On December 11, Don Maslin wrote:
> Yeh, probably as easy as training a cat!
Training cats is actually rather easy. It's commonly thought to be
difficult or impossible because most people try to train them using
the same methods they use to train dogs...which fail miserably.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
On December 12, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote:
> Alconox is a soap designed to clean laboratory equipment.
It is WONDERFUL STUFF. Really incredible stuff. See
http://www.alconox.com. Though it's not really targeted at
individuals, you can buy it straight from their web site.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
On December 11, Zach Malone wrote:
> Does it bother you that much if someone else is smoking though? In all
> honesty, IMHO people should be allowed to smoke, ingest, or shoot up with
> whatever they feel like, as long as they are not harming others. Sure, the
> smoke smells horrible, and I dislike being around people who are smoking
> (this is also due to the second hand smoke issue), but I have no problem
> with it.
I can effectively "tune it out" and ignore it when I'm around it,
which I consider myself lucky to be able to to...but I don't like when
people I care about are smoking, because I know people who have been
killed by it.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
On December 11, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote:
> I've had systems, that when I opened them, the air intake filters oozed
> with residue and reeked of herb.
There's gotta be something that can be done with that. ;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
> > I just saw this on /., the Google USENET archive has been expanded back to
> > May 12th, 1981! It's a great day for Classic Computing! Looks like the
> > oldest message in their archive is DEC related since it talks about a Unibus
> > Versatec interface card.
>
> Depends on the group, I think... I found that comp.sys.cdc
> goes back to February 1989, just a bit before CDC killed
> off ETA...
>
> -dq
>
<sigh> I'm not surprised, I've not had a chance to see what kinds of PDP-10
and PDP-11 stuff can be dug up. Hmm, for that matter, it might be time to
check out comp.sys.harris, and a couple others...
Zane
> From: David Woyciesjes <DAW(a)yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
> Speaking of drinking, Tuesdays (tonight!) are when my APA Pool Team
> plays. We're in first, with only two more matches to go! Then playoffs
for
> the States, then it's off to Vegas after States! Woo-hoo, hopefully!
Hope you make it to Vegas! BTW what level are you? I shot for a few years
but never made it beyond a 4. No problem making the shots but post-shot
cue ball positioning hung me up.
Glen
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On December 11, Jeff Hellige wrote:
> I've had the displeasure of working on machines used by
> someone with quite a large number of cats. As if all the cat hair in
> the carpet wasn't bad enough while crawling down to hook/unhook
> cables, the hair was also throughout everything from the keyboard and
> mouse to the CPU. Not just a few strands, but quite a lot of it.
> Quite nasty...
Hmm, I have a kitty who spends some time in the computer
room...there's one particular machine in there that moves a LOT of air
and needs its filters cleaned frequently, but aside from that I've had
no issues with kitty fur.
And even if that weren't the case...my cat is one of the best friends
I've ever had, so if letting her go where she wants means some extra
filter cleaning for me, then so be it!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
> From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
> When you do a few more tests, I'll dig out the manual. I know I have all
> the schematics, etc...
Sounds good -- and thanks for all the help on this box. I just got my
Z-100 up and dual-booting CP/M-86 and ZDOS, so the H89 is now at the top of
my Unfinished Projects List.
Glen
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>I've been using a Logitech Wheel Mouse (optical) for more than a year now
>on my OS/2-based pc.
>
>My Sparc has an old-style optical mouse (requires special HARD TO FIND
>pad).
Easy to find, NEVER cheap. ;) I used to sell them for $5 to $10, then a
local Sun guy found out I had some and he bought them all.
Me too on the optical meese. I bought a CHEAP Inland brand for $8.99 at
MicroCenter, and its almost weird at first using it because it NEVER skips,
sticks,etc. and my brain isn't used to that. The scroll wheel spoils you
real fast too. My finger is already "looking" for it on lesser mice.
My understanding is that the new optical mice compare the surface image to
detect movement. Fancy stuff, but isn't the interface to the PC still the
same?
On December 11, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote:
>Yeah. I wasn't actually trying to build it using any specific technology.
>What I am doing is taking the latest and greatest and building a PDP-11
>compatible (one that act's *exactly* like an 11/70, but faster). I am
>probably not going to be using FPGA's, because I don't think they're yet
>making FPGA's the speed I want them to go.
Would 200MHz be fast enough ? A lot of the Xilinx fpga's offer 5ns pin to pin
delay. I'd be interested in finding out about the 11/40 architecture - was it
a
bit-sliced design, how deep was the pipeline etc.?
I'm going to have a go at an HP21XX machine of some description next year.
It's just going to emulate some of the HP custom processors and speed isn't
going to be an issue. BTW the HP2116 Cordic Co-processor ran with a cycle
time of 200ns - not exactly fast - add/sub 50-100us mpy/div 100-150us. Yawn.
Chris Leyson
