Setting switches for a Vertex 150 possibly for a perq

2021-01-03 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Hi! I'm trying to read possible Perq2 data off a 40mb Vertex V150 drive. Unfortunately the switches were scrambled and I can't seem to figure out which settings work. Does anyone have one that can check their switch settings? This doesn't seem to work:

Re: Rod Coleman's personal history of founding, building & running SAGE

2021-01-03 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 03:53, Boris Gimbarzevsky wrote: > > Ran into 68000 processor for > first time in 1986 when my father bought a 512 K > Mac and couldn't believe performance of this CPU It is odd. I had read of it, of course, but for me the revelation was getting an Acorn Archimedes in

Re: Emails going to spam folder in gmail

2021-01-03 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
> > The /recipient/ of the messages is *not* the problem. The /source/ of > the messages *is* the problem. > > What is done with what is received is independent of the source of the > problem. > Yes! This is absolutely true. Some of the members of this list use mail servers whose outbound

Diomidis Spinellis blog: Reviving the 1973 Unix text to voice translator

2021-01-03 Thread Rodney Brown via cctalk
https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20210102/ https://github.com/dspinellis/speak (Votrax phoneme output)

Re: Ouch, but 2 Perqs out.

2021-01-03 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Hi all! Well another trip into the basement today. Found a second Perq type 1 keyboard (with the LED panel on the back), a pair of platform things that look like they might be digitizer pads, and about 20 MFM hard disk drives of every model and vintage. One of the Perq2's does not have a

APE - ALTAIR peripheripheral emulator

2021-01-03 Thread jwest--- via cctalk
Anyone know who did/does the Altair peripheral emulator (not to be confused with the other APE, for Atari)? Originator give me a ring on email or via discord please  J

Re: Emails going to spam folder in gmail

2021-01-03 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 1/3/21 8:40 AM, Peter Coghlan wrote: Grant, Hi Peter, Do you think it is likely that an email address like check212...@gmail.com is used by an actual real person for their personal email? I absolutely do. Multiply the odds of the above by the odds that some spammer or other

Re: Stride computers, was Re: Rod Coleman's personal history of founding, building & running SAGE

2021-01-03 Thread emanuel stiebler via cctalk
On 2021-01-03 05:18, Jos Dreesen via cctalk wrote: > On 03.01.21 01:11, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: >> This may be old news -- it was new to me, though. >> >> https://suddendisruption.blogspot.com/search/label/Booting%20Sage%20Computer >> >> > The story is around for several years already, but

Stride computers, was Re: Rod Coleman's personal history of founding, building & running SAGE

2021-01-03 Thread Jos Dreesen via cctalk
On 03.01.21 01:11, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: This may be old news -- it was new to me, though. https://suddendisruption.blogspot.com/search/label/Booting%20Sage%20Computer The story is around for several years already, but yes : interesting read indeed. Speaking of which : I am

Re: Rod Coleman's personal history of founding, building & running SAGE

2021-01-03 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
Apparently someone wrote: > Thanks for the link as didn't realize 68000 was > used for home systems before I ran into Mac. > The SAGE certainly wasn't a "home system" in the sense that the Macintosh was. I mean, sure, there were undoubtedly a few people that bought one for home use, but it was