Re: Want/Available list

2019-01-09 Thread Eric Christopherson via cctalk
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 11:40 AM Liam Proven via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 02:59, Zane Healy via cctalk > wrote: > > > > Websites are a huge inconvenience or imposition, email lists are not. > > Agreed. > > However, for a lot of younger people and those to who

Re: Want/Available list

2019-01-07 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 04:51, Eric Christopherson via cctalk wrote: > > OK, so it's down *to* the bunker or down *in* the bunker. I'm just asking > because of my language geekery. I still don't know, though, whether "down > the bunker" without a preposition is idiomatic in some dialect of English

Re: Want/Available list

2019-01-07 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 02:59, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: > > Websites are a huge inconvenience or imposition, email lists are not. Agreed. However, for a lot of younger people and those to whom "email" just means "MS Outlook", it's hard work. They do not understand complexities such as filteri

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-21 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Dec 20, 2018, at 6:27 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk > wrote: > > On 12/20/18 6:59 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: >> Websites are a huge inconvenience or imposition, email lists are not. > > I like Usenet too. > > I really like all three to be the same content. That way people can > pa

Re: Want/Available list (was Re: Old HP stuff)

2018-12-21 Thread Carlo Pisani via cctalk
; To: 'Al Kossow'; 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' > Subject: RE: Want/Available list (was Re: Old HP stuff) > > Done! > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Gqr3JHyV1bJGFZE7oaFkEVqRnl79ZvE54NVIy3YdikA/edit?usp=sharing > Fill it o

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-21 Thread Peter Coghlan via cctalk
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 Eric Christopherson via cctalk wrote: > > OK, so it's down *to* the bunker or down *in* the bunker. I'm just asking > because of my language geekery. I still don't know, though, whether "down > the bunker" without a preposition is idiomatic in some dialect of English I > don't

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Michael Mulhern via cctalk
Ok, I’m jealous. 10m down. Looks like I’ll have excavate a sub-bunker beneath the 8BitBunker. I’ll check out your site later. //m On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 9:23 am, Carlo Pisani via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > I guess I might as well ask, since I've been wondering: What does the > n

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Michael Mulhern via cctalk
Aren’t bunkers under, beneath, below? For me I go DOWN to the 8BitBunker, as it downstairs, carved back into the sandstone under the house, and capped with a concrete slab. Can’t get too much more down and/or bunkerish than that ;) //m On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 8:55 am, Eric Christopherson via ccta

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Sean Conner via cctalk
It was thus said that the Great Chris Hanson via cctalk once stated: > On Dec 20, 2018, at 12:03 PM, Carlo Pisani via cctalk > wrote: > > > > a forum with a bazaar should be more appropriate > > frankly this mail list looks like spam, and it's going irritating > > since it's difficult to follow

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 12/20/18 7:05 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: Hey, that's how I read CCTalk: That's your choice. And you should have that choice available. I don't want all this cruft clogging up my inbox. Who does want it to land in the Inbox? I have all of my mailing lists land in folders specifi

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 12/20/18 6:59 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: Websites are a huge inconvenience or imposition, email lists are not. I like Usenet too. I really like all three to be the same content. That way people can participate what ever way they like best. Sadly we live in an age where email is u

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chris Hanson > Do you mean you would prefer to visit a web page to read the latest > posts on cctalk rather than have them delivered to you via email? Hey, that's how I read CCTalk: http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/ I don't want all this cruft clogging up my inbo

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Dec 20, 2018, at 5:07 PM, Chris Hanson via cctalk > wrote: > > I often find it fascinating that people talk about email lists as if they’re > some huge inconvenience or imposition. Just set up rules to file them to > their own mailboxes, read them when you feel like it, they work great.

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Chris Hanson via cctalk
On Dec 20, 2018, at 12:03 PM, Carlo Pisani via cctalk wrote: > > a forum with a bazaar should be more appropriate > frankly this mail list looks like spam, and it's going irritating > since it's difficult to follow and to handle What do you mean by this? Do you mean you would prefer to visit a

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Eric Christopherson via cctalk
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 4:23 PM Carlo Pisani wrote: > > I guess I might as well ask, since I've been wondering: What does the > name > > "downthebunker" mean? > > Is it a reference to something? I'm not even sure how a bunker could be > gone "down" > > the computer room is located 10 meters under

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 10:50 PM 20/12/2018 +0100, you wrote: >> How about you not join a nearly 20 year old mailing list and start >> insulting people, most of which have probably been in the computer >> industry longer than you've been alive? > >insulting? I posted a link to a project just to share the fun and I >got

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 12/20/2018 03:46 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: I too want a web forum venue for hunting, acquiring and dispersing vintage computing gear, with a restoration/collector slant, ie not about the money, ie I'm poor, ha ha. A mailing list is NOT an appropriate context. It has no categories, is

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/20/18 2:46 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > I too want a web forum venue for hunting, acquiring and dispersing vintage > computing gear, with > a restoration/collector slant, ie not about the money, ie I'm poor, ha ha. http://www.vcfed.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?28-Vintage-Computer-It

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
willing to try and hunt. >> I belong to 2 subscription broadcast services for dealers, and I regularly >> email almost 500 recyclers for stuff. >> Just let me know. >> >> Cindy >> >> -Original Message- >> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org]

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Carlo Pisani via cctalk
> I guess I might as well ask, since I've been wondering: What does the name > "downthebunker" mean? > Is it a reference to something? I'm not even sure how a bunker could be gone > "down" the computer room is located 10 meters underground in a room which looks like a mini bunker. But it's not re

RE: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Jay West via cctalk
This is not a peeing contest. Not concerned about who started it nor who said something last. Everyone drop the angst, keep it amicable. J

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Eric Christopherson via cctalk
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 2:03 PM Carlo Pisani via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > ok, I give up. > a forum with a bazaar should be more appropriate > frankly this mail list looks like spam, and it's going irritating > since it's difficult to follow and to handle > > but I am really tired t

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Carlo Pisani via cctalk
> How about you not join a nearly 20 year old mailing list and start > insulting people, most of which have probably been in the computer > industry longer than you've been alive? insulting? I posted a link to a project just to share the fun and I got suggested to drop it, which is extremely rude

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Thu, 20 Dec 2018, Carlo Pisani via cctalk wrote: ok, I give up. \o/ a forum with a bazaar should be more appropriate frankly this mail list looks like spam, and it's going irritating since it's difficult to follow and to handle How about you not join a nearly 20 year old mailing list and

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Carlo Pisani via cctalk
ription broadcast services for dealers, and I regularly > email almost 500 recyclers for stuff. > Just let me know. > > Cindy > > -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Grant Taylor > via cctalk > Sent: Thursday, Decemb

RE: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Grant Taylor via cctalk Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2018 12:48 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Want/Available list (was Re: Old HP stuff) On 12/20/2018 10:25 AM, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote: > Fill it out as you think of stuff, and I will share it

RE: Want/Available list (was Re: Old HP stuff)

2018-12-20 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
: 'Al Kossow'; 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: RE: Want/Available list (was Re: Old HP stuff) Done! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Gqr3JHyV1bJGFZE7oaFkEVqRnl79ZvE54NVIy3YdikA/edit?usp=sharing Fill it out as you think of stuff, and I wi

RE: Want/Available list (was Re: Old HP stuff)

2018-12-20 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
AM To: 'Al Kossow'; 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: RE: Want/Available list (was Re: Old HP stuff) Done! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Gqr3JHyV1bJGFZE7oaFkEVqRnl79ZvE54NVIy3YdikA/edit?usp=sharing Fill it out as you think of stuff, and I wi

Re: Want/Available list (was Re: Old HP stuff)

2018-12-20 Thread Carlo Pisani via cctalk
> Isn't there some place this could go on a web page? there is DTB! http://www.downthebunker.xyz/ user subscriptions are now manually (due too trolls and a lot of spammers), thus if someone needs/wants an account, he/she can email me directly and I will add it properly

Re: Want/Available list (was Re: Old HP stuff)

2018-12-20 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 12/20/2018 10:25 AM, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote: Fill it out as you think of stuff, and I will share it with the dealers. I may be odd, but I'd be interested in Cindy / Electronics Plus leveraging their existing mailing list. Assuming that it's Mailman (I don't remember) I'd be cur

RE: Want/Available list (was Re: Old HP stuff)

2018-12-20 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
cctalk Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2018 11:03 AM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Want/Available list (was Re: Old HP stuff) Isn't there some place this could go on a web page? there isn't much chance of someone trolling a mailing list after the first day or two of the post appeari

Want/Available list (was Re: Old HP stuff)

2018-12-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
Isn't there some place this could go on a web page? there isn't much chance of someone trolling a mailing list after the first day or two of the post appearing Sellam seems to have come up with something with his Google spreadsheet. I don't know if something like that would be practical if a la