<>If you want a description, it's fairly small (in terms of total info),
<>with a 2-story walk-through PC (when will they get that not every
<>computer in the world uses intel processors?),
<
<To make room for the two-story walk-through PC, they had to get rid of th
<neato walk-through SAGE exhibit, among others. Basically, they went from
<a museum a techno-geek could enjoy to something which appeals to the publ
<at large.
I got to see the computer museum when it was at MRO (DEC Iron way
marlboro) where the TX2 and some of the MIT hardware is still (as of
late 93). Before the BCM was opened on the wharf all those systems were
in MRO and I did get to see that many times as my business inside DEC
would often have me over at one of the several buildings there. Some of
the display also spilled over to the ajoining building where the cafeteria
was (worst food in DEC, the mill was better).
The BCM hsed to (pre PC) have a Honeywell, SAGE, PDP-1 and numerous
machines of former glory on display. Now they are somewhere parts
unknown or the back room. Next time I'm in town I should stop in and ask
if I can see the real machines.
Allison
I have wanted to ask this for a while. What is the actual risk of me
blowing myself up if I service a machine with a built-in monitor?
An example is the Mac SE. Is there any risk involved (as long as I
don't short capacitors with my fingers) in taking it apart? What are
the parts I should watch out for? How long do they hold a charge?
Could I discharge them?
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<<< Thanks for the warning, I'll add Tripod to the list of servers I'm
< boycotting. I will not knowingly access any site that pops up windows w
< advertisments on my screen. I don't mind it when they've got them inlin
< with the page itself, I can put up with a couple of banners on the page
< but I will not put up with these (*%&^%(* popup windows!
I'm so fed up with spam that I'm setting up a killfile, I've resisted that
for a while. FIRST on the list is earthlink.net!
Allison
At 06:44 PM 6/2/98 +0100, you wrote:
>> It was just two precision resistor networks connected through
>> CMOS drivers to the address lines of the C64. One network for
>> the lower 8 address lines and one for the upper 8. When the two
>> networks were connected to the XY inputs of a oscilloscope, you
>> had a 256 by 256 pixel display of where in memory the 6510
>> was executing.
>
>That wasn't the first time that trick had been published in Byte. Steve
>Ciarcia used it in one of his earlier Circuit Cellar articles. But it's a
>very useful trick, and deserves to be shown again.
There was a guy who was selling videos of (I guess) the same sort of thing
for the Mac at the first VCF. Sam can probably get you info. I thought it
was neat, but being perpetually broke, didn't go for it.
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well,be sure to add geocities to that list! unless there is something i really
want to look at there, i will not goto those places anymore.
In a message dated 98-06-04 10:47:18 EDT, you write:
<< Thanks for the warning, I'll add Tripod to the list of servers I'm
boycotting. I will not knowingly access any site that pops up windows with
advertisments on my screen. I don't mind it when they've got them inline
with the page itself, I can put up with a couple of banners on the page,
but I will not put up with these (*%&^%(* popup windows!
I really need to take the time to do up a boycott web page!
Zane >>
At 08:16 PM 6/3/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>possible draft of Cobol programmers."
>especially since I couldn't program my way out of a wet paper bag with
>COBOL :^)
A friend of mine is taking some classes at the local community college
(Where I went, lo those many years ago) and has a perfesser who says that
COBOL is dead.
Which makes me wonder how I manage to earn 6 figures doing new COBOL
development... 8^)
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roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know."
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>> If we have to be subjected to ads, I actually prefer them to pop up so I
>> can hit the X and make them go away while reading the non-advertising
>> content of a page. A page with ads integrated is more annoying to me.
Better still were the 'early' days when all the advertising came from
'known' advert sites - that way you could just put an entry in your
hosts file (be it Unix, NT, Win95 or whatever) to redirect the 'known'
sitename to your local machine. A 'broken link' image is far more
pleasing than an advert IMHO :)
(actually Altavista still lets you do this - most sites seem to store
the adverts locally these days though and access them via CGI)
anyway, enough of this off-topic stuff!!
Jules
>
I'm new to the list and wondered if anyone might have a line on a computer
I'm looking for. I'd like to acquire a Netronics ELF II in workable
condition, preferably with Tiny BASIC though I could live without that. Any
leads or info most appreciated. Thanks!
Dave Goodwin "In only two days,
Systems & Networking Manager tomorrow will be yesterday..."
Saint Michael's College
Colchester, VT 05439
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