On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 08:05, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> He also created the Canon Cat.
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> His idea of a user interface included that the program should KNOW
> (assume) what the user wanted to do.
One of my heroes.
I've never used a Cat or his other software UIs, but the demos I've
seen a
On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 at 20:47, Grant Taylor via cctalk
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> I don't think that HTML can reproduce fixed page layout like PostScript
> and PDF can. It can make a close approximation. But I don't think HTML
> can get there. Nor do I think it should.
There are a wider panoply of options to c
As an aside - once upon a time I worked for a company that made their own
Sparc boards to fit inside a supercomputer and several of them were inside
secure military/government establishments. Sometimes a board would fail
and have to go back for a fix - and then the RTC/NVRAM chip had to be
r
> On Nov 27, 2018, at 10:06 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
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>> Surely a Chinese or Japanese based programming language could be
>> developed.
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> The Tomy Pyuuta has a very limited BASIC variant called G-BASIC which has
> Japanese keywords and is programmed with katakana characters
> On Nov 27, 2018, at 9:23 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
> wrote:
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>>> I have long wondered if there are computer languages that aren't rooted
>>> in English / ASCII. I feel like it's rather pompous to assume that all
>>> programming languages are rooted in English / ASCII. I would hope that
>
As an aside - once upon a time I worked for a company that made their own
Sparc boards to fit inside a supercomputer and several of them were inside
secure military/government establishments. Sometimes a board would fail and
have to go back for a fix - and then the RTC/NVRAM chip had to be remov
> On Nov 28, 2018, at 9:43 AM, Ethan via cctalk wrote:
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>> As an aside - once upon a time I worked for a company that made their own
>> Sparc boards to fit inside a supercomputer and several of them were inside
>> secure military/government establishments. Sometimes a board would fail and
DEC had some employees with clearances all the way up both primary sides of
the classification ladder, General Service (GENSER, which includes some
"black" programs), and Special Compartmented Intelligence (SCI, which has
its own alphabet soup, including other kinds of "black" programs). They
need
Hi Bob,
On 11/28/2018 11:30 AM, Robert Feldman wrote:
FYI, your symbols do not make it through to the list digest -- they just
come through as question marks, the same as Ed Sharp's extra spaces.
Thank you for letting me know.
Here's a screen shot from the copy I received from the mailing lis
Card Edge Connectors are PC Board to Wire Connectors. The 34-pin version was
popular for control board on 5-1/4” floppy drives in 1980s.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_connector
I have not seen commercial PC board widgets used as an interconnect.
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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 14:56:18 -050
Are the adapters from dual row header to card edge wtill available?
(They were used to connect a 3.5" drive to a 5.25" drive cable)
Could you put two of those back to back connected by a header?
In the late 1970's in the TRS80 world, there were MALE 34 pin card edge
ribbon cable connectors! wit
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 09:27, Paul Koning via cctalk
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> I learned it about 15 years ago (OpenAPL, running on a Solaris workstation
> with a modified Xterm that handled the APL characters). Nice. It made a
> handy tool for some cryptanalysis programs I needed to write.
>
I am interested i
Some computing economics history:
I'm an engineer and scientist by both education and experience, and one
major difference between the disciplines is that engineers are required to
pass coursework and demonstrate proficiency in economics. That's because
we need to deliver things that actually do
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 1:55 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> In the late 1970's in the TRS80 world, there were MALE 34 pin card edge
> ribbon cable connectors! with gold plated fingers! (used on a short
> extension for drives in enclosures, and to convert expansion interface
> connections to g
I'm not sure you're quite getting it... they say a picture is worth a thousand
words:
http://wsudbrink.dyndns.org:8080/images/20181128_194316.jpg
Assuming I make up some gerbers myself, two questions:
1) how do you specify the slightly beveled edge required for easy insertion?
2) is there some
> On Nov 28, 2018, at 8:01 PM, William Sudbrink via cctalk
> wrote:
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> I'm not sure you're quite getting it... they say a picture is worth a
> thousand words:
>
> http://wsudbrink.dyndns.org:8080/images/20181128_194316.jpg
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> Assuming I make up some gerbers myself, two questions:
>
> 1)
On 11/28/18 5:13 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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>> On Nov 28, 2018, at 8:01 PM, William Sudbrink via cctalk
>> wrote:
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>> I'm not sure you're quite getting it... they say a picture is worth a
>> thousand words:
>>
>> http://wsudbrink.dyndns.org:8080/images/20181128_194316.jpg
>>
>> As
Hello,
I have added a Unibus CH11 Chaosnet interface to SIMH. I have tested it
with 4.1BSD running on the vax780 simulator, and MINITS running on the
pdp11 simulator.
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