yes! i need one! glad to pay shipping to nc. is it available?
david
In a message dated 98-02-10 15:25:34 EST, you write:
<< Does anyone need a Mac mono monitor? Model number MO400, circa 1987. Best
offer takes it, no matter how pathetic. Recipient either pays shipping or
picks it up in the LA area (it's not heavy at all, I can't imagine that ups
ground would be more than a few bucks on this thing). >>
Or maybe a moth.
One of my favourite pictures - but is this a myth as WELL as a moth?
http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~csclub/museum/items/first_bug.html
Can anyone confirm this is the origin of the term "bug"?
Its a nice site for Classic computer collectors, anyway.
Cheers
Andrew
At 09:35 AM 2/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Yes, indeed the term "bug" is older than th earliest electrical computer.
>As eveidence, one could check out some of the 1930s issues of QST (a
>hamradio magazine), and the term shows up. If I could dig them out, I
>could give you exact dates.
I seem to remember a certain species of cockroach that was quite fond of
wire insulation...
- John Higginbotham
- limbo.netpath.net
Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> wrote:
>If you have the original disk then that is normally considered proof
>that you have a legal copy of the software.
...
> You're trying to read too much into this. I never said the having one
>copy of disks allowed you to have all the upgrades or newer versions. If
>you have a set of original disks for XYZ v 1.0, then that is generally
>considered proof of ownership of XYZ v 1.0 PERIOD.
OK, let's say I pull an old PC and some boxes out of a dumpster, and
there's a set of original AutoCAD Release 9 disks. By your rule, how
can I tell if I own a legit copy or not?
- John
Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>
Is there a command to make TOPS-20 kill something from the mail queue BEFORE
it gets sent? That's really aggrivating(sp?) when you see so(a)and.so#Internet -- Queued and you realize that's NOT the intended reciever, and it sits in the
queue for awhile before getting sent, and theoretically you COULD stop it but
I can't figure out how...
Go ahead and (all but Sam) disregard that!
-------
>
>That depends on the terms of the license. A few years ago when I took
>up an offer from Borland to upgrade Turbo C from version 1.5 to 2.0 I
>asked them if I could sell on the old disks and manuals legally and they
>said that they fully supported that course of action because it
>increased their user base.
>
Now that would be just too logical, cut out this heresy. Next thing you know
MS and Netscape will get along and PC's and Mac's will be compatible.
-- Kirk
<I saw what was supposed to be the first Bug at the Smithsonian last week
<It was indeed a Moth and it was taped to a computer log sheet.
<
<George
The machine was one of the early relay based machines where a "bug" in the
contacts would indeed mess up execution.
The programmer was Grace Hopper (later to become Admiral).
Allison
Personal point of view:
<I always thought it was a desire and knowledge (and making use of same)
I always thought it was a desire to _attain_ knowledge and apply it.
^^^^^^
Allison
I picked up a nice example of an old GRiD Compass 1100, the first, most
rugged, and most beautifully rendered clamshell design laptop (1982). For
the most part, it works great. But it won't boot. It wants to boot from
it's internal bubble memory, a set of three Intel Magnetics 7110s. I
queried MemTech, the company that acquired Intel Magnetics, and they'd
like $400 a bubble to replace them, or, for $150, they'll try to "reseed"
mine and fix the "bootloop".
I'm not bubble savvy, and I would like to see this Compass live again.
Any suggestions on how I can boot my bubbles? Are there any other 1100
owners out there that have a spare boot bubble bobbing about (sorry, it's
late).
Thanks,
Doug
Sam Ismail <dastar(a)wco.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Lawrence Walker wrote:
> > Grapple+ Printer Interface......... Serial, Parallel ??
>
> A very nice parallel printer interface with a 64K buffer.
Um, maybe. I'm pretty sure I remember the Grappler+ printer
interfaces (like the ones I have) being parallel printer interfaces
with no RAM buffer.
> > CableTV kludge to a "SUP 'R' MOD CH.33 TV Interface Unit ??
>
> This enabled Apple to comply the FCC requirements for a Class ? computing
> device. This means you did in fact get an Apple ][ and not a ][+. Very
> nice find, especially for a thrift store.
No, it doesn't mean that. The Sup'R'Mod was sold separately, there
was nothing to stop you putting one in a ][+, and there was no less
reason to do so because the ][+ didn't have any more of an RF
modulator in it than the ][.
-Frank McConnell
