On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 18:35, Henry Bent via cctalk
wrote:
To answer a different part of the question that I missed first time around:
> As an American it's true that the vast majority of my vintage computer
> experience is completely americentric, but I'm aware that Acorn had a
> significant pr
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 19:05, Sellam Abraham via cctalk
wrote:
> Probably because Americans in Futtbuck, Idaho never heard of any British
> computers but Brits certainly knew about American computers, eh wot?
Oh, yes, naturally!
It is something of a national characteristic, though.
I had someo
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 19:15, mark audacity romberg via cctalk
wrote:
>
> BBC BASIC is the best BASIC there ever was, and I feel sad for those who have
> never used it to see how powerful BASIC can be with proper structured
> programming. It’s honestly like a different language.
Strongly concur
On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 at 21:01, Marvin Johnston via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Note to those people too lazy to update their subject line...
Oh come on, you can't say that and not quote properly.
For just me, I intentionally don't do it. For better or worse, Gmail
is the best webmail I know if, it does plai
On 2 March 2017 at 01:55, ben via cctalk wrote:
> Well we talk to tablets and phones now, how long before they talk back?
A short list of shipping products that do that:
Amazon Echo
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01GAGVIE4/
Google Home
https://madeby.google.com/home/
Microsoft Cortana
https://ww
On 2 March 2017 at 17:11, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> And, it will reach a level of reliability to actually be usable, "in a few
> more years". "next year in jerusalem!"
I haven't tried either the Google or Amazon offerings. I have tried to
teach my elderly mother to use Siri and Google speec
On 3 March 2017 at 20:58, John Wilson via cctalk wrote:
> I'd give Gerbers to anyone who cares
> but really it's just a dumb joke. Fun one though.
Heh. Cool. :¬)
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On 7 March 2017 at 04:22, Craig.B Mitchell via cctalk
wrote:
> Hi, is your 1400xl still for sale? If so, what are you looking to get?
Who are you asking? You just posted to a thousand people on a mailing list.
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On 7 March 2017 at 01:09, Jerry Kemp via cctalk wrote:
> Much in relationship, to, at least at one time, the Novell Netware system
> sat on top of DOS.
Very very kinda sortof.
Netware 2 could cold-boot itself.
Netware 3 & 4 needed DOS as a bootloader. If you wanted, you could
issue a command:
On 9 March 2017 at 17:22, Ray Arachelian wrote:
>
> Now that the cat's out of the bag, how soon before you can tell your
> smart TV "Dear CIA, I'm hungry, can you send over a pizza pls, k thx bye"
:-D
Or the XCKD version:
https://xkcd.com/1807/
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Since, to my pleased surprise, this has been a runaway hit on
Facebook, I thought I'd reshare it here.
My friend Roger took a picture of this sculpture at the Jerwood
Gallery in Hastings on the south coast of England:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/25143643@N07/32505083723
It's a piece called "A
http://museo.freaknet.org/en/recupero-dati-nastri-magnetici-del-computer-polacco-mera-400/
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On 9 March 2017 at 01:21, Ian Finder via cctalk wrote:
> Is someone testing a Markov chainer on the list? If so, you have some more
> work to do...
It would explain the resolute & total failure of our efforts to
explain top-quoting to him. Er, to it.
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On 15 March 2017 at 02:23, Chris Hanson via cctalk
wrote:
> A lot of research and development went into the Lisa and Macintosh
> interfaces. They weren’t just “copied from Xerox.” If you sit someone who
> knows how to use a Mac in front of a circa-1979 Xerox Alto, they’ll be pretty
> mystified.
On 15 March 2017 at 14:17, geneb via cctalk wrote:
> Well hooray for Xerox. Apple still obtained the concepts from Xerox,
> regardless of the mechanism.
Only some and only very basic ones.
Icons for files, the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons, scroll bars, all kinds
of utterly basic stuff were invente
On 15 March 2017 at 18:19, js--- via cctalk wrote:
> Maybe cognitive delay is a good thing. Separates the wheat from the chaff.
>
> Eg. "God forbid" there be automobiles with only one button (start).
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On 15 March 2017 at 18:40, Josh Dersch wrote:
> The Star introduced the concept of icons representing files (and other
> things) in 1981. Smalltalk invented scrollbars (they were clumsier than
> Apple's though) in the mid 70s.
>
> Also, don't forget that the Mac was designed by a number of ex-PAR
On 15 March 2017 at 18:50, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> Steve Capps was the only person on the original Mac team who worked at PARC.
Larry Tesler
Tom Molloy
Bruce Horn
Op cit --
http://www.mac-history.net/computer-history/2012-03-22/apple-and-xerox-parc/3
I may be muddling the Mac and Lisa t
On 15 March 2017 at 20:05, geneb via cctalk wrote:
> Why? The old nonsense still works! I gotta bring it out now and again to
> keep the rust off and the joints moving freely. :)
:-D
> ITYM, "more buttons confuse those with cognitive delay". :)
This isn't a great citation, but here's an exam
On 15 March 2017 at 20:15, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
> Android runs a hacked BSD libc on top of a linux kernel.
More than a bit of an oversimplification.
Android has its own libc. It contains some portions from the BSD one,
but is not a modified version.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic
On 21 March 2017 at 18:32, Ray Arachelian via cctalk
wrote:
> (And meanwhile AAPL is busy, or was, getting rid of all GPL stuff in its
> OS.)
Darwin is mostly BSD-licensed and includes significant quantities of
code from FreeBSD, which is why Apple hired Jordan Hubbard.
I'm not aware of any sign
On 28 March 2017 at 08:54, jim stephens via cctalk
wrote:
> I need to scrounge around
Hmm. That is not a possible usage of "scrounge" the way I know it. You
can't scrounge something you already have. It doesn't mean "search
for", it means "to pilfer", to get something off someone by the
pretence
On 28 March 2017 at 18:58, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:
> Maybe it has a slightly different connotation on this side of the pond; I
> don't think it would mean "borderline theft" for most people.
I did Google it first! :-)
Note definition 1 here:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scro
On 29 March 2017 at 17:05, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
> But you must have overlooked the intransitive definition below: "to search
> about and turn up something needed from whatever source is available".
>
> I'm pretty sure that's the sense Jim was using (and it's certainly not
> restricted to N
This series of articles focuses mainly on physical design, of cases
and so on, but there are some technical details in the articles too.
Note that this is the landing page -- at the bottom of the page are
links to other articles in the Inexhibit series, such as the Holborn
9100 and Olivetti Progra
On 23 April 2017 at 16:53, Alexander Schreiber via cctalk
wrote:
> Or a single LTO3 cartridge, with room to spare ;-)
So what we need to do is calculate the bandwidth of a truck full of
LTO-3 tapes hurtling down a highway, surely?
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My flatmate has one of these. Just the small subassembly with the 2
push-buttons and a red light between them. Is this something that
would be of interest to anyone? I'm trying to persuade him to eBay it
instead of throwing it away.
We've also got the plastic covers from a few disk packs, an empty
>From the Apple ][ up to PowerMac G4s. So, possibly a bit new for many
of you folk, but I enjoyed them and thought others might too.
http://podstawczynski.com/retro/beauty_shots.html
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https://youtu.be/8_33Yv5LsSs
Professor Steve Thurber -- co-inventor of the ARM processor, the BBC
Micro and much more -- donates his first ever computer, and arguably
the first prototype of the BBC Micro, to The Centre for Computing
History in this fascinating (& very cute) video.
https://youtu.be
On 3 May 2017 at 21:03, wrote:
> great to see things displayed in a 'setting' rather than just
> computers on shelves!
:-)
I was just relaying the link -- it's not my work. I sold or gave away
most of my Macs before I switched countries 3y ago, and the rest of my
vintage kit is in boxes in
This came up recently due to a small coincidence. Does anyone remember
this early MS-DOS game for PC compatibles?
It was designed to look exactly like the spreadsheet, so you could
play in the office, but you had to "shoot" falling numbers by doing
arithmetic...
It looked just like a mockup of 1
On 18 May 2017 at 17:16, allison via cctalk wrote:
> All a DOS BBS was was a user interface that provided security by requiring
> user/password
> and limiting the commands usable. The easy was to do that was a version of
> the CMD module
> rewritten to not have things like RMDIR and DEL.
I was
On 18 May 2017 at 22:06, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
> The plate on the back of my 11/93 says 345 Watts. That's about a fifth what
> your
> wifes hair dryer draws. Or slightly more than 3 100 watt light bulbs
Jesus wept.
Are you certain that this alleged "hair dryer" is not in fact a
h
On 19 May 2017 at 00:22, Ed via cctalk wrote:
> we ran ours first on a hp-2000 then migrated to a hp-3000
>
> final version had 100 boards on it email , multi user chat, poll and
> voting and much more.
> yep it kicked ass!
You'd think if you'd been online that long, you'd have worked out
On 19 May 2017 at 13:36, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> Nope. Take a trip to Amazon and look at just how much power this stuff
> actually consumes. And, if you go back to the days when we started
> running this stuff in our homes, compare the draw of a QBUS PDP-11 to
> a TV with a picture tube, standar
On 19 May 2017 at 21:39, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
> I have news for you. (maybe) From 1976 until it petered out, the phone time
> cost a lot too. $200 or more a month at times.
What does "phone time" mean in this context?
I mean, POTS billing, for me, was always time-based, but the amount
On 24 May 2017 at 10:25, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
> I think so. It would at least be nice to see a picture.
>
> If it's smallish I might even pay postage for it :D
Working on it. My flatmate's mother tidied it away and we thought it
had been thrown out, but I have rediscovered it in its hiding plac
On 24 May 2017 at 21:45, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
> Cool, how might it have ended up in the UK (I assume it is there)
Er, no. It, like me, is in Brno in the Czech Republic.
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On 25 May 2017 at 02:12, Win Heagy via cctech wrote:
> The adapter on top is a male to female adapter. Not sure what that was
> for. The SCSI terminator is plugged in the back below the DMA/SCSI adapter.
Just a standard Amphenol terminator, I think.
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On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 09:43, Tom Hunter via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Has SIMH been ported to a low overhead (instant-on) platform?
>
> I ask the question because the startup time of Linux is distracting when
> powering on a PiDP-11/70 or similar clone systems based on SIMH.
Not that I know of.
I have
I found this blog post quite interesting. I've left what I hope is an
informative, helpful comment. I wonder if anyone else here would have
more to add?
https://www.forsure.dev/-/2020/05/19/640-kilobytes-of-ram-and-why-i-bought-an-ibm-5160/
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 15:10, Bill Degnan wrote:
>
> I remember when the IBM XT was too new for a VCF exhibit, back when Sellam
> ran shows.
I can believe that.
I gutted 2 original working PC-ATs in about 1996 for cases for
Pentium-class machines. I deeply regret it now but it was 25y ago --
th
On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 at 18:07, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
wrote:
>
> After having a run of almost half a dozen IDE hard drive failures recently in
> a short period of time (on my older desktops which use them, I've decided that
> I should see if there's an IDE emulator (using SD cards)
SD (and the re
On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 at 15:33, Tom Hunter via cctalk
wrote:
> About 70% of the PCB had solder joints that were nice and shiny like brand
> new. The remaining section near the front of the drive was quite badly
> corroded and it also looked like there was some liquid spilled over that
> section of t
On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 at 08:24, Mattis Lind via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I have been working on a project for some time to connect a IBM3270
> compatible Alfaskop terminal with its IBM 3274 compatible cluster
> controller to the Hercules mainframe emulator.
>
> Yesterday I eventually succeeded. I was able
On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 at 15:09, Paul Koning via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Unfortunately access to the pictures is restricted, silly of them.
Agreed but this is normal for VCFED. I do have an account but I've not
used it in years -- the forums are a bit too US-centric for me, and I
hate web fora in general.
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 at 11:02, Stefan Skoglund via cctalk
wrote:
> Textilmuseet (textiles and clothes museum in Borås, Sweden) have a
> number of items which was haute couture in the 70s and 80s. Some of
> them was done in a plastic which today is basically an awful mess...
>
> And so they are basi
On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 08:18, Grant Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any idea where I can get install media at various
> support pack levels and / or support pack install files for NetWare 5.1
> and / or BorderManager 3.5?
Something like this any help?
https://winworldpc.com/product/
On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 06:47, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> 1) If the drive is larger than 32MB, then boot with DOs 3.31 or newer.
> Although even with the older ones, you can still do quite a bit. 3.31 is
> the first where DOS supports a partition larger than 32MB
> MS-DOS 5.00 is first where
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 06:34, Grant Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On 9/8/20 7:18 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> > I haven't tested that specific ISO.
>
> The particular ISO that you linked to is Novell NetWare 5.1 (Support
> Pack 0). So it needs support packs installed on it.
But that's good
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 18:56, Jules Richardson via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On 9/8/20 6:04 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> > Date and time of Command.com and any other DOS files will identify the
> > version number.
Only after DOS 5 or so, I fear.
> I've got 11/26/85 on command.com.
>
> > DIR /A or
On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 at 23:35, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Good basic idea (using a different system to build on), but there's a
> better/easier approach (in the same basic vein): bring up V6, and mount the RK
> pack with Mini-Unix on it (it's a V6 file system, so is mountable); V6 is rock
>
On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 00:58, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
wrote:
>
> No, it looks like it uses a different fie-system layout.
>
> Besides; there's not much point: the big adantage of using V6 is that one can
> use the V6 tool-chain to prepare Mini-Unix binaries; XV6 wouldn't allow
> that. If all one wa
On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 19:20, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
wrote:
>
> (For those are are not familiar with Mini-Unix and LSX, they are both V6 Unix
> variants lobotomized to run on PDP-11's without memory management:
Aha!
Like this?
https://hackaday.com/2018/06/03/its-unix-on-a-microcontroller/
http:/
On Sat, 3 Oct 2020 at 18:14, Jonathan Haddox via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I'm researching Multiuser DOS out of my own interest. A version made by
> Concurrent Controls specifically. However, I have been unable to find
> documentation on it to satisfy my curiosity on how it works and how it is
> conf
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 at 21:17, Paul Koning via cctalk
wrote:
>
> It depends. In sciences, people understand that it's a lot of work. In what
> Robert Heinlein called the "fuzzy subjects", you can often be a party animal
> who does very little real work and get a degree anyway. If so, it doesn'
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 at 21:51, Van Snyder via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I have a Maynard MaynStream tape backup unit from the 1980's.
>
> It uses audio-format cassettes with 1/4" tape, but it's a different
> tape composition, and the cassette has a notch in it to tell the device
> it's not just plain audio
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 00:19, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Do you want the degree?
> Or do you want to LEARN?
Fair!
Both.
> Take a course in your limited "spare time".
> Then another.
> and another
>
> I did grad school (UC Berkeley) while teaching full time plus running a
> business, and o
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 01:08, Van Snyder wrote:
> I'll send it for a PDF of a shipping label for a 20" x 10" x 10" 10lb box,
> your choice of carrier.
That is a very kind offer and I appreciate your generosity, but I
think perhaps you mistake what I was trying to say.
It's too old to be of dir
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 22:28, Adam Thornton via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I agree that whether a student learns has much more to do with the student
> than what in particular they're studying.
>
> I quit my undergraduate physics degree when I had a moment of clarity that
> even if I managed to squeak thro
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 22:48, Grant Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On 10/15/20 2:32 PM, Kevin Lee wrote:
> > Link for the prodigy work please? Seems interesting..
>
> Sorry, I don't have a link per say.
That's _per se_, BTW. Latin. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/per_se
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On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 21:41, ben via cctalk wrote:
>
> Is the Author find able? Do he still have 8" floppies?
Dude. Really. Pay attention. The author has been posting in this thread.
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On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 00:44, Ali via cctalk wrote:
> Any
> ideas/suggestions? TIA!
https://k9mail.app/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fsck.k9&hl=en&gl=US
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On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 11:31, Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk
wrote:
>
> That is like asking how do you fix Windows/10 MAIL app. It’s the default, it
> sends and receives mail. If you want something that works better and gives
> you control then you switch to a supported app.
> There is also Outlook
On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 19:27, Angel M Alganza via cctalk
wrote:
> Most of them, yes. Then there is K-9 mail for Android,
> which almost makes me to not miss Mutt, when using the phone.
Which is what I proposed in the first reply, complete with links.
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On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 10:26, Peter Corlett via cctalk
wrote:
> Five MyBooks bought 18 months ago had debranded He8 disks in there: very nice.
> The three Elements a few months back have (non-SMR) WD Reds in them, which is
> OK. Three more are supposedly turning up tomorrow.
Oh blast, I wish I h
On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 15:36, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Most "Merikens" just let the bank do the conversion when they buy
> from overseas.
Argh! I was not posting to the list that I thought I was. I apologise
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 02:53, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Most of us "merkens" haven't truly mastered one language.
I was very surprised to discover a couple of years ago that many in
the USA pronounce "squirrel" as "skwerl". My surprise was subsequently
pushed to its limits when I discovere
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 04:21, Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On Nov 17, 2020, at 7:03 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk
> mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
>
> Argh! I was not posting to the list that I thought I was. I apologise
> for using that nickname. :-(
>
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 17:15, Diane Bruce wrote:
>
> My expat FIL was from Lancs. Good part is I learned how to make a decent pot
> of tea. The bad is, I couldn't understand him half the time.
Being from Lancashire myself, I can't see the problem, but the rest of
the UK regards us as impenetrable
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 21:20, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> And the machines that Calcomp made (570, etc.) were called "plodders"
I am well-used to that one; I think all Brits are, from TV and cinema.
(Aside: it is amusing to me, at least, that some British actors
succeeded in Hollywood or TV
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 17:58, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> As an American, I think Hugh Laurie and Bob Hoskins have quite
> acceptable American accents
AIUI, most people do. I think it's just to their countrymen that they
sound artificial.
> as does Jamie Bamber (Lee "Apollo" Adama
> in Battlestar Gal
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 at 13:19, Doug Jackson via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Have you considered asking them what they are doing?
As my only offspring is only 1y old, [a] I'm not too worried and [b]
it would elicit no coherent response. However I've been doing my
research and I am given to believe that this
On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 01:32, keith--- via cctalk wrote:
> I have tried to copy it to an industrial CF
> card but no luck. I have used Rufus, Active Disk Image, and Macrium
> Reflect.
First question: how did you try to copy it?
You've not given us anywhere near enough info to try to troubles
On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 at 23:33, keith--- via cctalk wrote:
>
> Hi Liam,
>
> As stated in my OP, I was using Windows 10 and USB adapters.
*Goes back and re-reads*
Ah, OK. I did not follow before.
I think Windows is a really poor choice for this. Worse, it might have
tried to mount the filesystem R
On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 22:36, Van Snyder via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I found a box of 45 Atari ST diskettes in my basement, from my 1980's
> 520 ST (or maybe my brother's 1040 ST).
>
> I don't have a floppy drive, so I can't tell whether they're readable.
>
> Some are originals, for example for 1St Word,
https://www.ebay.de/itm/254795423667
€1
«
LISP MACHINE INC 1/2" Reel Tapes
Anyone who opens this auction will know what this is - and how unique
these tapes are.
The lot is consisting of 13 tapes, which are labeled as follows:
LMI FORTRAN 77 #1352- LMI Release 2.0 two tapes
LMI Boot / SDU
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 12:28, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>
> Well, I guess for some anything that does not require you to toggle in
> the boot loader or doesn't have a teletype console terminal is surely too
> modern to even consider.
:-D
One of the things I enjoy about this group is that some of
Does anyone know anything much about this early desktop computer and its OS?
Example:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Perkin-Elmer-3600-PETOS-Like-Microsoft-BASIC-Computer-6800-CPU-Works-/303540134722
Although it predated the PC, MS supplied the BASIC and apparently the
CLI resembles early DOS.
I ask
On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 22:52, Don Stalkowski via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I'm listing this stuff just in case someone is desperate for
> any of it.
Would you like me to post these lists on the Facebook vintage-computer
collectors' groups for you, Don?
I can suitably anonymise your email, if you prefer,
On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 10:35, Johan Helsingius via cctalk
wrote:
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> Seems to be the usual FB problem - too many similar groups. :)
How do you mean? Has it already appeared in some I'm not in?
It's nothing new. 15y ago or something, there were umpteen Communities
on Livejournal for any conceivab
On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 20:09, Johan Helsingius via cctalk
wrote:
>
> This is one of the reasons why I miss good old USENET - with a public list
> of groups, and a clear hierarchy.
I was thinking exactly the same thing.
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On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 01:02, Mark J. Blair via cctalk
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> USENET is still around. But much like the rest of the infinite groups, it's
> not where everybody is. Sigh.
True. In fact a colleague of mine at $DAYJOB is trying to resurrect
the Big 8 committee and get some active management occ
On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 21:31, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
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> Other than "Buy It Now" I have pretty much given up on
> ebay. Never had luck selling anything and very seldom
> had any luck winning a bid. Got better ways to waste
> my time.
If you _really_ want something that is _not_ BIN,
On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 17:12, Peter Coghlan via cctalk
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> What's Livejournal?
:-o
It was one of the first free blogging sites, before WordPress or
Blogger or the like. It has a number of forks, one of which is extant
and alive: Dreamwidth. It's the site that memcached was written for.
I
On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 18:20, geneb wrote:
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>
> That would be glorious. :)
Looks like it's happened.
https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Board_members
https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSLO/program/proposals/3028
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On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 17:46, Jon Elson via cctalk
wrote:
> Do it yourself HEART surgery??!!?? Yikes!
As close as I've heard of:
(1 b&w pic but not for the squeamish)
https://web.archive.org/web/20121107053510/http://www.doctorross.co.za/antarctica/self-operation-tracking-down-a-good-story
On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 21:23, geneb wrote:
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> Hopefully Cancel Moose can return too. :)
http://cm.org/
...?
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On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 at 23:12, Bill Degnan via cctalk
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> Hi,
> I have noticed the same email addresses' messages routinely end up in the
> spam folder of gmail.
I have 2 nested folders (labels/tags/whatever) in Gmail:
classiccmp/talk and classiccmp/tech. In my rule which filters messages
i
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 at 23:50, Bill Degnan wrote:
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> Liam,
> As I said I can set up a filter but that does not really solve the problem it
> compensates for it in the cctalk world only.
OK, that's fair. If I stuck a finger in the air and guesstimated, I'd
say about 95% of my email is filtered, a
On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 at 00:29, Nemo Nusquam via cctalk
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> Thank you both for your information but I am still mystified as to why
> Gmail marks Google alerts (from Google!) as spam.
That is particularly amusing/irritating, yes.
I have 3 or 4 connected accounts -- AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.
This may be old news -- it was new to me, though.
https://suddendisruption.blogspot.com/search/label/Booting%20Sage%20Computer
I'm not really familiar with SAGE machines. They were not as
well-known in the UK, I think, being upmarket from the Apple ][ and
IBM PC, both of which were eye-wateringly
On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 03:53, Boris Gimbarzevsky wrote:
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> Ran into 68000 processor for
> first time in 1986 when my father bought a 512 K
> Mac and couldn't believe performance of this CPU
It is odd. I had read of it, of course, but for me the revelation was
getting an Acorn Archimedes in 1989,
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 03:07, jwest--- via cctalk wrote:
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> (not to be confused with the other APE, for Atari)?
There's also an Apricot emulator by that name:
https://ai.ansible.uk/ape.html
from
https://ai.ansible.uk/freebies.html
Plan 9 has an APE too...
http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_editi
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 15:35, emanuel stiebler wrote:
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> I guess we have to be careful, comparing machines & CPUs.
> 68000 came out as a CPU in 1980/1981 (available on the market (?))
>
> You're comparing it to a ARM2 machine of 1987, where Motorola had the
> newer 68020, and 68030 by than ...
Th
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 17:42, Bill Degnan wrote:
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> Agreed.
>
> A fully provisioned IBM PC / XT in 1981-4 was pretty expensive too, that's
> why 8-bit machines continued to sell well into the later 80's. 16-bit was
> overkill for most home needs. Apple would not have survived the 80's without
On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 17:21, Nemo Nusquam via cctalk
wrote:
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> In 1999, a fellow student in a UML course worked for a large information
> company (Reuters, I think?) and told me that they had embarked on an
> expensive s/w conversion project. Their back-end systems were
> implemented in APL and
On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 17:44, Gavin Scott via cctalk
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> APL is still a going concern in a few places
Oh, definitely. I subscribed to the British APL Association's
newsletter from an advert in UK magazine PCW in the 1980s and
continued to get its publication, _Vector_, for over 20Y.
https
On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 17:50, Liam Proven wrote:
> So I resubbed online and now I get it again. providing that warm
> comforting sensation of intellects vast and cool, as immeasurably
> superior to my own as mine is to that of the transient creatures that
> swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
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