--- "Daniel A. Seagraves" wrote:
[Can't blue box in the US anymore]
Ehehehe.... Do you know this from experience?
Has anyone here actually done this? I once tried recording the payhone
quarter tones, but it didn't work.
--- end of quote ---
Quarter tones -- that's red box territory, not blue box. Red boxing IS still possible today, though not with most COCOT's. Bell/Nynex (well, they're the same now, aren't they?) all happily respond to red box tones. But, operators sure don't!
(actual quote: "I can't accept that, I need REAL money.") Hee hee...
-- MB
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 22:00:59 -0600 (CST), Doug Yowza <yowza(a)yowza.com> wrote:
>>Oh boy. I've had a back-burner BYTE index project that I moved forward by
>>almost a millimeter last weekend. How far along are you on putting
>>together an index?
This is not a complete indexing project; I don't have the time to do
that.
I have about 75 or so issues from 1978 to 1987. I'm culling the index
for classic-related articles: reviews, home brewing projects, type-yourself
programs, and the like. I've left out all of the regular "departments" and
generally, the generic articles. As you may know, each Byte magazine had a
particular focus, such as the "Logo" issue, or the "Forth" issue. Some of
these articles made it; some didn't.
I'm in1982 now, and I have about 200 entries in an Excel spreadsheet.
When I'm done, I'll post my TofC. Eventually, I'd like to make it a DHTML
Web page.
[ Rich Cini/WUGNET
[ ClubWin!/CW7
[ MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
[ Collector of "classic" computers
[ http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
[ http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/pdp11/
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>[Can't blue box in the US anymore]
>
>Ehehehe.... Do you know this from experience?
>
I notice that no one has admitted to it. I also hope no one does - when I
was a teenager there was a federal grand jury that was just about blue
boxes - one city away from me. I would know nothing about 2600 or 700, 900,
1100, 1300, or 1500 Hz tones.:)
Dan
On Dec 8, 13:01, Hans Franke wrote:
> Yesterday I tried a similar way as described above. I took a sheet
> of Butterbrotpapier (sorry, I dont know any translation, its a kind
> of semitransparent paper used to cover sandwitches - Butterbrote :)
"greaseproof" paper. A treated but not waxed paper, rather like thin
tracing paper. In fact, kids here often use it as tracing paper.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998 roblwill(a)usaor.net wrote:
> -Networking software compatible with the internal networking card (there"s a
> plug next to the keyboard connector that looks like it wants to be connected
> to some sort of network hub).
As far as I am aware, that's a weirdo keyboard connector. There's a
matching one in the monitor and the keyboard.
> -An old Vectra keyboard? Can't get the numeric keypad to work on the
> keyboard I have.
> -Networking hardware (mainly a hub and network cards)
>
> I have a copy of DR-DOS 7.x with networking extensions. Will this work with
> the Vectra (haven"t installed it yet)? For one thing, I don"t even know if
> there"s something in setup that enables/disables the network card. I"d like
> to use the built-in card, since most of the networked computers will be
> 8086"s -286"s, and speed isn"t an issue.
>
> ThAnX,
> --
> -Jason Willgruber
> (roblwill(a)usaor.net)
> ICQ#: 1730318
> <http://members.tripod.com/general_1>
>
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Max Eskin | kurtkilgor(a)bigfoot.com | AOL: kurtkilgor
At 06:56 PM 12/8/98 +0000, you wrote:
>> I also have HP-IL here, but that's used to interface a gas chromatograph
>> /mass spectrometer to a HP 9000 series workstation. I know of others here
>> that have used HP-IL for other HP systems, but I've never seen it on HP
PC's.
>
>HP-IL is somewhat unconventional for that. HPIB (similar to GPIB or
>IEEE488) is much more common for linking up test gear, etc.
Many of HP's late 70's and 80's analytical instrumentation used HP-IL
extensively to control instruments and sampling accessories, such as
autosamplers. Indeed, the connection to the 9000 series for the GC part of
the system is to the system HP-IB bus via a 82169A HP-IL to HP-IB
interface. The mass spectrometer itself is directly connected to the HP-IB
bus. Newer HP analytical equipment generally uses only HP-IB .
>
>I don't know if an HP150 counts as an HP PC (HP seemed to think so in the
>manuals), but I have a card in mine with a parallel port and an HP-IL
>port on it. I also have software to make the HP-150 emulate an HP-IL disk
>drive so I can save files from my calculators.
>
>HP-IL is more common on HP calculators, like the HP75, HP71 and HP41 series.
>
>-tony
>
>
>
Kenneth L. Marshall
Research Engineer, Optical Materials
Laboratory for Laser Energetics
University of Rochester
250 East River Road
Rochester, NY 14623
Phone:(716)-275-8247
Fax: (716)-275-5960
Doug,
I might be able to save you some work. I have an original copy of Byte's
Keyterm index dated 1977. It has an index by subject to all the Byte
articles from Sept 75 through Dec 1976, Interface Age articles from Dec 75
through Dec 76 and HamRadio Magazine from March 69 through Dec 76. It's 78
long.
Joe
At 10:00 PM 12/7/98 -0600, Doug wrote:
>
>If you, or anybody else, wants to collaborate on a project like this,
>there's already several thousand BYTE's that have been indexed in BibTex
>format. I plan (OK, hope) to automate entry and searching of this and
>similar indices. Currently the coverage of material of interest to this
>group (like early BYTEs) is pretty thin.
>
>Check out Nelson H. F. Beebe's web site for a sense of what's been done
He's also tried to sing in Triumph of the Nerds I _think_ and I know he
tried to sing the Beverly Hillbillies song in Plane Crazy. Have you checked
his faq on pbs.org?
> What's up with THAT!?
>
>Sellam Alternate e-mail:
dastar(a)siconic.com
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>Always being hassled by the man.
>
> Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0
> See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details!
> [Last web site update: 12/07/98]
>
At 02:43 PM 12/8/98 -0600, Doug Yowza wrote:
>I read an interview of Richard
>Stallman in which he whined a bit about how the collection of GNU stuff
>combined with a Linux kernel is called "Linux." There's probably more GNU
>code than Linus code in any given Linux distribution.
RMS whining? Almost as bad as his singing voice. He was only
whining because he wants a share of the Linux spotlight. Hmm,
the MacArthur grant money must've run out by now.
- John
