test-drb June 2000

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by owad＠applefritter.com

>Why is AppleSoft BASIC called "AppleSoft" BASIC? > ^^^^ >Does this have something to do with the fact that Microsoft designed it? >I can't think offhand of any other Apple software product that fell >under the designation of "AppleSoft". "AppleSoft"" was Apple's software division. As in the Apple T-Shirt of fame bearing the dialog box: __________________________________________________ | | | Sorry the AppleSoft engineer "unknown" | | has unexpectedly quit | | | | [Who Cares] [Do Something] | | \ | |__________________________________________________| Tom ------------------------------Applefritter------------------------------ Apple Prototypes, Clones, & Hacks - The obscure, unusual, & exceptional. ---------------------<http://www.applefritter.com/>---------------------

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OT: Archiving data/video/movies/photos/oral history

by mbg＠world.std.com

>Hey, that's all the more on-topic here, as (s)he performed music using >a PDP-11! Is anyone else here (John W., does this still interest >you?) interested in using PDP-11s for music/sound synthesis. I'm interested... I have a couple of Casio CZ-101s that I would love to drive using the pdp-11. Allison modified a DLV11-J for me years ago so that I could control some devices... but as I am moving my entire collection to storage (my partner and I are looking into getting a house with a garage and basement so I can have a real museum), I'm not sure where it is right now. Also, years ago I built a device with several of the TI Sound Generation Controllers on it, controlled by a DL11-C. I had some software which played the music files produced by the music compliler written at Stanford. I still have the device, though I've misplaced the schematics for it... 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 KB1FCA | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

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Woz and his 6 chips...

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

FYI, Woz even talked about how he thought that his 6-chip design was one of his most brilliant ideas, in an interview in Byte in 1984... Will J ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

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DEC power control? How do it know?

by allisonp＠world.std.com

>up so that powering up the 11 powered up both the BA11 and the BA23. Now I >know the little 3 plug do-hickey (I think it is a mate-n-lock) normally >connects to a power sequencer in the rack, but I don't have one of those. >Is there any way to make it work otherwise? No, you need a 871A power distribution or similar. Lacking that a box with a small DC power, relay and outlets will do as those connectors are simply switches on the BA11 (verify with meter). That why ba-11 has a switch on the front and also on the back. Allison

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OT: Archiving data/video/movies/photos/oral history

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

Maybe this is just a sign of how much I mess with computers/don't clean my car, but I've been known to discover 9-track tapes that slid down there in transport a long time back under my seat... Not to mention that there are assorted IBM System/36 parts under my passenger seat as we speak... The last time I cleaned my car, I found an Apollo Pascal manual I didn't even know I owned, heh.. So I dunno, for me, media would have to be around 36-48 inches across to not disappear sometimes.. Will J ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

23 years, 11 months

ASCII Art Golden Gate Bridge & Plane

by mfhoneycutt＠earthlink.net

John, I would really like a copy of any ASCII art files you might have, especially if they are the ones with the embedded overstrike control codes for a Dataproducts band printer. We used to have some files for our Wang system that used a DP printer.. they were really great. They went out the door when the systems were retired about 12 years ago. I now have a MicroVAX II and the DEC version of the B200 DP band printer, so I should be able to run off some good copies on greenbar paper (back side, of course) of any files I can locate. This has been an interest of mine back to the early 70's when a few punch card decks would get passed around that you could run on the IBM that would generate some pretty fair posters for dorm room walls. Thanks to you and the list, Mark Honeycutt mfhoneycutt(a)earthlink.net -----Original Message----- From: John Foust <jfoust(a)threedee.com> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Date: Friday, June 02, 2000 3:45 PM Subject: Re: ASCII Art Golden Gate Bridge & Plane >At 09:26 AM 6/2/00 -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote: >>I took a photo of an ASCII art poster I have featuring the Golden Gate >>bridge and an airplane flying over it: >>It's made of up roughly 7 x 8 squares of wide carriage printer paper and is >>roughly 9 feet wide by 7 feet high. > >I think this is on an RSX ASCII collection tape I got from >someone or somewhere. In the "readme" FILENN.IDX, it's the >largest file: > >FILE14.LST 12,405 * Golden Gate Bridge > >where 12,405 records translated to 1,659,857 bytes. I'd be >glad to send a zipped version to anyone who wants it. > >By comparison, the popular Moon picture is 950,283 bytes, and >the Einstein is 348,400 bytes. > >- John >

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Looking for Cap'n Crunch 2600Hz whistle

by allain＠panix.com

> I'm also looking > for the October 1971 issue of Esquire magazine that featured the article > with John Draper talking about the "blue box". I know it said email directly but this topic is a little too interesting to do that with. The article mentioned is in Esquire, October 1971. It can be viewed at http://www.webcrunchers.com/crunch/esq-art.html John D. was recently featured in the New York Times: 26-March-2000 which was a near full page covering none other than the Homebrew Computer Club's 25th anniversary. Immensely on-topic, I believe! The books "Digital Deli" and "Hackers" are good references also. The former features an article on John D. written by Steve Wozniak. John A.

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DEC power control? How do it know?

by CLASSICCMP＠uhura.trailing-edge.com

>Ok, I'm cobbling together a PDP-11 and I ran out of slots on my BA11 so I >put a bus extender into it and plugged that into a BA23. The system works >fine (thank you micronotes!) but I'd like to figure out how I could set it >up so that powering up the 11 powered up both the BA11 and the BA23. Now I >know the little 3 plug do-hickey (I think it is a mate-n-lock) normally >connects to a power sequencer in the rack, but I don't have one of those. >Is there any way to make it work otherwise? Am I correct, that you don't have a "Power Controller"? A DEC Power Controller is a metal box with one line cord in and many jacks for plugging in accessories, and a contactor (big relay) inside for switching many of the jacks on/off under remote control of the 3-pin plugs/cables. Without a Power Controller, you have no contactor, and no way of remotely switching things on and off. With such a small system, you can probably go to Radio Shack and get one of their power controllers, that works by sensing current draw to one of your boxes and turns the rest on when that one comes on. No, it's not as fancy or as configurable as a DEC power controller, and Radio Shack certainly doesn't have any versions that do 3-Phase at 60 Amps per phase, but it ought to work fine for a small system like yours. -- 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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OT: Archiving data/video/movies/photos/oral history

by CLASSICCMP＠uhura.trailing-edge.com

Sellam wrote: >On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, William Donzelli wrote: >> There is evidence of this already. There are lots of people today that are >> keeping "record players" alive simply because many of the things they want >> to hear are only available on vinyl. The same is true with Edison >> cylinders, 78s, 16' transcription disks , 2 inch Quad video, slow 16 mm >> film, and scores of other dead media. Yes, CD-ROMS are far more complex >See: > >The Dead Media Project >http://www.wps.com/dead-media/index.html I've looked at their pages, and tried to figure out what they do. They seem to just write about dead media, and they don't actually do anything with it. Is that true? To paraphrase some comedian whose name I forgot, isn't that a lot like writing about dancing but never going dancing? Tim.

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ASCII art & scanning techniques discussion on Community Memory

by foo＠siconic.com

One of the Community Memory archives is sprinkled with messages about ASCII art scanning techniques, among other interesting topics: http://memex.org/cm-archive4.html 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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