test-drb December 2001

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if you hadn't already known this about the PDP-8

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

Sridhar --- I might be able to use your help soon... I have a Cardinal Technologies PC10. It's a 386, with a 10" color (?) screen, and it's built just like a Mac SE! It's mfg in May '92, so it's almost on-topic. Has anyone seen one of these, or know of any docs for it? I'm wondering if I should put DOS6.22/Win3.11, or NetBSD on it. Of course, I still have a Win95 CD around. Maybe I could shoe-horn that on! --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 ! -----Original Message----- ! From: Boatman on the River of Suck [mailto:vance@ikickass.org] ! Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:22 PM ! To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org ! Subject: Re: if you hadn't already known this about the PDP-8 ! ! ! On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote: ! ! > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Tony Duell wrote: ! > ! > > Since when has linux needed a video display card at all, ! let alone one ! > > with 16M of RAM? ! > ! > I'm pretty good at making small distros of FreeBSD. Some ! people like me ! > have gotten in to run in 4MB. The least I have ever done ! is 8MB. And ! > it's not unbearably slow on a 25MHz 386 embedded card. I ! suspect Linux is ! > similar. ! ! I've gotten NetBSD running fairly well in 2 MB. ! ! Peace... Sridhar !

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Way OT: Just say no to squirrels & Pascal question

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Dave McGuire <mcguire(a)neurotica.com> > On December 13, Douglas Quebbeman wrote: > > > > Rodents *are* chewy... have you never had squirrel? > > > > > > NO. And I hope I NEVER get that hungry. > > > > Hey, it's not like I was playing Hannibal Lector to > > old Rocket J. himself... > > Yes, but still...NOT FOOD. ;) > > -Dave I'm with Dave. If I'm that hungry, I'll find out what the squirrels are eating (such as nuts), and eat the same thing! As I child I visited some of my hilljack relatives in the Appalachians and saw them eat these rodents. They especially enjoyed eating the brains. Blechhhh . . . rats with furry tails . . . recent research has also found evidence of a mad-cow-like disease which is carried in squirrel brains . .

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Is there no end

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

! From: Chris [mailto:mythtech@Mac.com] ! ! ! Ugh... this takes the cake. ! ! I was pulling apart a 486 logic board, and I pulled the heat ! sink off the ! chip... to be greated with an AMD 486 chip with "Made for Microsoft ! Windows" and the Windows logo stamped on it. ! ! What... no other OS is supposed to use an intel compatible ! processor?!? I ! am sure anyone that bought this chip to use with any other OS ! probably ! paid an MS tax because of that stamp! ! ! Just for that, I think I might see if I can get my Intel build of ! Rhapsody to install on it. ! ! Ok, so it isn't 10 years or older, but at least you people ! can understand ! the pain. Chris --- I've seen quite a few of those around here at work. In fact, I have Win98 running on some still! Doesn't do too bad, considering they only have 32 MB RAM also... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

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Way OT: Just say no to squirrels & Pascal question

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On December 13, Don Maslin wrote: > > If you'll eat brain, you'll probably eat pickled anus on a stick to. > > Where on your scale do you put horse meat? The French love it. Heh...I wasn't going to mention this, but now I have no choice. ;) I used to say that I could sum up the French culture in two sentences: "This is the most repulsive thing I've ever seen. I think I'll put it in my mouth!" For the humor-impaired: This is a joke. No offense to any French listmembers is intended. -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL

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Hardest to Find Classic Computers (Was: RE: Way OT: Just say no to squirrels & Pascal question)

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

Ok, IMSAI Imp48... supposedly only 300 sold. Allison -----Original Message----- From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman(a)theestopinalgroup.com> To: 'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org' <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Date: Friday, December 14, 2001 1:07 PM Subject: Hardest to Find Classic Computers (Was: RE: Way OT: Just say no to squirrels & Pascal question) >> When OT threads die and then get resurrected under even >> wilder topics, its just not worth it. > >Ok, we've had threads similar to this one before, but >maybe not quite... > >What are the hardest to find Classic Computers? What should not >be counted: > > Systems that never went beyond prototype > Systems that they made only one of > Systems that were custom-designed for a single > customer and were only in limited production > Systems that were not "general purpose" computers > >Also not intended as the thrust of the topic: > > Systems you most of all want > >Rather, the systems I'me talking about would have been >commercially produced, were general-purpose systems, >made in quantity of say at least a baker's dozen. > >These systems might be generally available, and might >go for a price you can afford, but you just can't *find* >them where you're at. > >Around here for me, it would be PDP-8's and Lisa's. > >??? > >-dq

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Googles of delights

by jfoust＠threedee.com

I've had a great time perusing the new old Usenet posts on Google.com. It took me a while to find the various logins I'd used back in '83 or so, getting on news any way I could. I've waited a long time for other people's backup archives to restore copies of these files to my hands. Thankfully, I didn't say anything too embarrassing. I think that aspect will have repercussions. What's the online world going to be like when your off-hand comments will be around forever? Search for someone's posts, click on the link of their name, and presto, you can see everything they've posted, including that plea for companionship to net.singles back in 1983. One fun aspect has been seeing who jumped into threads back then - before they were famous for other reasons. For example, I hadn't remembered that Larry Wall hung out on comp.sys.amiga for a while in the early days. I have also done what someone else here predicted: look for people who had old machines to dispose, and ask them what happened to them. I focused on the Terak, for my museum at www.threedee.com/jcm . I also used the archive to find people who worked at Terak back when. I found several names I hadn't known before. Given a unique name and a history of working in the computer business, it seemed I could find current e-mail addresses for about half of the names I searched. I fired off notes to find out if they'd kept any memorabilia or disks. I hope someone builds a historical directory of links to historically relevant posts. I might take on the task myself. - John

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1GHz PDP-11 (Re: Prints for an 11/70)

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On December 13, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote: > That's why I was thinking of addressing multiple busses. Not only that, I > want to maintain compatibility with existing devices. I don't recall who at the moment...but there's some company somewhere who makes a PCI-Qbus bridge, and maybe a Unibus one as well. The idea is to use a pdp11 emulator on a crappy PeeCee and be able to connect your DEC peripherals to it. I would love to see NetBSD/alpha drivers for that board...I'd put an RL02 (or maybe an RK07!) on one my Alphas! 8-) -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL

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Hardest to Find Classic Computers (Was: RE: Way OT: Just say

by csmith＠amdocs.com

Right. I know they exist... just can't find them. :) 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: Eric Dittman [mailto:dittman@dittman.net] > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 1:37 PM > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: Hardest to Find Classic Computers (Was: RE: Way OT: Just > say > > > > Do peripherals count too? If so, try finding a 9-track > drive that doesn't > > take up as much room as your fridge. Any EDSI hardware and > controllers have > > been very elusive to me as well. > > Actually, there are some table-top 9-track drives. There is > a limit on how > small a 9-track drive can be since you have to accommodate > two large reels. > > In fact, next week I'm picking up a table-top 9-track SCSI > drive for $75.

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Way OT: Just say no to squirrels & Pascal question

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>Somebody did. Butter can't be deep fried. That's what I thought about ice cream... but El Torito's (sp?) used to sell Deep Fried Ice Cream, it was basically chocolate chip ice cream, rolled in what seemed to be corn flakes crumbs, and deep fried. It has to be done fast, so the breading fries, but the ice cream doesn't get too melty. I would think butter (in particular a POUND of butter) that was wrapped in bacon AND breaded, could probably hold out long enough for the breading to fry. If the butter was started as very cold, or even slightly frozen, it could probably stay in long enough for the bacon to get pretty well cooked. However, the whole thing sounds pretty sick to me, so I am not apt to try it. -c

23 years

if you hadn't already known this about the PDP-8

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Doc <doc(a)mdrconsult.com> > OK. I guess I gotta come clean now. I'm actually a West Texas >roughneck, incognito. When I first started seeing ads for "Pentium", I I saw pentium and thought... oh no, the fifth one from in-smell. Heck I got my first Pent (p166mmx) only 2 years ago! I'd rather not but hey the world crashes by them. Allison

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