test-drb December 2001

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by Socialmisfit10＠aol.com

ummm my name is Meridith Zammetti and i noticed that your last name was Zammetti so i thought i would say HI and hope that u would say HI back...maybe........just maybe.......hehe...

22 years, 9 months

MITS 2SIO serial chip?

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Does anyone know what chip was used for the MITS serial boards? I thought > that it was the 6850, but I could be wrong. Weren't a lot of people using the 8251 back in those days? I had to play some tricks in getting an interrupt-driver written for the 8251... this was for the redoubtable Data General One, a sort cool, sorta nasty laptop... -dq

22 years, 9 months

OT: RE: Cats around computers

by cmurillo＠emtelsa.multi.net.co

At 02:10 PM 12/13/01 -0700, Robert Feldman wrote: >Do you (or someone you know) have a pet guinea pig? They were originally >domesticated and raised as food, in Peru. I must say a good barbequed cuy >(which is what they are called there) is quite tasty, though not much meat >on them. Aztecs bred a special dog race, called "izcuintle", for culinary purposes. They're pretty ugly as they are hairless. But they're supposed to taste like pork. carlos. -------------------------------------------------------------- Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org

22 years, 9 months

MITS 2SIO serial chip?

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

If it's the SIO-(A or B) then it's one com2502 or any of the related uarts. If its the 2-SIO then a pair of 6850s (better board too). Allison -----Original Message----- From: Cini, Richard <RCini(a)congressfinancial.com> To: 'ClassCompList' <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Date: Friday, December 14, 2001 11:09 AM Subject: MITS 2SIO serial chip? >Does anyone know what chip was used for the MITS serial boards? I thought >that it was the 6850, but I could be wrong. > >Rich > > >

22 years, 9 months

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

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Bryan Pope [mailto:bpope@wordstock.com] > That would be the "new" geek who believes the first computer > was a Pentium. > I was setting up my C64 next to my PC one day and a "geek" > mad the comment > "Oh you can hookup the 64 to the PCs video switchbox"... Is > it that hard to > belive that a computer could possibly output something > *other* then VGA > for its vidoe?!? Grrrrrr.... Ha! Actually, along those lines, I have an SGI with a Galileo board, which I've considered plugging my Atari 600XL/Commodore 128/Amiga/Atari ST/Apple IIGS, etc, into. It would be a great computing experience on a 21" monitor. :) The problem is that the SGI is a bit too sensitive for most composite video devices up to and including the Nintendo-64. They "flicker," I assume because of a slightly slow refresh rate. I've thought about writing some software that "simulates" the slower fade-out of a television CRT in a quick, dirty manner -- by simply dropping alternate frames, or the like. Anyway, back on the subject, don't get me started on idiots who don't know a serial-port from a hole in their head, and who couldn't tell an operating system from a microsoft product. ;) (To whit: I worked at one point with a guy who was convinced that every operating system in the world was derived in some manner from MS-DOS. Yes, that includes the Macintosh operating system too. "CP/M? What's that? Unix is based on MS-DOS, right?" The guy was a "programmer.") Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 9 months

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

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Doc [mailto:doc@mdrconsult.com] > Yeah... Most distros don't even have a headless install > option, and not > all PCs will even complete a POST without a video card. But more > relevant is the fact that hardly anybody I know, even the geeks, knows > what a null-modem cable is for, let alone own a serial terminal. You must not hang around with very high-quality geeks. Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 9 months

Cats around computers

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Douglas Quebbeman wrote: > > > I hope we don't drift into discussing that strangest > > beef organ meat of all... > > I've been trying hard to refrain. But, now that *you* mention it, > > YUM! YUM! YUM! > > Doc, who grew up working the spring branding & cutting on > his uncles' ranches.... Also popular with lonely rancher's wives, I hear... ;)

22 years, 9 months

Way OT: Just say no to squirrels & Pascal question

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> While we're on the subject, the best tacos I ever had were > at the dog track in Juarez, Mexico. Ya gotta wonder.... Did they charge extra for "winners"? ;)

22 years, 9 months

Cats around computers

by mcguire＠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. -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL

22 years, 9 months

MITS 2SIO serial chip?

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Does anyone know what chip was used for the MITS serial boards? I thought that it was the 6850, but I could be wrong. Rich

22 years, 9 months

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