Re: The New York Times: Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age

2019-12-27 Thread rooty
Hi TAZOR how old are you dude like 50 wow

 Original Message 
On Dec 27, 2019, 6:07 PM, Razer wrote:

> coderman wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Friday, December 27, 
> 2019 1:22 AM, Razer  wrote: > ... >> I stuck with that COCO3 until the early 
> 90s. I refused to use XT 8088s >> or MS-Dos because they simply couldn't 
> multitask. I put jNos on one, >> text-file driven tcpip with tools, for ham 
> radio, then put a bunk IP at >> the end of the nameserver list and pointed 
> the connection that way. It >> was a ham radio tcp/ip node list. MAYBE a few 
> hundred kilobytes. A >> half-hour later the XT was STILL chugging it'a way 
> through the >> nameserver list, and I pulled the plug. > > should have 
> pressed the TURBO button! ;) > > > best regards, > > (kudos to anyone who 
> gets it -^ ...) Yeah but it wasn't a turbo model. It also had an ST-225 
> Seagate disk drive with 'stiction' problems. Had to slap it like an old tube 
> tv set to get it to spin up before the beast errored out. I ran the coherent 
> on an NCR 386 'tablet' that appeared to have been made for route salesman use 
> that a German ham living in the area gave me (I was using an insurance 
> company terminal on Packet radio and it was an 'upgrade'). It came with 
> compiled-on-the-machine Linux, pre-X and I was having fun porting my OS9 
> knowledge to that OS when I accidentally munched the OS, so I found the 
> Coherent OS disks laying around and had fun with it for a while. XP until it 
> ran out. Then back to Linux/Debian. Currently Debian 8 on an old toshiba 32 
> bit laptop. Need to upgrade to 64bit one of these days if only because any 
> attempt to update the system, with all sorts of files missing from the 
> repositories, tries to destroy the OS. I still think the thing about 64 bit 
> being more secure than 32 is a lie albeit it IS much faster. Rr

Re: The New York Times: Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age

2019-12-27 Thread Razer


coderman wrote:
> ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
> On Friday, December 27, 2019 1:22 AM, Razer  wrote:
> ...
>> I stuck with that COCO3 until the early 90s. I refused to use XT 8088s
>> or MS-Dos because they simply couldn't multitask. I put jNos on one,
>> text-file driven tcpip with tools, for ham radio, then put a bunk IP at
>> the end of the nameserver list and pointed the connection that way. It
>> was a ham radio tcp/ip node list. MAYBE a few hundred kilobytes. A
>> half-hour later the XT was STILL chugging it'a way through the
>> nameserver list, and I pulled the plug.
>
> should have pressed the TURBO button!  ;)
>
>
> best regards,
>
> (kudos to anyone who gets it -^ ...)


Yeah but it wasn't a turbo model. It also had an ST-225 Seagate disk
drive with 'stiction' problems. Had to slap it like an old tube tv set
to get it to spin up before the beast errored out.

I ran the coherent on an NCR 386 'tablet' that appeared to have been
made for route salesman use that a German ham living in the area gave me
(I was using an insurance company terminal on Packet radio and it was an
'upgrade'). It came with compiled-on-the-machine Linux, pre-X and I was
having fun porting my OS9 knowledge to that OS when I accidentally
munched the OS, so I found the Coherent OS disks laying around and had
fun with it for a while. XP until it ran out. Then back to Linux/Debian.
Currently Debian 8 on an old toshiba 32 bit laptop. Need to upgrade to
64bit one of these days if only because any attempt to update the
system, with all sorts of files missing from the repositories, tries to
destroy the OS. I still think the thing about 64 bit being more secure
than 32 is a lie albeit it IS much faster.

Rr





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the Zigger strikes

2019-12-27 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Now how about that :D


Re: The New York Times: Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age

2019-12-27 Thread coderman


‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
On Friday, December 27, 2019 1:22 AM, Razer  wrote:
...
> I stuck with that COCO3 until the early 90s. I refused to use XT 8088s
> or MS-Dos because they simply couldn't multitask. I put jNos on one,
> text-file driven tcpip with tools, for ham radio, then put a bunk IP at
> the end of the nameserver list and pointed the connection that way. It
> was a ham radio tcp/ip node list. MAYBE a few hundred kilobytes. A
> half-hour later the XT was STILL chugging it'a way through the
> nameserver list, and I pulled the plug.


should have pressed the TURBO button!  ;)


best regards,

(kudos to anyone who gets it -^ ...)


Ring camera lawsuit.

2019-12-27 Thread jim bell
Ring and Amazon are sued by customers over hacking https://mol.im/a/7830499 via 
http://dailym.ai/android