At 06:40 PM 9/14/2016, KnoppixLiveKiller wrote:
>Is it really that hard to bottom post?
With that things have gotten really ridiculous, so goodbye for good.
Dale H. Cook, Contract IT Administrator, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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rks.
Dale H. Cook, Contract IT Administrator, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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At 05:42 PM 9/14/2016, Steven M Jones wrote:
>How do you justify making everybody conform to your preferred behavior?
I don't, but the behavior and archiving of this list is bound by the software
that it runs under.
Dale H. Cook, Contract IT Administrator, Roanoke/Lynchburg,
you want to change a
subject please start a new thread, and if you wish you can give the new thread
a subject line such as "New Subject (was Old Subject)" to reflect its origin.
Dale H. Cook, Contract IT Administrator, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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At 01:10 PM 9/10/2016, Glen Slick wrote:
>Those are the leads that go with the HP163x series logic analyzer pods such as
>the HP 1630G that Rob Jarratt was just asking about here.
Aaah - that is why I did not recognize them - I had seen only the 165x/166x
leads.
Dale H. Cook, G
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They appear to be pods for an HP logic analyzer, but they are not the HP 16xx
series analyzer pods with which I am familiar. Can anyone identify them?
Dale H. Cook, GR / HP Collector, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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other users and the first marketed applications for
the 8008 were in calculators.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640
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andle them arriving in a ZIP file?
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640
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how to create a
disk image. Stay tuned.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640
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ith analog circuitry at work.
Dale H. Cook, Radio Contract Engineer, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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why I bring my tablet to
meets.
Dale H. Cook, GR / HP Collector, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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At 02:41 PM 7/19/2016, Fred Cisin wrote:
> and resulted in high voltage to the 110 outlets, damaging a bunch of minor
> stuff, such as grinder, space heater, clock, etc.
Obviously a delta with a high (aka "wild") leg.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro
will have a chance to check them as
medical problems are slowing me down.
Dale H. Cook, GR / HP Collector, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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1960s? I suspect not, and if not the
topic does not belong here and is therefore regarded by many of us as spam.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640
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f a power supply while it is supplying the
target system.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640
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ree CP/M machines (Osborne 1, Kaypro 4-84, Kaypro 1)
and see if they will play, as they have not been booted in about a decade.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640
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I got my first CP/M machine I hadn't written any programs in years as I
had been mainly doing hardware maintenance on IBM System 36 and DEC PDP-8 minis.
I still have the Kaypro that I ran Mix C on, and still have the Mix C as well.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84
At 07:05 AM 5/11/2016, Corey Cohen wrote:
>Looking for a C compiler I can run on my Sol-20 with CP/M 1.4
I used to run Mix C under CP/M 2.2 on my Kaypros.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640
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At 01:30 AM 5/9/2016, Rod Smallwood wrote:
>nope it is working
To see if the list is working check the archives.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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applied to
them. Certainly when I next saw them in the summer of 1967 both were being
called minicomputers by the staff there.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640
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olves and switching between sat receivers and in-house
sources which were genlocked. We also got some out-of-house video (some church
services shot by small churches come to mind) that came in on VHS, and the VHS
decks were not genlocked.
Dale H. Cook, Radio Contract Engineer, Roanoke/Lynchbur
At 02:05 PM 5/3/2016, Swift Griggs wrote:
>I also seem to remember that the Toaster had something that came along later
>called the "Toaster Flyer" card that would allow you to digitize video and
>work with it digitally, but I never used one
Our Toaster had a Flyer.
a rotating drum.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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orm manually from a bank of U-matic decks
or directly from sat - all of the switching done with a Grass Valley switcher
run by the Avid. We did all of the long-form preroll with a built-in preroll
cueing function in the U-matics, and rolled them by hand, IIRC correctly (that
was about 20 yea
eo Toaster before we bought Avid
Studio. The latter made a huge difference in editing ability, FX range and
quality, and rendering time.
Dale H. Cook, Radio Contract Engineer (and former TV Engineer),
Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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At 08:22 PM 4/17/2016, drlegendre wrote:
>... does it have the sintered look of oil-impregnated bronze (Oilite)?
If the bearing is bronze do not use ordinary motor oil, as its sulphur content
may attack the bronze.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypr
At 04:00 PM 4/4/2016, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>I think bottom-posting without trimming is actually more evil than top-posting
>...
I think that any posting without trimming is a sign of a lazy and inconsiderate
poster.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Ka
a new thread., and all of those messages are archived as
part of the thread "tumble under BSD."
The only correct way to change the subject on an email reflector is to start a
new thread with an entirely new message.
Dale H. Cook, Contract IT Administrator, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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At 09:27 AM 3/6/2016, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
>I have a question about access to newsgroups.
I have never used a browser for Usenet - I have always used Forte Agent, a
Usenet client:
http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php
At 11:37 AM 2/19/2016, Richard Cini wrote:
>... LSI-11 Processor Handbook from 1975 (which I think covers the 11/03) ...
It should - according to a chart in the 1979 pdp11 processor handbook the
LSI-11 was used in the 11/03 and the 11/03L.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kay
still in use) technology that I sometimes deal with at work. I am
certain that there are many on this list whose vocations involve decades-old
hardware that is still in use.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640
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maintainable, and that would be very expensive for a client to
replace.
Dale H. Cook, GR / HP Collector, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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stuff
like my CP/M machines in my personal museum. I don't use an MS-DOS machine to
browse, and I don't use an NT-series-OS machine to run MS-DOS programs that
need UART register access that NT does not allow.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amst
not read from or write to the UART registers. Some of the
setup programs for that vintage hardware were written before the mid-1990s and
access the UART registers, so I have to run those under Win98 or earlier. I
have a portable MS-DOS 3.3 machine that I use to set up that vintage hardware.
Dal
At 09:07 AM 2/4/2016, Mazzini Alessandro wrote:
>... so I would not consider them as safe ...
The closest thing to a "safe" computer is one that is disconnected from all
communications links, powered down, and locked in a vault.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1
At 10:37 AM 2/2/2016, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>Might want to drag them out once a year and run them, to prevent anything
>sticking over time. (I should take my own advice, here :-)
I exercise all of my spare hard and floppy drives periodically.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osb
At 10:30 AM 1/31/2016, Douglas Taylor wrote:
>I worry about the old disk drives ...
I have spare IDE drives for my 98SE laptops.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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At 08:10 PM 1/30/2016, Eric Christopherson wrote:
>A few months ago I was interested in resurrecting an old ThinkPad ...
I have a couple of old Thinkpads running 98SE.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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BAMA is probably the best known site for old test equipment and amateur radio
manuals, followed by Ebaman.
Dale H. Cook, GR / HP Collector, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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At 12:06 PM 12/25/2015, Jonas Otter wrote:
>I would use a turned pin type socket instead, e g an Augat socket.
For decades I have used Augat sockets for mission-critical applications. I have
never had a contact failure where they are used.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kay
At 03:04 PM 12/20/2015, Eric Smith wrote:
>The problem has been solved.
Is the solution available online?
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640
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At 01:47 PM 12/11/2015, Dave G4UGM wrote
I have searched high and low for a decent e-mail client for Windows.
I still use Eudora Pro.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640
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low tolerance for those who ignore or
who are ignorant of basic reflector netiquette.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640
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At 09:17 AM 12/10/2015, Rod Smallwood wrote:
>So its now called Editing your quotes.
The crucial matter is editing the quoted message.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640
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At 07:04 AM 12/10/2015, Rod Smallwood wrote:
>I can't understand what the fuss is about.
What the fuss is mainly about is people who are too lazy to edit their quotes.
Whether they top post or bottom post, if they properly edit their quotes the
results should be acceptable to readers.
At 07:03 PM 12/9/2015, Joseph Lang wrote:
>Anybody know how to bottom post on an iPhone?
Top posting isn't bad if the poster edits his top posts so that only a line or
two is quoted. If I see an entire message in a top post I junk that message
unread.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynch
When I did get there I repaired the defective pdp8/m and put it back on the
shelf. Other failures, such as failures in an Instacart or in a reel-to-reel
deck were not crippling, as there were multiples of both, but failure of the
pdp8/m would halt the system.
Dale H. Cook, Radio Contract
and the rebranded Gates machines beginning in 1969.
>No computers at all in them.
The best and most expensive cart machines (~ $4000 for players and ~ $6000 for
recorders) were microprocessor controlled - the Pacific Recorders and
Engineering (PRE) Tomcat machines of the 1980s.
Dale H.
e of
my career.
If anyone is interested I can scan and post the 1976 edition of the NAB
standard to tape cartridge systems.
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e early 1960s (I would
have to check my broadcast equipment catalogs) and predate the Lear 8 track
cartridges.
Dale H. Cook, Radio Contract Engineer, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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hat I use at some locations that are not
regular stops at work, are set to use the Level3 DNS entries.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640
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At 10:05 AM 11/22/2015, geneb wrote:
>Until then, try pointing your DNS to 8.8.8.8 (Google) and see if that prevents
>their shenannigans.
IMHO, Google has enough shenanigans of their own. I use the Level3 DNS (4.2.2.1
/ 4.2.2.2 / 4.2.2.3).
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osb
ing voltage in particular is a pain, it's AC, and at a fairly low
>frequency (16.67Hz to 25Hz depending on country).
In the US the Bell standard is a 90 VAC sine wave at 20 HZ with a cadence of 2
seconds on and 4 seconds off. I work only with US equipment so I only have to
meet Bell standards.
gure a
computer to act as the other end of the circuit.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640
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At 11:09 AM 10/26/2015, Paul Koning wrote:
>... but tap water even in NYC?
New York City tap water is of higher quality than the tap water available in
many US cities.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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higher powers
(up to 25 kilowatts) have been forced air cooled.
I prefer to stick with what I have experience with. As for water, YMMV.
Dale H. Cook, Radio Contract Engineer, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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lectrical leakage.
>Oil is the usual medium here.
Current non-PCB transformer oil is the preferred oil, but for relatively low
power levels (say, 1 kilowatt dissipation or less) USP-grade mineral oil
(available at your pharmacy) is a very viable substitute.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg,
tion in the country had one (or sometimes two in
larger markets) for AP or UPI. I have an ex-UPI 15-RO that I would like to get
rid of. I once thought of restoring it, but I have too many other more useful
things awaiting restoration.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84
At 07:56 AM 9/3/2015, Vlad Stamate wrote:
>So I am asking what you all use to dump various ROMs from vintage
>PCs/peripherals/etc?
For 1980s ROMs I still use the Serial EPROM Programmer published in BYTE by
Steve Ciacia in the mid-80s.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Ka
ess to a good EE library.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640
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d Mallory literature in-house but don't recall
seeing that.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640
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someone cannot take the time to
edit their quotes they probably have not taken sufficient time in framing their
response.
Vincent's post was an excellent example of a succinctly edited post, so it got
read.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amst
st the original
spreadsheet somewhere? It would be a reference that would be much easier to use
than the online version.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640
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which I own more than a few), and the others go in a
different location in case I find a need for one.
Dale H. Cook, GR / HP Collector, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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At 10:25 PM 5/26/2015, Jules Richardson wrote:
>... is there a classiccmp-type list equivalent for old test gear?
Yahoogroups.com hosts a number of them. I sub lists there for GR, HP, and Tek,
as well as the TestEquipTrader list for buying and selling vintage equipment.
Dale H. Cook, GR /
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