Re: An American perspective on the late great Sir Clive Sinclair, from Fast Company

On Mon, 27 Sept 2021 at 22:14, Yeechang Lee via cctech wrote: > > This was true in more wealthy countries outside the US, too. Sinclair never > got anywhere in Germany compared to Commodore, for example. This may be true; I work for a German company but I've never lived there. I know

Re: Linearizing PDF scans

On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 at 23:21, Wayne Sudol via cctech wrote: > > Out of curiosity, is there a reason you do not use Acrobat for creating > pdfs? I have been making PDFs for at least 20 years now, probably more. AFAIK I have _never_ used Acrobat to create them. I print from LibreOffice to its PDF

Re: Compaq Deskpro boards/hard drives from the late 1990s

On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 at 19:51, r.stricklin via cctech wrote: > > > Regarding your "IDE HDDs were extremely rare" comment, did *anyone* other > > than Quantum release an IDE drive in that 5.25" form factor? I can't think > > of any, everything else was 3.5", although some early vendor's drives

Re: VT340 Emulation

On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 at 19:15, Douglas Taylor via cctech wrote: > > Does anyone have experience with the Reflection software that will > emulate a DEC VT340 color graphics terminal? I did try Reflection waaa back in the day, possibly around 1990 or so. It worked, but I had no need of graphics

Re: Anyone know ancient versions of XLC?

On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 18:44, Kevin Bowling wrote: > > Linux tends to churn that amount of code in a release. I find it interesting > how large systemd has become as well: > https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/06/linux_2020_kernel_systemd_code/ I didn't know but I can well believe it.

Re: Anyone know ancient versions of XLC?

On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 15:10, David Schmidt via cctech wrote: > > On 4/12/21 1:00 PM, Liam Proven wrote: > >> AIX 3.2.5 was so much leaner and meaner than 4.x that came along next... > >> I never did warm up to it the same way. > > > > Twas ever thus, no? > > A universal truth. > > > I remember

Re: Anyone know ancient versions of XLC?

On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 at 19:46, David Schmidt via cctech wrote: > > AIX 3.2.5 was so much leaner and meaner than 4.x that came along next... > I never did warm up to it the same way. Twas ever thus, no? I remember an ad campaign for AIX when it was quite new... "We took UNIX and added millions of

Re: IDE-SD adapter question

On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 at 02:30, W2HX via cctech wrote: > > Could it be related to the fact that it is a 2GB SD card and I believe IDE > controllers of that day could only address something like 500MB? It could well be, yes. > Should I consider trying to partition the SD card into a 500MB

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 21:40, John Ames wrote: > Agreed. While I'm much more favorably disposed towards C than you are, > the increasing homogeneity of almost all modern languages is > discouraging and, I think, detrimental to the field as a whole. Forth > and Smalltalk alike were eye-openers

Re: HP 9000 Series 360 Thin LAN

On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 19:20, Roger Addy via cctech wrote: > > I'm > wondering if it's possible to connect it to a modern ethernet network? Run a single piece of thin Ethernet into the back of an old 10base-T hub. Cable the hub into a modern switch. Job done. -- Liam Proven - Profile:

Re: Wtd: advice upcoming visit to Bletchley Park / comp museum

On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 at 11:40, Bill Degnan via cctech wrote: > > Refined question - When would I have to depart the museum in order to > travel by rental car (driving legal speeds) from Bletchley to Gatwick > Airport in time for a 4PM flight on 7/11 (A Thursday)? To echo what others have said: *

Re: [rescue] Sun2/120 SunOS 3.2 suntools movie (was: advise on Sun2 disk install)

On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 15:13, allison via cctech wrote: > During my days at DEC in the later 80s the definition of workstation was > 1MIPS processing power, > 1M pixels, Desktop or desk side (fairly compact). Graphics and > processing power were high > and lots of ram and sufficient local disk

Re: Microsoft-Paul Allen

On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 20:09, John Ames wrote: > There's also the Afterstep/Window Maker crowd, open-source > reimplementations of the NEXTSTEP desktop environment, which predates > even Windows 3.x. That sort of echoes my point, really, I think. As I said, it's ludicrous to counter my claim

Re: I ran across this strange modernistic? Data General ...odd?

On Wed, 23 May 2018 at 17:47, Chuck Guzis via cctech wrote: > The same situation applied to the Fairchild 9440 MicroFlame, which was > essentially a clone of the MicroNova architecture. This led me to some fascinating stuff. Thanks! The CPU:

Re: Message Reply with quotation

On 21 March 2018 at 09:46, GerardCJAT via cctech wrote: > Hello Guys, > > It seems that YOU can reply to cctech message(s) with "quoting" the answered > message. > > How do you do that ??? > > Thanks for your help. Gerard Er, yes. Same as any other email. But how

Re: Canon BX-1 (1977) Manuals

On 22 February 2018 at 22:56, Thomas B via cctech wrote: > Recently, I’ve started working on a Canon BX-1 machine dated 1977. Some info in French: http://mo5.com/musee-machines-bx1.html Might be worth asking them...? -- Liam Proven • Profile:

Re: The origin of the phrases ATA and IDE [WAS:RE: formatting MFM drives on a IBM PC]

On 2 October 2017 at 14:22, Jules Richardson via cctech wrote: > > Does anyone know why IDE/ATA even came about? I mean, why SCSI wasn't used? Sure, yes. It was cheap. SCSI was expensive, and that was aside from any licensing issues. A working SCSI bus effectively means

Re: Free Acorn RISC OS kit offer (California, USA)

On 18 September 2017 at 16:51, Zane Healy wrote: > I can’t help but think that in the US, this belongs in a museum. I agree and that is Peter's thought as well. > > For those wanting to give RISC OS a try, it’s available for the Raspberry Pi > (and yes, that’s why I bought

Free Acorn RISC OS kit offer (California, USA)

Peter Naulls is the creator of the Unix Porting Project, which successfully created Acorn RISC OS versions of some FOSS Unix apps such as Firefox: http://www.riscos.info/index.php/Unix_Porting_Project Alas it never really caught on as Acorn users tend to be very insular and did not understand

Re: iMac ethernet connection quit - help?

On 29 June 2017 at 17:34, Tapley, Mark wrote: > > I think i virtually did that - I switched to using my 1st-gen iPod > (shuffle, no screen) as a USB transfer device. However I’m not certain, > because something else fixed the problem. Nah, the Shuffle isn't first gen.

Re: iMac ethernet connection quit - help?

On 28 June 2017 at 18:05, Tapley, Mark wrote: > I did spend some time running a USB stick upstairs and down. The > self-mounting image (.smi) firmware update I found (4.1.9) is 1.3 MB on my > MacBook Pro before it goes onto the stick, but only 1 MB on the G3 when it > comes

Re: iMac ethernet connection quit - help?

On 27 June 2017 at 16:56, Tapley, Mark wrote: > Next order of business for me is probably net-surfing for G3 firmware > upgrade info, then trying to build a USB boot disk and use it. As always > suggestions most welcome! G3s can't boot off USB. But if you have

Re: iMac ethernet connection quit - help?

On 26 June 2017 at 16:44, Tapley, Mark via cctech wrote: > All, > having problems with my iMac G3. Ethernet stopped working, but still > shows some signs of life. Any suggestions welcome! Some superficially odd questions... What OS is it running? Is the