Here in Nevada a new anti-spam law just went into efect on July 1.
Unsolicited commercial email, if sent after you request it to stop, is
now a $5 (five dollars, that was not a typo) fine. I'm sure that will
keep those spammers out of my mailbox.
Jack Peacock
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From: Max Eskin [mailto:maxeskin@hotmail.com]
Lawsuits are more effective because if he continues to do it, he'll lose
all the money he made, maybe even go to jail.
Okay, I'm gonna come right out and ask it...
Anyone know a good source of C64/C128 parts in the US (the chips
mostly). I have a C128 and two C64s that are going to require
replacement chips and I have no idea where to get them.
Thanks
Tony
>Speaking of books,
>has anyone seen the book "We Built our own Computers" by A.B. Holt,
>Cambridge Univ. Press, published about 1966.
I remember one from years ago which was how to build (and program)
a simple computer using paperclips and lights... (and a program
'drum' made out of a coffee can). I think I still have it... is this
what you're thinking of?
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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I'm not sure what that means, but I assume that the servo surface
contains a sort of coordinate system that the servo head reads and thus
guides the other heads. If that assumption is correct, why isn't it
possible to realign the thing with another servo platter?
>Of course if it's a drive with a separate servo surface and the servo
>head is the one that's crashed then you lose everything.
>
>-tony
>
>
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Well, I have DOS 1.1 (May, 1982) and Windows 1.03. In fact, I'm in the
process of de-compiling DOS 1.1, now. BootSector: done. IBMBIO: 75% done.
IBMDOS: not started yet.
I'm still looking for DOS 1.0. In fact, I have copies of many true-IBM
dos-es (not OEM versions).
Rich Cini/WUGNET <nospam_rcini(a)msn.com>
- ClubWin! Charter Member
- MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
- Preserver of "classic" computers
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< A more "classic"-related question related to some faded brain
< cell connections in my head: Wasn't there once a CP/M version of
< the Norton utilities, long before the IBM PC was even a glimmer
< in its parent's eyes?
There were several for CP/M, apple][ and trs80. Most were bad sector
scanners and disk editors. Very useful though as TRS80 and most cp/m
crates with external drive would write garbage to any externally powered
disks if the system was powered off with media in the drive.
Alison
Let me tell you why one of my keyboards now has an 'enter' key with the
corner smashed off by a hammer: the damn Packard Bell with all
integrated serial ports, hard disk controller, etc. wouldn't let me set
my modem up on COM2 or COM4. Plus, this took very long to verify because
the hard disk controller makes the IDE act like a C= 1541.
>> I will say this, though: At this point in the evolution of computers,
if
>> you find users of your systems are wanting regularly to add on more
than
>> three (or so) cards or sidecar modules, you have drastically
misevaluated
>> your target market and deserve to start haemorrhaging market share.
IMO.
>
>No way!. Maybe for the average consumer PC (build the disk controllers,
>serial/parallel ports, etc into the motherboard), but in my case I'll
>want all sorts of strange special-purpose cards (user I/O, ADC, I2C,
>special disk controllers, etc, etc, etc).
>
>I've managed to fill the 14 slots in a PC/XT+expansion chassis and
still
>wanted more!.
BTW, is it possible to build one of those? How does it work?
>> Those don't count. (: Even the monitor and power supply hookups are
BERG
>> strips. Sick.
What is a BERG strip?
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> Here in Nevada a new anti-spam law just went into efect on July 1.
> Unsolicited commercial email, if sent after you request it to stop, is
> now a $5 (five dollars, that was not a typo) fine. I'm sure that will
> keep those spammers out of my mailbox.
USD five ?
HoHoHo. Stoping after request isnt exactly whats needed - The SPAM
is already done. And getting a replay will make the address more
valuable: now it is validates - the spammer now could sell the
address to s.o. else for a single usage without any fear of beeing
prosecuted.
And you could still spamm the other people.
And even if - Send out 5000 SPAMs and get 10 complains and pay
USD 50 - thats USD 0.01 per 'customer contact' still _very_
cheap. I don't know if you ever looked into marketing, but
companies are paying up to USD 20.00 for a singe use of ONE
address.
I don't think ths law will have any impact - very spaming friendly.
Just done to get votes but avoide any change.
Gruss
H.
--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
>Thus sprang forth the Spaminator! The Spaminator is something I threw
>together in about 10 minutes. What the Spaminator does is call the
>offendor's number, wait for the voicemail to answer, dial a digit to cut
>thru the outgoing message, then it starts singing simple tunes by playing
>"spam" in different notes. I recorded a "spam" scale with my own voice.
>Basically I sang "spam" starting from A and going to G.
Don't forget to dial *67 or whatever the sequence is in your area to
disable the caller ID from being passed on to the recipient. If not,
they may have proof of your harrassing phone calls (and I'm sure such
slime would resort to it...)
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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| Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry(a)zk3.dec.com |
| Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg(a)world.std.com |
| Digital Equipment Corporation | |
| 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ |
| Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler |
| (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg |
+--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
If they still have it, the is an old PDP in the Utrecht office
of Digital. As far as I can remember (have seen it at least 10 years
ago) it's blue, has 3 panels and the centerpanel has a round tube
(a scope tube?). There were also a lot of switches on the panels.
I believe that the University in Utrecht has a museum of some sort
with various computers which they used over the years.
You might like to go to the Waterloo square in Amsterdam, every
Monday till Friday there is a flea market, and certainly there will
be some vintage stuff for sale.
Ed
