test-drb February 2002

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BBS systems on PDP-11s (was: Original Searchlight bbs...)

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Strathmann [mailto:thomas@tstrathmann.de] > I think about this a lot sometimes. Mostly when I am again deeply > frustrated about the behaviour of certain morons on the > Internet. What I Me too. :) > would like to do is what some people call a guerilla net, a WLAN that > connects like-minded people to form a community seperate from > the Internet. > But using existing Internet connections would be better for > obvious reasons > (price, availability, bridging huge distances etc.). The problem with Well, existing internet connections are a good idea, but I like to -- in principal -- separate this thing from internet as much as possible. Basically I had thought of using the existing internet connections for anything that would cause extra charges to be applied to your phone bill ;) In the local area, I was thinking of telephone only. Packet radio where available. > testing a program/configuration/installation of such a service is not > within my capacity, I would need access to a server with a > reasonably fast > connection which is, more important, online 24/7. Well, if you want a relay network, no you wouldn't. :) Otherwise yes. My idea was for a relay net, since it would allow most people who have the wherewithal and the intelligence to set some stuff up to participate with little or no cost. It would also keep the idiots away because it's "slow, and why won't my web browser work." :) Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 5 months

OT?????? HP200LX case repair

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 8, 20:42, Tothwolf wrote: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Pete Turnbull wrote: > > > Proper ABS cement (available for plastic plumbing) is about the > > strongest glue you can get for that, much stronger than superglue on > > ABS. It doesn't just adhere, it welds the plastic. An alternative is > > methyl ethyl ketone, MEK, commonly available as a solvent and widely > > used industrially to glue/weld both PVC and ABS. > > Methyl Ethyl Ketone won't even begin to bond ABS. It just isn't a strong > enough solvent. It works fine on Polystyrene, but I've never seen > Polystyrene used for a computer case. ABS is almost always used, since it > is extremely durable. Most non-industrial epoxies won't even begin to > adhere to ABS plastics either. MEK works very well on PVC, less well on ABS, that's true. > I have a small glass bottle of Methylene Chloride I bought at a hobby > supply shop. It says it will work on Styrene, Butyrate, ABS and Acrylic > (Lucite of Plexiglas). I haven't yet tried it out on the ABS skins on my > SGI systems tho. Chloroform works very well on Perspex (Lucite), and is reckoned by some to be marginally safer. It doesn't work very well on ABS, though. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 5 months

Spam Re: IBM HDDs for sale

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 8, 20:22, Doc wrote: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Dan Kolb wrote: > > > How many spams are actually sent from Hotmail or Yahoo? (As opposed to having > > forged From: fields)? > > A lot from Hotmail, not so many from Yahoo. The problem with both is > that it's trivial to get an account. Doesn't matter a lot if they TOS > you 6 hours later. > In my experience, Yahoo seems to respond more decisively to > complaints. I was amused by a message on one of the comp.sys.acorn (IIRC) newsgroups yesterday. Someone received some spam from a Hotmail account, hastily read the rest of his email, cut and pasted headers and body into a complaint to Hotmail's abuse address before going out, and sent it off. A few hours later he found his friend's account had been terminated. He'd cut and pasted from the wrong message, and Hotmail accepted the complaint without question! -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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10Base-FL

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 8, 20:25, Tothwolf wrote: > You wouldn't happen to know someone with 3-4 24 port units they would be > willing to give the school do you? 'Fraid not. CompSci at York (my old Department) recently got rid of over two dozen 3Com PS II 40 hubs, but to my great disgust hurriedly sold them as a job lot and didn't even offer any to me, or or to Computing Service (we would have been interested in using them for student residences). I'm on the wrong side of the Atlantic, anyway. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 5 months

10Base-FL

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 8, 22:01, Tony Duell wrote: > Does anyone know where I can get the fibre cable cheap? I've got half a > dozen or so transceivers, all labelled 'not working', but they look > fixable (it's mostly simple 10K ECL inside). And when I was in one of my > many computer rooms looking for an HP plotter recently, I tripped over a > 12 port 10base-FL hub (or at least that's what I assume it is). > > But I don't have the cable, and the prices I've seen quoted for it mean > I'm not going to buy it new... I might be able to get you it at the prices we pay, which are much lower than most catalogues. Contact me off-list and tell me what sort of length(s) and what connectors (I'd guess ST bayonets). -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 5 months

newest aquisition

by jhellige＠earthlink.net

As many of you will attest, once you aquire one of something, more soon follow. I've been wanting a NeXT Cube for over 10 years and finally picked one up a few months ago. Now, thanks to Doc's help, I've just aquired a second. This one is a much earlier machine than my first one, with a serial# less than 5000 and unlike my first it still retains it's '030 configuration and dual-OD faceplate. Though missing the OD, which I do have a replacement for, it also has the 40MB swap disk that NeXT started installing in Nov. 1989. It also has the later drive tower with the 4 sets of mounting holes. In comparison, my other Cube, which also started life as an '030 machine, has a serial# of 16818 and had been upgraded to an '040 with the addition of the internal floppy and faceplate (though still retaining the OD), as well as being further upgraded with the NeXTdimension board. Jeff -- Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File http://www.cchaven.com http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757

22 years, 5 months

Classic Game Console Search

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Does anyone on the list have one or all of these; The Adventure Vision by Entex, the COSMOS by Atari, or the Microvision by Milton Bradley? I hope to get a Microvision in a couple days but the others are hard to find. The COSMOS for example has only 5 known to be left and only 2 of those are working units.

22 years, 5 months

Need docs & drivers for old tape drives

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>> I also have an Iomege Tape250 Insider with docs and drivers. > >Hmmm, yummy. >I really just need copies of the drivers or software, and ideally a copy >of the documentation if necessary. I'd be happy to dupe the disks for you on Monday as well as photocopy the docs and mail them to you. I also have a SCSI tape drive of some kind attached to my Mac. I don't recall if it came with PC drivers as well or not. I don't remember anything about the drive, as it has been sitting under my CD burner in the corner unused since shortly after I bought it (connected and turned on, but unused). I only used it a few times... it is so bloody slow, I gave up and started doing my backups to CD (its a 2gig tape drive, but it takes about 8 hours to backup the full 2gig! So it is faster for me to burn to my 2x CDRW) I will pull out the docs for it and see if it was PC compatible as well, if it was, I can copy those if needed as well (I'll let you know what it is on Monday also) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 5 months

IBM HDDs for sale

by mythtech＠Mac.com

Ok.. now I think Sellam is asking people to spam the list... just to make a point -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 5 months

8" and 5.25" floppy disks

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Since the issue came up recently, I requested a price quote >from Athana. I told them it's a joint order with friends for 100 pieces. And this is what I got back: Per our telephone conversation of this date, Athana is please to send you the following quotation, for 5.25" and 8 inch diskettes, based on a combined quantity of 100 diskettes. 5.25" DD diskettes 8 Inch Diskettes (SS or DD diskettes) $0.85/diskette $7.50/diskette Shipping charges to Indianapolis are $12.00 via UPS ground. Now how does that sound, $7.50 per disk? Pretty stiff price, and the difference to the 5.25" DDs is quite interesting. Anyone found better prices? thanks, -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org

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test-drb February 2002