Has anyone else noticed that last night Ebay changed the way they display
bids to include _all_ bids, even repeats by the same person. Interesting
bit of information that is. And to bring it on topic, there is a VAX
4000/VLC* (nothing special) that is up to $170! That's pretty amazing, and
to think I sold one at the VCF for $40 :-)
--Chuck
* Ebay item #461408005
From: Neil Cherry <ncherry(a)home.net>
>I blame Microsoft. :-)
Only partly. the public that buys this as the "best" is part fo the
problem.
For example, I do run a P166 w/64mb and NT4workstation and love it
but the only MS apps are IE4.01/sp2 and outlook express. Everything else
is NON MS, makes the system fast and solid. When I find a good
replacement for OutlookExpress that will with IE go to the trashbin.
In the end I had to do a very careful install to leave out junk. I'm
finding
Linux is going that way to. Why?? People want it!
>mail program part of the Browser? The recent Mozilla release (18) looks
>wonderful but cause Linux to swap like mad on a 64M box. I like Linux
That is disgusting.
>would not believe how idle a 386SX/16MHz is running all my HA software
>and a few other things).
I have two 286 boxen at work controlling ovens and testing parts.
My 386/16s I use one is a digital logic analyser (has a board in it)
and te other is a GP use box that is about the size of a small brick
with VGA or MDA(RS170 output). The latter runs fairly nice off the
kluge LVSMPS I created so it can use a 12V battery.
Try NewDeal Software on DOS with a 386/16, windows GUI and
all plus fast to boot and fits in some 10mb. They even have a
decent browser and email.
>We've thrown away being efficient for time to market and now we're
starting
Yep, it's the visual++ languages and all. I ran into someone that wanted
Visual C++ for 8051... get real!
>to see the environmental effect. Can anyone really see the need for a
233MHz
>sprinkler controller?
Also The PC based controls market still sells 486 based PC104, it's
plenty
enough.
Allison
This one is truly in the "For what it's worth" department.
Following the recent flamewar between Mr. Ismail and R.D. Davis, I
forwarded a (supposedly private) note with my concerns about it to the DNS
provider for the domain siconic.com (psyber.com). I did this because many
ISP's have explicit prohibitions in their terms of service against exactly
the kind of crap that was going down.
Apparently, the tech person for psyber and Mr. Ismail are on pretty good
terms. I got the attached blurb this evening.
If anyone on the list had any doubts as to what appears to be Mr. Ismail's
true nature, I suspect they will now be removed.
Yes, I've filter-filed the entire 'siconic.com' domain out of my system.
I'm completely fed up with the temper tantrums of its owner.
Attachment follows. In the interests of keeping the list on-topic, there
will be no further posts from me on this subject.
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>Delivered-To: kyrrin(a)mail-sttl.uswest.net
>Delivered-To: alias-bluefeathertech.com-kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
>Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 22:49:04 -0700
>From: "Sellam Ismail" <dastar(a)siconic.com>
>To: "Bruce Lane" <kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com>
>Subject: Re: Terms of Service query
>Reply-to: dastar(a)siconic.com
>Priority: normal
>X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c)
>
>Bruce,
>
>You, too, are an ass.
>
>Mind your own business and leave my ex-ISP folks alone. They have
>better things to worry about other than your inane and childish whining.
>
>On 11 Oct 2000, at 22:53, Bruce Lane wrote:
>
>> Hi, Ted,
>>
>> The owner of a domain you host (siconic.com/Sellam Ismail) has, in the
>> past 24 or so hours, been getting very abusive in both language and tone to
>> one of the users of a mailing list I'm a member of. The only thing the
>> other user did was to venture an opinion which Mr. Ismail apparently (and
>> violently) disagreed with.
>>
>> The other listmember, one R.D. Davis, has been utterly polite, and calm of
>> tone, despite suggestions by Mr. Ismail to, among other things "shut the
>> fuck up." I saw absolutely no reason why Mr. Davis's opinion should warrant
>> such a violent temper tantrum on Mr. Ismail's part.
>>
>> Now, being an experienced SysAdmin and domain owner myself, I would
>> ordninarily ignore this little bit of childish ranting and move on.
>> However, Mr. Ismail has not been particularly polite to me on other
>> occasions, so I'm beginning to wonder if this is a pattern with him:
>> Specifically, insulting the crap out of anyone that disagrees with him.
>>
>> My question: Many ISPs have, in their Terms of Service, prohibitions
>> against violent flaming. Is psyber.com one of them? If so, would you like
>> me to send you copies of the mailing list postings in question? Perhaps so
>> you can have some basis to remind Mr. Ismail that he's not the only one on
>> the Internet? ;-)
>>
>> If not, just say so and I'll let it go. Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>> Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
>> http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
>> Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 (Extra class as of June-2K)
>> "I'll get a life when someone demonstrates to me that it would be
>> superior to what I have now..." (Gym Z. Quirk, aka Taki Kogoma).
>
>
>
>Sellam International Man of Intrigue and
Danger
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
>Looking for a six in a pile of nines...
>
> Coming soon: VCF 4.0!
> VCF East: Planning in Progress
> See http://www.vintage.org for details!
>
>
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Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 (Extra class as of June-2K)
"I'll get a life when someone demonstrates to me that it would be
superior to what I have now..." (Gym Z. Quirk, aka Taki Kogoma).
Someone is offering me an IBM Series/1 minicomputer with all manuals, an
8" diskette drive, and a CDC Hard disk, for $100 plus shipping. Shipping
for the processor will be about $25, and between $50 and $75 for the
diskette drive. Shipping for the hard disk will be hundreds, so I won't
be getting it. I have three questions:
1. What can y'all tell me about everything? I know almost nothing about
it.
2. Is it worth getting the processor, manuals, and diskette drive,? It
comes with some disks, but I don't know what's on them.
3. Does anyone have an operating system for it?
Thanks,
Owen
From: Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net>
> That should be EASY to do by using the ROM monitor. You shouldn't
even
>need OS software to do it. The monitor command R0 reads from the paper
tape
>port. I imagine that you could use another device to input data there
>instead of the PT reader. You could then use the monitor commands to
write
I did it that way for my first V2.2 port, used punch out to push it into
my box.
The "catch" code was 30 or so bytes. The source system was MDS-230.
The box I'd used for target was a Multibus design using a set of cards
I still have and a BLC80/10 with the memory map modded.
Allison
>One of the more interesting aspects of this bus is that every "target"
is
>an independent entity (its more like an 8 bit parallel network than an
I/O
>bus). Thus disks have their own controller running their own OS etc and
you
IE smaller version of the HSC and friends with potential for faster bus
as well.
>All in all I think it is superior to SCSI in many ways but because DEC
held
>on to it so tightly it was never adopted beyond DEC machines.
>
>As for the abbreviation DSSI I've heard two different expansions used:
> "Digital Standard Storage Interconnect"
> "Digital Standard System Interconnect"
>I've yet to find something that pins it down definitively.
DIGITAL Storage System Interconnect, The only use of "standard"
within the DEC lexicon is limited to "DEC Standards" refering to
the 200+ documented engineering standard for things like how to
pack and label a box, what a terminal is and must do to what a
VAX is and how it should work.
Allison
-----Original Message-----
>> I was hoping that I could get some useful OS running, CPM would be
great; I
>> have several CPM machines already, so it's not totally foreign to me.
Would
>> I need a different CPU card, or other hardware to run CP/M? For that
The bios would have to know how to handle the disk as it does single
denisty
and a M^2FM double density that is unique to Intel boxen. The single
density
mode will however run standard CPM (BIOS is in the alteration guide) and
usually on standard distrubtion 8" SSSD.
>code should work on your machine, as I recall. The main issue
>is that you'll most likely have to transfer things through a
>serial port to the MDS. It's a pain but it can be done.
You can use ISIS to help or hand push it some of it.
Allison
DEC's proprietary DSSI interface: Can anyone give me some idea of why DEC
came up with it, what benefits it offered over, say, SCSI, and whether it
was entirely proprietary or related to something like IPI?
For that matter, what the heck did DSSI abbreviate? My guess: Distributed
Storage Subsystem Interface.
Web sites, FAQs, or commentary are all welcome as this is pure curiousity
on my part. Thanks much.
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Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 (Extra class as of June-2K)
"I'll get a life when someone demonstrates to me that it would be
superior to what I have now..." (Gym Z. Quirk, aka Taki Kogoma).
I just got a DATARAM DR118A core (16kx12) for Omnibus
PDP-8s and one thing I really need to know. How or where
is the jumpers for the addressing?
Allison
From: Jerome Fine <jhfine(a)idirect.com>
>I doubt very much that the answer is YES! Otherwise, it would have been
>easy to produce the 3rd party SCSI host adapters and there would have
>been a lot more competition - even with the $ US 100 license fee.
the key is not to design a VMS driver so MSCP makes you immune to that.
If your willing then a bare SCSI interface is very doable, but the driver
will
be harder and slower even with DMA. In VAX products there was
competition
around storage perfomance even back then.
>Now I have heard of someone attempting to produce a Qbus controller
>for an IDE drive that would not even be MSCP - and probably put the
>IDE drive right on the controller - not that MSCP would be all that
There is a design out there, crude and PIO only. It would certainly work
as IDE can PIO pretty fast. the only thing that makes Q-bus the least
bit
hard is that it has a read before write, that can mess up some register o
riented devices with an out of sequence read.
Allison
