test-drb July 1998

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Off-topic informational anti-spam anecdotal

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

A short refresher on human psychology. Most of the time, a clearly thinking person does not do anything they consider wrong. Your spammer thinks he is doing someone a favor, and your songs are disrespectful teasing of his honest attempt to make money. Lawsuits are more effective because if he continues to do it, he'll lose all the money he made, maybe even go to jail. That said, keep up the good work :) >> Lawsuits appear to be the only effective weapon so far. > >I hope that 937 spam songs (at last count this morning) will bring some >manner of cheap and effective restitution. > > >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: 07/05/98] > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

26 years, 5 months

Off-topic informational anti-spam anecdotal

by franke＠sbs.de

> I've been hit many times by the same bozos. They almost always use > unsuspecting sites as spam relays, so I've been notifying these sites and > trying to shutdown the relays. > I love the spaminator idea, but isn't your phone bill going to be pretty > high this month? Also, the way spammers retaliate against retaliators is > to include your email address as the return address in their forged > headers, so you get mail-bombed by naive spam haters. > Lawsuits appear to be the only effective weapon so far. Thats one thing I realy like about the German laws - spamming via any kind of personal device is forbidden - no fax-spam, no telex spam and no e-mail spam. Spaming is considered stealing your property, since the spammer uses your fax paper and your power line to print his message, and/or your time to check and delete spam. And theft is just unlawful :) After just 4 or 5 court ruleings spamming _IN_ Germany is almost zero - we just have SPAM from outside the country like senseless US-Spamm :) Gruss H. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

26 years, 5 months

Off-topic informational anti-spam anecdotal

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

Here in the US, we're spammed by the government, too. Though I'm under 18 and not a US citizen besides, I've gotten at least 30 requests for jury duty. BTW, what is the earliest incidence of e-mail spam? >After just 4 or 5 court ruleings spamming _IN_ Germany is >almost zero - we just have SPAM from outside the country >like senseless US-Spamm :) > >Gruss >H. > >-- >Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut >HRK > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

26 years, 5 months

IBM 3380 HDA

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 98-07-15 10:58:12 EDT, you write: << I just acquired an IBM 3380 HDA which weighs 70 lbs, and is in a clear plastic case. Does anybody know the lineage of this? The HDA has IBM 390X-001 as well as 13-E8719-CJ printed on a label. >> hmmm, i remember seeing 3380/3880 dasd units back in 1992 when i was a computer operator running an IBM 4381 and later an ES9000. kinda useless for a pc although fascinating to look at. belt drive and everything! david

26 years, 5 months

MAD Computer

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

Speaking of TELEX, they once had the tan-colored 286 boxes, pretty small, with only a 3.5" fdd and a hardcard. They had a BNC connector emanating from the motherboard. Does anyone know what that was for? If it's a network card, does anyone know about drivers? >I once had one of these nasty little beasties. In fact, it was >a rare version that was badged for TELEX/Memorex. It used an >80186 CPU-- It was fast, at least to me, anyway (although >I don't recall the clock speed). ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

26 years, 5 months

MAD Computer

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

Clearly a very innovative company. It would be nice if all PC clone manufacturers added a little of their own abilities (well, perhaps not :) to their computers. > http://www.yowza.com/classiccmp/mad/ > >-- Doug > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

26 years, 5 months

taking care of bad sectors... easy stuff. Was: Re: hard drive data recovery

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

OK, easy on that anti-MS stuff. Kai might be reading :) Anyway, Scandisk is useful for erasing lost files which is all I use it for. Does anyone have an old copy of Spinrite or know of a place where I could get it? How much does the latest one go for? >I truely hate the brain-damaged program >ScanDisk as nothing more than a Trojan Horse! Microsoft should have >known better than to put out something like that. I have *never* had a >problem with Spinrite although that probably includes only a few hundred >drives I have worked on. > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

26 years, 5 months

RP06 alignment

by mbg＠world.std.com

>A friend has an RP06, an alignment pack, and the alignment tool, but >lacks the instructions to do the deed. >Anyone got the manual that describes the procedure, or know how? Have your friend contact me off-line at work... I may have some RP06 manuals in my collection. Maybe one of them is a maintenance guide which explains it... Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | 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 | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

26 years, 5 months

taking care of bad sectors... easy stuff. Was: Re: hard drive data recovery

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

Spinrite is most famous for low-level formatting, which is only allowed on old MFM drives, most IDE drives have a sticker that says "Do not low-level format this drive". When I used a Model D with a hardcard, I loved this program. I ran it twice a day because I had nothing else to do :) As for bad sectors, what's up with that? Why is it that sometimes a bad sector will be marked bad, then I can format a drive and have it use those 'bad sectors' just fine? > > well, I personally have never opened up a hard drive, if nothing else >because I've never had an extra to pop open (i'm too frugal. hehe.) > > Regardless, I have found the program "Spinrite" to work great on IDE >drives; it goes through and can fix bad sectors, or mark them totally >unusable. this really differs from standard formats/etc, because I've been >able to take drives w/ 30mb of bad sectors and get it to 0 bad sectors, and >still running fine w/ no problems after a year. i believe they are on >version 5, i got version 4 for about 20 bucks. This is kind of off-topic and >doesn't cover a whole lot of you out there, but when you buy a box of 100 >drives that are all "bad", you can sometimes salvage quite a few of them. > > >-Eric > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

26 years, 5 months

MAD Computer

by jeff.kaneko＠ifrsys.com

I once had one of these nasty little beasties. In fact, it was a rare version that was badged for TELEX/Memorex. It used an 80186 CPU-- It was fast, at least to me, anyway (although I don't recall the clock speed). The Powersupply and floppy drives were in one unit, and the CPU was in another. It had a CGA compatible display adaptor. It also had what appeared to be an ISA bus, but most stock PeeCee cards would cause problems. I hacked this one by adding an 8-bit Hard disk controller, and disabling the HDC bios ROM. There was support for the HDC in the MAD-186 ROM, but the harddisk was not a standard option (AFAIK). I think this is the only computer I ever destroyed on purpose, and out of spite, no less. When we bought our 1st '286, my wife urged me to give the MAD to her brother. I really should have resisted, because the thing became a support nightmare. "Can I put a joystick on this?" "Uhh, whats an 'ERROR TRAP'?" "Uhh, RatRacer keeps locking up, can you fix this?" The computer got passed around the family, and I finally ended up with it about three years ago, when it was summarily smashed into little pieces-- retribution for countless sleepless nights when I had to play 'Tech Support'. I had been driven to the edge of MADness. Needless to say I wasn't into CLASSICS yet. I DID save the part with the PS and flopy disk drives, though . . . Jeff At 11:29 PM 7/14/98 -0500, you wrote: >Does anyone have a MAD Computer? It was just another boring peecee >but I liked the name of the computer. I believe it was the fastest >computer you could buy for some small amount of time- an early 80386 >PC running at a whopping 16 mhz. > >Just curious... I just like the concept... >Perhaps they should have used the slogan... > >"Everyone should have a MAD computer in their home!" > >Or perhaps not... > >Thomas >

26 years, 5 months

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test-drb July 1998