > > On Thu, 23 May 2019 at 13:22,

Re: Apple ][+ Keyboard

/ Thanks! Mark On Wed, 22 May 2019 at 17:00, Brian Marstella wrote: > Just ran across this a few days ago on different search... > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.apple2/kJ4SosdZTb4 > > May have some helpful info. > > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 11:56 AM John

Apple ][+ Keyboard

I feel like I'm falling down a rabbit hole with this old ][ europlus I've had for years. The smoke came out of the power supply, so I replaced it with one from ReactiveMicro. Now it boots, and was working okay, until this morning. Now, no keyboard if you hit ctrl-reset. All other keys are

Re: Network cards and Win98SE

I just run PUTR under DosBox on a modern PC. A pain but... easier. On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 23:41, Charles via cctalk wrote: > I have tried for two days to get wireless networking running on my old PC > under Win 98SE, so I can use PUTR without a separate partition or boot. XP > is on an 8.4 GB

Re: More old stuff incoming

On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 11:51, Peter Corlett via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Realistically, computers made before around 2010 *are* antiques: something > where the main value is due to its age rather than its utility. > > I worked with "technicians" at HP 10 years ago who couldn't

Re: Oddball Terminals (Was: Re: VT100's)

I miss my old Televideo 910. I wonder if Steve Albany stole it? At ASU, when I was a kid pulling DECwriter printers out the bin to check for printouts in half-duplex, they had something called an Infoton. It was uppercase only and had the worst keyboard, ever. It felt like typing on a wet

BBS for RSTS

I'm sure it's been years since I've darkened anyone's door around here. I still have this idea that someone should write a proper BBS system (and run it) for RSTS... ...the age old problem is getting data in and out of it to connect it to the world... or one of the problems anyhow. Maybe using

Re: Update: Rehoming Apple ][+ , BBC B+?? & A410/1 with math co-processor - Liverpool UK

My new partner, instead of being actively hostile ("I will rectally insert the next computer you give him, in you!") is merely bemused. I'm not sure I want to put that bemusement to the test of 14 crates though. (: On 2 September 2017 at 23:39, Rob Jarratt via cctalk

Re: I hate the new mail system

On 28 February 2017 at 21:23, Rich Alderson via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > OK, it's official. I rarely criticize mail interfaces, because they're > usually > mostly innocuous. However, today's change makes life a lot more difficult. > > In the past, it was simple to direct a reply