Picked up a cartridge for the Coco t'other day, and I'm not sure what it
is. It says "Cat. No. 26-3129" and "Color Computer Controller" on it. Has
the card-edge connector where it plugs in, then another, smaller one on the
back end. My guess is it's a floppy controller?
Also, does anyone know what happened to Roger Merchberger? Seems to have
disappeared.
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>Care to name some cool
>technology that wasn't driven by capitalism?
OK! the usage of fire, the processing of most materials (iron, copper,
wood, stone, etc.). In fact, if you say that capitalism is only present
when it's called capitalism, then most technologies. All simple
machines. The scale. The boat. Most things achieved by the military such
as the computer (yes, they were partly bombing Japan for economic
reasons, but that's a little farfetched). All nuclear equipment was
engineered separately in the USSR. Had enough yet? The printing press.
The castle. The book. Writing.
At any rate, I'm not saying Capitalism is BAD, I'm just saying it
doesn't promote ingenuity, which is true for many other governments.
>- John
>
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To the person looking for a Mac keyboard and mouse...
Before you start getting that 'ol 512 ready to rumble most of the internet
software you want to learn about will NOT work on it (save for an older
(really older) mac terminal like Red Ryder via a provider's UNIX shell
account). Best to go with the SE and the ADB route and get an appropriate
mouse and keyboard to get on the net. (though you can get up to web browsing
with an SE but without such niceities as pictures and such.) Then such things
as PPP, TCP/IP, etc apply. Though You should ask for something like a color
LC, Performa, or centris class as they would also let you work with Open
Transport file system along with the old system under 7+. :)
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To the person regarding IDE drives on a Mac 636...
At 12:53 PM 6/25/98 PDT, Max Eskin wrote:
>
>Here's one: Capitalism, the abode of stupidity, is the crematorium of
>ingenuity and creativity. Just off the top of my head.
Yuck. You don't know me very well, do you? :-) I'm going to
send out the classiccmp libertarian goon squad, who will persuade
you to think otherwise. (Non-violently, of course.)
It's capitalism and lust for money, power, and members of an
attractive gender orientation that drives any sort of start-up,
including Commodore and Amiga Corp. Care to name some cool
technology that wasn't driven by capitalism?
- John
On 25 Jun 98 at 5:43, John Higginbotham wrote:
> >Mac IIx - 68030?
> >Mac IIfx
> >Mac IIvx (iirc)
You've missed out the IIvi as well. For information about Mac specs,
there's a great free utility called GURU from Newer Technology at
http://www.newertech.com
> I'm not sure about the IIvx either, but I do have a Mac IIx sitting here.
> Main difference was just a little boost on the proc speed over the Mac II.
The Mac II is a fairly lame 68020 system (no fpu, no pmmu) while the
IIX (same as IIcx but different form) is a very usable 68030.
> Question: Will any nubus card work in any mac with a nubus slot? (I'm
> talking standard form, one piece card, not the little two piece connected
> jobbies found on the SI/LC etc.)
Yes/No. Size can be a problem. Older cards were often full size and
won't fit in a IIsi or later system.
Hi res graphics cards from people like SuperMac, Radius,
RasterOps etc were always temperamental and are often reliant on OS
versions and card ROMs. It is unlikely for example that a graphics
card from a 68030 would work in a NuBus equipped PowerMac. Lots of
people ditched quite expensive graphics cards because the
manufacturers demand(ed) so much for ROM upgrades.
Accelerator cards, which tend to be full size, can cause timing
problems (eg Radius Rocket which is incompatible with AROSE, the
system software that arbitrates between NuBus slots!).
Ethernet cards would be a safe bet but the rarer stuff (GPIB, video
image grabbers etc) would guarantee interesting times...
Phil
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> R. Stricklin (kjaeros) wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Jeff Kaneko wrote:
> >
> > > OKay, so what happened to the source for CTIX? Did it vanish? Who
> > > does it belong to? WHo do you think I belongs to?
> >
> > I think it belongs to Unisys. They own the trademark, anyway (through
> > their acquisition of Convergent).
>
> That is the legal situation. I know where I last _saw_ a copy of the
> source for version 3.51 for the Unix PC (and a copy of the source for
> what would have been next, equivalent to SysVR3) , never made it to
> SQA), but I haven't been able to contact him in a couple of years of
^^^
What's his name? Where does he live? We can try 4-11.
> trying. (CTIX for the regular machines _did_ reach SysVR3 in
> production, but that was after the Unix PC was history).
> --
> Ward Griffiths
> They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
> Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
> Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Jeff
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Ive got a IIcx that ive tricked out with 5meg, mono display, two external
drives, syquest 44 meg drive and the apple cd300 drive and a radius rocket
accelerator with 8 meg. unfortunately, the rocket accelerator locks up the
machine on the second reboot. disabling it lets the mac work at original
speed. can anyone provide suggestions? the rocket seems to be temperamental,
>from what i can see.
david
Off to Montreal for a week.. Figured I'd temporarily un-subscribe for
that period, so SPRYNET doesn't get uptight about the size of my
mailbox.... I should be back around 4 July.....
Will
At 11:11 AM 6/22/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>Robotron is also a video game ca. 1981-2 (Williams, iirc) that was
[...]
>>each other. Other, similar games included Sinistar (no relation, and don't
>>even go there) and one whose name I forgot that had to do with spiders and
>What do you mean, there's no relation? They are both William's titles...and
Whups... Sorry. I occassionally get sensitive about my last name, and
when I was younger, I was the butt of a lot of jokes centered around my
name and that game. (Sinasohn, Sinistar.)
>Sinistar is the addition of 2 SRAMs, a different interface board (for dual
>joysticks), blitter clipper circuit and an additional sound board for
Robotron also had dual joysticks, so perhaps that was the same on both games?
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>Also, does anyone know what happened to Roger Merchberger? Seems to have
>disappeared.
You can find him on the M100 mailing list.
Francois
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