Re: Estate sale

2019-10-31 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
weird key caps many times 0n key to tape machines!  Ed# In a message dated 10/30/2019 8:48:47 AM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: On 10/30/19 6:34 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > > The Univac keyboard appears to be for a keypunch.  I've seen keyboards that >

Re: OT(?): Emulation XKCD

2019-10-31 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Oct 31, 2019, at 6:04 PM, Charles Anthony > wrote: > It looks like you need a copy of Multics Communications Software (MCS). > > We have MCS for the 355. MCS for the 6661, not so much, but that document > shows that I can lease it for $275 month, but I can't get through to the > sales

Re: OT(?): Emulation XKCD

2019-10-31 Thread Charles Anthony via cctalk
On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 5:41 PM Zane Healy wrote: > > > > It looks like you need a copy of Multics Communications Software (MCS). > > We have MCS for the 355. MCS for the 6661, not so much, but that document shows that I can lease it for $275 month, but I can't get through to the sales

Re: OT(?): Emulation XKCD

2019-10-31 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Oct 31, 2019, at 3:15 PM, Charles Anthony via cctalk > wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 9:23 AM Warner Losh wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 8:15 AM Zane Healy via cctalk < >> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >> >>> >>> Anything from bitsavers relevant? >> >>

Re: getting your data from yahoo

2019-10-31 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/31/19 3:02 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > there are no retries. my mistake, the default TRIES is 10

Re: OT(?): Emulation XKCD

2019-10-31 Thread Charles Anthony via cctalk
On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 9:23 AM Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 8:15 AM Zane Healy via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> >> Anything from bitsavers relevant? > > http://bitsavers.org/pdf/honeywell/ > > Sadly no. There are two models of FNP, the 355 and the 6661.

Re: getting your data from yahoo

2019-10-31 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Oct 31, 2019, at 3:02 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk > wrote: > > > > On 10/31/19 11:27 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: >> > >> It's retriving around 5 messages/sec. Going to take a while to >> get the 10 groups I've been following. >> > Looks like their servers are starting to overload.

Re: getting your data from yahoo

2019-10-31 Thread Jason T via cctalk
On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 1:53 PM Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > It's retriving around 5 messages/sec. Going to take a while to > get the 10 groups I've been following. I've had good success with this one for just messages

Re: getting your data from yahoo

2019-10-31 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/31/19 11:27 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > It's retriving around 5 messages/sec. Going to take a while to > get the 10 groups I've been following. > Looks like their servers are starting to overload. About one attempt to get a message out of five is now getting a 550 internal

RE: OT(?): Emulation XKCD

2019-10-31 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
In my MU5 emulator I have attempted to do all I/O at the speed it would have been done in the real hardware. Not because I think the OS might be sensitive to it (I don't know as I don't have any OS running on it), but simply because if/when ever it runs an OS I want the experience to be as

RE: getting your data from yahoo

2019-10-31 Thread Dave Wade via cctalk
Al, I have archived several groups files, messages (as .eml) and images. Let me know off list which you want. Dave G4UGM > -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Al Kossow via > cctalk > Sent: 31 October 2019 18:28 > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: getting your data

Re: getting your data from yahoo

2019-10-31 Thread SPC via cctalk
El jue., 31 oct. 2019 a las 17:52, Dennis Boone via cctalk (< cctalk@classiccmp.org>) escribió: > > someone just posted this on twitter they seem to have sent an email > > to everyone and didn't bother to mention this > > This tool has worked well for me: > >

Re: getting your data from yahoo

2019-10-31 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/31/19 9:52 AM, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote: > This tool has worked well for me: > > https://github.com/IgnoredAmbience/yahoo-group-archiver It looks like they did some work on it since the last time I tried to make it work, and managed to get it going this morning. It's retriving

Re: 50 yrs. ago today

2019-10-31 Thread Antonio Carlini via cctalk
On 30/10/2019 02:34, allison via cctalk wrote: Funny thing was DECnet was in 1983 the largest world wide network period. By then is was well over 300 nodes and climbing fast. And none of it used IP or NCP though it did transport P packets encapsulated using DECnet. When I hear NCP I still

Re: OT(?): Emulation XKCD

2019-10-31 Thread Charles Anthony via cctalk
On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 7:15 AM Zane Healy wrote: > > Unfortunately I sent all my Honeywell documentation up to LCM a few years > ago, so no longer have access to it. If I remember right, they should have > some Datanet-8000 documentation. > > I'm in the Seattle area and have contacts at LCM; I

Re: getting your data from yahoo

2019-10-31 Thread Dennis Boone via cctalk
> someone just posted this on twitter they seem to have sent an email > to everyone and didn't bother to mention this I'm subscribed to five or six on the account I used to try that "service". They eventually (day or two later) sent me the "your download is ready" email, and when I logged in,

getting your data from yahoo

2019-10-31 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
someone just posted this on twitter they seem to have sent an email to everyone and didn't bother to mention this https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/getmydata

Re: OT(?): Emulation XKCD

2019-10-31 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 8:15 AM Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: > > > On Oct 30, 2019, at 10:11 PM, Charles Anthony via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > Thank you. We are currently simulating the comms front end at the API > > level, but there is a lot of interest in doing it at

Re: OT(?): Emulation XKCD

2019-10-31 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Oct 30, 2019, at 10:11 PM, Charles Anthony via cctalk > wrote: > > Thank you. We are currently simulating the comms front end at the API > level, but there is a lot of interest in doing it at the h/w level. > > -- Charles Unfortunately I sent all my Honeywell documentation up to LCM

Re: OT(?): Emulation XKCD

2019-10-31 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Oct 30, 2019, at 4:10 PM, Charles Anthony > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 4:01 PM Zane Healy > wrote: > > I rebuilt the system recently, and now the error seems intermittent. I will > say, that backing up my directory of files, and restoring it

Re: OT(?): Emulation XKCD

2019-10-31 Thread Ray Arachelian via cctalk
On 10/30/19 5:35 PM, Charles Anthony via cctalk wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 2:17 PM Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> All, >> my daughter is well aware of my affinity for old computers and software, >> and, as usual, she pointed out that there’s an XKCD for

Re: OT(?): Emulation XKCD

2019-10-31 Thread John Foust via cctalk
At 02:36 PM 10/30/2019, Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk wrote: >my daughter is well aware of my affinity for old computers and software, and, >as usual, she pointed out that there’s an XKCD for that: > >https://xkcd.com/2221/ > >I found this remarkably accurate. Does reading this in 1997's Eudora

Re: OT(?): Emulation XKCD

2019-10-31 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 07:36:18PM +, Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk wrote: > All, > my daughter is well aware of my affinity for old computers and > software, and, as usual, she pointed out that there’s an XKCD for > that: > > https://xkcd.com/2221/ > > I found this remarkably accurate. > -