Re: R: OT: the end of Dyn DNS

2019-06-27 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 6/27/19 5:09 PM, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote: What I've usually heard is don't have your domain registrar also be your site host.  Like GoDaddy. ‽ Apparently some people have had problems with the host not letting them move the name registration when switching hosting providers.

Re: R: OT: the end of Dyn DNS

2019-06-27 Thread John H. Reinhardt via cctalk
On 6/27/2019 12:56 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 6/27/19 2:38 AM, U'll Be King of the Stars via cctalk wrote: I have heard the that you shouldn't have your register be the same company as your DNS provider, and I intend to revise this proposition. If the argument still holds then I

Re: Identifying some boards

2019-06-27 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
These look like they're from 486 era file server hardware. On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 11:16 AM Kyle Owen via cctalk wrote: > I picked up these boards many weeks ago, but haven't photographed them > until recently. Some of them are pretty disgusting, but some of the others > look alright. > >

Re: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

2019-06-27 Thread Marc Howard via cctalk
Look at http://www.tapeheads.net/showthread.php?t=39958 Marc On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 8:30 AM Mark J. Blair via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > On Jun 27, 2019, at 8:21 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > Back when I got to school and I was

Re: DNS and Registrar

2019-06-27 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 6/27/19 12:53 PM, jim stephens wrote: They don't have to be combined. Agreed. I've been running DNS servers for about 20 years. I /always/ prefer to run my own DNS servers if I can. I have never run across a situation where I was unable to do so for /technical/ reasons. I have had

Re: R: OT: the end of Dyn DNS

2019-06-27 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 6/27/19 2:38 AM, U'll Be King of the Stars via cctalk wrote: I have heard the that you shouldn't have your register be the same company as your DNS provider, and I intend to revise this proposition. If the argument still holds then I would keep gandi.net as my registrar look for a different

Re: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

2019-06-27 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 6/27/19 10:03 AM, John Foust via cctalk wrote: > At 11:32 AM 6/27/2019, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: >> If you google "magnetic tape viewer" they have pictures of what I think the >> earlier poster described. > > I see quite a few on eBay and Amazon. Looks like you just need to > pick a

Re: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

2019-06-27 Thread John Foust via cctalk
At 11:32 AM 6/27/2019, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: >If you google "magnetic tape viewer" they have pictures of what I think the >earlier poster described. I see quite a few on eBay and Amazon. Looks like you just need to pick a Japanese one? What's the distinguishing characteristic of a

Re: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

2019-06-27 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 06/27/2019 10:30 AM, Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote: I don't recall seeing one of those in either of the computer rooms I worked in as a student back in the late 1980s. I would love to get my hands on one (or make one?) now. One brand of a liquid you put on the tape is MagnaSee. If you

Re: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

2019-06-27 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 06/27/2019 10:21 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: Back when I got to school and I was hanging around the computer room on campus (back when it was THE room on campus with computers), I saw this half-dollar sized plastic fob on the desk and asked what it was for. The on-staff operator took a

Re: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

2019-06-27 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
In days old olde - -   we  used  to  use  liquid stuff like this  when  splicing   video  tape  too...    It  would  shoe  the head  scan lines  Ed# In a message dated 6/27/2019 9:09:50 AM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: I still use KyRead (older 70s era versions were

RE: OT: the end of Dyn DNS

2019-06-27 Thread Sophie Haskins via cctalk
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Jon Elson via cctalk > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2019 11:56 AM > To: Charles Dickman ; gene...@ezwind.net; > Discussion@ > Subject: Re: OT: the end of Dyn DNS > > On 06/26/2019 08:36 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk wrote: > > Now that Dyn

Re: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

2019-06-27 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
I still use KyRead (older 70s era versions were Magnasee and Visomag), which are applied directly to the magnetic medium. Basically a mixture of micron-sized pyrolytic iron powder and an inert, rapidly-evaporating carrier. Shake the bottle up and drop some on the medium. As the carrier

Re: OT: the end of Dyn DNS

2019-06-27 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 06/26/2019 08:36 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk wrote: Now that Dyn has been absorbed by Oracle I need a new DNS service for my vanity domain. I welcome suggestions for a replacement provider. -chuck I use Network Solutions, they are a bit expensive, though. Godaddy also provides that

Re: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

2019-06-27 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 9:42 AM Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 6/27/19 8:21 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: > > I saw this > > half-dollar sized plastic fob on the desk and asked what it was for. > > http://qicreader.blogspot.com/p/track-visualization.html > > shows a couple of them >

Re: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

2019-06-27 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 6/27/19 8:21 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: > I saw this > half-dollar sized plastic fob on the desk and asked what it was for. http://qicreader.blogspot.com/p/track-visualization.html shows a couple of them

Re: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

2019-06-27 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
It is true. Inter-block gaps are huge and easy to spot/splice. That is why writing short tape blocks wastes so much tape. On 6/27/19 8:21 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: > I've also heard people tell stories of using this fob to find the end of > the marks and records on mag tape to splice

Re: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

2019-06-27 Thread Mark J. Blair via cctalk
> On Jun 27, 2019, at 8:21 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk > wrote: > > Back when I got to school and I was hanging around the computer room on > campus (back when it was THE room on campus with computers), I saw this > half-dollar sized plastic fob on the desk and asked what it was for. The >

Re: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

2019-06-27 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 8:42 AM Kevin McQuiggin via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > In the early days of cyber crime (it was called “computer crime” back in > the 1980s), fraudsters would purchase an aerosol spray with tiny metal > particles in it (I forget what the specific valid use

Re: OT: the end of Dyn DNS

2019-06-27 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019, da...@kdbarto.org wrote: From what I can determine the paid service will continue, it is the free service that is being stopped. Kinda sad really. I used to (until this The free service from dyndns.org had been stopped several years ago (somewhere between 2012 and 2014).

Re: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

2019-06-27 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019, Noel Chiappa wrote: > From: Liam Proven > This is *epic*. Indeed. I was blown away by the complexity of his technique for reading the digits. I can't believe there wasn't a much easier technique, though, e.g. using a logic analyzer and a small program to read

Re: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

2019-06-27 Thread Ethan O'Toole via cctalk
Mag stripe readers were expensive and hard to acquire in those days, so this was the chosen method of recovering track data from credit cards. Readers were cheap. Writers were expensive and hard to get. - Ethan

Re: OT: the end of Dyn DNS

2019-06-27 Thread David via cctalk
> On Jun 27, 2019, at 7:03 AM, Ali via cctalk wrote: > >> There has not been a free option for seveal years. I switched to the >> paid version. >> >> But now it seems that having been eaten by Oracle, it is now being >> digested. (I have seen this process happen over and over again with >>

Big news, re: mobile computing history

2019-06-27 Thread Evan Koblentz via cctalk
Hello! I have a major announcement. :) It's time for version 2.0 of my book, "Abacus to smartphone: The evolution of mobile and portable computers," which I published on dead trees four years ago. This time, it's going to be a (free!) interactive website: the era of printed books is behind

Re: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

2019-06-27 Thread dwight via cctalk
I love the walk through things. I'd clearly have found a wired, digital, method of doing it ( printer port or such ). I had a similar problem. I was recovering 4004 code printed out with what looked like a ASR33 print. I did it manually. On looking at the data, I suspect the platen had ruts as

Re: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

2019-06-27 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 6/27/19 7:30 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > From: Liam Proven > > > This is *epic*. > > Indeed. I was blown away by the complexity of his technique for reading > the digits. > > I can't believe there wasn't a much easier technique, though, e.g. using a > logic analyzer and a

Re: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

2019-06-27 Thread Kevin McQuiggin via cctalk
In the early days of cyber crime (it was called “computer crime” back in the 1980s), fraudsters would purchase an aerosol spray with tiny metal particles in it (I forget what the specific valid use case was, but it was legitimate), and apply the spray to the mag stripe on the back of credit

Re: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

2019-06-27 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Liam Proven > This is *epic*. Indeed. I was blown away by the complexity of his technique for reading the digits. I can't believe there wasn't a much easier technique, though, e.g. using a logic analyzer and a small program to read through the ROS! Perhaps the challenge of

RE: OT: the end of Dyn DNS

2019-06-27 Thread Ali via cctalk
> There has not been a free option for seveal years. I switched to the > paid version. > > But now it seems that having been eaten by Oracle, it is now being > digested. (I have seen this process happen over and over again with > acquisitions. The final stage, of selling off whatever is left >

Re: OT: the end of Dyn DNS

2019-06-27 Thread Mark Linimon via cctalk
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 10:54:58PM -0700, Ali via cctalk wrote: > As I understand it DynDNS is still being offered as a service. Is it > because there is no longer a free option? There has not been a free option for seveal years. I switched to the paid version. But now it seems that having been

Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

2019-06-27 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
This is *epic*. https://github.com/stepleton/5100NonExecutableROSDecode/blob/master/WRITEUP.md -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44

Re: R: OT: the end of Dyn DNS

2019-06-27 Thread U'll Be King of the Stars via cctalk
I have my DNS records hosted at gandi.net, who are also my registrar. I have been using for the last 10-15 years with no problems. I have heard the that you shouldn't have your register be the same company as your DNS provider, and I intend to revise this proposition. If the argument still holds

Re: RSTS collection in the UK

2019-06-27 Thread Pete Turnbull via cctalk
On 27/06/2019 07:53, Dave Wade wrote: Pete, Am I right in thinking Jim has no scanning facilities, and access is still one weekend in two. Pretty much. -- Pete Pete Turnbull

R: OT: the end of Dyn DNS

2019-06-27 Thread Mazzini Alessandro via cctalk
I use no-ip, the free version. And it's not particularly pushing the paid option aside just suggesting it on renewal. There's an email I don't even remember every how many months, requiring 2 clicks to keep the free subscription active, and that's all -Messaggio originale- Da: cctalk

RE: OT: the end of Dyn DNS

2019-06-27 Thread Dave Wade via cctalk
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Ali via cctalk > Sent: 27 June 2019 06:55 > To: 'Grant Taylor' ; 'General Discussion: > On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' > Subject: RE: OT: the end of Dyn DNS > > > > Now that Dyn has been absorbed by Oracle I need a new DNS service > > >

RE: RSTS collection in the UK

2019-06-27 Thread Dave Wade via cctalk
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Pete Turnbull via > cctalk > Sent: 27 June 2019 00:01 > To: Al Kossow via cctalk > Subject: Re: RSTS collection in the UK > > On 26/06/2019 22:52, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > > On 6/26/19 1:00 PM, Dave Wade wrote: > >> Could we