Re: OT: Newsreader for Windows

2021-04-03 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk
On Thu, 1 Apr 2021, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > There is probably also the option of using the TUI news readers in / via > Windows Services for Linux (?is that the proper name for /today/?). I have never used that port myself, but there's PC-Alpine worth considering, which I believe uses

Re: SOT: Scanning old computer docs

2021-04-03 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 12:19 AM 3/04/2021 -0600, you wrote: >On 4/2/21 10:27 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: >> There are defects in your 'good' flatbed image too - for eg the >> bleed-through of the orange lettering on the other side of the >> sheet. The way to correct that is to use a black, highly light >>

Re: IBM cpu tear down

2021-04-03 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-04-03 11:11 a.m., Scott Quinn via cctalk wrote: On Wed, 2021-03-31 at 21:56 -0700, D. Resor via cctalk wrote: I thought I had seen this before... EEVblog teardown of a ES9000 processor. https://youtu.be/xQ3oJlt4GrI Is that a similar package to what the CMOS POWER-2 used? I think I

Re: IBM cpu tear down

2021-04-03 Thread Scott Quinn via cctalk
On Wed, 2021-03-31 at 21:56 -0700, D. Resor via cctalk wrote: > I thought I had seen this before... > > EEVblog teardown of a ES9000 processor. > > https://youtu.be/xQ3oJlt4GrI > Is that a similar package to what the CMOS POWER-2 used? I think I have one somewhere but never tore into the MCM

Video presentations on 2 interesting OSes for vintage kit

2021-04-03 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
Minerva and SMSQ/E, both related to Sinclair QDOS, the original OS for the Sinclair QL. https://youtu.be/yU0ptNyNqcI And EmuTOS, a FOSS recreation of Atari TOS & GEM, which reached v1.0 about 6 months ago. https://youtu.be/eqrM4TE5jTM I knew about the 1st 2, but this video taught me a lot.

Re: SOT: Scanning old computer docs

2021-04-03 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 4/2/21 10:27 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: There are defects in your 'good' flatbed image too - for eg the bleed-through of the orange lettering on the other side of the sheet. The way to correct that is to use a black, highly light absorbent backing sheet. Eg black velvet. Hum. Why