TRS-80s available: Ottawa, ON, Canada

2018-05-07 Thread Mouse via cctalk
ation, I'd suggest contacting him directly - I haven't even so much as seen the boxes they're in. luc...@gmail.com is the address he gave me to pass along. Mouse

Re: Tektronix Terminal Emulation

2017-03-11 Thread Mouse via cctalk
ware buffering capability, and/or with DMA capability), you will probably get better performance with it. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: I hate the new mail system

2017-03-10 Thread Mouse via cctalk
>> RFC 3912 doesn't specify what output the whois server is supposed to >> send. Everybody "assumes" that it should be the complete domain >> information, but that's simply not the case. >> Imposing this assumption is what Mouse does, and that is wron

Re: NeXT in Toronto/Canada - was Re: Looking to re-home some NeXT hardware

2017-03-08 Thread Mouse via cctalk
yscale kind), some small number of keyboards, a mouse or two, that's probably about it. I gave away my Cube years back. I've been tempted to get rid of them, but feel sentimental enough about having developed MouseX that I've so far avoided doing so. Also, I've been

Re: I hate the new mail system

2017-03-07 Thread Mouse via cctalk
; $ > That's broken. In that case, it's the query that's broken. The normal way to use whois for domains is to send just the domain name upon connecting; the "whois -r " prefix you used is probably responsible. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: I hate the new mail system

2017-03-06 Thread Mouse via cctalk
sonally had have been my system performing as configured, rejecting mail I want it to reject.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: I hate the new mail system

2017-03-06 Thread Mouse via cctalk
obody knows why the bounces are being generated; there have been plausible guesses involving misguided anti-spam measures, but even those I haven't seen any confirmation of as the cause of any of the suspensions. It's certainly possible I've missed something, but the continuation of the

Re: Heathkit tube checker available

2017-03-02 Thread Mouse via cctalk
, I had a (completely different) tube tester...I wonder what became of it. Not that I would have any real use for it these days. > Any interest, reply to me only, please - no need to litter the list! Might be nice to say where it is geographically. /~\ The ASCII

Re: I hate the new mail system

2017-02-28 Thread Mouse via cctalk
ir side effects or the people who chose a provider configured inappropriately for their desired use. (My guess from the outside is that the former is closer to appropriate here.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-mont

Re: PDF PDF Which is right and which is ... Was Re: PDP-11/24 CPU later version

2017-02-19 Thread Mouse
t's documented.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: LMI Lambda?

2017-02-09 Thread Mouse
open, system to run on it. (I've used (Symbolics) Lisp Machines, and, as much as I like them, there are numerous things I would prefer the OS did differently.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Em

Re: LMI Lambda?

2017-02-09 Thread Mouse
ted code. If that's what you were talking about, then I misunderstood, and I retract my question. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: The Biggin Hill Omnibus

2017-02-07 Thread Mouse
> Wow. Disassembling and rebuilding motors... not so crazy if it's a fan moto$ If I had to pick anyone as someone capable of it, though /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email!

Re: Logic Analysers

2017-02-03 Thread Mouse
think it is. It's still on the general order of c, mind you; for the purposes of this discussion, c and .5c - even .1c - are much the same. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 5

Re: [cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org: confirm 38290c8a992491eda604beff5a06ff20cd7e85f5]

2017-02-01 Thread Mouse
eems somewhat excessive to me. If I were writing such code, I would pay attention to not only count and time but also to non-bounced list traffic. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: [cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org: confirm 38290c8a992491eda604beff5a06ff20cd7e85f5]

2017-01-31 Thread Mouse
>> (Speaking of best practices, you're generating paragraph-length >> lines; you might want to read RFC 3676.) > Thatâ??s up to the receiving MUA to deal with, not the sending one. If you think that, you _really_ need to read 3676. /~\ The ASCII

Re: [cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org: confirm 38290c8a992491eda604beff5a06ff20cd7e85f5]

2017-01-31 Thread Mouse
net" means you outsource your mail to them or you just get connectivity through them - and they aren't willing to do that for you, I guess it's find a better mailhost to outsource to, stop outsourcing it, or give up on that idea.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / R

Re: Looking to read past EOT on DDS/DLT/LTO

2017-01-26 Thread Mouse
urce into building today. _Also_ true of a lot more than just tar /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: tu58fs - PDP-11 file sharing with TU58 tape emulator

2017-01-24 Thread Mouse
've done it myself often enough, though not often with Linux - but it does, to some extent, explain what you're seeing.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: IBM 7074 and then some: "Systems we love" conference

2017-01-23 Thread Mouse
back quite to Babbage's day). /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

MSCP Qbus port layer doc sought

2017-01-22 Thread Mouse
mailing list, quoting an RQDX3 document which, in its "Applicable Documents" list, has o UQSSP (Unibus/Qbus Storage Systems Port Specification) Those sound like what I want. Anyone happen to know where I might be able to find such a thing? /~\ The ASCII

Re: SunoS 4.1.4 and Open Windows 3 on an IPX?

2017-01-16 Thread Mouse
o that are 1152x900 and 1280x1024, and those are landscape, not portrait. If you can test-boot NetBSD - from a CD or from the network, for example - I'd be interested to hear what it thinks the resolution is. Also, if you can capture printenv output from the ok prompt, I'd be curi

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

2017-01-15 Thread Mouse
means I don't have very much that would be of interest here, sorry. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Unknown 8085 opcodes

2017-01-12 Thread Mouse
mination, but you can specify whatever length you want manually. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Unknown 8085 opcodes

2017-01-12 Thread Mouse
rse, just different...though to someone used to one or the other it may feel like better or worse. :-) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Unknown 8085 opcodes

2017-01-12 Thread Mouse
the memory after the jsr is a NUL-terminated string, but that's all it would need to be told. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Unknown 8085 opcodes

2017-01-12 Thread Mouse
n areas are text, or integers, or whatever. Clone it and look at the README if you want to get an idea how it works from a user's point of view. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Unknown 8085 opcodes

2017-01-12 Thread Mouse
s into clonable git:// syntax, and I have the resulting git tree cloned). /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Unknown 8085 opcodes

2017-01-12 Thread Mouse
[...] That looks like a webpage, not a datasheet, but I found a link there to http://datasheet.datasheetarchive.com/originals/distributors/Datasheets-8/DSA-152680.pdf, which appears to be the datasheet. Saved, thank you! /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Again

Re: Unknown 8085 opcodes

2017-01-11 Thread Mouse
ne is interested, I export it via git. The thing to clone is git://git.rodents-montreal.org/Mouse/disas, though it hasn't had much testing off my systems and thus probably contains localisms. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML

Re: GMAIL accounts suspended.

2017-01-09 Thread Mouse
I've found record of my rejecting list mail. But why are you asking us rather than Google (who is in a position to tell you what they're doing, including mail they reject) or our listowner (who's in a position to tell you what behaviour the list is seeing from Google)? /~\ The AS

Re: More circuit help required please

2017-01-08 Thread Mouse
with R312 as high as 10K. If it were much lower, the diodes could be clipping diodes; a diode drop is not too far from about the right swing for a video signal. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Cleaning RK05 packs (Was: LGP-30 Memory Drum Update)

2017-01-05 Thread Mouse
pretty much universally, and relatively cheaply. Or am I wrong about it not leaving even trace residues? Of course, anyone with distillation equipment could distil any of these to get something with less residue. But not everyone has chem-lab glassware. /~\ The ASCII

Re: TOPS-20 Telnet and Port Forwading issue

2016-12-13 Thread Mouse
INEMODE negotiation. And, when I type ?, nothing is sent until I press RETURN, upon which my end sends ?\r\n. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Odd "endianness" [was Re: RE: Base 64 posts to the list]

2016-12-05 Thread Mouse
but big-endian for words > within the longword? Yes. As I said in the very next paragraph, > Conversion between PDP11-endian (0x87654321 stored as 0x65 0x87 0x21 > 0x43) and [...] /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rode

Re: Odd "endianness" [was Re: RE: Base 64 posts to the list]

2016-12-05 Thread Mouse
such as endianness to make sense. I think at least one early (by modern standards) machine supported addressing memory as if it were an array of bits, extracting an arbitrary block of those bits not longer than a machine word; if true, that addressing order would induce an endianness.... /~\ The ASCII

Odd "endianness" [was Re: RE: Base 64 posts to the list]

2016-12-05 Thread Mouse
hich htonl and ntohl are actually different operations? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Digital circuits and analog devices

2016-12-02 Thread Mouse
t with little-to-no voltage rise, if I hadn't known input clamping diodes existed, that would have been cryptic, incomprehensible magic. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Base 64 posts to the list

2016-12-02 Thread Mouse
honoured listowner. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Thinking about acquiring PDP stuff

2016-11-30 Thread Mouse
t certainly counts as practical to me. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Magnetic media FTGH!

2016-11-27 Thread Mouse
less, but I haven't gone through and picked them out to see how much less. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Magnetic media FTGH!

2016-11-26 Thread Mouse
any takers, can we discuss the option of > sending them to me? Sure. I'll send you mail offlist; this is somewhat in the nature of a heads-up, so if you don't get the offlist mail you'll know something's wrong. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ /

Re: Magnetic media FTGH!

2016-11-26 Thread Mouse
hearing anything. Given email's unreliability these days, I'd also like to leave more than just email as a way of getting hold of me. +1-613-482-0910 should either reach me or take a message. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML

Re: Membership disabled due to bounces

2016-11-25 Thread Mouse
f their antisocial behaviour onto the rest of the net are one reason I will have nothing to do with their mail. (The other major reason is their outright spamming me.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ E

Re: Membership disabled due to bounces

2016-11-23 Thread Mouse
onfigure your mailer the way I did mine, but I'm inclined to suspect gmail isn't civilized enough to provide that level of control. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Looking for terminals again

2016-11-16 Thread Mouse
trust we all know how little that means. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: NCD Explora Pro (was Re: NCD19 / Xncd19)

2016-11-15 Thread Mouse
r whatever else is necessary, if it's not twisted-pair). Then start tcpdump, as in tcpdump -n -s 2000 -i wm0 (or whatever the actual interface name is intead of wm0). /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.

Re: DEC bus transceivers

2016-10-26 Thread Mouse
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Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

2016-10-24 Thread Mouse
ging to combine this with the other two - interesting. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

2016-10-23 Thread Mouse
s, even including the OS, when it's run, and potentially doing something else as well. Perhaps you are using some meaning of "virus" other than "piece of software that infects other software to propagate itself"? That's the only meaning that makes any sense to m

Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

2016-10-23 Thread Mouse
e likes of letter agencies, there are much weaker links in the chains for them than the things malware attacks. And "AV SW", even if someone produced one that ran on what I run and I were willin gto run it, generally isn't going to notice custom-designed malware anyway. /~\ The AS

Re: Old versions of Emacs

2016-10-22 Thread Mouse
describe what sort of version it is; that is, I don't know what information would be useful to you. If you can describe a useful test, I can see what it gives /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Old versions of Emacs

2016-10-22 Thread Mouse
from the other...? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Museum thoughts?

2016-10-19 Thread Mouse
oney-sink to money-neutral, I'll be content. (They are currently soaking up money in the form of causing me to be renting significantly more storage than I would be if they were to vanish.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...

Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!]

2016-10-09 Thread Mouse
d the second. But I like puzzle games. I also greatly enjoyed Swapper - the first new game mechanic I'd seen since Portal, and its author(s?) built a highly engaging puzzle game around it. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo

Magnetic media FTGH!

2016-10-08 Thread Mouse
BRARIES EXAMPLES/BGI/MISC and two sets of six which appear to be working copies of the above. There are three Microsoft-branded floppies: Microsoft Mouse Setup/Mouse Menus 1 Microsoft PaintbrushProgram/Mouse Menus 2 Microsoft PaintbrushUtili

Re: late-night insane request

2016-10-05 Thread Mouse
but the memories are fuzzy and could be wrong.) It'd be in Ottawa (Ontario, Canada), in case that matters. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

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

2016-09-19 Thread Mouse
g completely different.) Until I ran into that Raspbian, though, telnet had always (a) just been there and (b) just worked with (c) the same command-line syntax. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email!

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

2016-09-13 Thread Mouse
telnet, the remote login protocol. That is far from its only use; indeed, these days, that isn't much of a use at all. I can't recall the last time I saw a machine running a telnet daemon even on an isolated intranet. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Camp

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

2016-09-13 Thread Mouse
t an RFB server banners as, and (in conjunction with script(1) to capture the output of a one-off server set up to transfer a text file (this being the use case I had for it on the Pi 3). netstat, that's a completely different issue. There's no "clear text protocol" issue there. /~\

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

2016-09-13 Thread Mouse
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Re: MicroVAX II Console Garbling Characters

2016-08-24 Thread Mouse
that theory) if the environment has been getting hotter, it may be that leaving it off briefly now doesn't cool it enough. Without more details, we can't really do much but take stabs in the dark. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML

FTGH: More miscellaneous old stuff

2016-08-22 Thread Mouse
in Ottawa, and is yours for the coming and picking it up. Functionality is unknown, and details may be incorrect because they were hand-copied. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 6

Re: FTGH: miscellaneous old stuff

2016-08-21 Thread Mouse
alled them tapes. But if they're actually disks I'd have to check - they're in storage right now, where I was looking things over earlier today - but I _think_ they were Syquest, in which case they probably would be the disks. /~\ The ASCII Mouse

FTGH: miscellaneous old stuff

2016-08-21 Thread Mouse
r cardboard boxes around them. Contents unknown, though at least some have labels. For the labeled media, I hope to get the labels transcribed sometime over the next week or so. If/when I do that I'll post the results. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Agai

Re: X server for original PC (8088/8086)

2016-08-20 Thread Mouse
IIRC their NCD model number is 19r. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: X server for original PC (8088/8086)

2016-08-19 Thread Mouse
chasing after that with an email pending.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: X server for original PC (8088/8086)

2016-08-19 Thread Mouse
> (There were plenty of mouse-and-window systems for the PC/XT back then, I ex$ If the serial link runs at a relatively high data rate (eg, 115200) or LBX support is in use and the data rate is at least medium (eg, 19200), probably. If not...well, it depends on how patient you are, I supp

Re: SWTPC 6800

2016-08-19 Thread Mouse
like modulation schemes and lower-level protocols, the way you do with things like USB or Ethernet. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Are old SCSI tape drives not all created equal?

2016-08-17 Thread Mouse
ing itself as "ARCHIVE " and "VIPER 2525 25462" apparently needs to have a READ done in order to get good MODE SENSE data under at least some circumstances (ST_Q_SENSE_HELP). And, of course, some drives may want to support features for which there is no standardized

Re: Spam [was Re: still looking for that stuff?]

2016-08-16 Thread Mouse
have little doubt there. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: VAX file format conversion

2016-08-16 Thread Mouse
ok some noodling around the HELP pages and some experiments, but I eventually got the file I was dealing with converted. You might want to throw ANALYZE/FDL at the file first to see how it really is set up. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML

Re: Spam [was Re: still looking for that stuff?]

2016-08-10 Thread Mouse
as it doesn't collapse far enough to stop concentrating money in the hands of large corporations, there's nothing wrong with it. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Spam [was Re: still looking for that stuff?]

2016-08-10 Thread Mouse
t not in practice, and I ascribe the worst of today's net's ills to the responsibility/authority mismatch. But, of course, it can't work without the will to enforce it at the top of the pyramid, and I see no sign of any there now. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribb

Re: Tape imaging

2016-08-10 Thread Mouse
ortant and not worth spending storage space on if you're just trying to archive existing tapes' data). > how did you handle unreadable blocks. Quite possibly not at all, since it appears to have been intended for archiving readable tapes. /~\ The ASCII M

Re: more vintage computer stuff

2016-07-31 Thread Mouse
lf to - tvtropes.org and cracked.com are the only ones that come to mind offhand.) It is, of course, not entirely irrelevant that on the few occasions when I do try to something with the Web, I do it from a classic machine, usually a SPARCstation-20. /~\ The ASCII Mouse

Re: MicroVax II

2016-07-29 Thread Mouse
l onto local disk from the netbooted system. In extremis, I might download a grappling-hook program via memory binary deposit commands, then ship stuff over the console serial line. This would work, but would be slow; I think the fastest the console serial can run is 19200, or maybe 38400.

Re: more vintage computer stuff

2016-07-29 Thread Mouse
titude. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Why classiccmp is awesome [was Re: QuietJet Plus (wide Carriage RS232/Centronics) (FPUIB) (Was: Found some stuff at the scrapyard]

2016-07-27 Thread Mouse
to me; it makes you people feel human, for lack of a better word, makes me feel this is a community of people instead of a soulless marketplace or some such horror. Not that humour is the only thing that makes me feel that way. But it's a substantial part of it. /~\ The ASCII

Why classiccmp is awesome [was Re: QuietJet Plus (wide Carriage RS232/Centronics) (FPUIB) (Was: Found some stuff at the scrapyard]

2016-07-27 Thread Mouse
nd of half your > purchase price. See, now, this sort of thing is a big part of why I like this list. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: FTGH: DEC 54-17507 backplane; Sun type-4 keyboards

2016-07-24 Thread Mouse
falls through (which currently looks unlikely), then it'll be looking for a home. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: LASERS! && Freemont Street LED array (was Re: Cray J932SE (was Re: Straight 8 up on Ebay just now))

2016-07-20 Thread Mouse
buffer with something like DVI-D could be used as a way to continuously replay sequences very fast, but it has its limitations. I'd rather build a hardware ring buffer, but I tend towards hardware hackery.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML

Re: LASERS! && Freemont Street LED array (was Re: Cray J932SE (was Re: Straight 8 up on Ebay just now))

2016-07-19 Thread Mouse
I haven't done the math to be sure, but, until/unless taught otherwise by testing, I'd feel dubious about clipping the X and Y signal bandwidths at anything lower than ~1MHz. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-mo

Re: LASERS! && Freemont Street LED array (was Re: Cray J932SE (was Re: Straight 8 up on Ebay just now))

2016-07-19 Thread Mouse
ch displays involving sharp-corner turns of the beam and run-time chosen displays, then obviously my impression is incorrect and the technology exists. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D

Re: LASERS! && Freemont Street LED array (was Re: Cray J932SE (was Re: Straight 8 up on Ebay just now))

2016-07-19 Thread Mouse
on mechanism there's no point in even trying to design the rest of it. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Cray J932SE (was Re: Straight 8 up on Ebay just now)

2016-07-19 Thread Mouse
wires are 180 degrees out of phase with one another). /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Cray J932SE (was Re: Straight 8 up on Ebay just now)

2016-07-19 Thread Mouse
Even if yours doesn't, it strikes me as the smart thing to do. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: NuTek Mac comes

2016-07-15 Thread Mouse
DCL was fine: it worked well enough for us to get useful stuff done. (The above discussion applies to DCL. I never used MCR enough to have anything useful to say, positive or negative, about it.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML

Re: DOS code in CP/M? Revisited...

2016-07-15 Thread Mouse
thing else had higher priority, though. This way I have more time for doing my own thing, though, so it's not entirely without a silver lining. (Admittedly, at the moment "my own thing" is less computery, so perhaps it's not that much of a silver lining from your perspecti

Re: DOS code in CP/M? Revisited...

2016-07-15 Thread Mouse
gathered from following port-vax@.) If I were still following NetBSD I'd be taking a real VAX and trying to figure out when things went south, doing all the builds native. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montrea

Re: VMS stability back in the day (was Re: NuTek Mac comes)

2016-07-15 Thread Mouse
a contender. For all I know maybe they've even done that, but now it's much too late to seriously challenge IP's hegemony. But the real shining star of DECnet/VMS was not the protocols, but the ground-up integration into the OS. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / R

Re: VMS stability back in the day (was Re: NuTek Mac comes)

2016-07-14 Thread Mouse
P. Specifically, I was talking about DECnet, which was well done and integrated from the ground up, not glued on after the fact. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: NuTek Mac comes

2016-07-14 Thread Mouse
much_ better is the documentation it contains. DEC documentation of the VMS era was _awesome_. Even today I rarely see it equaled, never mind bettered, in many ways. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email!

Re: NuTek Mac comes

2016-07-14 Thread Mouse
rfect, of course. But I do think it did some things better than most of what I see today.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

FTGH: DEC 54-17507 backplane; Sun type-4 keyboards

2016-07-13 Thread Mouse
I'm taking the easy-for-me option. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: 'Bounces'

2016-07-10 Thread Mouse
> Just re-subscribed to cc-talk. I'm wondering if anyone has an answer > on this - every now and again I get these warning emails about > 'excessive bounces'. I have to click a link and then they go away > for a while. But sometimes I get busy and forget.. and then the list > unsubscribes me. N

Re: word processor history -- interesting article (Evan Koblentz)

2016-07-09 Thread Mouse
o type ls and see [0m[01;34mdir[0m file [01;36mlink[0m [01;32mpgm[0m It's even more annoying when other things - eg, vi - understand the terminal type correctly set in $TERM, but things like ls insist on assuming not only without evidence but in the presence of evidence to the contrary that

Re: word processor history -- interesting article (Evan Koblentz)

2016-07-08 Thread Mouse
n exit. Add in a few more lines to handle > SIGWINCH (window resize). *Much* easier than dealing with curses. Depends on what you're doing. For lots of purposes, if you don't use curses or something morally equivalent, you will have to reinvent it, which carries its own prices

Re: word processor history -- interesting article (Evan Koblentz)

2016-07-07 Thread Mouse
es, of course.) I too find it discouraging. Tyranny of the majority at its finest. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: word processor history -- interesting article (Evan Koblentz)

2016-07-07 Thread Mouse
enry Petroski by someone on a mud I hang out on. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

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