or find some one with a brown and sharpe... screw machine... keep them
employed!
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On Friday, September 15, 2017 Noel Chiappa via cctalk
wrote:
Hi, does anyone have any spare "pivot bushings" for the DEC H9xx series
cabinets (H950, H960, etc)?
While all this talk of the ARPANet is cool and brings back some
fine memories, what about BitNET? Anyone here remember it?
Any chance someone has a copy of the source for a BitNET Node?
I have seen UUCPNet and DECNet revived. It might be fun to bring
From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Al Kossow via cctalk
[cctalk@classiccmp.org]
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2017 3:40 PM
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle - Firsts
On 9/15/17 12:36 PM, Chuck Guzis via
On 9/15/2017 2:25 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote:
(~mid-80s, well before opening of the 'net to public access), some
guy-off-the-street came into the uni. comp sci department wanting a connection
to the arpa/internet
I had to finesse my way onto the internet pre Software Tool and Die.
Hi, does anyone have any spare "pivot bushings" for the DEC H9xx series
cabinets (H950, H960, etc)? (These are the short pieces with a conical top
which fit over the hinge pins, at the bottom.) I need at least one to hang a
back door which I have.
If nobody has any, they'd be easy to machine, so
> I used to read his column for its humor value but I always thought
> of him as an idiot as far as comuters were concerned.
Apparently this opinion is fairly widely shared:
http://www.panix.com/~clp/humor/computers/general/Jerry-Pournelle-parody.html
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On 2017-Sep-12, at 9:47 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Shoppa, Tim via cctalk
>> wrote:
>>> He seems to have been the first to mention
On 9/15/17 12:36 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> I recall that he was a bit of a pompous a** on his Usenet postings, but
> you have to realize that the tenor of online conversation was very
My one interaction with him was at a Hackers. insert DRUNKEN between
pompous and a**
On 09/15/2017 11:54 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
> Never understood why Byte kept him around, unless for his humor
> value. And, even being a long time SciFi fan I didn't like his books
> either.
I recall that he was a bit of a pompous a** on his Usenet postings, but
you have to
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cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org]
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2017 2:27 PM
To: Jim Brain; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle -
> On Sep 13, 2017, at 12:47 AM, Eric Smith via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Shoppa, Tim via cctalk
>> wrote:
>>> He seems
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Jim Brain via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 9/15/2017 10:49 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Wow... that really doesn't make him look good at all!
>>
>>
>>> It does not surprise me. Not that I knew the man, but it seems in
> general, our
On 9/15/2017 10:49 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans via cctalk wrote:
Wow... that really doesn't make him look good at all!
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:47 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
Wow... that really doesn't make him look good at all!
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:47 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Shoppa, Tim via
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 1:47 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
>>
>>> On the IBM PC/AT (5170) with 1.2M, admittedly the only one that is easily
>>>
> On Sep 14, 2017, at 10:44 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> ...
> Alternatively, you could leave the sectors in sequential order, but not put
> each data block of the file into the sector of the same number.
> Thus, you could put the first data block of the file
On 14/09/2017 17:02, Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote:
Hi
I have a bunch of .dsk RT11 400k image files I need to write to
RX50 disks so I can boot from them on my 11/73
Somewhere there is a utility that will write the images to RX50 on a
DEC Rainbow 100 under MS-DOS . Anybody know where
On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, Warner Losh wrote:
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On the IBM PC/AT (5170) with 1.2M, admittedly the only one that is easily
readily available, there is trivial software tweaking required to
format/write "720K"/"quad" density, instead
What Chuck says. +1 on ImageDisk.
I also tried OmniDisk which allows you to do just about anything with the
formats, including a lot of wrong things. I found it much more difficult to
use, but it taught me quite a few things.
I made 3 videos on YouTube about it, mostly to remember what I did,
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