test-drb February 2002

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20,046 pages of scanned old docs online?

by skkkeliris＠hotmail.com

Hello. i need this book 6502 Assembly Language Subroutines (Leventhal) Can you tell me the link to download it , or how to get it? Can you upload it somewhere or send it as an attachement? Regards, S.K

22 years, 9 months

OT: Stoned? [was: RE: Rush! ( was: RE: Once in a Lifetime...)]

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

At 01:59 PM 2/26/02 -0500, you wrote: >> From: Doc >> >> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, David Woyciesjes wrote: >> > > >> > > Ohhh, wowww, man. Geddy Lee, yeahhhh.... >> > > >> > > Doc >> > > >> > Doc? Hello? Sounds you're stoned man! And you didn't share either! >> >> Heh. I stayed that way from '74 till '89, but then I ran out. >> Permanently, it looks like. >> "No no no no, I don't smoke it no more; I'm tired of wakin' up on the >> floor!" >> >> Doc >> > Heh. Sounds like my buddy, when he was growing up in Vegas.... > >Quick quiz! > >"Don't bogart that joint, my friend. Pass it over to me." > >Who wrote it, and what albumn? Really, I can't remember the answer! I don't know who wrote it but it was on the Easy Rider soundtrack. I THINK The Byrds sang it there. Joe

22 years, 9 months

OT: Stoned? [was: RE: Rush! ( was: RE: Once in a Lifetime...)]

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Doc > > On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, David Woyciesjes wrote: > > > > > > Ohhh, wowww, man. Geddy Lee, yeahhhh.... > > > > > > Doc > > > > > Doc? Hello? Sounds you're stoned man! And you didn't share either! > > Heh. I stayed that way from '74 till '89, but then I ran out. > Permanently, it looks like. > "No no no no, I don't smoke it no more; I'm tired of wakin' up on the > floor!" > > Doc > Heh. Sounds like my buddy, when he was growing up in Vegas.... Quick quiz! "Don't bogart that joint, my friend. Pass it over to me." Who wrote it, and what albumn? Really, I can't remember the answer! --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 90581 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

22 years, 9 months

OT: cleaning pots on my vintage audio amp

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 20, 14:01, Roger Merchberger wrote: > Rumor has it that Tony Duell may have mentioned these words: > >> > > Or you can call it "Isopropyl alcohol" or just "rubbing alcohol"! > >> > > (But you want the 90+% stuff, NOT the 70%) > >> > > >> > But I don't think either of those are official convention. > >> > >> In spite of not being "official convention" (and sometimes not even > >> CORRECT), when telling somebody to get something, it just might be useful > >> to them to know what it is called at the places that they buy it. > > > >Unfortunately the 'local' names are just that. Local. I've never see > >anything called 'rubbing alcohol' for sale in the UK. I have seen it > >labelled isopropanol or propan-2-ol. Since this is an international list, > >it would seem to make sense to use the official name and then to look it > >up in a local chemical catalogue if necessary. > > Although I agree with you totally, for many things there is *no* > international name. If you send anyone over to Wal-mart or K-mart for > isopropanol or propan-2-ol, they'll *never* find it. I've only ever seen > labeled is "rubbing alcohol" (which I'll admit is much too vague) or > "isopropyl alcohol" and the percentage (you can get 91% at Wal-mart, but > most places stock only the 70% AFAIK. (I'm looking at a bottle as I type) > Even under the ingredient listing (required by law in the US) it's > "isopropyl alcohol". "iso-propyl alcohol" is the "old" name for it; "iso-propanol" is a more modern version of the same name; the "systematic" name (used almost everywhere *by chemists*) is "propan-2-ol". In this particular case, "iso-propanol" and "propan-2-ol" give exactly the same information, since there are only three carbon atoms, so the hydroxyl group can be either in the middle (iso-propanol/propan-2-ol) or at an end (n-propanol/propan-1-ol). If there are more carbon atoms, there are more possibilities for branches and aatachment positions, so the "old" names are less informative. > Even "aluminum" is different, but I don't remember how different... You mean "aluminium" :-) Like sodium, potassium, uranium, ... ^ ^ ^ ^ -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 9 months

Rush! ( was: RE: Once in a Lifetime, Twice in Forever)

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> ---------- > From: Doc > > On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, David Woyciesjes wrote: > > > Ahh, you should've made it to their last show, the Test For Echo > > tour, "An Evening With Rush". They played all 20 minutes of 2112, the > first > > time in about 20 years. And a lot of other classic Rush tunes as well. > > For those who don't know, 2112 is a Sci-Fi type story song, well, > > more of a composition I think. Normally, in concert, they play only > about 5 > > minutes of it, since the opening act takes up some time in the night. > This > > last tour, however, there was no opening act... Freeing up another 1 1/2 > > hours for Rush... > > Ohhh, wowww, man. Geddy Lee, yeahhhh.... > > Doc > Doc? Hello? Sounds you're stoned man! And you didn't share either! --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 90581 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

22 years, 9 months

A Jolly Good Find!

by jss＠subatomix.com

Well, folks, I'm a happy camper today. In a nice contrast against recent reports of list members screwing over other list members, I have some good news. Today, I met up with another list member in the mid-south USA. We had a fund day hopping around a scrapyard, and each of use went home with some cool gear. We found all sorts of goodies: remains of some Interdata minis, a DG Nova 3, a MicroVAX II, TS05 tape drive, piles of RA8x and other drives, a PDP-11/34, several VAX 4000-400s, some 8-bit stuff, and surely much more. The main thing I ended up carrying away, though, due to my schedule and the lack of space in my truck bed for anything else, was a PDP-11/70 carcass. I say 'carcass', because the scrappers had already yanked the cards out of all the cages and because there were a few other things missing. However, I've been lusting for a /70, and finding what I did put me a good ways along towards having a complete system. Cost: $20 for two H960 racks. This /70 is disguised as a DECdatasystem 570. I've got some questions about that, but I'll put them in another thread. The list member and his party were extremely nice. To save me the trouble of driving to a nearby ATM to get cash, a member of the party loaned me the dough. I was also treated to lunch at a nearby restaurant after leaving the scrapyard. Thanks for the hospitality, guys! So now I'm driving around with this PDP-11/70 in my truck. For a bit of fun, I showed it to a girl from work, being the evil bastard that I am. Much to my surprise, she seemed to actually be *interested* in the machine. No running away or screaming occurred. I'll hopefully be going back to this scrapyard in a few weeks to get some of the things I left behind this time. -- Jeffrey S. Sharp jss(a)subatomix.com

22 years, 9 months

Magnetic media and mold cleanup

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Jerome Fine replies: > > "donor" diskette? Are we now harvesting computer parts? I never had good luck cleaning the plastic shell of a 3.5 inch diskette; most of them have a thin liner materials inside, a type of plasticized frabric, that would disintegrate. So you want to use a blank, new, or otherwise unused floppy from which you remove the media and toss it. You insert the cleaned media into that plastic diskette shell. This is a very trivial operation, unless you're challenged in the hand/eye coordination department... > The person I am doing the recovery for may already have > enough of the files. I will see how much further I should go. > > > > I have one floppy that has over 100 error blocks (can't be read) > > > out of 988. Others have just a few. Is it possible to only spot clean > > > the ones with a few errors without removing the jacket? > > Dunno- let us know! > > Likewise for the answer above. Ok, again, perhaps we're having a communication problem. I have never tried anything other than what I described. Remove the messed-up media from its original shell and put it in a clean one. Clean the whole thing. This is what I've done, and your suggestion of partial cleaning has never occurred to me. And on reflection, I can't see any purpose in it. Unless you're reading into this some difficulty that isn't there. > > > Will Formula 409 work with floppy media? Where can it be purchased? > > Oh, it's a common household cleaner here in the U.S... a > > comparable cleaner is Fantastik. > > We have Fantastik here in Canada. I am in Toronto. Windex > is also a grease dissolving fluid and is used for glass. How > might that do? I would not make a recommendation regarding something I've not only never tried, but never even considered trying. Sorry! > >Joe wrote: > >If you just want to be able to read it long enough to recover it's data > >then don't put it back in a jacket! Just put the bare disk into the drive > >and copy it. I know several people that have successfully done this with 5 > >1/4" disk. However if your dirve has a spring loaded ejector, you may need > >to open up the housing and push the ejector back by hand. > > I will try that also if I go that far. for 5.25 inch floppies, I've done that too, but even still, it's easier to use a donor sleeve than trying to get naked media into the drive IMHO, although YYMV, etc. -dq

22 years, 9 months

DEC BC09J cable

by alan.pearson＠cramer.com

I'm looking for a DEC BC09J cable to hook up a VS3100 to a CD drive... can anyone point me to a likely source in the UK? Failing that, any hints about making one up? I'm not sure about one of the parts that I would need - from what I've heard the 68-pin connector is a "non-standard" DEC part? Sounds like the other end is just a 50-pin centronics-style job so I guess getting one of those won't be a problem. TIA Al

22 years, 9 months

Rush! ( was: RE: Once in a Lifetime, Twice in Forever)

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Doc > > 2112 was the only album of theirs I really cared for, taken as a > whole, but I'd break hell _and_ the bank to get to one of their shows. > Anytime, amywhere. > The last time I saw them was in Lubbock in '92?, the tour with the 30' > bunny-rabbits on stage. The 5'2" teenybopper next to me, a total > stranger, spent the entire show standing tippy-toe on my motorcycle > helmet. One of the best rock shows I've seen since Black Oak Arkansas > broke up. > > Doc > --- Ahh, you should've made it to their last show, the Test For Echo tour, "An Evening With Rush". They played all 20 minutes of 2112, the first time in about 20 years. And a lot of other classic Rush tunes as well. For those who don't know, 2112 is a Sci-Fi type story song, well, more of a composition I think. Normally, in concert, they play only about 5 minutes of it, since the opening act takes up some time in the night. This last tour, however, there was no opening act... Freeing up another 1 1/2 hours for Rush... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 90581 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

22 years, 9 months

NIC Card for MV3100

by SleetEB＠corning.com

Can anyone tell me if a network interface card exists for a MicroVax 3100? Ed Sleet Systems Analyst Tech. Corning Incorporated Harrodsburg, Ky 859-734-3341 x345 Fax: 734-5103 email: sleeteb(a)corning.com

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