Hello, all:
I'm looking to start a software project for the Palm platform and
was wondering if anyone on the list had recommendations for a good beginning
to intermediate book. Amazon lists quite a few but I haven't gone to the
physical bookstore yet to preview them.
Thanks.
Rich
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> For those of us that were serious about computing, that didn't have access
> to the kind of money a PC or Mac cost, the QL was a godsend.
Too right, I still remember the day I wandered past Currys
in Banbury and saw they'd repriced QL's at ?199! Wandered
home in a fret thinking "can I afford it?"... agonised over
it for a week or so then bought it anyway :-) Best box I ever
bought - within a week or so I had the Lattice assembler and
a copy of the Technical Manual and was digging around QDOS,
and soon after that I'd got a 3.5" disk drive (whoa, a whole
"1440 sectors" on one disk!) and a C compiler. That was it,
my metamorphosis into a complete "dalek" was complete :-)
Al.
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 18:54:13 -0500 Douglas Quebbeman
> <dhquebbeman(a)theestopinalgroup.com> writes:
> > I was talking about the DEC BASIC that made BASIC famous,
> > the BASIC from TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 on the DECsystem-10.
> >
> > > VAX BASIC V3.8-000
> >
> > Looks like some kind of vacuum cleaner to me...
>
> Hey, as far as I'm concerned, it isn't BASIC unless it's
> BASIC-PLUS running under RSTS/e.
>
> Sorry, you guys resurrected and old (and very fond)
> memory . . .
Hey, Jeff, it's ok... someone will eventually post
MY COMPUTER LOVES ME WHEN I SPEAK DARTMOUTH BASIC
;)
Alan Pearson wrote:
>At the moment I'm using an ST running UNITERM hooked up to a
>3100/30's console port so I'm stuck with just the one login session
>at a time - occasionally I'd like to be able to flip over to SYSTEM
>without having to mess about with logging out of AL and into SYSTEM
>and back :-) Any ideas?
Assuming you have DECnet installed you can do:
$ SET HOST 0
and log in as SYSTEM.
I run my VAxstation the same way - almost
everything I do, I do with the unprived
user account. Occasionally I fire up another
terminal to do some stuff with SYSTEM.
To be honest, once it's all set up, it
doesn't need much tending to, so there's not
too much need for SYSTEM access.
What sort of things are you doing that
need SYSTEM access ?
Antonio
Mike,
Is Eric Smith still around?
How can I get the equipment from Denver? I have a cargo trailer and
truck but would need information.
Thanks for any information!
Don
>It sounded like maybe Tom had some additional stuff for you.
>
>In any case, I encourage you to call Eric tomorrow (or even now!) to find
>out exactly what his plans are.
>
>-Mike
>
>
>On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Don Robert House wrote:
>
>> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 15:05:22 -0700
>> From: Don Robert House <drhouse(a)nadcomm.com>
>> To: Mike Cheponis <mac(a)Wireless.Com>
>> Subject: Re: Fwd: Eric Smith asked me to post this
>>
>> Well I am still puzzled. The four small boxes he picked up in
>> Jamestown New York are the items I am hoping to pick up in
>> Bakersfield.
>>
> > Don
> >
> > >I'm pretty sure he had to leave quite a few things in Colorado, so I
>> >don't think he will be stopping in Bakersfield on this trip. The uhaul
>> >guy did some eyeballing of the load and, even with all the chicago stuff
>> >unloaded, still thought what was left was overloading the truck. (!). I
>> >don't think he got yelled at, I think they just replaced the springs.
>> >
>> >There is A Plan to go get that Colorado stuff plus some other stuff in
>> >the next couple of months, tho, as I understand it.
>> >
>> >-Mike
> > >
> > >On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Don Robert House wrote:
>> >
>> >> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 20:35:58 -0700
>> >> From: Don Robert House <drhouse(a)nadcomm.com>
>> >> To: Christian Fandt <cfandt(a)netsync.net>, Mike Cheponis
>><mac(a)Wireless.Com>,
>> >> Tom Kleinschmidt <tomkleinschmidt(a)home.com>
>> >> Subject: Re: Fwd: Eric Smith asked me to post this
>> >>
>> >> I sure hope I get enough warning when he is coming to Bakersfield.
>> >>
> > >> Don
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> From: Richard Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com>
> Well, I may be able to help you out here. I've got TB and a book or two.
Thanks, Dick! I just found the manual, so all I really need are the disks,
or copies of them. Let me know how much to send you, or if you prefer to
email 'em that'll work too.
Glen
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"Ernest" <ernestls(a)attbi.com> wrote:
> What size floppy disks does the HP 9114B drive use? Is it 720k or 1.44 meg?
they use 720K floppies
HP 110, Portable PLUS and the IBM PC (using the HP-IL card) use
512 bytes per sector, 9 sectors per track for a formatted capacity of 710K
The Series 40 and 70 use
256 bytes per sector, 16 sectors per track for a formatted capacity of 630K
The lower capacity is due to the fact that the 9114 spares tracks to be
used as replacements for bad sectors on the diskette.
**vp
> From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke(a)mch20.sbs.de>
> Well, my instruction reads that L1 has to be set as soon as you have
> a 4118 (or the otehr way around, it is only to be left out if you have
> two 2114). Please check also the scanned assembly instructions at the
> ZX Team pages (English Version)
> http://home.t-online.de/home/p.liebert/f_zx81_e.htm
Well, the schematic is also available on the TEAMs site (adjacent to the
assembly instructions), although "L1 for 1K" and "L2 for 2K" does not
exactly specify the number of RAM ICs . . .
There were a number of revisions of the PCB which were issued.
BUT -- I have 2 ZX81 PCBs and 1 TS1000 PCB close at hand, and what I found
is that NO jumper is installed on either of the ZX81 boards (both are Issue
One and have 2x2114), but the TS1000 (Issue 3 with a single 2016) has L2
(actually marked LK2) installed.
I have a couple of dozen more of these at my shop, and will check them out
as well.
> BTW, have I already told the story that I build a
> casher out of a ZX81 ?
No, but I'd like to read it ;>)
Glen
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On March 26, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> Volume, particuarly in SAN and MAN applications, will drive the prices down.
> Once the cost is low enough, you might as well have lightspeed on your
> desktop.
Yes yes, but a little balance might be nice. Most system busses can't
handle that sort of bandwidth...so what's the point? Faster is
better...but only if it's *useful*. Upgrading for the sake of
upgrading is bogus, and only serves the wallets of the vendors' VPs.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire "...it's leaving me this unpleasant,
St. Petersburg, FL damp feeling on my shorts..." -Sridhar
