On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 19:51, Tomasz Rola via cctalk
wrote:
>
> From time to time I behave like a normal human and, for example, zip
> channels on my cable tv. Few years ago, while stopping at their "see
> what we have on offer to you, prospective viewer" kind of channel, it
> cracked open and I
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 14:45, David Brownlee wrote:
>
> The big issue with the Hydra was its lack of cache coherency between
> processors, which made conventional SMP somewhat... challenging. You
> could do very cool multiprocessor stuff with it, just not in a
> conventional SMP capable OS (I
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 13:41, Jules Richardson via cctalk
wrote:
>
> The 4000T that I have was built in May of '96, and it amazes me that there
> was any kind of market for it in light of how widespread PCs on the desktop
> had become by that time.
Agreed.
VideoToasters might have been the main
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 09:52, Ethan Dicks via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I'd say the Amiga really lost its shine around 20 years ago, about the
> time Linux was getting serious and Windows 98 dominated the desktop.
Unfortunately, yes, I think you're right.
Ditto the Acorn RISC OS platform -- I know,
On Sat, 23 May 2020 at 03:52, Richard Cini via cctalk
wrote:
>
> You know, reading about this made me dig out the info I had on the Character
> Oriented Windows ("COW") library. I was reading some of the docs and it
> occurred to me that it operated much like Windows (probably Windows 1), but
On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 01:57, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> A Tesla is a rather expensive electric car, a product of Elon Musk.
> STARTING (minimal stripped down) at 40,000 pounds, and some models over
> 80,000 pounds.
>
> Sell one of THOSE, and you can buy a car AND a lot of great computer
>
On Fri, 29 May 2020 at 19:56, Tony Duell wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 7:24 PM Liam Proven via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> There were also some pretty high-spec British microcomputers, but they
> tended to flop owing to the price. Things like the HH Tiger (did it
> ev
On Fri, 29 May 2020 at 18:17, Toby Thain via cctalk
wrote:
> >
> > And I have had earnest youngsters on Twitter and elsewhere very
> > seriously tell me that _no_ language could even theoretically be
> > immune to the problems of C, because _all_ languages are implemented
> > in C at the lowest
https://ajk.me/building-an-ibm-3270-terminal-controller
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On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 21:40, John Ames wrote:
> Agreed. While I'm much more favorably disposed towards C than you are,
> the increasing homogeneity of almost all modern languages is
> discouraging and, I think, detrimental to the field as a whole. Forth
> and Smalltalk alike were eye-openers
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 21:47, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On Tue, 26 May 2020, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> >>> I do not know what a "sheering section" means.
> >> Typo: "cheering". :-)
> >
> > Aha! I still didn't know, but t
On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 21:11, geneb wrote:
>
> CP/M was huge in the US, especially among the S-100 system users. It was
> a pretty narrow window though - from probably 1978-1982. Kaypro had a
> good portion of the market as well, but like pretty much all the other
> manufacturers of CP/M
On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 06:01, ben via cctalk wrote:
> What keyboard are you using to get the fancy arrows?
Unmodified IBM Model M from 1991 in my case.
⇒ is compose, equals, greater-than
Snag is, I can't get one going the other way... I get
less-than-or-equal-to etc: ≤ ≥
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On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 21:52, Jim Brain via cctalk
wrote:
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> Well, *I've* heard of them, but I enjoy knowing about such things. Most
> in the US do not.
*Nod* Shame but it's fair enough.
I think there is at the least an article (and possibly an entire
university course module) comparing
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 21:35, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
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> Well, there were some products whose role was to SHEAR THE SHEEP.
> The Apple3 belonged in a shearing section. Maybe even the Lisa, although
> that wasn't its intended role.
(?)
> When I taught C, we gave the course a prerequisite
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 19:22, Chris Elmquist via cctalk
wrote:
>
> A friend has unearthed approximately (5) of these IBM keyboards in his
> dad's shed in MN. These are not PC keyboards but instead likely 3178
> terminal keyboards. They probably came out of 3M a very long time ago.
>
>
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 18:50, Jim Brain via cctalk
wrote:
>
> TO help save a few bits in everyone's mailbox, I will link to some docs:
>
> http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=4=1514
Whoah. OK, TMI for this dilettante.
I think the only CBM kit that went through my home was a C16 I fixed
for a
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 18:25, Tony Duell wrote:
>
> Err, the Acorn Atom could do colour at least in some graphics modes.
> It used the 6847 video chip that turned up in the Tandy Color
> Computer/Dragon. Maybe the base machine was monochrome video only, but
> there was a PAL encoder board
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 17:49, Adrian Graham via cctalk
wrote:
> > On 26 May 2020, at 12:57, Liam Proven via cctalk
> > wrote:
> >
> > & the Isle of Man. :-)
>
> Suddenly your comments about Trash-80s and MSX machines makes perfect sense
> too :)
Fair enoug
On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 20:53, Jim Brain via cctalk
wrote:
> Too late to fix silicon, the 6522 issue surfaced.
What 6522 issue?
This is way more depth about a machine I never owned than I personally
ever knew, I have to admit...
> Oh, and re-use all the VIC peripherals to save NRE costs!
I
On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 23:17, Adrian Graham via cctalk
wrote:
>
>
> Wait, PETs didn’t have graphics and Tic Tac Toe didn’t exist? Where did you
> LIVE?
The _name_ was new to me.
& the Isle of Man. :-)
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On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 20:51, Adrian Graham via cctalk
wrote:
> Quite a few Australians might not share your view that Dick Smith was
> ‘niche’, Europeans may, largely because they’ll have never heard of him in
> Europe. For proper niche see the RCA-1802 powered COMX-35.
I do remember the
On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 20:49, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I apologise for offending you. Sloppiness and insnesitivity on my part,
> not a deliberate attempt.
Just saddened, Fred, not offended.
I never had a ZX81, but the door-wedge joke is as old as the machine.
I think its historical
On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 20:42, Bill Degnan via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I find Gmail
> sends a lot of group posts and replies straight to the spam folder.
If you filter ClassicCmp.org replies into a folder, then there is a
checkbox in the "filter messages like these" screen that says "never
mark as
On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 20:22, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
>
> I hadn't thought about IBMCACHE.SYS in *years*. I wrote it in its
> entirety (there's even a patent that covers some of its operation). I
> was in an AdTech (Advanced Technology) group at the time and was
> looking at how to make disk
On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 05:30, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I played briefly with Xenix on an XT (or MAYBE an AT) on a 15MB? drive
> partition. MS-DOS was a better match for that hardware.
Never tried Xenix on an XT, but it was the 2nd OS on my PC-AT in my
first ever job. That machine was
On Sun, 24 May 2020 at 05:14, Jim Brain via cctalk
wrote:
> The serial interface would have been fast enough, if the MOS folks had
> talked to the design team about the bug and squashed it early. But, they
> did not, and on the VIC-20, which did not expect to move many drives, no
> one cared.
On Sun, 24 May 2020 at 03:42, Richard Cini wrote:
>
> Thanks Liam. Oberon is pretty interesting. I may download that just to see it
> in action. I’ve used a ton of 3Com cards so the setup program is pretty
> familiar. I haven’t used DESQview, well, since I had it installed on my
> Compaq
On Sat, 23 May 2020 at 22:24, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On Sat, 23 May 2020, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> > It is pretty much the *same* BASIC in the PET, VIC-20 and C64. It got
> > trivial adjustments for the hardware, but bear in mind: the PET had no
> > graphi
On Sat, 23 May 2020 at 03:52, Richard Cini via cctalk
wrote:
>
> You know, reading about this made me dig out the info I had on the Character
> Oriented Windows ("COW") library. I was reading some of the docs and it
> occurred to me that it operated much like Windows (probably Windows 1), but
On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 21:56, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Microsoft did a BASIC for the Commodore PET. I wasn't aware that they did
> the C64.
It is pretty much the *same* BASIC in the PET, VIC-20 and C64. It got
trivial adjustments for the hardware, but bear in mind: the PET had no
On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 21:34, ben via cctalk wrote:
> >
> Confused here. Pirates or Micosoft history?
> Runs.
Yes.
He meant that PoSV is a fictionalised, sanitised, MS-approved account
and not very reliable.
As is MS' own history. Written by the winners, etc.
However, I'd say PoSV will give
On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 19:50, Al Kossow via cctalk
wrote:
>
> > Recently found a movie Pirates of Silicon Valley which had some of early
> > Microsoft history
>
> It is a work of fiction, and should be taken as such.
You're right, but it contains the broad strokes of the story, more or
less
On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 18:21, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
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> Similarly, I have a few 3.25" drives. NO, not 3.5"; not 3.0". 3.25" was
> the entry in the "shirt pocket disk" wars that Dysan bet the company on.
> (remember their disks?)Another discussion.
I remember the Zenith Minisport, a
On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 05:26, Rico Pajarola via cctalk
wrote:
> >
> The whole concept of "if the plug fits, it will at least not blow up" is
> kind of a late invention.
Ha!
I have an old external 3.5" IDE disk enclosure. It's a good enclosure,
too -- Firewire 800 _and_ USB 2 _and_ eSATA. It has
On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 03:53, Eric Moore via cctalk
wrote:
>
> https://youtu.be/L743MjJthHY
>
> I recently got my SEL 810A working. I hope you guys enjoy the video :).
Very nifty indeed. Shared with the VCC on FB so you may see a few more
viewers from there! :-)
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On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 23:05, Kyle Owen via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I also wrote a version for the PDP-8; I was sure someone else had beat me
> to it (an assembly version, that is), but I didn't find any versions online
> other than for BASIC and FOCAL—neither of which supported very many cells
> nor
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 13:55, Chris Elmquist wrote:
>
> This might be one of those jokes that if you have to explain it, it looses
> the punch ... but I’ll try,
>
> There used to also be something called a Hong Kong Whore House, similarly
> staffed with young Asian women, but they didn’t make
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 04:05, Chris Elmquist via cctalk
wrote:
>
> CDC had a memory manufacturing facility in SE Asia, staffed with mostly young
> Asian women.
> An older colleague at ETA helped set it up (he just passed away; RIP Carl).
>
> He called it the Hong Kong Core House.
There's a few
On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 at 11:28, Jim Manley via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Speaking of COBOL and Admiral Grace Hopper, I have one of her actual
> nanoseconds, a piece of insulated solid wire about 11.2 inches long, when
> she was a Superintendent's guest lecturer. Since I was a Navy MSCS
> student, she
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 at 23:02, Paul Koning via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I'm reminded of a T-shirt company that was around when I was in college,
> named "Outer products". They had various math and physics related shirts,
> for example with Maxwell's equations (your choice of differential or integral
>
On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 18:00, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> Thanks! Nice talk! I wish I'd stuck around but I was kinda fried after my
> talk...
I understand. I was the same, and went to the café for a couple of beers. :-)
> Surprised you didn't mention that we had 80 column xterms due to 24x80 25x80
On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 21:26, Warner Losh wrote:
>>
> Now I'm going to have to find that talk... :) I was at FOSDEM, but too
> preoccupied with my own talk to go to other talks and run the room too full
> gauntlet.
I know. Your talk was directly before mine in the same room, and I
On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 17:24, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>
> BTW, nice talk at FOSDEM 2020, I was there. :)
Oh wow! Thank you!
*Blushes* :-)
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On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 16:13, Rob Jarratt wrote:
>
> This is the listing:
> https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VIntage-DEC-VS4000-memory-SIMM-50-19464-02/223624600040
That is... not very informative. :-(
I also note that the listing just says VS4000 and does not specify a model.
It could be one of 5
On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 09:08, Rob Jarratt via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I mistakenly bought some memory thinking it was for a VAXstation 4000 VLC.
> It turns out that it isn't. It physically fits a VAXstation 4000 Model 60,
> but putting it in that machine the machine fails to power up. The part
> number
On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 17:46, Paul Koning via cctalk
wrote:
>
> A company may close down, but that doesn't mean it is "gone" as far as its
> property is concerned. Ownership passes to others, perhaps creditors or the
> like, or the majority shareholder. Who that is may be quite hard to find
On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 at 17:58, Joseph Zatarski via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I've started inventorying a lot of the stuff I'd like to pass on here:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19vhF-o6vx9g7l-D8cvLJ5OPJzpdmU9PTTknbxY-mY58/edit?usp=sharing
I can't see these in the Google sheet, for some reason:
On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 at 07:13, Kevin Lee via cctalk wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I forgot to mention it’s an eye phone
> 11 PRO 256gb.
I may be missing something -- *what's* an "eye phone"? I thought you
were listing vintage kit, not smartphones?
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On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 03:49, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Hoo boy. I'll throw my experience in and see if you can avoid nausea...
>
> First of all, you don't need a special controller to run most floppytape
> drives, nor do you need to give up a floppy drive to use them--they
> don't use
On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 19:20, Roger Addy via cctech
wrote:
>
> I'm
> wondering if it's possible to connect it to a modern ethernet network?
Run a single piece of thin Ethernet into the back of an old 10base-T hub.
Cable the hub into a modern switch.
Job done.
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On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 16:10, Al Kossow via cctalk
wrote:
>
> https://www.cultofmac.com/685669/larry-tesler-the-apple-employee-who-invented-cut-copy-paste-dies-at-74/
>
> https://twitter.com/cdespinosa/status/1229996808052469760
Oh no. :-(
"Don't mode me in!" I saw him speak, just once...
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On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 23:43, Alan Perry via cctalk
wrote:
>
> PS I forgot to thank Liam for offering assistance, so thanks, Liam.
You're very welcome. Sorry I misunderstood and couldn't help.
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On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 00:42, jim stephens via cctalk
wrote:
> >
> Liam, he's looking for SMD, which need a Bus and Radial. One Bus can
> daisy chain from drive to drive, and us usually 60 pin. The radial RF
> cables are usually 26 pin ribbon. A separate cable from the controller
> to each
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 19:06, Alan Perry via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I supplied part numbers. How can I be more specific?
Oddly, some of us do not have a mental look-up table of Sun part
numbers. In fact I think I can safely say that I could not identify a
single cable of any form for any machine ever
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 18:46, Alan Perry via cctalk
wrote:
>
>
> Anyone here have a set of Sun external SMD cables (530-1079 and 530-1080)
> that they can loan or want to sell?
>
> I ordered from a set from MemoryX at the beginning of Jan. They haven’t
> arrived and MemoryX isn’t answering my
With his express permission, I'm forwarding a mail from a public list.
I am interested in Gene's comments about the design of SCSI, but I
don't know enough electronics to judge.
I thought others here might.
I have trimmed the mail a little to the relevant parts.
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On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 02:00, Stefan Skoglund wrote:
>
> Well in some way or another i got a copy with the book to Sweden.
>
> Ran it from 1999 to 2002 or so (got a SGI challenge S as NetBSD machine
> and a pc as a linux machine at that time in 2002 or so.)
>
> Host was a 6100 with the Apple tilt
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 06:25, Alan Perry via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On 1/6/20 3:53 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> > Any screeenshot galleries or better still videos anywhere?
>
> I found this photo that I took -
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZjYMdZZrIygvsQas9b40QWW7uNxM
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 00:22, Alan Perry via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I demoed OpenStep Solaris on top of CDE in my last exhibit at VCF PNW.
> It could be awkward trying to figure out where to look for application's
> menu. Just to make things extra ugly, I ran MAE (Macintosh Application
> Environment)
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 00:12, Chris Hanson wrote:
>
> Not quite! Sun was a participant in creating the OpenStep standard (the NS
> class prefix stands for “NeXT/Sun”) and *created their own implementation* of
> OpenStep for Solaris. (Just as GNUstep is an independent implementation of
> the
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 23:30, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Yes. We first started with Mach 3.0 build MK58. We did our final
> fork at MK68. We made some *significant* changes from what CMU
> had (things like changing mach messages from IPC to RPC) and a
> whole lot of work in the area of
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 20:58, Steven M Jones via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Just to clarify, the reference to "i810 RISC" should be the i860
> ("N-10"), their second general-purpose RISC design - versus the 960MX
> from the BiiN project with Siemens in the mid-80s as their first (?),
> which would become
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 19:02, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I had been working on the IBM Microkernel (was one of the original 6
> people onthat team). It was eventually to form the basis of OS/2 for
> PPC. The way thatthe microkernel project was structured was that most
> of the "OS" was
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 09:56, Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2020-01-03 at 12:00 -0600, cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote:
> > On 1/2/2020 1:35 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote:
> > > > > Anyone done anything with Netware *for PowerPC*? Allegedly
> > > > > there was
> > > > >
On Thu, 26 Dec 2019 at 07:51, Nemo via cctalk wrote:
>
> Would you have the citations handy? I would be interested to read that.
I thought the same thing!
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On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 at 18:05, David Barto wrote:
>
> And claimed.
Oh! Well, that was quick. :-)
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On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 at 17:52, David Barto via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Last retry. I’ve still got them and if anyone wants them, let me know.
May I pass this message on, e.g. to one of the many LowEndMac groups?
Anonymised if you prefer.
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On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 at 18:29, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On 11/27/19 7:13 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
>
> Okay, you're right and I'm wrong. Everyone should play games on their
> 8 bit computers because they'll grow up to be real computer scientists.
Play,
On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 at 15:47, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
>
> No, I meant "commercially viable" computers.
[1] You didn't say that, though.
[2] If it sells enough units for someone to make a living off it, that
is the _definition_ of "commercially viable".
As such, my first link qualifies.
On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 at 04:02, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Other than in very low-level MCUs, I don't see 8 bit micros making a
> comeback. And 32/64 bits seems to be the rule for MCUs today.
You might be surprised.
E.g.
https://rc2014.co.uk/ (selling strongly, I believe)
On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 at 05:38, Jim Manley via cctalk
wrote:
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> One of my special tours at the CHM is "Mistakes That Kept Getting Repeated"
That is something I would _really_ like to hear. Sadly I am on the
wrong continent for it and that's not likely to change in the
foreseeable future. Between
On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 at 23:07, Murray McCullough via cctalk
wrote:
>
> The first Internet message was sent 60 yrs. ago on Nov. 21 between SRI and
> UCLA.
50, not 60.
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/internet-50-years/
Source: ARPA.
On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 02:46, Al Kossow via cctalk
wrote:
> Please feel free to copy the above to the mailing list - I definitely
> want to join (do you know if it is possible to join with a GMail
> account, the last I heard was I was waiting to be approved)
It absolutely is -- that's how I use
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 19:24, Grant Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On 11/18/19 11:10 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
>
> > For example, I'm not sure anyone would call VMS an open system, yet
> > clearly it's distributed (VAXcluster).
>
> What is "open" in this context? Is it open source? Is it open
>
On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 at 16:50, Anders Nelson via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Maybe buy a more modern cable and hack that instead?:
>
> https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F283062451183
That's pretty cool, actually. I have about ½ dozen Model Ms and most
of my
On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 at 15:31, Rob Jarratt via cctalk
wrote:
>
> However, I now have a pang of conscience about hacking around with a
> perfectly good cable, particularly if they are uncommon. How common are
> these cables?
I don't know for sure but I've certainly seen people looking for them.
Not
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 06:59, Kevin Parker via cctalk
wrote:
>
>
> These voltages appear to neatly align with most PC power supplies so I
> should be able to tap into an old AT power supply of which I have quite a
> few.
The PSU apparently outputs AC, not DC, which is unusual... but a PC
PSU can
On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 at 03:34, allison via cctalk wrote:
>
> The whole story of what was going on was far more complex and interesting.
Conceded.
> Funny thing was DECnet was in 1983 the largest world wide network
> period. By then is was well over 300 nodes and climbing fast.
> And none of it
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 at 17:32, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
>
> 50 years ago, inter-computer communication was common enough that it was
> a standard option in most vendors' catalogs.
>
> Maybe you've got a digit wrong?
Tim Berners-Lee says it's the 50th anniversary of the first internet
On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 02:19, Paul Koning via cctalk
wrote:
> > ...
> Speaking of timing, that reminds me of two amazing security holes written up
> in the past few years. Nothing to do with the Spectre etc. issue.
>
> One is the recovery of speech from an encrypted VoIP channel such as Skype,
On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 at 21:09, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
> One student (who later became my best friend and buddy)
> skipped the technical details and said, "The primary design error for
> MacOS and Windoze (sic) is that they placed a lower priority on security,
> than on being able to
On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 10:16, Marvin Johnston via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I'm just curious how many people have powered up their TRS-80 computers,
> and ended up with a bang and a room filled with smoke?
"They all do that, sir."
Computers older than 20y or so, that is. :-(
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On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 at 21:04, Jason T via cctalk wrote:
>
> I took a lot of, uh, "inspiration" from that page :)
:-D
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On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 at 19:28, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
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> Especially the
>
> "Notice: Undefined index: currentpage in /var/www/vcfmw.org/footer.html on
> line 34"
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> at the bottom. I felt right at home ;)
I liked that too! Reminded me of:
http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM
(c)
1993 article on building a multiprocessor 6809 box.
http://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/6809cpu.htm
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On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 13:23, Jules Richardson via cctalk
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> Someone on one of the Facebook vintage groups
Oh? Which one?
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On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 02:40, Fritz Mueller via cctalk
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> After disassembly, I can see the keyboard assembly are marked "Cherry" and
> part number is B76-07AA. I'm not enough of a keyboard wonk to know if these
> are still-mfg'd cherry key mechanisms?
Cheery are still around. Ask
On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 at 14:41, Ethan O'Toole wrote:
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> > This LGR guy took 15 min to get to the point. Any point. And his
> > channel doesn't even explain what "LGR" stands for.
>
> LGR is short for Lazy Game Reviews. His channel used to be reviews of old
> MS-DOS games or something. Random dude
On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 at 13:52, William Donzelli wrote:
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> Cleanouts like this are a big part of my business. CR is by no means
> small, but is also not that big. The last big place I was in - well,
> the entire CR space would have been part of one of the floors of the
> building. One of six
On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 15:00, William Donzelli via cctalk
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> Well, I think he kind of created a shitstorm and gave CR a little too
> much exposure. The CR liquidation seems to have been going at a nice
> controlled rate. Now that the whole world knows, it would not be a
> surprise if
On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 at 06:37, Guy Dunphy via cctalk
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> At 10:14 PM 16/07/2019 -0700, Al Kossow wrote:
> >> Exploring a MASSIVE Retro Computer Warehouse!
> >
> >old news, dredged up again because of a youtube jackass
>
>
> Ah yes, now I see there was exactly one previous mention a month
On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 at 14:04, Dave Wade via cctalk
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> Bill,
> Ask Peter about emulators. Pretty sure some one at the museum did an 803
> emulator, (not in SIMH)
>From a casual Google there seem to be several...
https://sourceforge.net/projects/elliott803/
On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 06:04, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> Be careful about taunting a time traveller.
> He might read what you write and it might give him ideas.
Oh no! Roko's basilisk! You've wok+++ATH
NO CARRIER
On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 17:02, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
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> Practically speaking, what's the difference between a close working
> replica and the original? Are the bits somehow imbued with some
> additional spiritual property?
>
> The replica may actually be more reliable.
Spoken like a
On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 14:53, Dave Wade wrote:
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> I wouldn't like to comment on relationships, but they appeal to very
> different audiences. There is now some signage at the main gate but its
> minimal...
OK, noted.
So apart from my comment that BP depended on the revenues and draw of
TNMOC,
On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 at 11:40, Bill Degnan via cctech
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> Refined question - When would I have to depart the museum in order to
> travel by rental car (driving legal speeds) from Bletchley to Gatwick
> Airport in time for a 4PM flight on 7/11 (A Thursday)?
To echo what others have said:
*
On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 at 00:23, Mattis Lind via cctalk
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> When I visited Bletchley park and TNMOC I went by train from London. Euston
> I believe. From Gatwick there are trains to Victoria which are quite quick.
Me too. But then, I lived in London. Still took nearly 2 hours.
But I think
On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 at 09:12, Guy Dunphy via cctalk
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> I just _love_ being reminded of the circumstances of my NOT buying an Apple
> I, and what that mistake cost me.
>
> http://everist.org/NobLog/20181001_missing_wave.htm
Sad reading...
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On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 17:46, Alan Perry via cctalk
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> I sold a $3500 car once for cash to a guy who sold his goods at a booth
> at fairs and shows. He received lots and lots of $20 bills in payment,
> so that is what he paid me with. I kept the cash instead of depositing
> it in the bank
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