On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 at 03:34, Steve Malikoff via cctalk
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> Whenever some new vintage computing page appears I go to archive.org and
> submit the
> URL to them for the wayback machine. Often they've crawled it already, but
> not always
> so I think it does help.
When you submit a URL to a
On Mon, 27 Sept 2021 at 23:31, Zane Healy via cctalk
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> On Sep 27, 2021, at 2:15 PM, Nemo Nusquam via cctalk
> wrote:
> >
> > On 2021-09-27 10:07, Joshua Rice via cctalk wrote (in part):
> >>
> >> However, much of the "Linux" software is in fact POSIX software, and can
> >> quite easily
On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 00:01, Jecel Assumpcao Jr via cctalk
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> The TI people were selling their chip as a simple four operation
> calculator. Here is what the Sinclair people did with it:
>
> http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simulator.html
And that's where the "world
On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 at 07:50, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
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> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know what colors a VT100 is? Most photos online has it
> looking yellowish, but I expect that's from aging. Some people I have
> asked claim it was a light cream color. This bitsavers picture has it
> look
On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 at 15:41, John Foust via cctalk
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> After thinking about disk imaging tools like Greaseweasel,
> I started thinking about tools that would grab and examine the unused
> portions of disks.
>
> It's obviously file-system dependent. At one level we know of
> "undelete" to
I have a Greaseweazle F7+, and I have an fdadap as well (and a Shugart
8" drive), a 5 1/4" drive (my main target, the 8" follows), and 3.5"
drives (not really a target - the 3.5" HD floppies are mostly
unreadable anyway).
So, I'm ready to go.. except that due to sleep deprivation I managed
to dump
On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 at 03:27, dwight via cctalk wrote:
> If we'd thought about it we could count to 1023 on our fingers.
> Dwight
Some sheep herders in (IIRC) the Caucasus do, or did at least. I
learned about that some decades ago. Counting sheep on their fingers.
I use the system sometimes.
-To
Registry Expiry Date: 2020-07-03T15:46:18Z
Anyone in touch with Tore? Noel?
> > Ultimate Zip is showing that the file is empty. Hum! I have been
> > using Ultimate Zip for decades. Hum! I wounder what is going on!
*Nix 'unzip' shows it as perfectly fine. Could it be that Ultimate Zip
is so old that it only supports zip files where the directory is at
the beginning of
On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 at 04:20, Kevin Lee via cctalk
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> https://zork.net/~st/jottings/Real-VT102-emulation-with-MAME.html
MAME is a beast. Sometimes it kind of works (for other stuff), here it
just hits me with an "Abort" with no indication as to why.
On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 01:37, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> https://xkcd.com/2324/
>
>
> As accurate as most other versions of history.
Finally I know where "pull request" comes from
> > > There is also groups.io, and it has some very nice features compared to
Please please, no groups of any kinds. They're all horrible to use. A
genuine mailing list like this is infinitively easier to keep track of
and read at leisure. Can't stand groups.io. Despise google groups
(always overl
> https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/198610_Byte_Magazine_Vol_11-11_Inside_the_IBM_PC.pdf
That one, plus
198806_Byte_Magazine_Vol_13-06_New_Benchmarks_Ultra_High-speed_Modems.pdf
and 198905_Byte_Magazine_Vol_14-05_Unix_CAD_and_Technology_Breakthroughs.pdf
are corrupted on the vintageapple.org web
On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 00:14, Eric Korpela via cctalk
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> C
> C CHANGE THE VALUE OF 4
> C
>
> CALL INC(4)
> WRITE (*, 30) 4
> 30FORMAT ('2+2=',I4)
> END
>
> SUBROUTINE INC(I)
> I = I + 1
> END
>
> OUTPUT
> 2+2= 5
I had no idea, and I wro
Please do not try to spread medical advice on a mailing list.
FYI, what you're saying does *not* match proper advice from medical sources.
On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 at 07:58, Richard Pope via cctalk
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> Hello all,
> The Covid-19 threat is being over sold. Children don't seem to be
> at risk
On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 18:19, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
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> What matters to me is [b]documentation[/b], however it's preserved. I'm
> often faced with a bit of old data and I need to know the details upon
> which it was fabricated. That has value to me. Al K has been
> invaluable in this res
On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 09:55, emanuel stiebler via cctalk
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> On 2019-06-11 20:50, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote:
[..]
> > I'd like to compile a set of IEEE-754 tests on the 3B2. Unfortunately, the
> > only compiler I have ready access to on the 3B2 is AT&T's pre-ANSI C
> > compiler, so
On Wed, 22 May 2019 at 10:34, Stefan Skoglund via cctalk
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> Halon should be completely and fully illegal in civilian installations.
In 1990 or 1991 I was inside a computer room when somebody
accidentally pushed an elbow into the fire emergency button.. and the
halon went off. Big room, many
On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 10:29, Tor Arntsen wrote:
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> On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 01:41, Randy Dawson via cctalk
> wrote:
> >
> > The american radio history site has this byte issue intact, with your
> > missing pages:
> >
> > https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Byte/70s/Byte-1978-01.pdf
>
>
On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 01:41, Randy Dawson via cctalk
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> The american radio history site has this byte issue intact, with your missing
> pages:
>
> https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Byte/70s/Byte-1978-01.pdf
That copy has page 97/98 missing as well - it's the same scan as can
> On 12/12/18 6:58 AM, David Griffith via cctalk wrote:
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> > That's got me thinking... Suppose I redesign the P112 board to take a
> > Z280 CPU. Would you guys go for it? I'd like to come up with a way
> > to use a socketed CPU or put a surface-mounted chip on a carrier board
> > to allow greate
On 6 July 2018 at 09:48, Tor Arntsen wrote:
> On 6 July 2018 at 05:29, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 7/5/18 8:20 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote:
>>
>>> I don't see any chip info update at that #Technical_information page.
>>
>> The gunkies wiki is broken, none of his changes are gettin
On 6 July 2018 at 05:29, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
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>
> On 7/5/18 8:20 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote:
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>> I don't see any chip info update at that #Technical_information page.
>
> The gunkies wiki is broken, none of his changes are getting out to the world.
Yes, that's very strange.. if I'm
On 5 February 2018 at 20:06, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
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> I have a similar gripe with barrel connectors,
> which don't seem to enforce any standard at all regarding polarity or AC
> vs. DC.
.. which led me to accidentally power a USB hub with 12V instead of 5V
- the power supplies looked the s
On 6 February 2018 at 06:09, Zane Healy via cctalk
> And obviously I meant to ask, is anyone able to get email from this list via
> either gmail or an email account hosted by RackSpace?
I've always used gmail with the list. There used to be a problem with
automatic de-subscription due to 'excessiv
> C is like sports cars: A lot of people want them, some can afford them
> but very few can actually drive them.
I completely disagree. That is just a made-up comparision. E.g.: C
compilers are for the most part free (as in 'gratis') these days. And
there a probably more competent C programmers ar
On 24 March 2017 at 18:40, Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctech
wrote:
> Does anyone have schematics for an STC (StorageTek) 2920 reel-to-reel
> tapedrive?[..]
That drive was discussed on the list some time ago. All the docs
should be available on bitsavers by now, although I don't remember if
it's und
On 24 March 2017 at 22:13, jim stephens wrote:
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>
> On 3/24/2017 8:43 AM, Tor Arntsen via cctalk wrote:
No, I did not!
> It sure has the signature of spam. A link to some random place, without
> explanation of what it is, text in Portuguese when the list uses English...
Please
On 24 March 2017 at 16:34, Alexandre Souza via cctalk
wrote:
> Well...there is some description in english, google translate is a very
> useful tool and the post has a pertinent video. I cannot view it as spam.
> Anyway...sorry for bothering :)
>
> Enviado do meu Tele-Movel
>
> On Mar 24, 2017 12:
On 22 March 2017 at 02:02, Warren Toomey via cctalk
wrote:
> Which raises the question, are there any _good_ VT100 terminal
> emulators, especially for Linux? For any other platforms?
xterm never gives me any problems. But the default terminal emulators
of Gnome or KDE have some issues in my exp
On 17 March 2017 at 14:43, Philipp Hachtmann via cctalk
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>
> On 03/16/2017 10:07 PM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:
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>> I'm pretty confident that every member of the list appreciates the
>> time, effort and whatever else you and certain others have
>> contributed to keep this list humming
On 9 March 2017 at 10:50, Christian Corti via cctalk
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> On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Tor Arntsen wrote:
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>> I did an strace and I can confirm that the Linux 'whois' client that I
>> used from those various sites sends '-T dn' (or actually -T dn,ace)
>>
>> write(3, "-T dn,ace uni-stuttgart.de\r\n"
On 8 March 2017 at 19:46, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> Notice that - unlike normal whois servers - this one apparently requires
> some other stuff, possibly including the text "whois", as part of the query.
> That may explain why a normal whois client gets an error, because the
> standard way to make a
On 7 March 2017 at 15:57, Pete Turnbull via cctalk
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> On 07/03/2017 13:47, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Pete Turnbull wrote:
>>>
>>> No, Mouse is right, it's broken:
>>
>>
>> Works for me (also from different networks outside the university
>> network):
>
>
> I
On 7 March 2017 at 01:18, Adrian Graham via cctalk
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> Test again, None of my posts seem to be getting through...
Saw it. And also what you sent a day ago(?), about using the 79L05
On 4 March 2017 at 17:40, CuriousMarc via cctalk wrote:
> For what it's worth, I'm OK with it too. It correctly shows that this is a
> message relayed by a list sent from a person. I can easily choose whether I
> want to respond to the list or to the person or both, I had to make that
> choice
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