--- "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> wrote:
> I've got a question though, how was the stuff gotten into the computer in
> the first place? Not feeling very motivated this morning so I just ported
> the following to VMS BASIC:
> 10-190 BATTLESHIP, Version: 2, January 1974
> http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/www/lib10/0276/index.html
I just visited this link and was wondering what the crud on the last line
of BT.BAS.1 was.
Otherwise, good job. I'm sure there's a bunch of us whose early DEC experience
was in the form of BASIC games, whether RSTS or OS/8 or whatever, and it all
brings back the memories.
-ethan
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I am looking for a copy of the old Macintosh speech synthesizer program
called "Smooth Talker" from First Byte. I had this program on a floppy that
my electronics teacher gave to me last year, but the floppy has since worn
out & I have been searching *everywhere* for a copy, but to no avail. If you
have a copy, *do not* send me a disk image, as my Mac (original Mac upgraded
to Mac Plus specs.) does not recognize them at all. I must ask, however,
that it come on an 800K floppy, 400K is not enough space!
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Hi Jay,
Thanks much for your hosting of the classiccmp list! Thanks also for
enduring the discussions regarding the "new" vs. "old" methods and HTML
blocking, etc.! Some interesting bits of info came out of the many postings.
Regards, Chris
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>From: allisonp(a)world.std.com
>Another pet peeve, posts/replies in html, I don't read them and dump them
>sumarily as A) they are often spam, B)the are a pain to handle via said
>slow telnet and pine.
I have the same attitude, WHY do people think we would even want to see a
fancy schmancy version of what they typed as simple ASCII text, especially
when many of us read this list on simple ASCII terminals anyway so we can't
see any of the colors or misaligned columns. It's especially annoying when
a message contains the same text twice, once as text and once as HTML, so
at least half of the message is useless to *everyone*. I would *love* it if
list servers could be set up to filter this crap out, or at the very least
run the HTML text through Lynx or something and translate it back to usable
80-column ASCII.
FWIW I'm not crazy about the new header format, when I replied to this msg
with "R" (I'm using Berkeley Mail) it would have gone to Allison only, and
when I changed to "r", the mailing list was only there as a Cc:, if I had
edited out the other recipients there would have been *no* primary recipient,
only a Cc:. And that's certainly not what we want!
This problem comes up on every mailing list, maybe it would make sense to
define an X-Foo: header that gives the mailing list address and hack the
popular mailers to have a "reply to mailing list" command? Or has this
already been done and I'm just oblivious as usual? Of course this wouldn't
help Windows users running canned mailers with no source code available,
but what can I say, shame on you!!! :-)
John Wilson
D Bit
Folks on this list have expressed strong opinions in the past
on the subject of how to best OCR old important documents.
Recent donations to the DECUS archives here have resulted in
several important abstract books that I want to link electronically
(i.e. by HTTP) to the files already rescued from magnetic or
punched paper media. (See, for example,
http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/www/lib10/index.html
for the TOPS-10 abstracts linked to the files from DECUS library
tapes.)
I've spent the past weekend playing with scanners and OCR on PC-clones
running various Microsoft OS's. And, of course, I'm extremely unhappy
with the point-and-drool misery of doing all of this - there's
no reason I should have to click with the mouse for every single page
I need converted.
So the question: does anyone have recommendations (preferably for
freeware, though I would be willing to spend a few hundred dollars for
good tools, too) for software that will process already-scanned
.GIF's/TIFF's/bitmaps through the OCR process unattended? Ideally
there'd be a command line interface, something like
ocr page*.gif > bigoutputfile.txt
and ideally it would run under Linux as well, though I wouldn't complain
too strongly if someone recommended a Windows solution.
If it does run under Linux, it'd be *very* nice for batch processing
if it didn't need X11 and mouse-point-and-drool interfacing.
Tim. (shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com)
I was at the local not-for-profit computer surplus and picked up the
following DEC stuff
1. 2 TK25 tape drives in desktop cases
2. RD53 labeled disk drive although the disk inside the MicroVAX 2000
style case says RD52
3. tk50Z tape drive inside MicroVAX 2000 case
4. MicroVAX 2000 disk case
5. vax3100 style low profile expansion case
6. micro PDP 11/73+ in floor stand, the pdp 11/73+ boards are spoken
for, probably running
RSX-11M because of the number of terminal connections on the back of
the machine.
Anyone want the disk and case ?
7. micro pdp 11/23+ in floor stand, runs RSX-11M, boots and
8. 3 VT320's with keyboards
Anyone interested, you pay minimal amount plus shipping?
1. I also picked up a AT&T Unix PC that boots up but is missing the
keyboard, anybody know about compatible keyboards?
2. a HP 9862A pen plotter for desktop calculator, dust cover, an
manual, but no cable
3. TI system 1100 that has 2 MB memory, dc300 tape, 5 1/4 floppy, and
full height 5 1/4
internal disk drive
I have my eyes on TK86 and TK867, both in deskside floor stands, before they
go to China, are they currently usable? I also saw from afar some type of
modular terminal connectors, I could read writing that says 90+ on them,
they have a row of rj45 jacks on them and look like there are 4 or 5 mounted
on plastic panel. Any idea what they are?
Mike
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu
I picked up an external SCSI 21mb floptical drive (by PLI) this
weekend; anybody have a use for it, or know where I can get media?
Bill
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Have 3 token ring cards to get rid of, nice ISA types that I assume are
plug-n-play capable. They are as follows:
1) Intel token Express Pro 16/4 with manual. Has 9 pin din and RJ45
ports Jumperless card, 16 bit ISA
1) 3 Com 3C619B TokenLink III 16/4. Has status led's and 9 pin din and
rj45 ports. Jumperless card, 16 bit ISA
1) 3Com 3C319 TokenLink Velocity ISA 16/4. Has status led's and 9 pin
din and rj45 ports. Jumperless 16 bit ISA
All drivers are available on Intel and 3Com's websites as well as
manuals in PDF format. Cards are from working machines that got pulled
off the network to become standalone units. They do not come with
cables.
Make me an offer or either cash or useful common PC items.
Russ Blakeman
Clarkson, KY
Hi all,
I've got a buddy with a Classic and Stylewriter that he's about to
dumpster...does anyone want to pay postage on one of these? Or you can
arrange to pick it up (I'm in Southern California - Glendora).
Cheers,
Aaron
Due to the hardware problems on the system that hosts the classiccmp list
over the weekend, that machine will be going down for maintenance sometime
today.
The outtage is expected to last 2 hours at most.
Regards,
Jay West