test-drb June 1998

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by peacock＠simconv.com

No, they don't. The Nagant (7.62x 64) has a groove diameter of .310" and uses a .311"-.312" size bullet. whoa, didn't know about the Nagant, better check the book next time. Friend has an old WW I surplus one, I think he's reloading the wrong size. It uses the .303 Brit instead?

26 years, 1 month

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

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

Sunburnt yellow plastic! > >John Higginbotham wrote: >> >> Even better: The Naughty Noughties ;) >> >> At 06:10 PM 6/15/98 -0700, Roger Ivie wrote: >> >> Speaking of decades, after the year 2000 bug totally obliterates all known >> >> forms of biological life on the planet, What will we call the first decade? >> >> I know I can type it as: "You know, the 00's really suck!" But how the heck >> >> are we supposed to pronounce it? >> > >> >The noughties, obviously. > >Well, the 1900-1909 period is called "the Mauve Decade" in literature. >Let's pick a new color. >-- >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, 1 month

PDP-8 available in NJ

by peacock＠simconv.com

> What's with all this rhetorical nonsense about going on long treks to acquire PDP-8s? Here's a real -8 for some lucky resident of New Jersey. Long treks? I thought it was only a few hundred miles. Around here (Mojave desert) that won't even get you to the next town. Heck, in the right direction that won't even get you out of the county. There are plenty of surplus PDP-8s and PDP-11's only a hundred miles >from here. Practically new, but one catch: Slightly used....only nuked once. As a bit of trivia, PDPs (8s/10s/11s) were the preferred machine at the nuclear test site in Nevada. They were used for (expendable) instrumentation very close to ground zero. Quite a few were converted into plasma. Jack Peacock

26 years, 1 month

Old Microsoft stuff...

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<Is there anyone who DIDN'T make a UNIX port? <Apple - A/UX <IBM - AIX <MS - Xenix <AT&T - UNIX <DEC? <DR? DEC ported ULTRIX which is close to BSD unix to both PDP11 and VAX. DR? I don't think so. which is which?: Venix Zenix Xenix What and who for those. Allison

26 years, 1 month

Couldn't be more OT if it tried! Re: (OT, in a way...)

by peacock＠simconv.com

-----Original Message----- > Well if you want to be exact, the .308 and 7.62mm rounds are two >different things! .308 is the commercial designation and 7.62mm is the >military designation and the two rounds are slightly different. Many There are numerous .30 caliber rifles and pistols. I was referring to the diameter. There is the .30-06 (WW I/II vintage), the .308 (late 50's, early Vietnam vintage, NATO), the 7.62x39 (Russian, Korea to present), the .30-30 (the famous lever action Winchester of the late 1800s), the .300 Savage (first rifle to exceed 2000 fps, also late 1800s), the .30 M1 carbine (WW II vintage), the .300 Winchester Magnum, the 7.62 Nagant, etc. All use the same basic diameter .308 bullet.

26 years, 1 month

Zenith All-In-One ?

by cgregory＠lrbcg.com

Anyone ever hear of a Zenith All-in-One ? I can probably get one (damaged) for shipping costs, but I am wondering if it would be even worth that (a couple thousand miles). Thanks, Cliff Gregory cgregory(a)lrbcg.com

26 years, 1 month

Collectable Old Microsoft Stuff

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

I have what looks like the first MS version, since it has no version number. Won't run on anything, I think the disk is bad. >> - Flight Simulator v1.0 > >Wasn't that a SubLogic product? > >> - Windows 1.03 > >What about version 1.0? > > >Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Ever onward. > > September 26 & 27...Vintage Computer Festival 2 > See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details! > [Last web page update: 06/11/98] > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

26 years, 1 month

Oops.. I parsed RA82 as RA81. Ignore that.

by DSEAGRAV＠toad.xkl.com

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26 years, 1 month

RA82: Does it need...?

by kyrrin＠jps.net

Does the DEC RA82 drive need to see an active SDI controller in order to spin up without a FAULT light? I know that RL02's needed power on the controller before their FAULT indicators would clear. I ask because I've spun up my RA81. It sounds OK -- positions the heads, etc. -- but it displays FAULT and diagnostic LEDs 3 & 4 (I think -- it might be 2 & 3) once it reaches operating speed. That, of course, is with the I/O cables flying in the breeze. Inquiring minds, especially those who are going to make a MicroVAXen available in the near future, wish to know! ;-) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Sysop, The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fidonet 1:343/272) (Hamateur: WD6EOS) (E-mail: kyrrin(a)jps.net) "Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."

26 years, 1 month

Couldn't be more OT if it tried! Re: (OT, in a way...)

by allisonp＠world.std.com

For the VMS hacks out there... $Set mode/farce=comdey <Note to self: Do not, I repeat DO NOT disgruntle members of the classiccm <mailing list! They are dangerous gun toting mercenaries! :) Mercenaries, never...unless your going to scrap that machine! Where I lived in PA the, "2 double aught, 6" would have the 2 dropped as in the then present reference to 1998 would be back "in nineteen and ninty eight". Allison, Who totes a 12ga to avoid ambiguity! ;) $Set mode/farce=inactive

26 years, 1 month

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test-drb June 1998