Re: pdp-11 assembly standards

On 2017-Jan-09, at 6:27 AM, Pete Lancashire wrote: > wow ... the memories ... someday I've got to get a PDP-11 again :-). > > had most of the opcodes memorized, for a story > > Had a coworker who played the piano, he could enter/patch code from > the 11/35's panel from memory so fast all

Re: Contacting Jay West

On 1/9/2017 3:13 PM, geneb wrote: On Mon, 9 Jan 2017, Rob Jarratt wrote: No HP-2000 problem, just wasn't HP-2000 sure if I had sent it to the right place HP-2000. "Meet single HP-2000 in your area!" g. Where are the Female Computers? Hal

Re: Stinky resistors was Re: Stinky screwdrivers

On 01/09/2017 08:51 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > You'd think that based on the looks on the faces of everyone around > me. I am not exaggerating when I say that everyone shouted "No!" when > I said I was going to take the bus home... Ah, high-school--and 7 AM zoology lab. I definitely recall the

Re: Sunday brain tickler

On 01/09/2017 02:58 PM, allison wrote: > Low majik there... 8 bytes of 7 bit ascii means one free bytes > worth of bits, to do that start with an 8byte area as 64 bits and > stuff the bits. The only question is are the left justified or > right a few minutes by hand can discover that. Done

Re: Sunday brain tickler

On 01/09/2017 12:51 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > On 01/09/2017 09:28 AM, Fred Cisin wrote: >> Need there BE a filename? >> >> An OS, particularly for a word processor, could have an IMPLICIT list >> of filenames on a disk of DOCUMENT1 DOCUMENT2 DOCUMENT3 > > I found this document: > >

Re: Stinky screwdrivers

Do a Google search on cellulose acetate butyrate the 'stink' is mostly acetic acid and as it has been stated, the key is ACID, think what would happen if you poured a cup of white vinegar inside you favorite classic. Yea not a bad but the idea is the same. I emailed the Apex Tool Group a year

Re: Stinky resistors was Re: Stinky screwdrivers

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 9:48 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 01/09/2017 04:30 PM, Charles Dickman wrote: >> >> it was all fun and games >> until I spilled 200ml of Butyric Acid on myself... :-P ) > > YIKES! 200 ml? Nowadays, that would cause everybody from the EPA to >

Re: Stinky resistors was Re: Stinky screwdrivers

On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 10:31:50PM -0600, Chris Elmquist wrote: > These are the things you learn while having to _wait_ (and wait and > wait) to use the Teletype 33 and dialup modem in the room next to the > little chemistry lab. Did we go to the same high school? mcl

Re: Stinky resistors was Re: Stinky screwdrivers

On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 08:48:14PM -0600, Jon Elson wrote: > YIKES! 200 ml? Nowadays, that would cause everybody from the EPA to > Homeland Security to get involved! I'm not sure the statute of limitations has run out on what my friend (we'll call him "Joe") and I got up to in high school

Re: Stinky resistors was Re: Stinky screwdrivers

On 01/09/2017 04:30 PM, Charles Dickman wrote: it was all fun and games until I spilled 200ml of Butyric Acid on myself... :-P ) YIKES! 200 ml? Nowadays, that would cause everybody from the EPA to Homeland Security to get involved! I think that might be worse than being sprayed by a skunk

Re: Sunday brain tickler

On 01/09/2017 03:33 PM, Jules Richardson wrote: > It seems unlikely that a simple system would resort to something > like frequency analysis of characters when encoding filenames, > though, particularly given the size of the data (the overhead would > probably not make it worthwhile) - so I'm

Re: Sunday brain tickler

On 01/09/2017 11:51 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 01/09/2017 09:28 AM, Fred Cisin wrote: Need there BE a filename? An OS, particularly for a word processor, could have an IMPLICIT list of filenames on a disk of DOCUMENT1 DOCUMENT2 DOCUMENT3 I found this document:

Re: Stinky screwdrivers

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Pete Turnbull wrote: > On 09/01/2017 20:30, Ethan Dicks wrote: > >> Esters... we mixed a variety of alcohols with a variety of fatty acids >> and let the audience smell the results... it was all fun and games >> until I spilled 200ml of

Stinky resistors was Re: Stinky screwdrivers

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > I have some Xcelite tools from the early 1980s. They have been stinky > for over 30 years. Same experience. I have some in a drawer on my work work-bench that were purchased in the early 80s and they still smell. >

RE: Contacting Jay West

On Mon, 9 Jan 2017, Rob Jarratt wrote: No HP-2000 problem, just wasn't HP-2000 sure if I had sent it to the right place HP-2000. "Meet single HP-2000 in your area!" g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go

Re: pdp-11 assembly standards

wow ... the memories ... someday I've got to get a PDP-11 again :-). had most of the opcodes memorized, for a story Had a coworker who played the piano, he could enter/patch code from the 11/35's panel from memory so fast all you saw was a blur. When we replacing the 11/35's with 11/34A he

Re: Stinky screwdrivers

On 09/01/2017 20:30, Ethan Dicks wrote: Esters... we mixed a variety of alcohols with a variety of fatty acids and let the audience smell the results... it was all fun and games until I spilled 200ml of Butyric Acid on myself... :-P ) Ooooh! I know that smell. And it doesn't come off

Re: Stinky screwdrivers

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 3:28 AM, Adrian Graham wrote: > We have 2 or 3 sets if Xcelite nut spinners at work with the torque sleeve > and they've always stunk, I started there in 2004 and they weren't new then > so it's obviously been a thing for a long while! I have

RE: GMAIL accounts suspended.

On a side note Dave, incase you hadn't already you should change your password since that was included in the original post.

Re: Polycorp Poly repair (b)log

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 12:53 AM, Terry Stewart wrote: > A few months ago I picked up some Polycorp Polys, a computer designed > specifically for the educational market in New Zealand. One worked and one > didn't. The latter is now fixed. As usual I've written it up

Re: GMAIL accounts suspended.

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Lyle Bickley wrote: > > FYI - I use MANY email vendors (yahoo, comcast, arrl, acm, any my own > bickleywest.com, cerfnet.net, cerfnet.org, etc.) and ALL conform to the > DMARC policy and have no issues sending to or receiving mail from

Re: GMAIL accounts suspended.

On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 14:43:51 +0100 Tor Arntsen wrote: > On 9 January 2017 at 14:37, william degnan > wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:09 AM, Liam Proven > > wrote: > >> On 9 January 2017 at 10:06, Dave Wade

Re: Sunday brain tickler

On 01/09/2017 09:28 AM, Fred Cisin wrote: > Need there BE a filename? > > An OS, particularly for a word processor, could have an IMPLICIT list > of filenames on a disk of DOCUMENT1 DOCUMENT2 DOCUMENT3 I found this document: http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?Location=U2=GetTRDoc.pdf=ADA199551

Re: Sunday brain tickler

The web search breadth increases a bit when the term "No Problem" is substituted for "103" when looking for Lanier documents. Not much, but there are some tidbits. Such as: " Its main drawback was that it was a page-oriented program as opposed to a document-oriented program. You got only 99

Re: Sunday brain tickler

Need there BE a filename? An OS, particularly for a word processor, could have an IMPLICIT list of filenames on a disk of DOCUMENT1 DOCUMENT2 DOCUMENT3 in which case, the table that you have found could be little more than record keeping of which "documents" are allocated V free-space, how

Re: GMAIL accounts suspended.

On Mon, 9 Jan 2017, Adrian Graham wrote: A Bournemouth you say? Over to Auntie Beeb: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/programmes/computers/ :) Is THAT the gmail Bournemouth? It manages gmail and has been bouncing? Maybe it just needs another blank 5.25" floppy to hold the excess to

Re: Stripping an RA80

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 8:57 PM, allison wrote: > Depending on vintage of those HDAs they may have been in the large pool > of SNs that had bad (incorrect) adhesive > used to assemble the platters and would after about 1.5-2.2 years of > spinning would have the glue migrate

RE: Contacting Jay West

> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jay West > Sent: 09 January 2017 15:12 > To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' > > Subject: RE: Contacting Jay West > > Ed, that's actually supremely funny

Re: Fwd: Stinky screwdrivers

Exactly the problem with tool sets that are kept in sealed plastic containers. BTW, you NEVER want to keep anything that outgasses/chemically decomposes in a sealed container. Sealed PLASTIC containers are even worse. Reminds me that I need to throw out the plastic latching-lid tool boxes that I

RE: Contacting Jay West

Ed, that's actually supremely funny *grin* And probably would work as well. Rob; Got your email, swamped at the moment, should get back to you today. My entire hosting infrastructure is being moved... so I'm a bit behind the 8ball right now. Apologies for the delay! J - /P put

Re: GMAIL accounts suspended.

On 01/09/2017 08:07 AM, Adrian Graham wrote: A Bournemouth you say? Over to Auntie Beeb: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/programmes/computers/ Git, I went away to find that link, came back to paste it, and you'd got there first :-)

Re: pdp-11 assembly standards

> On Jan 9, 2017, at 12:38 AM, Don North wrote: > > On 1/8/2017 9:10 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote: >> OK, what was the standard (if there was one) number-base syntax for PDP-11 >> assembler? >> >> Despite all the PDP-11 assembly info on web sites, this seems to be a buried >>

Re: Contacting Jay West

In a message dated 1/9/2017 6:45:32 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, pon...@update.uu.se writes: On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 01:31:28PM -, Rob Jarratt wrote: > I sent a private email to Jay West a few days ago but I have not had a > reply. He may be away or I may have the wrong address for

Re: GMAIL accounts suspended.

A Bournemouth you say? Over to Auntie Beeb: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/programmes/computers/ :) On 9 January 2017 at 13:50, william degnan wrote: > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Pontus Pihlgren > wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at

Re: GMAIL accounts suspended.

On 9 January 2017 at 14:44, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 02:40:06PM +0100, Liam Proven wrote: >> On 9 January 2017 at 14:37, william degnan wrote: >> > the gmail Bournemouth >> >> >> Er. Pardon? >> > > "behemoth" + spell checking ?

Re: GMAIL accounts suspended.

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 02:40:06PM +0100, Liam Proven wrote: > > On 9 January 2017 at 14:37, william degnan wrote: > > > the gmail Bournemouth > > > > > > Er. Pardon? > > > > "behemoth" + spell

Re: Contacting Jay West

On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 01:31:28PM -, Rob Jarratt wrote: > I sent a private email to Jay West a few days ago but I have not had a > reply. He may be away or I may have the wrong address for him. What is the > best way to contact him? > A bit of patience I think. He seems quite busy

Re: GMAIL accounts suspended.

On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 02:40:06PM +0100, Liam Proven wrote: > On 9 January 2017 at 14:37, william degnan wrote: > > the gmail Bournemouth > > > Er. Pardon? > "behemoth" + spell checking ? /P

Re: GMAIL accounts suspended.

On 9 January 2017 at 14:37, william degnan wrote: > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:09 AM, Liam Proven wrote: > >> On 9 January 2017 at 10:06, Dave Wade wrote: >> > Why does this keep on happening? What is google doing to cause this to >>

Re: GMAIL accounts suspended.

On 9 January 2017 at 14:37, william degnan wrote: > the gmail Bournemouth Er. Pardon? -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • Google Mail/Talk/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn/AIM/Yahoo:

Re: GMAIL accounts suspended.

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:09 AM, Liam Proven wrote: > On 9 January 2017 at 10:06, Dave Wade wrote: > > Why does this keep on happening? What is google doing to cause this to > > happen? > > > Damned if I know, but it's happening to me frequently, too.

Contacting Jay West

I sent a private email to Jay West a few days ago but I have not had a reply. He may be away or I may have the wrong address for him. What is the best way to contact him? Regards Rob

Re: GMAIL accounts suspended.

On 9 January 2017 at 10:06, Dave Wade wrote: > Why does this keep on happening? What is google doing to cause this to > happen? Damned if I know, but it's happening to me frequently, too. >:-( -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email:

Re: GMAIL accounts suspended.

> Why does this keep on happening? What is google doing to cause this > to happen? >> Your membership in the mailing list cctalk has been disabled due to >> excessive bounces "Bouncing mail", presumably. Certainly every time I've gotten that and investigated, I've found record of my rejecting

Re: GMAIL accounts suspended.

Some mailing list stuff goes to my junk mail folder not sure why On Jan 9, 2017 3:16 AM, "Dave Wade" wrote: > Folks, > Why does this keep on happening? What is google doing to cause this to > happen? Is it doing greylisting and mailman ignoring the retry-after time? >

GMAIL accounts suspended.

Folks, Why does this keep on happening? What is google doing to cause this to happen? Is it doing greylisting and mailman ignoring the retry-after time? Dave -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org Sent: 09

Re: Sunday brain tickler

Chuck Guzis writes: > I can get the raw text, but how it's linked together and what file > names might is still a mystery. The Lanier 103 is apparently a rebadged AES Superplus, and one owner says: "The word processor had some strange features, such as each page had to be

Polycorp Poly repair (b)log

A few months ago I picked up some Polycorp Polys, a computer designed specifically for the educational market in New Zealand. One worked and one didn't. The latter is now fixed. As usual I've written it up with lots of pictures. If anyone is interested you can read about it here.

Re: Stinky screwdrivers

On 09/01/2017 04:16, "Al Kossow" wrote: > > I sent this out to some friends at the end of December > > Forwarded Message > Subject: Stinky screwdrivers > Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 08:51:02 -0800 > From: Al Kossow > To: Eric Schlaepfer