Sun/3-powered 737 flight sim

Something that I thought the folks here would appreciate: a fellow in Dubai is trying to keep a full-motion Boeing 737-300 sim (from 1991) running. The main host machine is a Sun/3E, connected over Ethernet to the operator workstation which has 2 Sun/3Es each with a cgtwo powering a CRT touch

Re: Late 90s Macintosh systems available to So Cal

Hi, I’m local (work in Irvine near the split). I’d be interested in the PowerBooks, and maybe some software. What kind of software do you have? Brendan > On Dec 19, 2016, at 4:01 PM, Steven Stengel wrote: > > I have a small pile of late 90s Macintosh systems available for

Re: G4 cube (was Re: 68K Macs with MacOS 7.5 still in production use...)

> On Sep 13, 2016, at 11:58 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > > But isn't that typical of the Apple Way? Right from the start, there > were tools and hardware for the 5150 to talk to the rest of the world. > Apple just kept to their own little community--or did I miss the >

Big Apple/Atari/Commodore/TRS-80 sale today in Orange, CA

https://orangecounty.craigslist.org/gms/5763569283.html I went to this sale last week and picked up a DECmate and some Mac stuff, the amount of stuff he had was remarkable. Sale is today only. Some of the cool stuff I saw last week: - 2 x ADM-3 terminals - Quadra 950, WGS 95, WGS 9150 - 2 x

Re: Large Mac liquidation in Denver, 8/21

He also posted on Craigslist: http://denver.craigslist.org/sys/5732303316.html Also said on the forum: I think I will probably open up on Saturday from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, too. And if there is still stuff left over I will have two more days of sales on Friday the 26th and Sunday the 28th.

Re: Quadra 660AV what's with the "PowerPC" label?

> On Jun 13, 2016, at 9:30 AM, Swift Griggs wrote: > > The weird thing about this machine is that it says "PowerPC" right on the > front, but it's *NOT* a PPC. It's most definitely a 25Mhz 040'. I wonder > why that's there? Maybe the guy took the badge from another

Re: OT: Ideas for running a VB4 application on modern hardware?

Wikipedia says that VB4 was the first version able to produce Win32 binaries, but could also still generate Win16. If the app is Win16, that would explain why it doesn’t work on 64-bit Windows. Brendan > On May 1, 2016, at 12:52 PM, william degnan wrote: > > On Sun, May

Re: Ideas for running a VB4 application on modern hardware?

NT 4 or Win2000 would be smaller, and as long as the VM doesn’t need internet/network access the security issues should be…manageable. Alternately, does it run under Wine? A stripped-down Linux distro would be small. (and i assume you don’t have the source code, that would be the best solution)

Re: 80s magazines at Huntington Beach, CA estate sale

On Jul 10, 2015, at 5:39 PM, jwsmobile j...@jwsss.com wrote: On 7/10/2015 5:05 PM, Brendan Shanks wrote: snip Also there's a Toshiba T1000 and Apple II+ probably still there. http://www.estatesales.net/CA/Huntington-Beach/92646/931308 Brendan What did you make of the thing

80s magazines at Huntington Beach, CA estate sale

I bought the two old Macs there this morning, but there's *years* of 80s magazines still there: BYTE, nibbles, MacUser, Softalk, Creative Computing, Personal Computing, Call-A.P.P.L.E, a few Macworld and PC Magazine issues, probably some others I'm forgetting. Only one more day for the sale,