test-drb January 2002

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RFC; Request For Coaching. Was RE: RT 6150 Docs (and mouse??)

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

! From: Christopher Smith [mailto:csmith@amdocs.com] ! ! ! > -----Original Message----- ! > From: Doc [mailto:doc@mdrconsult.com] ! ! > And Dude, I'm sorry, but you really NEED to go find the ! > IDG Outlook ! > Distress book or something. Line wraps, my man, line wraps. ! ! ! Well, actually, I've found some bits of documentation that ! say exactly how ! to make lookout wrap your lines. I've attempted to follow ! these instructions ! to the letter, and found that I don't have the right dialog ! available to do ! it. :) ! ! Chris (Who's really not sure whether to blame microsoft, ! Amdocs, or the ! people who wrote the reference) Chris --- What/where are the instructions? I'd like to try them... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

22 years, 11 months

RFC; Request For Coaching. Was RE: RT 6150 Docs (and mouse??)

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Doc [mailto:doc@mdrconsult.com] > And Dude, I'm sorry, but you really NEED to go find the IDG Outlook > Distress book or something. Line wraps, my man, line wraps. Well, actually, I've found some bits of documentation that say exactly how to make lookout wrap your lines. I've attempted to follow these instructions to the letter, and found that I don't have the right dialog available to do it. :) Chris (Who's really not sure whether to blame microsoft, Amdocs, or the people who wrote the reference) Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 11 months

RFC; Request For Coaching. Was RE: RT 6150 Docs (and mouse??)

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Doc [mailto:doc@mdrconsult.com] > Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. I had to remove the SIIG 8-bit > serial/parallel card before the poor guy could boot at all. First thing to check is whether it will work in a different slot. Some busses are very picky, and I have no idea what is used in the RT. (So don't take my word for it.. ;) > With just the good disk attached, the AOS miniroot gets adapter > time-outs from the EESDI adapter, and reboots endlessly. The > stand-alone > utility won't accept any device name I can come up with - /dev/hdc0, > /dev/hd0, hdc0, hd0, 0, slave 0 - to format the disk. Probably more like rdT0 or rhdT0 (where T is a type of drive... or not there at all), or rd0s0d0. The "r" is likely to be important because many unixes require a "character" type device to actually make a filesytem on a disk, and in fact to do many disk-level operations. The "r" device prefix generally denotes this. For instance, on RISC/OS, SVR3.5, and I believe SunOS 4, you'll see just that. I've always imagined the "r" to stand for "raw" or something similar, but I'm not sure. > > Also note that early version of AIX were much more like > "something strange" > than they were like normal Unix. From what I've heard they > I dunno. Modern AIX is 'much more like "something strange"' than it > is like modern Unix.... Well, ok, but my point was that they're supposed to be _more_ strange. :) 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, 11 months

Security bits

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>They look like a Torx screw head turned inside out. Imagine something >between a pan head and a round head (ie slightly domed) with six small >notches in the edge. The sides are sloping/curved and they're usually >hardened, and the edges of the notches are slightly rounded off so you >can't get a grip with pliers. There's a picture at >http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman/zeroscrew.jpg MCM sells bits for this. They market them as "Nintendo Type Screws" or something like that, and say they are used to open NES Games (and is just what I bought mine for... to replace the battery in a Monopoly cart). IIRC, they sold the two different sizes I have as a single pack. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 11 months

Bell & Howell Apple IIe

by csmith＠amdocs.com

-----Original Message----- From: SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com [mailto:SUPRDAVE@aol.com] > cool machine. other than an oringinal umodified apple ][ that's the only apple I want now. > Even though I work at B+H, nobody even knows about them. heh. That's pretty funny, but I guess most cool machines end up in the same situation. Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 11 months

Bell & Howell Apple IIe

by Innfogra＠aol.com

IIRC all of the black apples I saw were IIs and II+s. I think a black IIe would be rare. The audio box on the back was used in a classroom setting to hook each operator to the teacher in an audio network. B&H was a big vendor into the A/V and classroom solution market. Paxton Astoria, OR

22 years, 11 months

Paging - Sellam Ismail

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

I'm having trouble getting to Sellam via email. Sellam, if you're there, please email me. Thanks. Thanks for the bandwidth. ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile)

22 years, 11 months

Bell & Howell Apple IIe

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Tothwolf [mailto:tothwolf@concentric.net] > Does it have the later IIe style case with D-Sub cutouts, or > does it have > slots in the back panel like the II/II+? I never have had a > good look at > one of the IIe machines marketed by them. It has D-sub cutouts. > I would expect it to be a typical IIe in a black case :) So far, but it has a strange "box" attached to the back... > These machines were sold primarily to businesses and schools. Bell & > Howell marketed audio/video and other electronic equipment to > such places, > so they were a well known brand. The above mentioned "box" seems to have some sort of audio amplification stuff in it, actually. Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 11 months

Bell & Howell Apple IIe

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 1/22/2002 12:50:55 PM Central Standard Time, csmith(a)amdocs.com writes: > Hi everybody. > > I've rescued a Bell & Howell Apple IIe (black, of course) just yesterday. > > Can anyone tell me anything about what these things were used for, what I > can expect to > find in the machine, etc, etc? > > I haven't even cleaned off the dust yet, but I vaguely recall that these > were sold for > some specific purpose. If so, what were they for? > cool machine. other than an oringinal umodified apple ][ that's the only apple I want now. Even though I work at B+H, nobody even knows about them. heh. --

22 years, 11 months

Documation M600L - HP 2893A Card Reader

by brian＠quarterbyte.com

I just picked up an HP 2893A punched card reader on eBay -- it appears to be an HP-badged Documation M600L. I haven't been able to find any documentation for it on the web. Does anyone have any info on this or similar card readers? Is it similar to any of the DEC-badged CR11 readers? Any help, especially interfacing info, will be appreciated, thanks, Brian

22 years, 11 months

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