I actually caught the show as it aired, and started up the tape
recorder in time for the segment... I'll see if I can dump it to
a file...
Nice job, Sellam... my only comment is the fact that you didn't
mention the community of collectors out here, or the fact that
we all exchange info...
Megan
In the days before 'net access was commonly available to ordinary folks
like me, I used to spend a fair amount of time on BBSs, so I thought it
might be fun to use my older machines to do some BBSing. Unfortunately,
results from Google suggest that most BBSs are now only Telnet-accessible.
Anyone know where to get a fairly current list of dial-up BBSs?
I'm also having a hell of a time trying to find an ISP which can provide a
dial-up shell account (with POP3 email) which doesn't require PPP or SSH.
I could code PPP drivers for a vintage micro (although it would suck up a
lot of time), but I doubt that I could get both PPP and TCP/IP running on a
system with 64 KB RAM or less.
Anyone know where to find an ISP which provides plain old dial-up access
>from a micro running a terminal program?
TIA --
Glen
0/0
If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
And if not now, when?
-- Pirkei Avot
> Can you point to any webistes that have info about these
> phone systems? Do they pop up on eBay?
I'll go through my notes later for a summary. All manner of excellent,
marginal, and downright bizarre phone gear turns up on eBay. As with
anything else, some is wildly overpriced and some starts out as a
bargain, and may not end up that way. Caveat emptor, double for eBay.
The Panasonic stuff seems to be the friendliest and provices the most
bang for the buck, but this is a hugely subjective topic. Best thing
I can tell you before I run out the door is to check out the
newsgroups comp.dcom.telecom and comp.dcom.telecom.tech on Google
Groups. The "home pbx" thread has come up many times, and there's a
lot of good info archived there.
--Steve.
CORRECTION:
http://dahmer.vistech.net/~jwillis/index.html
-----Original Message-----
From: John Willis
Sent: Thu 11/7/2002 11:01 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Cc:
Subject: VAX 11/750 Restoration Project
FWIW, my 11/750 restoration project now has a page on my site at
http://dahmer.vistech.net/~jwillis
It is basically a journal format which I will update as I continue
working on the system.
John
FWIW, my 11/750 restoration project now has a page on my site at
http://dahmer.vistech.net/~jwillis
It is basically a journal format which I will update as I continue
working on the system.
John
Well, amidst all of the stellar and superlative Tales and Stories now
filtering in from Moffet Field, I have one small bummer.
Taking our cue from a recent long and nearly-immortal thread on
Oscilloscopes; sub-Tektronix scopes; sub-sub rack-mount Tek scopes -
Marvin and I concocted a nice visual in-joke. I mounted a working RM503
in the rack with my PDP 11/44 and waited for one of the Listmembers to
notice it and laugh. And I waited.... and waited....
Nobody got it! O well....
If Tony Duell had made his way across the pond this year - *he* would
have laughed! maybe...
But anyway, a Pretty Good Time was had by all, though there was not much
working Big Iron on display - partially understandable when the Logistics
of hauling and loading/unloading and setting up larger systems is taken
into account. And I have the scars and bruises to attest to that.
But next year I'm leaving the scope at home.
Cheerz
John
In approximately 3 months I will be moving from Hawaii back to the
mainland and will finally be able to reclaim the computer collection
that has been in storage in my parents' barn since 1996 when I left for
college. I so hope that the old Altair 8800b is still operational. In
highschool I used to use this machine with a 9600 baud modem to call
the local BBS, Wrote papers for school in WordStar, played a
character-graphics version of Aliens and Pacman..
At the same time, I had a 486 DX4 120 with an SVGA and a monochrome
card and monitors (I wrote a tsr that would copy the text contents of
the color display onto the mono with one key combination and clear the
mono with another, very handy while playing TradeWars 2002 on the local
BBS), This machine was always used far more, but the Altair would
always get fired up on a regular basis, often for no real reason. The
first program I ever wrote on it was in BASIC and just bounced a light
back and forth across the front panel display.
I can't wait to see the old machine again! The smell of baking dust,
the vacuum cleaner roar of the hard drive and the 50's Sci-Fi squeal of
the r/w heads moving across the disk, the boxes of 8 inch floppies all
bring back so many memories!
Anyone else out there with an Altair? Is there anyone actually using a
CP/M machine in some productive way? It's sad that even if rats dust
and time have not destroyed the beautiful blue machine, I can never
really trust storing files on it anymore without backing everything up
onto more modern media on my "real" computer (currently an eMac believe
it or not.. what a strange trip it's been).
Since today is a voting day, my votes are for
(1) Providence
(2) Boston
Because of some personal bad experiences with New York, I would
have to vote against it. Anywhere down to Connecticut and I
would attend and exhibit. After New York, down to NJ I would
attempt to attend, but would probably not be able to exhibit.
Megan
