Re: MSDN CD disposition

2018-10-31 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
But, if you were to ask for a FORMAL policy statement, then they would have to consult their legal department, and assert their IP rights. (There is no legal recognition of any concept of "abandonware") On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, geneb wrote: The default answer would be "no". Any other answer requir

Re: MSDN CD disposition

2018-10-31 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 10/31/18 5:40 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > My previous employer was in MSDNAA.  We got rid of > > all out of date CDs and when they went to downloading > > we had no CDs left.  The rules require that the CDs be > > protected when in out possession and be destroyed > > when exp

Re: MSDN CD disposition

2018-10-31 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 10/31/18 8:24 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 10/31/18 5:09 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > >> Since there is nothing on them that would identify you, there are a >> number of people who would gladly help you to properly dispose of them. > I wonder how many MSDN subscribers held onto

Re: MSDN CD disposition

2018-10-31 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 10/31/2018 5:24 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 10/31/18 5:09 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: Since there is nothing on them that would identify you, there are a number of people who would gladly help you to properly dispose of them. I wonder how many MSDN subscribers held onto the

Re: MSDN CD disposition

2018-10-31 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 10/31/18 5:09 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > Since there is nothing on them that would identify you, there are a > number of people who would gladly help you to properly dispose of them. I wonder how many MSDN subscribers held onto the betas and release candidates of various products; e.g.

Re: MSDN CD disposition

2018-10-31 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: But, if you were to ask for a FORMAL policy statement, then they would have to consult their legal department, and assert their IP rights. (There is no legal recognition of any concept of "abandonware") The default answer would be "no". Any ot

Re: MSDN CD disposition

2018-10-31 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: What's Microsoft's policy on old MSDN CDs? I've got a ton of them starting somewhere around 93-94 and extended through the XP years. Do I respect MS's IP and send them to the crusher? On a CASUAL basis, they wouldn't really care about any of

Re: MSDN CD disposition

2018-10-31 Thread steve shumaker via cctalk
On 10/31/2018 4:58 AM, geneb via cctech wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, John Foust via cctalk wrote: At 04:29 PM 10/29/2018, geneb via cctalk wrote: There's a ton of them on the IA already.  I would /love/ to get the early ones.  My collection begins at 1997 so I would *eagerly* take anything pre

Re: PDP, Data General & more (TV show Maniac)

2018-10-31 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 9:39 AM Stéphane Tsacas via cctalk wrote: > TV show Maniac (available on netflix), S1E2 @28.48, at least a PDP 11/40, > 11/05 or 04, RX01, PDP-8, and 2 Data General Eclipse, DEC doc binders, and > maybe an IBM front panel and more. Looks like a PDP-8/L to me, with a PC04 h

Re: BBS card, ISA8bit multi serial, 4 channels

2018-10-31 Thread Tom Manos via cctalk
I have a couple of these as well. The one to have way back when was made by AST. It had 4 16550 UARTS and could run them all at whatever speed you wanted. There was even a public domain program/device driver for it, for UNIX on x86 called FAS (Final Async Solution) that worked very well. I still h

Re: PDP, Data General & more (TV show Maniac)

2018-10-31 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
jim said > On 10/31/2018 5:29 AM, Stéphane Tsacas via cctalk wrote: >> TV show Maniac (available on netflix), S1E2 @28.48, at least a PDP 11/40, >> 11/05 or 04, RX01, PDP-8, and 2 Data General Eclipse, DEC doc binders, and >> maybe an IBM front panel and more. >> See >> https://imgur.com/a/L3iA9CD

Re: Looking for HP Laserjet IIp+ power supply

2018-10-31 Thread Charles via cctalk
Actually I just fixed it ;) Never Mind. I took the supply all the way apart and found one secondary filter cap that had leaked electrolyte. Cleaned and fixed that, but still no luck. 155 volts on the main filter cap. Then I noticed that occasionally it would try to start for a blink but then the

Re: PDP, Data General & more (TV show Maniac)

2018-10-31 Thread Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctalk
Looks more like a model 30 to me; the model 40 panel has regular lamps rather than the lights behind an overlay. On 10/31/18, 9:16 PM, "cctalk on behalf of jim stephens via cctalk" wrote: I'd be interested in the IBM 360 model. To my eye I think it's a /40 front panel. That should

BBS card, ISA8bit multi serial, 4 channels

2018-10-31 Thread Carlo Pisani via cctalk
hi guys I have an ISA8bit card with four UART chip on it, and the special cable. it comes with the original manual and a floppy (5.25") with drivers for XENIX and DOS, etc it was used for BBS, and I am willing to sell since it's not in use it's located in Italy (where my parents live), I can ship

Re: i860: Re: modern stuff

2018-10-31 Thread Eric Korpela via cctalk
A Google search on Skybolt i860 produces interesting results. On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 2:27 PM Eric Korpela wrote: > The i860 did find some use in the radio astronomy world. > > Here's an excerpt from the 1998 annual report for the Arecibo > Observatory... > -- > Telescope pointing an

Re: i860: Re: modern stuff

2018-10-31 Thread Eric Korpela via cctalk
The i860 did find some use in the radio astronomy world. Here's an excerpt from the 1998 annual report for the Arecibo Observatory... -- Telescope pointing and realtime data acquisition are controlled using a network of VMEbus single-board computers running the VxWorks operating system

Re: PDP, Data General & more (TV show Maniac)

2018-10-31 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 10/31/2018 5:29 AM, Stéphane Tsacas via cctalk wrote: TV show Maniac (available on netflix), S1E2 @28.48, at least a PDP 11/40, 11/05 or 04, RX01, PDP-8, and 2 Data General Eclipse, DEC doc binders, and maybe an IBM front panel and more. See https://imgur.com/a/L3iA9CD https://en.wikipedia.

Re: i860: Re: modern stuff

2018-10-31 Thread Chris Hanson via cctalk
On Oct 30, 2018, at 6:48 AM, Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk wrote: > > So, what is this i960-based card for? Could it be related to what you say in > your post? > > https://imgur.com/NIvQPBv > https://imgur.com/hsF0jO2 > https://img

Re: i860: Re: modern stuff

2018-10-31 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/30/18 4:27 PM, Michael Thompson via cctech wrote: > I have a Quad-i860 VME board in one of my Sun systems. Do you have any of the software for it?

Re: behaviour of classic PDP-8 frontpanel

2018-10-31 Thread Klemens Krause via cctalk
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: If you haven't tried it already, a good exercising with contactr cleaner (stay away from the stuff with oil in it) or isoprop will often clear up excessive contact bounce on old switches. Getting contact May be, but this would only solve o

PDP, Data General & more (TV show Maniac)

2018-10-31 Thread Stéphane Tsacas via cctalk
Hi all, TV show Maniac (available on netflix), S1E2 @28.48, at least a PDP 11/40, 11/05 or 04, RX01, PDP-8, and 2 Data General Eclipse, DEC doc binders, and maybe an IBM front panel and more. See https://imgur.com/a/L3iA9CD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniac_(miniseries) -- stéphane tsacas

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-31 Thread Adam Sampson via cctalk
Al Kossow via cctalk writes: > On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote: >> https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom > It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of > metadata instead of a bunch of pretty pictures It's fairly well hidden, but you can indeed do that: https://arch

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-31 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
> > > >> > > > > It's very time consuming to browse through that though. > > > > It would be nice if you could make the service more > > accessible. A csv export of a table including metadata for > > each entry shouldn't be so hard. It would probably save you > > some bandwith as well. > > Take it

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-31 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:53:18PM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Al Kossow wrote: On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote: Here's the Walnut Creek collection: https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom It sure would be nice i

Re: MSDN CD disposition

2018-10-31 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, John Foust via cctalk wrote: At 04:29 PM 10/29/2018, geneb via cctalk wrote: There's a ton of them on the IA already. I would /love/ to get the early ones. My collection begins at 1997 so I would *eagerly* take anything previous to that. Oh, I'd guess I have them all

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-31 Thread Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:53:18PM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Al Kossow wrote: > > > > > > >On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote: > > > >>Here's the Walnut Creek collection: > >>https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom > > > >It sure would be nice if you could get a co