Dear All,
At 16:05 1/04/98 -0800, Sam Ismail (dastar(a)wco.com) wrote:
>Just to clarify...
>
>> Send a message to listproc(a)u.washington.edu with no subject and a
>> message with only the line:
>>
>> subscribe classiccmp Your Name
> ^^^^^^^^^ should be yourlogin(a)yourdomain.com
No it shouldn't. Listproc pulls the e-mail address from the header of the
subscription request, but it gets the subscribers name from the body.
"Your Name" should be your *real* name (eg. "Sam Ismail", "Scott
McLauchlan", "Bill Gates"). (Oh, and leave out the double quotes.)
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On 1998-04-01 classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu said to lisard(a)zetnet.co.uk
:Have you actually checked this? GIF's do compress well, and you are
:correct on loseless... but if you are just GIFfing the scans, they
:do *not* compress well. GIFs are just RLE compressed (That's Run
:Length Encoding for all you non-gfx types out there) and if you
no they aren't - they use a form of lempel-ziv compression, which is why
they tend to compress anything pretty well. they aren't much good on
photos, but anything with a small range of colours is meat to the grist.
--
Communa (together) we remember... we'll see you falling
you know soft spoken changes nothing to sing within her...
At 00:56 01/04/98 -0800, you wrote:
> I have had an instance of this recently. At work a tape drive attached to a
> PC and which takes the same size casettes as my Sun386i is about to become
> redundant. The an accounts clerk in the department concerned has said that
> I will not be able to have the _drive_ because it has been used for
> confidential data. The fact that the data is on the _tapes_ seems to
> reflect on the availability of the drive!
He, he,...so they would do the same also with keyboards: They have been used
for confidential data, no?
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Same here. I'd be interested if any of those 102's become available.
-Matt Pritchard
Graphics Engine and Optimization Specialist
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip.Belben(a)powertech.co.uk
> [SMTP:Philip.Belben@powertech.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 1998 11:15 AM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Re[2]: RS 102
>
> David wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 4/1/98 9:57:30 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> > rigdonj(a)intellistar.net writes:
> >
> > << I have a chance to buy a box full of Radio Shack model 102
> portable
> > computers. None have been tested and there are no power supplies
> with them.
> > Does anyone know what voltage and polarity the external power
> connector
> > uses? And if there is any kind of self-test built-in? Can anyone
> give me an
> > idea of what these are worth? >>
> >
> > shoot, i'd love to have another tandy 102! my ac adaptor for my 102
> says 6v dc
> > at 400 ma
>
> I'd love to have one at all!
>
> Seriously, Joe, if you get a box full, will you be putting some up for
>
> sale?
>
> > according to the little drawing on the adaptor, the inner part of
> the plug is
> > negative. outer part is positive. not sure what they're worth, but i
> bought
>
> That's all I'd need to know. I am quite used to building PSUs on such
> a
> spec. Or less. (Actually I'd look inside to see whether it needs to
> be
> regulated, but 6V seldom does).
>
> > mine with the accompanying battery operated cassette recorder and
> owner's
> > manual for $25. would love to find the external floppy for it.
>
> The model 100 I've seen for 100 or more UK pounds over here. I don't
> know what additional features were in the 102; I also don't think I
> could afford L100. But I'd probably pay $50 US including shipping for
> a
> model 102 without power supply.
>
> Philip.
>
> PS I'm back from Taiwan at last. Taiwan really is the most unhackish
>
> place I've been on my travels... But more to the point, I've missed
> most of the last 3 weeks on Classiccmp, so I may be ignorant of the
> context on some longer-running threads. Please forgive any silly
> questions that may arise...
I have a chance to buy a box full of Radio Shack model 102 portable
computers. None have been tested and there are no power supplies with
them. Does anyone know what voltage and polarity the external power
connector uses? And if there is any kind of self-test built-in? Can anyone
give me an idea of what these are worth?
Joe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel A. Seagraves [mailto:DSEAGRAV@toad.xkl.com]
>
> [Tell us what's IN stabackit.com!]
Stabackit will build a bootable version of standalone backup on the
target device. You can boot from the device and then restore backup
tapes to new disks.
Jack Peacock
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel A. Seagraves [mailto:DSEAGRAV@toad.xkl.com]
> [VMS standalone backup]
> How do you MAKE one of those? I have an RZ23 making increase
> amounts of noise,
> and I'd like to back it up.
Log in as SYSTEM, then....
$ SET DEF SYS$UPDATE
$ @STABACKIT
follow the prompts, give it the name of the disk or tape device where
you want the standalone built. BTW this only works for VAXes, not
Alphas.
Jack Peacock
My (just on topic) Sun 386i seems to have died. I could hear the hard
drive seeking continuously so I tried to login as root to shut it down and
it hung. I stopped it with L1 + A and then rebooted. part way through the
boot process it simply scrolled the following error message:
sd2a: read retry blk 6728 (abs blk 6728)
sense key (0x04): hardware error error code (0x09): servo error
[repeated 3 times]
sd2: rezero failed
Does this mean that the hard drive ( the standard CDC Wren IV 340Mb ) has
finally turned up its toes?
TIA
Pete
In my library of recent finds, along the same lines...
Apple Interfacing
Microcomputer - Alalog COnverter Software & Hardware Interfacing
Interfacing & scientific data communications experiments
Microcomputer interfacing with the 8255 PPI chip
Interfacing to S-100 / IEEE 696 microcommputers
They're all quite fascinating.
Cheers
A
-----Original Message-----
From: The Adept <adept(a)mcs.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, April 01, 1998 10:27 AM
Subject: Special book find today
>A friend I work with donated the following book to my collection today:
> VIC-20 Interfacing Blue Book, by V.J. Georgiou
>
Here's a possibly stupid question...
I may have mentioned it earlier, but I got a copy of PDPXASM and I'm playing
with it. Just pitching code at the 11/83 to see what I can make it do...
Anyway, I'm playing with telling the RL02 what to do.
Push the head around, write things, etc...
Anyway, Is there a way to, given the the sector number, figure the head/cylinder/sector? Also, is there some mechanism to keep me from screwing up and sending
the heads below track 0 or past 512?
By the figuring CHS question, I mean this: I want to make a single routine
I can call to position the head whereever and dump a sector to disk, but I
don't want to have to know the disk geometry to do it. I pass to it
a unit number, RAM start address, and a sector number. Now how do I divide
the sector number to get the C/H/S? And I don't want to have to use
floating-point to do it...
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