test-drb November 2001

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by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

Well, I just sent in my registration for the free Basic membership... Haven't _needed_ to be a member before, but things may get better this year.. :-) --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 ! -----Original Message----- ! From: Brian Wheeler [mailto:bdwheele@indiana.edu] ! Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 3:38 PM ! To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org ! Subject: Re: one shoe down ... ! ! ! On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 14:03, Chuck McManis wrote: ! > Well the "new" Encompass site is updated and guess what, no ! "free DECUS" ! > memberships anymore, now its $79.99 "early bird special" ! and $99.99 regular ! > membership. No doubt when they become HP it will be even ! more irrelevant to ! > the cause of preserving old DEC gear. I sure hope they ! offer lifetime VAX ! > licenses at some point. ! > ! > --Chuck ! ! ! Are you sure? Looking at the "i want to re-enlist form" at ! https://safe2.sba.com/encompass/MemberForm.cfm ! ! It only looks like money is required if you're going to become a ! sustaining member... ! ! Of course there is a monster note on the page before: ! "Join or Renew Today - BASIC and SUSTAINING membership will only be ! available until December 31, 2001!" ! ! Brian !

22 years, 7 months

*HELP* - How do I temporarily unsubscribe?

by mranalog＠home.com

Shaun Stephenson <marino13(a)btinternet.com> wrote: > Hi all > Quickie which I need a quick reply to - > How do I tempoarily suspend recieving posts from the group? I'm on > holiday for 2 weeks very soon (1.5 days!) and don't fancy a few thousand > posts in my mail when I return. When you leave on vacation set your subscribtion to the DIGEST list. You will receive only one email every 20 or so hours and that way you don't miss anything. I ran into a little trouble myself. It appears that the name of the list is just "classiccmp" and not "classiccmp-list" as the help message suggests. I'm always on the digest list. The name of the digest list is "classiccmp-digest". So I assume to change to digest you need to send a message to majordomo(a)classiccmp.org and in the body say: unsubscribe classiccmp subscribe classiccmp-digest end Of course then you have to send back the authorization key before you are actually on the digest. Regards, --Doug ========================================= Doug Coward @ home in Poulsbo, WA Analog Computer Online Museum and History Center http://www.best.com/~dcoward/analog =========================================

22 years, 7 months

one shoe down ...

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

>> One of the 3rd party TCP/IP apps was reputed to do this - >> possibly Multinet. It's easy enough to check since >> there is a logical you can set which causes all >> licence requests to be displayed on the operator >> console. > >Which logical? LMF$DISPLAY_OPCOM_MESSAGE It needs to be /EXEC/SYSTEM, otherwise any herbert could overflow your LA36 :-) It was documented by mistake and then had to be explicitly documented as "don't do this" because lots of products go and check for any of the umpteen licences that *might* let them run. It's only a few (non-DEC) products that actually check for non-existant licences and require that the check fail. Antonio

22 years, 7 months

Tandy PC-4 pocket computer

by csmith＠amdocs.com

I have one somewhere. Been a while since I've used it. IIRC, there are a few different modes. One for running programs, one for writing them (in basic), possibly also some more standard calculator modes. I got a sharp portable computer, and liked that a lot better, actually, but my LCD screen cracked :( Basically you find the right mode for what you want to do, and just go. It's a pretty simple machine by common standards. Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); ' > -----Original Message----- > From: SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com [mailto:SUPRDAVE@aol.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 12:55 PM > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Tandy PC-4 pocket computer > > > Some guy sent me one for free and just got some new batteries > in it. Powers > on and says READY P0 but can't figure out anything else. > Google coming up 404 > for usability info on this thing. How do you work this thing? >

22 years, 7 months

Adam Computer

by csmith＠amdocs.com

I don't know, actually. I might take a look at it later. Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); ' > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave McGuire [mailto:mcguire@neurotica.com] > Aren't the Adam's tape drives [relatively] high-speed > digital, rather > than analog/audio/FSK units?

22 years, 7 months

Adam Computer

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On November 27, Christopher Smith wrote: > I wonder whether you can get one and high-speed-dub it? :) > > I may try something like this, myself. I have a "buck rogers" game tape. > If I'm lucky, there's more formatting than tape, and it can be copied to > another tape -- or to an AIFF file for re-production. Aren't the Adam's tape drives [relatively] high-speed digital, rather than analog/audio/FSK units? -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL

22 years, 7 months

1771 floppy controller questions

by tothwolf＠concentric.net

I have a complete TRS-80 Model I that has a dead Western Digital FD1771-01 chip in its expansion interface. Does anyone know if a National 1771-B01 is a suitable replacement? What would be a fair/reasonable price for a new 1771 these days? -Toth

22 years, 7 months

OT: Moving, must sell....

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

Sorry about the OT, but some of this may be close to 10 years old... Here's the deal. I need to get rid of this stuff, before I move. It's located in New Haven, CT, ZIP 06520-9040. Make an offer. Trade is possible, but only for DEC Alpha, Vax, Sun Sparc, that kind of parts & stuff. If you want the whole pile, I can meet you somewhere, in CT, to hand the stuff to you. Easier than shipping. This will end in one week... Send me an offer, I'll reply to let you know I got it. If there are multiple bids on something, I will do a random draw next Tuesday... Let me know if you have any questions... There may possibly be more similar stuff in the pile too... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Qty. Description ----------------------------------- 1 DTK Destop case. Dead motherboard. 200W Power Supply 1 486DX2-66 computer - 240MB (?) HDD, 5 1/4 + 3 1/2 flopy drives, modem, no RAM (uses non-parity), 200W PS 1 486DX2-66 computer - 240MB (?) HDD, 5 1/4 + 3 1/2 flopy drives, Network, no RAM (uses non-parity), 200W PS 1 486DX2-66 computer - 240MB (?) HDD, no RAM (uses non-parity), 200W PS 1 DTK Tower case, 250W PS, two 3 1/2 floppies 1 486DX-33 tower - 3 1/2 floppy, video, network, no RAM (uses 30 pin), 200W PS 1 486DX-33 tower - Two 3 1/2 floppies, video, no RAM (uses 30 pin), 250W PS 1 486DX-33 tower - 5 1/4 floppy, video, no RAM (uses 30 pin), 250W PS 7 Loose motherboards, 486 (SX + DX) 2 Loose motherboards, Pentium 75, Uses Parity Memory? 2 HP ScanJet Plus Scanners 1 HP ScanJet Plus Scanner Interface Kit (software + docs) 4 AT plug keyboards 3 Serial port mice 2 PS/2 port mice 3 Loose 3 1/2 floppy drives 1 Loose 5 1/4 floppy drive 2 CD ROMs - 1 is funny panasonic (?) interface, other (Sony) has proprietary interface included 1 Dell replacement floppy drive, instructions, and bay adaptor 4 ISA I/O Card - Floppy, IDE, COM ports, LPT: port... 1 ISA-VLB bus I/O Card - Floppy, IDE, COM ports, LPT: port... 1 Promise IDE ISA slot card 5 ISA modems ( 3 have Mic + Spkr ports) 2 Creative Labs ISA sound cards 1 Aztec/Packard Bell ISA sound/modem combo card 1 FX-3D ISA sound card 3 Cirrus Logic ISA-VLB video cards 5 ISA video cards 1 Intel ISA 8/16 LAN adapter 3 ISA SCSI cards ? 256 kB, & 1 MB non-parity 30-pin memory ? 256 kB, & 1 MB parity 30-pin memory Couple dozen IDE hard drives from 240 to 500 MB

22 years, 7 months

Computer Technician's Handbook (1971) and Computer Automation PDC 808 (1968)

by guerney＠bigpond.com

At a charity book sale I turned up this book* which promised to "turn an ordinary electronics technician into a computer maintenance specialist". And what a wide open field it was - as it says in Chapter 1: "as of some recent reckonong, there were in the neighborhood of some 50,000 computers currently in operation in some capacity or other" The book used as an example of a "Typical Small Computer" the Computer Automation PDC 808. The picture of the roughly Altair/Imsai sized box was actually labelled "PDC 808 Controller". The CCC list says this box was released in May 1968 (4K of 8-bit core) and there are just a couple of references to it on the Web I can find, and none from recent years. The book contains over 200 pages covering this device to the minutest detail. It seems a shame that such an apparently rare machine was chosen so we do not have a chance to work through the exercise today - it is rare sin't it? *by Brice Ward, published by Foulsham-Tab Ltd (the English version of the American TAB books) Phil

22 years, 7 months

one shoe down ...

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

Geoff Roberts wrote: > Or you can run a little app that correctly creates what > appears to be a > valid installed license for what particular products you wish to run, > including the version, number of license units etc. Never seen this done, never even heard of such an app before. I know that at least two groups (or people) managed to reverse engineer licence PAKs. One was even stopped by DEC through legal action (IIRC). > They would still work with this particular method. > Just as a matter of interest, which apps? One of the 3rd party TCP/IP apps was reputed to do this - possibly Multinet. It's easy enough to check since there is a logical you can set which causes all licence requests to be displayed on the operator console. > Personally, I firmly believe that all such license > enforcement systems are a > waste of time, since ultimately they can all be circumvented. > It's just a > question of how bad you want to do it... To be fair it was never touted as an enforcement method. It was only there as a minor hurdle or tripwire to warn you that you were not allowed to run some software or to limit your usage of said software. This meant that you had to take deliberate steps to get past the LMF. Presumably a defence of "I didn't realise" would have been somewhat harder to use in court! Antonio

22 years, 7 months

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test-drb November 2001