Re: Merry Christmas

2018-12-25 Thread Jim Manley via cctalk
My early Christmas present was finding all of the wonderful and amazing people already gathered here and on other fora concerning classic computing, especially S-100 systems that I missed the development of while at a service academy, stationed overseas, and forward-deployed aboard ships.

Re: Merry Christmas (Tom Manos)

2018-12-25 Thread Murray McCullough via cctalk
I hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas and may the New Year bring all your computing wishes true. Happy computing all!

NFS & Kerberos woes...

2018-12-25 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
Do any fellow cctalk / cctech subscribers have any experience with NFS, particularly in combination with Kerberos authentication? I'm messing with something that is making me think that Kerberos authentication (sec=krb5{,i,p}) usurps no_root_squash. Meaning that root can't access files owned

How to convert CGA video to HDMI…

2018-12-25 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
If you're into retro computing at all, and want to see how to hook old computers up to new HDMI monitors, then check out @craig1black's new video on doing exactly that. Link - How to convert CGA video to HDMI for around $65 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpfrelhokKQ I find this quite

Re: Newbie Punch Tape Questions

2018-12-25 Thread Mark J. Blair via cctalk
> On Dec 24, 2018, at 11:33 AM, Columbia Valley Maker Space via cctalk > wrote: > > The Mylar reel would have been the programming for a CNC machine. I > suspect the first part of the reel may be some boot loader or init > routine. I could definitely be mistaken, but my first guess would

Speaking of paper tape...

2018-12-25 Thread JAMES FEHLINGER via cctalk
Does anybody here recognize the manufacturer of this gear, presumably some kind of punched paper tape equipment? Second to the last image at: http://www.tapeheads.net/showthread.php?t=15284=movies=10 I recently had the chance to play with a Blu-Ray transfer of the old gothic sci-fi TV show _The

Re: Merry Christmas

2018-12-25 Thread Tom Manos via cctalk
++Tomasz Merry Christmas, all. May there be classic computing under your tree and in your life every day. My exercise this month is to refurbish a Mac Quadra 800 and install A/UX 3.1 Tom -- On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 8:19 AM Tomasz Rola via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Folks,

Merry Christmas

2018-12-25 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
Folks, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, thanks for all interesting reading matter and let there be plenty of interesting stuff to read about in a future, too. :-) -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did