At 19:59 11-12-2002 -0500, you wrote:
>> Tonight, Dec. 11th, at 10 PM Eastern time, the TLC cable channel is
>>doing a show titled "Hackers". Supposedly a look at black- and white-hat
>>hackers, and cyber crime. Hopefgully it'll be interesting...
>Should I tell Uncle Tivo to record it??? I can make SVCDs of the thing, for
>those who have DVD players that can play a slightly non-standard stream... ;-)
>Laterz,
>"Merch"
I would very much like to see this show, but cannot receive the TLC channel
on this side of the ocean. NTSC SVCDs are no problem for me! Maybe you can
make the MPGs available somewehere?
A while ago there was also mention of another show, about the history of
the internet? Did anyone capture this show too? I would like to see that
one as well, but it also was on a channel not available to me.
Kees Stravers
(The Netherlands)
I am not sure if there is any interest at all in fixing the Y2K bugs
in V5.03 of RT-11 and making it Y2K compliant. Since V5.03
has been widely available for a number of years and is able to
be legally run under the Supnik emulator for hobby users, I am
curious to find out if spending the time to port code (that I did in
1997) from V5.04G of RT-11 to V5.03 of RT-11 is worth while
insofar as the Y2K bug fix is concerned. In addition, and at the
same time, it would be very effective to add extra code to make
RT-11 Y10K compliant and handle years up to at least 9999 CE.
Even if you are only going to use the final product, the number of
individuals interested in playing a role is important to ascertain.
Please express if you would like to at least receive the changes
to V5.03 that would make the code Y2K/Y10K compliant.
At the present time, I assume there is absolutely no commercial
interest in a Y2K V5.03 of RT-11. Consequently, the target of
this post is, by default, only the hobby community. The final result
will also be licensed for just the hobby community, so it is hoped
that ought to prevent any complications as to who will use the
changes and whether there will be any attempt to restrict the use
of such changes by the hobby community.
If there is any commercial interest, please e-mail me off
list to find out what might be available. If the interest is
what I think it is, I will NOT be receiving any responses
at all for commercial use!
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
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After far too long, the long-overdue 11th edition of the Secret Weapons of
Commodore, cataloguing rare, unusual and unreleased Commodore hardware, has
been released.
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/
Here are the highlights:
New entries:
the VIC-40 (thanks Mike Stein),
the SX-500 (thanks Dale Luck),
TOI and the Colour PET (now separate entries, thanks Mike Stein),
the TT13 (thanks Riccardo Rubini),
the Canadian Plus/4,
the Swedish PET 3032 (thanks Peter Karlsson),
the German C64 (thanks Markus Mehring),
new pictures:
complete views of Dave Haynie's NTSC 116 prototype (thanks Ray
Castaldo),
enhanced portrait and port views of the 128DLs (thanks Bo Zimmerman),
views of the 1565 and mainboard (thanks Bo),
the 3000H light rifle (thanks Lee Rayner),
the Colour PET prototype (thanks Bo),
the Gold VIC (maybe?) (thanks Bo),
the Commodore 65 burn-in board and widget board (thanks Moise Sunda),
the Commodore thermostat in the flesh! (thanks Joe Torre),
comparison 116 keyboard shots (thanks Ray),
better C65 mainboard/ports/portrait photographs (thanks Moise),
C65 PSU images (thanks Moise *again*),
higher resolution pictures of the CHESSmate,
a proper DX-64 portrait,
a better 3008 portrait (thanks Tiziano),
a colour view of the HHC-4 (Bo) and the VIC-TV (Bo encore),
a real SFS 481 (thanks Antonio Pagliaro),
SX-100 faceplate (thanks Bo),
views of the SX-500,
the TT13 (thanks Riccardo);
updates:
Fred Bowen's big ideas for the 65, the 600s seem to be the same as the B500s,
the HHC-4 might be more similar to the Panasonic HHC than previously thought,
the Lorraine pictures are actually of an early developer prototype (thanks
Dale Luck), CCR has a scale too (thanks Mike Shartiag), more SFX
history (thanks Richard Atkinson), TOI is not the same as the Colour PET
(thanks Mike Stein), the 6562/3 was likely not in TOI (thanks Mike Stein),
the 65 widget and burn-in boards (thanks Moise), the 7601 is the CPU in the
TVG series, plus some great notes on its internal architecture (thanks Lee
Rayner), the SX was the first colour portable computer, additional history on
the 116 and 364 (thanks Dave Haynie), the SX TV tuner package?, more Magic
Voice history and architecture explanation, the 116 was
designed by Commodore Japan (thanks Dave Haynie), custodial link repair,
various smaller changes.
In addition, on the main page, the modification date of all pages is now
automatically tracked to make finding new changes and entries easier.
Enjoy.
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/
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-- I shouldn't have to explain this to someone old enough to type. - S. Gardner
> On the plus side a CMD CDU-720/TM SCSI controller was installed
do you have any way to read the eprom from this?
I have four of these boards, and they are all missing the eprom :<
On Dec 10, 20:03, Philip Pemberton wrote:
> Hi all,
> Well, it looks like I've finally destroyed the Ace. I've just spent
the
> past hour trying to desolder the dead RAMs and buffers from the Ace's
main
> PCB. Unfortunately it looks like the board was designed to self-destruct
> when anyone tried to repair it.
> The pads appear to have been designed to peel off on the application
of
> heat, they're less than 5 mils around the hole (what do you think that
> means?) and they don't even seem to be through-hole plated. The tin
plating
> was applied straight on top of oxidised copper - I've had to retin some
pads
> and tracks courtesy of that major screwup.
Machines like that were designed to keep the cost as low as possible, and
repairability often wasn't a consideration.
On things like that, I often don't even try to rescue any suspect ICs or
even passives, just cut them off close to the PCB with a very fine pair of
sidecutters, and then desolder the stub of pin.
> Does anyone know how I could rescue this machine? It looks like the
RAMs
> are definetly fried, along with some of the logic as well. Font RAM and
> Video RAM are still not being loaded on startup so the output of the
video
> generator is still 100% noise, however it *is* changing when the machine
is
> powered off and then back on again. I'm shotgunning all the RAMs (there's
> only six of them) and the bus muxes.
> Has anyone here either repaired one of these machines or got a spare
Ace
> to sell me? I've got a proper PSU now, with only one connector (the jack
> plug the Ace uses), so I can say with near absolute certainty that the
same
> mistake will not occur again.
First thing is to make sure anything you remove is replaced with a good
quality socket, and if necessary that you can repair any damaged tracks
with stripped wirewrap wire or similar. How adept are you with a
soldering iron? I used to do this sort of thing for a living, and I'm not
too far away if you want someone to take a look at it.
Did you get the 2114s and Z80 I sent you? They should have arrived this
morning.
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Network Manager
University of York
Just heard from a friend that he's interested in a VAX, and he's
based near here in north Bristol. Anybody know of a suitable
machine?
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coredump(a)gifford.co.uk
> > * I will no longer gripe about lack of funds in nearly every post. :-)
>
> Yes, now you will move to the group that gripes about lack of spare
> time. :-)
Allow me to welcome you to that group :^)
Zane
Does anyone have a copy of Executive Suite for PC's? It's the game where
you are working your way up a corporate heirarchy through answering trivia
questions.
Peace... Sridhar
I am at a point where I am thinking about divesting myself of the
majority of my computer collection. Partly needed bucks driven, partly
tiring of it all. A small museum is unlikely and I have other unfulfilled
interests which I might focus on as an old fart. Likely on E-Pay
because we're a notoriously cheap (or poor) lot.
What would the list retain if they were cutting down or getting rid of
the majority of thier collection and keeping enough to keep thier hand
in.
The game machines are easy and the first to go.
I would think of retaining an IBM PC and another good DOS box.
A CP/M machine. Maybe a Rainbow and let the Kaypros, Osborne,
and others go.
A hip old laptop, In my case a Grid 1520 and my Sharp handheld.
Maybe one old early box like my Micom, H-89. or TRS m.II
An Atari 8-bit and / or CoCo 3
An ST and Amiga 3K
An IBM PS/2 likely the 8590, altho who would want 8580s, a more
significant machine. Maybe one kept by default.
And a newer DOS box and laptop.
And then looking at this exclusive list it won't be easy.
Lawrence
lgwalker(a)mts.net
bigwalk_ca(a)yahoo.com
There are some old Macs free for the taking in South Orange, New Jersey:
(3) Macintosh LC
(1) Macintosh IIci
(1) Macintosh IIcx
(1) Macintosh IIsi
(1) Macintosh 8100/180 (needs P/S)
Please contact Nilton at 973/275.1700 or <info(a)funmaps.com> if interested.
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