test-drb December 1999

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by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

> I just had a kind of odd request. > > This one's for the Apple gurus on the list: Is it at all possible, through >hardware, software, or 'other,' to read 5.25" floppies written on an Apple >IIe on a PC? Yes. Two ways: 1. Use a specialized "free-format" floppy disk controller in a PC-clone. Typically requires a non-negligible $ and time investment. 2. Hook an Apple ][ with disk drive to the "output target" system via a serial cable. Really, the best way to do this (and I've been doing this for a few decades now!) is #2 - the best Apple ][ floppy disk controller for a PC *is* an Apple ][! > Taking that one step further: Has anyone heard of the word processing >program 'Zardax,' and if so, do you know if it's possible to convert its >files to a more common format? Sure, it's largely flat ASCII with some escape codes thrown in (and, IIRC, it has the high bit set through most of the text, very reminiscent of Pr1me text files.) Image the floppy, dump the files, no big deal. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927

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uVAX serial "dongle"

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

--- Dann Lunsford <dann(a)greycat.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 07:26:29PM -0500, Allison J Parent wrote: > > <You did, but you also spoke up first (at least as far as I can tell). If > > <it's not a problem, I do want it. > > < > > <-ethan > > > > I repeat, _IF_ someone else didn't want it. There is no, I'm first in > > that. ;) > > > > By all means claim it. I just didn't want a useful item like that to go > > to waste. Thank you, Allison. > Heh. Didn't mean to start a food fight :-). Ethan, send me your shipping > addy... I'll send it under a private cover. Thanks. -ethan ===== Infinet has been sold. The domain is going away in February. Please send all replies to erd(a)iname.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com

25 years

Very Wierd someone is masquarading as the mail list?

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

Has anyone gotten a eMail message that appears to have come from the mailing list with the header "Re: Help identify a Control Data piece", when in reality it looks to have come from "helpdesk-pc.pittstate.edu [198.248.209.153]" if I'm reading the headers right. Included in the message was a Windows executable that is supposedly a recent animation from the site their advertising. Somehow I suspect a Trojan Horse, but doens't really matter I'm using Eudora on a Mac. Zane | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

25 years

PDP-11/84s available in San Diego

by mrbill＠mrbill.net

I'm not in San Diego, but I got Andy's permission to forward this to the list in case anybody IS there (or willing to go there) and rescue these machines... Bill ----- Forwarded message from Andy Bustamante <ACBustamante(a)earthlink.net> ----- Reply-To: <ACBustamante(a)earthlink.net> From: "Andy Bustamante" <ACBustamante(a)earthlink.net> To: <mrbill(a)mrbill.net> Subject: Re: announcing pdp11.org Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 00:28:05 -0800 Where are you? I have PDP 11/84's in San Diego waiting to be either scrapped or sold for parts. You'll have to come get them. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- +-----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ |Bill Bradford | mrbill(a)pdp11.org | mrbill(a)mrbill.net | |http://www.sunhelp.org | http://www.pdp11.org | http://www.mrbill.net| +-----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

25 years

uVAX serial "dongle"

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<You did, but you also spoke up first (at least as far as I can tell). If <it's not a problem, I do want it. < <-ethan I repeat, _IF_ someone else didn't want it. There is no, I'm first in that. ;) By all means claim it. I just didn't want a useful item like that to go to waste. Allison

25 years

Who invented the first "clamshell" laptop?

by ndiablo＠diablonet.net

Hmm.. I agree with you, either Zenith or Grid, but I think it might have actually been Zenith... or so I think i remember seeing once :) -Sean Caron (root(a)diablonet.net)

25 years

PDT-11?

by allisonp＠world.std.com

I have one and a complete board set for another. The PDT11/150 is the RX01 disk based version using the same board set, different roms and a RX01 compatable disk system. Both are kinda cute if only they were PDP11 in a tiny space back when useful systems were not small. (1980ish) Allison

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Watch out! was: Re: Very Wierd someone is masquarading as the

by allisonp＠world.std.com

My mailer is only slightly dumber than Pine so that attachment was curious but otherwise meaningless to my Win3.1 system. Security by obscurity and narrow functionality. Allison

25 years

Need information.

by netsurfer_x1＠hotmail.com

I need info. on an unusual item I found at my High School: It apparently appears to be a dedicated word processing computer, what I have below is all I know about it (& it's not much either!). Manufacturer: Computype, Inc. Model: Compuedit Year: 1981 (?) If anybody can tell me anything about it, please reply on this board. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

25 years

PDT-11?

by mbg＠world.std.com

>> the stuff ourselves(last 2 days)... I am not able to list contents yet >> but .. "TU-56 units a-plenty". I will post pictures soon. I guess I >> don't have to say a Christmas tree this year is simply out of the >> question now..... > >Much interest in getting one here. TU56's? Same here! Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry!zk3.dec.com | | Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg!world.std.com | | Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of '!' | | 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 | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

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test-drb December 1999