[cctalk] Re: 5 1/4" and 3.5" disk duplication machines

2024-03-09 Thread Travis Pierce via cctalk
I definitely do. I rebuilt a Trace ST8000 last year and got it up and running. I also built a 5.25" duplicator with 12 drives a few months back. I'd love to find a commercial 5.25" duplicator. Travis On Sat, Mar 9, 2024 at 2:55 PM Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: > Does anyone have interest

[cctalk] CommonPoint for AIX

2024-03-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Just a ping out there to see if anyone's sitting on installation media for CommonPoint (the last gasp of Taligent). Seems appropriate to try to coerce it to run on an Apple Network Server. Let me know on or off list as appropriate. -- personal:

[cctalk] Re: Did something happen to comp.os.vms ?

2024-03-09 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Mar 9, 2024, at 2:19 PM, Dennis Boone via cctalk > wrote: > >> Did something happen to comp.os.vms and/or usenet? All the DEC >> newsgroups appear to be missing from Eternal September. > > There has been a huge flood of spam originating from google, in various > newsgroups, for a few

[cctalk] Re: Did something happen to comp.os.vms ?

2024-03-09 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Mar 9, 2024, at 1:16 PM, Stuff Received via cctalk > wrote: > > On 2024-03-09 14:50, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: >> Did something happen to comp.os.vms and/or usenet? All the DEC newsgroups >> appear to be missing from Eternal September. >> Zane > > I just subscribed to comp.os.vms

[cctalk] Re: Did something happen to comp.os.vms ?

2024-03-09 Thread Dennis Boone via cctalk
> Did something happen to comp.os.vms and/or usenet? All the DEC > newsgroups appear to be missing from Eternal September. There has been a huge flood of spam originating from google, in various newsgroups, for a few months. I saw 15,000 one day in comp.os.vms alone. This problem has

[cctalk] 5 1/4" and 3.5" disk duplication machines

2024-03-09 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
Does anyone have interest in vintage diskette duplication / duplication machines? Would this make for an interesting VCF exhibit? Does/did anyone use these commercially? Bill

[cctalk] Re: Did something happen to comp.os.vms ?

2024-03-09 Thread Stuff Received via cctalk
On 2024-03-09 14:50, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: Did something happen to comp.os.vms and/or usenet? All the DEC newsgroups appear to be missing from Eternal September. Zane I just subscribed to comp.os.vms on Eternal-September without issue. All seems well. S.

[cctalk] Did something happen to comp.os.vms ?

2024-03-09 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
Did something happen to comp.os.vms and/or usenet? All the DEC newsgroups appear to be missing from Eternal September. Zane

[cctalk] FS: PDP-11/23+ system

2024-03-09 Thread Charles via cctalk
Over the years, I have gradually built up a functional PDP-11/23+ system, which of course I now have no need for ;) So I'd be interested in selling it as I slowly downsize. You'd need to pick it up in south central Missouri as shipping would be impractical and expensive. Specifics: 11/23+

[cctalk] Re: IBM PC-XT

2024-03-09 Thread CAREY SCHUG via cctalk
Fond memories too, my second significantly used home computer (mainframes and midrange at work) (first was Trs80 m1, many others that I did almost nothing with) Mine was the first pc/xt clone I found for under $1000. Eventually grew to 3.5" A: disk and two double sided 80 track 5.25 disks for

[cctalk] Re: IBM PC-XT

2024-03-09 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 at 14:12, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote: > > I look back fondly on the IBM PC-XT of 41 years ago. I think I briefly used one at university. I wrote about it recently. Its startling price put the Apple Lisa, launched the same year, into context: « The Lisa flopped partly

[cctalk] IBM PC-XT

2024-03-09 Thread Murray McCullough via cctalk
I look back fondly on the IBM PC-XT of 41 years ago. It was very pricy here in the Great North but it allowed for a much more advanced computing environment. What one could do with a 10MB hard disk! Granted it was far more popular in the business world than the consumer one. However, it made