From: CAREY SCHUG
> I used 1620s, and 360/30s, a 360/40, and others as a personal
> computer at times, for things like writing a Tim Conway game of life,
> keeping track of my vinyl records, etc.
It's like John Conway's "game of life," but more prone to cause
uncontrollable fits of laughter.
I'm fine with that myself, but will list memberships from cctech be
ported over, or will we have to re-register? I don't think I'm
currently on cctalk.
> Back in the bad old days of the 5160 PC, some DTC controllers allowed for
> partitioning a drive (using witch settings)
I think "witch settings" is my new preferred term for this. They're
certainly mysterious and arcane enough.
> On 2021-11-21 9:45 a.m., Adam Thornton via cctalk wrote:
>> On 11/19/21 9:33 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote:
>>
>> And what happens when you wake up one morning to find archive.org is
>> gone, too?
>>
>>
> Fundamentally, eventually we're all going to be indistinguishable
> mass-components i
Per https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=2.9BSD/usr/doc/2.9_kernel.ms
2.9BSD had a driver for it.
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The quick-'n-easy solution I found when I needed to model some parts
for a keyboard was https://www.tinkercad.com/ - needs a modern-ish web
browser and a modestly beefy system tho.
Hah, wow.
On 3/25/21, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 1:01 AM John Ames via cctech
>
> wrote:
>
>> Huh - wacky. Still pretty curious how it works just on a basic "how
>> the hey does the framebuffer even function" level, but that's
>>
erhoeven wrote:
> It's neither X nor ethernet. These worked with a special controller card
> that had 4 RJ45 connectors. That allowed four users to share a single
> Windows NT system.
> ____
> From: cctech on behalf of John Ames via
> cctech
> Se
So, some months ago, I was in an electronics surplus store and picked
up what was obviously an X terminal - tiny metal slab with a VGA
connector, serial & parallel, AT keyboard, and RJ45 "communication"
port. I got it bare, without the external PSU that would've gone with
it, and I've since been un
> From: Chuck Guzis
> Numbering of bits in a word is also interesting. Is the high order bit
> in a 64 bit word, bit 0 or bit 63? Both conventions have been employed.
This one has always boggled me, because it's the one aspect of the
Endian Wars where there's a simple, straightforward answer gro
I don't know how well-known they were in their day; I only discovered
them around a decade ago, while digging into lesser-known
progressive-rock groups. Definitely a nice little treat, though -
people who gave them crap for sounding a lot like Yes weren't wrong,
but they had enough going on to be w
He shoulda stuck to being the keyboardist for Starcastle; he was
actually good at that!
Liam Proven wrote:
> I don't know. There is a huge amount of tradition and culture in
> computing now, and as a result, few people seem to have informed,
> relatively unbiased opinions. There hasn't been much real diversity in
> decades.
>
> 25 or 30y ago, people discussed the merits of Smalltalk o
> From: Neil Thompson
>
> I'm convinced that Dijksta (and anyone else who came out with similar
> comments were full of horseshit. In my opinion, it's the ability to
> translate a real world "thing" into an algorithm that is the essense of
> programming, and anyone who has managed to learn (parti
Just in the middle of getting a fresh OpenVMS install set up on my
VAXStation (the original having been done years ago when I barely had
any idea what I was doing,) and looking through various repositories
for interesting software to put on there, and I got to thinking about
something I recalled re
I have it running on a MicroVAX 3100/90, but I can't for the life of
me remember what version it is (current was 7-ish when I set it up,
but I may have had to drop back to an earlier version.) I'll have to
check when I have a chance. It's definitely not a speed demon, but it
works reasonably well.
> How about some pictures of what was inside. A picture that is atleast good
> enough to see what is there.
> Dwight
I did also take a photo of the interior, though nothing you'd be able
to read the chip designations on:
http://www.commodorejohn.com/whatsit-interior.jpg
My rough guesstimate is tha
On 8/31/19, Gregory Beat wrote:
> Beautiful front panel (1970s design).
> It would make a nice front panel for a DIY Computer.
Yeah, that's definitely a thought that's crossed my mind (I've been
meaning to get around to a TMS-99105 project for ages...) Though I'd
like to find out more about this b
Ran into this at the electronics-surplus store just down the way from
my workplace and grabbed it on the cheap. I don't actually know what
it *is,* but the labels on the switches make it look a *hell* of a lot
like a 16-bit general-purpose computer of some kind. Despite the
claims of being "micropr
I'll also vouch for Sellam. His prices are a bit higher than I might
prefer, but he's a straight dealer as far as I've ever seen; I bought
an Apple IIc from him and he gave me no trouble at all about
exchanging it when the board turned out to be cracked.
I know there's an old (I think) official Sega Genesis devkit that's,
erm, "around" on various console homebrew sites. No idea which exact C
compiler is included, but it's not too difficult to find.
I'd definitely be interested to hear if the DECheads on this list know
the specifics, but I'd gathered that it came about once other models
were introduced and the need arose to differentiate between, say, a
PDP-8/e and a "straight" (i.e. vanilla) PDP-8. The car connection
probably made the particu
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> I used OS/2 from 1993 to 2003
> Liam Proven wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 18:59, Paul Berger via cctalk
> wrote:
>>
>> This is my issue with a lot of Linux distros they seem to try to hard to
>> look and work like mac or like windows while I would rather have them
>> look and work like the xwindows I knew and loved. One of
> Grant Taylor wrote:
>> *Every* Unix desktop out there draws on Win95.
>
> Nope. That's simply not true.
>
> The following three vast families of window managers / desktops prove
> (to my satisfaction) that your statement is wrong.
>
> ? Common Desktop Environment (a.k.a. CDE) and it's ilk.
>
> Looking at modern hard disks, I'm unconvinced we could even mass-produce
> something like that today.
>
> A 40mm radius is comparable to a 3.5" disk, which are generally 5,400-7,200
> RPM. 15,000 RPM is the fastest available, but those tend to be low-capacity
> and
> expensive, and are often 2.5
I don't know where you're located, but I'm in the US and have an NTSC
Laserdisc player. If someone can hook me up with a video capture card,
I'd be happy to copy the video for you.
I don't like LCDs much, particularly for low-resolution applications
where the fundamental badness of upscaling from a non-native
resolution is truly jarring.
I picked up an Apple IIc this past weekend and I want to set it up
with a small monitor on my desk at work. Unfortunately, I seem to have
gotten rid of the small composite monitor that I know I had at one
point, so I don't have a good spare monitor that isn't a bit too large
for my workspace. I've
> From: Bill Gunshannon
> I always thought music in the old days was more about MIDI and letting
> something designed for it do the work ala Usenix Nashville 1991.
The MIDI control standard wasn't even finalized until 1983, and it
took a couple years to really proliferate after that. Most computer
https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/28206-everything-must-go-denver-mac-sale-sunday-821/
Not mine, but I wanted to spread the word about this since it's one of
those "take it or it goes to the dump" affairs...hopefully somebody
can make it out there for this.
> The article mentions the CHM has two 1401s functioning, but I guess halving
> the time won't help much.
Au contraire! Running two of them means it would take only more than
*half* the lifetime of the universe, which means you still have *less*
than half the lifetime of the universe left to enjo
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