test-drb June 1998

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Big Iron Was:RE: Backwater areas Was: Re: Cross listing Ebay items

by higginbo＠netpath.net

Burlington, North Carolina Research Triangle Park about 45 minutes to the east of me, Charlotte 150 miles southwest. I know you can get arcade machines on the west coast pretty cheap, but that really doesn't help me. All the big manufacturers are out west. :( At 10:43 AM 6/17/98 -0400, you wrote: >> Speaking of big iron, if anyone runs across any arcade machines in my >> general area, like within 300-400 miles, I WILL pickup. Looking for mostly >> 80's era games, like the old Atari vectors (Tempest, Asteroids, Battlezone, >> etc.) but will take just about anything. > >Well, this leads to the obvious question... > >WHERE ARE YOU? ________________________________________ john higginbotham limbo.netpath.net - webmaster, http://www.pntprinting.com - "Teamwork is essential; it gives the - enemy other people to shoot at." -

26 years, 6 months

Cross listing Ebay items

by peacock＠simconv.com

>During my hiatus, I was spending alot of time on usenet, >a place where this is done all the time. Well no, it isn't done all the time. At least on the comp.sys, comp.os, and alt.comp newsgroups I follow. It's considered spam and those who do it are invited to go elsewhere. Besides, no point in listing that stuff here if you are also going to ebay, the people here know the relative scarcity/worth of the items. On ebay you can take advantage of ignorance and buying frenzy. Jack Peacock

26 years, 6 months

Old Microsoft stuff...

by H.Davies＠latrobe.edu.au

At 04:41 PM 16-06-98 -0500, Doug Yowza wrote: >Don't forget Eunice! OK, maybe it's better that you forget. Sounds of VMS administrator running screaming around the office. I thought I'd got over that "interesting" piece of software, but clearly not :-) Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 1999 La Trobe University | "If God had wanted soccer played in the Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green"

26 years, 6 months

CP/M

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

OK, I know what a track and a sector is, but what is the difference between hardsector and softsector? >Allison J Parent wrote: > >> <one micro w/5.25" disks be compatible with another with 5.25" disks, >> <i.e. my apple with a C-128? Also, if a computer can run CP/M 3+ can it >> >> Apple is weird with their formats, nearly hardsector. C-128 has a few >> compatable and incompatable formats. The rest were all over the map. > >Actually, Apple was the _ultimate_ soft-sector, as it didn't pay any >attention to sector detect at all -- it had to read the whole track >then figure out where it started. It's a major reason why database >applications were never a big thing on Apples until hard disks showed >up -- updating things by record was only possible by writing whole >tracks. >-- >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_ > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

26 years, 6 months

Old Alpha's (OT)

by franke＠sbs.de

>>> Which "Alpha"? Alpha Micro? > Hmm, is that "Alpha micro" as in "Alphatronic PC"? I have a few of those > things lying around someplace in various states - my old university > wrote their own terminal software for them, burned it out to eeprom, and > we used to use them as terminals to access the Unix systems. > IIRC I did see reference to an expansion box that allowed the use of > hard drives with CP/M on - I did a lot of digging at the time and never > turned up anything for them - I just had the custom Uni terminal ROMs > and a set of BASIC ROMs that originally came with the machines. There have been several extension to the Alphatronic PC. floppy boxes and even a HD box. THe base for CP/M was the dual floppy box. > They were made by Triumph-Adler, from what I remember. Any information > on these boxes would be most helpful!! (I have the original manuals, but > they don't exactly go into a lot of detail) Just Tell me whats missing - I think I maybe have some of the stuff. Including Flopyy and Hard Disk drives. Servus Hans Owning a Alphatronic PC and 2 Alphatronics -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

26 years, 6 months

Baby's birthday... Web Page on BBC

by gim＠hitec-uk.com

Some cool pics on this page. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_114000/114493.stm

26 years, 6 months

Windows CE: Future classic (OT, in a way...)

by franke＠sbs.de

>> OK. I just purchased a Windows CE handheld. I realized that: >> 1) It represents MS's rebirth. That, along with cross-platform apps, means >> that MS isn't going to be doing to much with Windows 9x/NT after a couple >> years... > Thanks for the tip, Tim. I'll dump all of my intel stock now. :-) But buy what ? DEC ? >> 2) It's lighting fast, and covers all kinds of processors. > The H/PC was a bit of a flop. For some reason, not many people wanted to > buy a machine that looked like Windows95, but ran on slower hardware with > no application compatibility. > However, I like the new Pilot rip-off, the Palm-sized PC, better. And if > you've never seen their Auto PC for cars, brace yourself for some drooling > (guaranteed to flop at the current $2K price though). They're also making > inroads into embedded systems with CE. Here you have only one solution: Buy a Newton - the MP2x00 is _WAY_ cool, neat and just great AND best of all thanks to Apple it's a brand new out of production classic. >> 2) With a MIPS-based handheld, could I get stuff moving between this and my >> N64? > Sure, just as easily as you can move stuff between the 6502 based Nintendo > and an AIM-65 (i.e., no way dOOd -- even if the CPU is the same, nothing > else is). However, I seem to recall that Microsoft recently signed-up a > game machine manufacturer for CE, and it was either Nintendo or Sega. Sega - and I bet they anounce 'General Failure' as the commander of the first shut-em-up game :) Gruss H. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

26 years, 6 months

FS: IBM PC Jr Tech. Refefence

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

I found this while cleaning up. Anyone need it? For sale for best offer. Joe

26 years, 6 months

CP/M

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<OK, I know what a track and a sector is, but what is the difference <between hardsector and softsector Hardsectored uses physical landmarks like index and sector holes on the media to locate sectors. Softsector uses various data marks on the media to locate the data. It's possible to do a hard sector scheme that looks like softsector but, the difference between them in older machines is the basic format is such that most controller chips like the 372, 1771, 1791, 8271 and 765 cannot read them. Apple combined and simplified the disk controller to software and some trivial logic. Allison

26 years, 6 months

What is the first computer?

by PB14＠leicester.ac.uk

On 17 Jun 98 at 9:17, Jeff Kaneko wrote: > <SNIP> > > > I think there was an automated loom that was invented in the 17th century > > that wove a pattern based on a template, but I don't recall if this was a > > hole punch reader, a specially shaped gear, or other apparatus. It did > > exist though. Although most definitely not a computer as we see them today, > > it did take a program for input, process it, and output it in the form of > > fabric. (I think this was right before CGA was made a standard...) > > I remember seeing a picture of this machine-- it was a link-belt of > cards in a loop, with holes punched through them. They would pass by > this 'reader' thingie which would 'read' the card with a matrix of > metal rods poking through the holes. According to the dictionary I just scrounged: Jacquard (noun) Apparatus with perforated cards to facilitate weaving of figured fabrics.

26 years, 6 months

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