[cctalk] Re: Seeking out Joe Rigdon / John Lawson

2024-04-07 Thread Sellam Abraham via cctalk
Hi Tony. Thank you for the note. Is there any way to confirm this? Many people have been seeking out Joe and when I tell them I'm told he was spotted alive last year there are going to be many questions, and many people wanting to attempt to reach him. More than a few people are very concerned

[cctalk] Re: Seeking out Joe Rigdon / John Lawson

2024-04-07 Thread Tony Duell via cctalk
On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 1:48 AM Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: [Sent privately] > > Has anyone communicated with or know a way to communicate with Joe Rigdon > out of Florida? Most here should know him as an old-school ClassicCmp > veteran. I have just heard that he attended the HP Handhelds

[cctalk] Re: Borland Turbo C++ and Turbo Basic - Books and Manuals

2024-04-07 Thread ben via cctalk
On 2024-04-07 3:33 p.m., Just Kant via cctalk wrote: What about cans? They don't shatter. What? Too American? I mean I won't drink out of anything but glass. But dad used to drink those tall boy Rheingold and Schaeffer. He was so nasty in the mornings. Sent with Proton Mail secure email.

[cctalk] Re: Borland Turbo C++ and Turbo Basic - Books and Manuals

2024-04-07 Thread Just Kant via cctalk
What about cans? They don't shatter. What? Too American? I mean I won't drink out of anything but glass. But dad used to drink those tall boy Rheingold and Schaeffer. He was so nasty in the mornings. Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Sunday, April 7th, 2024 at 4:14 PM, Harald Arnesen

[cctalk] Re: Borland Turbo C++ and Turbo Basic - Books and Manuals

2024-04-07 Thread Harald Arnesen via cctalk
ben via cctalk [07/04/2024 20.05]: I don't think bottles would be ship able. Now a keg of beer might be. Or a least the old oak kegs you read in stories. No problem to ship beer bottles, just pack them in diapers. We do this all the time in the Norwegian homebrew competitions. Now, diapers

[cctalk] Re: Problem with Dell Vostro 1700

2024-04-07 Thread Andrew Diller via cctalk
Replace all the caps. Then it will work! -andy > On Apr 7, 2024, at 3:43 PM, Van Snyder via cctalk > wrote: > > I know the main focus of the list. The Vostro 1700 is almost old enough > to be a semi-antique. I don't know another list where people might know > why the display flashes once and

[cctalk] Re: Problem with Dell Vostro 1700

2024-04-07 Thread Sellam Abraham via cctalk
The point being that there are nigh endless forums for PC tech support but there's only one ClassicCmp mailing list. On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 12:43 PM Van Snyder via cctalk wrote: > >

[cctalk] Re: Problem with Dell Vostro 1700

2024-04-07 Thread Van Snyder via cctalk
On Sun, 2024-04-07 at 13:57 +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 at 00:47, Van Snyder via cctalk< > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Both extremely helpful. Thanks. > > This is mainly a list for pre-PC era kit. Windows PCs and 64-bit > x86kit are offtopic here, and most

[cctalk] Re: Borland Turbo C++ and Turbo Basic - Books and Manuals

2024-04-07 Thread ben via cctalk
On 2024-04-07 5:57 a.m., Christian Groessler via cctalk wrote: On 4/6/24 5:37 PM, Mike Norris via cctalk wrote: Additional I would like £5 beer money for this one please! Writing Open VMS Alpha Device Drivers in C - Margie Sherlock/Leonard Szubowicz I'd take it. I can send you beer money,

[cctalk] Re: oscilloscopes

2024-04-07 Thread ben via cctalk
On 2024-04-06 9:40 a.m., Phil Budne via cctalk wrote: Paul Koning wrote: Yes, and some emulations have done this, such as Phil Budne's famous work in SIMH. Famous?? I'm famous???!!! To be fair, I started with Douglas W. Jones' PDP8 Emulator. Which reminds me of: If I have seen

[cctalk] Re: oscilloscopes

2024-04-07 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Apr 6, 2024, at 11:40 AM, Phil Budne via cctalk > wrote: > > Paul Koning wrote: > >> Yes, and some emulations have done this, such as Phil Budne's famous work in >> SIMH. > > Famous?? I'm famous???!!! > > To be fair, I started with Douglas W. Jones' PDP8 Emulator. > > Which

[cctalk] Re: Problem with Dell Vostro 1700

2024-04-07 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 at 00:47, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote: > > Both extremely helpful. Thanks. This is mainly a list for pre-PC era kit. Windows PCs and 64-bit x86 kit are offtopic here, and most members, I suspect, regard them as disposable office equipment with no more personality than a

[cctalk] Re: Borland Turbo C++ and Turbo Basic - Books and Manuals

2024-04-07 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 4/6/24 5:37 PM, Mike Norris via cctalk wrote: Additional I would like £5 beer money for this one please! Writing Open VMS Alpha Device Drivers in C - Margie Sherlock/Leonard Szubowicz I'd take it. I can send you beer money, or could send you 2 or 3 bottles of local beer. I'm living near

[cctalk] Re: oscilloscopes

2024-04-07 Thread Martin Bishop via cctalk
A little digging later ... I implemented the waterfall display eight years ago, outputing to a 1280 x 1024 monitor. 1920 x 1080 was supported, but I was outputing 1 Ki pt FFTs. The hardware platform was a Xilinx Zynq. An indication of 4k video capabilities is

[cctalk] Re: oscilloscopes

2024-04-07 Thread Tom Hunter via cctalk
I too have experimented with OpenGL to simulate phosphor-decay. I never got to a satisfactory solution. The learning curve for OpenGL is steep. On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 4:43 PM Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Phil Budne wrote: > > I wrote and tuned the code twenty

[cctalk] Re: oscilloscopes

2024-04-07 Thread Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
Phil Budne wrote: > I wrote and tuned the code twenty years ago, but haven't looked at > whether better results might be possible by wasting the capabilities > of current systems (SIMD libaries and/or multiple cores). I felt like > I only was able to give a slim impression, and I've also wondered

[cctalk] Re: oscilloscopes

2024-04-07 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
Paul Koning wrote: > Yes, and some emulations have done this, such as Phil Budne's famous work in > SIMH. Famous?? I'm famous???!!! To be fair, I started with Douglas W. Jones' PDP8 Emulator. Which reminds me of: If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the