At 09:02 PM 6/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
>The annoying pop-ups come from a little JavaScript. In netscape, you can
>disable JavaScript and the pop-ups go away. I generally find that Java
>and JavaScript (which, of course, are two completely unrelated languages)
>are used to either annoy me or to crash my browser, so I disable them
>both.
Heck, I generally use Netscape 2.02, so it can't even *handle* Java. And
yes, turning off JS does get rid of lots of annoying things. (And turning
off autoload images not only speeds things up, but also avoids the constant
disk abuse caused by continually reloading GIF animations -- which are much
like hitting the gas and the brakes at the same time... gives your tires a
good workout but doesn't really get you anywhere.)
(As for home pages... I have my "home" page set to
<http://www.sinasohn.com/>, but have it set not to autoload it at start-up
-- I know what it says, and I already think I'm great, so I don't need
constant reminders. But it is available one click away for them what needs
convincing of my amazingness.)
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Hello I was wondering if you could tell me the jumper settings for the
mother board.
I am having trouble with the ps2 mouse port causing the system to lock up.
Thanks Jim Windle
A Nicolet computer (maybe the same model) was one of the first computers I
ever used, and most certainly the smallest up until then. It was attached to
a Bruker NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) instrument at the University of
Sydney when I used it as a research student from about 1975 or 76. It did
real time fast fourier transforms and interfaced directly to the Bruker
instrument. I think I remember people using it for other computing (maybe
with BASIC loaded) when they could get some time on it.
For a while, all it had was a teletype and paper tape punch/reader and that
was my first experience in the use of front panel switches to load a
bootstrap paper tape loader and then through the sequence of punched tapes
until the final program was loaded. Of course you never turned it off if you
could help it. Later it acquired a twin magnetic tape unit but I had
finished my graduate research then and never experienced that luxury.
Phil Guerney
Brisbane Australia
guerney(a)uq.net.au
-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)wco.com>
Date: Saturday, June 06, 1998 4:43 AM
Subject: Nicolet 1080 rescued
>Since I'm sure not many of you have ever heard of Nicolet Instrument
>Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin), I'll tell you what I know so far.
Well, if you want a job in computers, then you'll have to get used to it....
;-)
Think LCD dipslays. Big, numeric ones. Kinda like trying to add
999999999+1 on a 8-digit calculator.
Ciao,
Tim "NASDAQ Lover" Hotze
-----Original Message-----
From: Max Eskin <maxeskin(a)hotmail.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Sunday, June 07, 1998 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: Uncle Sam wants...
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>What do you mean? I'm not too familiar with stocks, so I don't have
>any idea what Dow Jones IS, never mind where and how it's displayed.
>>Max Eskin wrote:
>>>
>>> Better yet, tell them you were born in 2000! They'll never be able
>>> to draft you then!
>>> By the way, I heard that there was also a computer issue with
>>> Dow Jones hitting 10K. Are there any more similar limitations that
>>> will soon be reached?
>>
>>The Dow Jones hitting five digits is a problem in the display
>>department, not the calculation department.
>>--
>>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_
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What do you mean? I'm not too familiar with stocks, so I don't have
any idea what Dow Jones IS, never mind where and how it's displayed.
>Max Eskin wrote:
>>
>> Better yet, tell them you were born in 2000! They'll never be able
>> to draft you then!
>> By the way, I heard that there was also a computer issue with
>> Dow Jones hitting 10K. Are there any more similar limitations that
>> will soon be reached?
>
>The Dow Jones hitting five digits is a problem in the display
>department, not the calculation department.
>--
>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_
>
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Yes I have one too and from the last listing on them they were early
prototypes used to test market the gs board inside them.
At 12:27 PM 5/26/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I just acquired an Apple IIgs that is in an Apple IIe style case!
>
>It's not a conversion or anything, it's original from Apple. It looks
>exactly like a IIe except for the model emblem and the back panel.
>
>Perhaps it's something Apple did for the educational market, to make it look
>like the other machines they were used to, and incorporating a built-in
>keyboard which would be less fragile than the multi-piece regular IIgs
>series.
>
>Anybody ever heard of these?
>
>Kai
>
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email: desieh(a)southcom.com.au
desieh(a)bigfoot.com
museum_curator(a)hotmail.com
Apple Lisa Web Page:
http://www.southcom.com.au/~desieh/index.htm
anyone on this list in OZ have a original Compaq Portable they want to
sell/trade or give away??
Hello I was wondering if you could tell me the jumper settings for the mother board.
I am having trouble with the ps2 mouse port causing the system to lock up.
Thanks Jim Windle
Better yet, tell them you were born in 2000! They'll never be able
to draft you then!
By the way, I heard that there was also a computer issue with
Dow Jones hitting 10K. Are there any more similar limitations that
will soon be reached?
>>
>>draft agency would have to be Y2K compliant so they can track down and
>>punish draft dodgers...
>
>No need to skip the country... Just tell 'em you were born in *18xx*,
not
>19xx, so you're too old. "Wish I could help ya with these new fangled
>computerthings, young feller, but if you ever need a good musket
loader,
>you give me a call, y'hear?"
>
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>Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad
>roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen
know."
>Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
>San Francisco, California
http://www.sinasohn.com/
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