> From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman(a)theestopinalgroup.com>
> The difference between "real" holidays and "made up" Holidays
> seems to be: if the Holiday was "made up" before you were born,
> then it's real (like Mother's Day, which was instituted by
> President Woodrow Wilson); if it was made up in your lifetime,
> then it's "not real, just made up."
I based my statement upon information gleaned from conversations with my
customers, 80% of which are black. Most of them think that Kwanzaa was
"made up" by retailers in order to get their money. Some have told me that
they resent the "social engineering" aspect of Kwanzaa. Here in the South,
there seems to be very little support of or identification with this event
among African-Americans.
> January 1 was "made up" into New Years Day by an act of
> fiat; New Years Day used to be April 1.
When and how did this happen?
> I believe "Father's Day" was "made up" in the 50s...
> I hope the pattern is clear... Kwanzaa is as valid
> a Holiday as any.
For those who celebrate it, I'm sure this is true. It's just that I
haven't met many of them . . .
Glen
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Hi:
I'm preparing for the 2.1 release of the Altair32 Emulator and am
finishing up the help files. I have manuals for Microsoft BASIC and CP/M 2.2
but I have nothing on Altair DOS.
Does anyone have a copy of this manual either in physical or
electronic form that I can have?
Thanks.
Rich
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Congress Financial Corporation
1133 Avenue of the Americas
30th Floor
New York, NY 10036
(212) 545-4402
(212) 840-6259 (facsimile)
This is pretty bad, but somewhat important right now.
Anybody know how to associate .jpg files to the IE
thumbnail viewer (mini previews) in W98?
I don't want to embarrass anyone so you can contact
me off list. Its bad enough I have to admit using it.
John A.
In reality it was far different than that.
Women would work for lower wage than men doing a tedious
task that was fairly skill intensive.
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Russ Blakeman <rhblakeman(a)kih.net>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Monday, December 17, 2001 9:50 PM
Subject: RE: was "how to clean".. How did they
>Not to be sexist or rude but I think that women have a better tolerance
for
>boring tedious work while sitting on their butts for long periods of
time.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
>[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Sellam Ismail
>Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 3:25 PM
>To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
>Subject: Re: was "how to clean".. How did they
>
>
>On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, ajp166 wrote:
>
>> Hand made, usually by women working under low power microscopes.
>
>And they had women doing the work because they apparently are better
>at working with their hands (i.e. needlework).
>
>Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
>Festival
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>http://www.vintage.org
>
>
On Dec 15, 19:49, Matt London wrote:
> >From what I've noticed, the SparcStation 1 flashes it's power LED when
> doing a selftest, but I'm not near the box, so I can't check :&)
>
> And as Jeff said - Amigas flash the power LED.
So they do. I should have remembered that, since I have one of each in
this room!
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
On Dec 18, 0:07, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> > Domestic ones I've seen won't. Apart from the soaking -- that's the
point
> > of using it, obviously. Very few things are intolerant: some relays,
> > transformers, a few types of switches, etc, usually just because they
take
> > too long to dry out. And core mats, of course, because they're very
> > fragile and extremely hard to repair.
>
> Don't forget old transformers, which often use something looking very
much
> like paper for isolation.
Agreed. That's why my PDP-8/E's H740 power supply got a different
treatment. It still got washed, though.
> > > Grab a bottle of isopropanol, some swabs, and start working.
> >
> > Doesn't work well on smoke-damaged boards, Coke, etc, and water is far
> > cheaper and safer (for the user, too).
>
> It works, but it requires more work.
It doesn't work very well. It's almost impossible to get all the crud out
>from under ICs, DIL switches, or sockets. IPA does not do a good job on
smoke-damaged boards.
> > TTL may be
> > much less sensitive than old CMOS and even modern CMOS and TTL
> > replacements, but it is still sensitive and can be damaged by ESD.
It's
> > not so likely to be damaged when soldered into a complete circuit, but
it's
> > possible. I've had at least two QBus boards damaged by ESD through
> > careless handling.
>
> Eh? Q-bus cards, even the oldest you can find, are LSI stuff. You won't
> find much of anything even *that* modern in a PDP-8. Actually, much Q-bus
> stuff is really modern compared to what I'm thinking of...
Plenty of QBus cards use TTL, basic 74 series, not just LS. I just pulled
a few out to check. In the faulty ones I referred to, it was some TTL
PROMs in one of them that had gone (lost several bits), and I can't
remember what was wrong with the other one. Nevertheless, even original 74
series TTL is static-sensitive, and the worst part is that things can be
degraded by ESD without failing completely. That's why modern circuits
include extra ESD protection.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Today I really got lucky and found some items I had been looking for
such the NeXT megapixel display model N4000B for the NeXT cube I have
yet to test and others that I had forgot that I had. The others are
listed below:
2. CPT 8535 with dual 8" drives
3. HP 87
4. hp 140A scope
5. ALTOS 686
6. digital Micro PDP-11 tower
7. IBM 5110
8. Monroe 326 Scientist with Monroe 392 cassette, manual (marked Beta),
and a nice black carrying case
9. CPT 9000 tower (good for parts only)
10. CPT SRS 45 (2 of them)
11. TeleVideo model 910 terminal
12. HP150 with built-in printer
13. IBM type 4055 terminal
14. UNISYS terminal could not find a model number on it
I loaded a few of the finds in front of the truck to bring home to play
with. That's it for now. Keep computing
At 04:26 PM 12/14/01 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Ben Franchuk wrote:
>
>> Was not Burroughs and a few other companies noted for destroying all old
>> equipment
>> and leasing only?
>
>Yes.
No necessarily. I used to work for Burroughs in Roanoke, Va and we just
pushed the old machines out to the dumpster. We never pulled any parts or
anything so they were complete. I was amazed to discover this when I
started work there and I asked if it was ok to pull parts and they said
yes. I looted the first few machines but soon had all the parts I wanted so
the rest escaped untouched.
Burroughs usually rented machines but I know they did sell atleast some
of them. But their repair, updates and other service costs were so
expensive that I doubt anyone other than US Government agencies were
foolish enough to buy the machine and pay cash for service.
Joe
