>Your ID number would be on your DECUS or whatever they're calling it
>now card. You have to be a member of Decus (free) to get the licences.
I filled out the online form to renew my membership but haven't heard
anything back. It's been said that they are going through a few changes so
I figured I'd give them a little while.
Jeff
Actuall Nigeria is not a big country for ship registration
A "Flag Of Convenience" (FOC) ship is a ship where the nationality of the
owner is different from the country in which the ship is registered.
Countries that offer registration of ships owned by foreign interests are
considered to have what is called an "open register". Foreign owned ships
dominate the flags of "open register" countries. The modern origin of open
registries can be traced back to the 1920s, when the United Fruit Company
created the Honduran open registry to ensure the cheap and reliable
transport of its bananas.
The Panamanian open registry came about soon after that because U.S. flagged
passenger ships wanted to serve liquor during Prohibition.
The Liberian open register came about during the "Cold War" because the U.S.
wanted a fleet of "neutral" ships to haul its cargo, mostly oil.
Some times it is even hard to trace down the real owners a FOC ship. Often
in the register country the address for the ship owners will only be a Post
Office Box. From there you must follow a series of front companies, often in
different countries, before you end up finding the real owners of a FOC
ship. Many large American shipping lines like the American President Lines
are leaving U.S. flags and are becoming FOC ships. In 1998 there were 28
open register countries of FOC ships and 19,270 vessels over 100 gt, which
comes to 22.5% of the world's fleet and in that year there was a 8.5%
increases in FOC ships.
Of the top 35 maritime countries based on real ownership of vessels not one
of them is an open register country. For example, the true nationality of
ownership of ships from Greece that are part of open register fleets
(percentage of open register fleets) are as follows: Liberia 12.4%, Panama
11.1%, Cyprus 72.6%, Bahamas 19.0% and Malta 56.3%. Of the top six fleets of
gross tonnage in 1998, five of the are open registers for FOC ships; Panama
(6,188 vessels), Liberia (1,697 vessels), Bahamas (1,221 vessels), Cyprus
(1,650) and Malta (1,378). The U.S. fleet ranks 11th in gross tonnage. .
Mike
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu
Antigen for Exchange found dwarf4you.exe infected with W32/Hybris-B virus.
The file is currently Deleted. The message, "classiccmp-digest V1 #609",
was
sent from owner-classiccmp-digest(a)classiccmp.org (classiccmp-digest) and was
discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound
located at CMHMAIL/CMHMAIL/EXCHANGE-SMTP.
Oops, I meant to say Hazeltine 2000, not 1500... Sorry! I have all the
manuals for one, and that's what made it such a neat terminal to me,
especially the cardcage of 20 or so boards... Gawd, I'd love to have one..
Will J
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Just out of curiosity, what was their last model? The latest that I know of
was the ADM-11+, I had a dead one of those once.
Will J
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I wanted to thank all that replied to my inquiry regarding Intel's
iAPX-432 processor. It seems the main consensus is that Intel never released
this product. If anyone has information to the contrary please speak up,
otherwise I'll drop this from my collection list.
Thanks again Norm
Hello, all:
Someone from Italy has been scanning the manual set for the SYM-1 board.
I've posted the PDFs to my Web site. Enjoy.
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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Async Display Monitor? Just a Guess
The ADM-2 Service Manual I have decribes "ADM ready" lines #6 & #8 on the
serial printer interface option.
Sept 25 1974.
1920 8-bit words stored
ADM - 2 Interactive Display Terminal.
Lear Siegler Inc. 714 N. Brookhurst St Anahiem, CA 92803
Larry Truthan
truthanl(a)oclc.org Digest Subscriber.
On May 25, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> > It's useless without the other board, and they're both useless if
> > you don't want to run RA-series disks. Contrary to popular belief,
> > not all RA-series disks are huge (14" platters) and power hungry. I
> > have a stack of 1GB 5.25" RA73 disks that are rather nice.
> >
>
> True, but another thing to remember is that the KDA-50 itself is a
> power hog. It will not work just stuffed into an existing BA23 (or
> even a BA123, I think). The only one I have running is in a sepparate
> box with it's own power supply. And yes, I tried putting one in a
> MVAX-II in a BA23 before I knew this and while it did no permanent
> damage, it definitely didn't work and kept the box from even starting.
Hmm...weird. I've run two or three of them in BA23s with the rest
of their systems. Guess I was lucky.
> Boy could I use some of those disks, though. I have RA80's, RA81's
> and Fuji Eagles. I run them on both of my Ultrix machines, a VAX and
> a PDP-11.
Deals can be made... :)
-Dave McGuire
> I've been after a copy of this manual for *ages*, does anyone have a copy?
since wildflower is down right now, I've put a copy here
http://www.spies.com/~aek/MesaPrincOps/00xPrincOps.html
> Does anyone know what happened to the Wildflower site?
I don't think the hardware survived one or more of Alan's office moves.
