test-drb March 2002

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by r_beaudry＠hotmail.com

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige(a)earthlink.net> >Which manual are you looking for...the OEM or the Service >manual? Thanks to a generous list member, I have copies of both and >could photocopy them for you, with the exception of the large circuit >diagrams. Joe, And if you need the schematics, I have access to an 11"x17" photocopier, so I can get them to you.... Also, drop me a note off-line if you still need that YE-Data manual... Rich B. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

22 years, 2 months

Write only programming

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: John Chris Wren [mailto:jcwren@jcwren.com] > This is a personal tirade of mine. There is no such > thing as a language > that supports comments that can be considered write-only. There are > write-only programmers, but personally, I can't think of a > single language > that doesn't support comments in one form or another. From > using Forth with > shadow files to the latest and greatest 5GL languages, they > all support > comments. Feel free to show an example of a language that > doesn't support > comments, it will be new to me. Going back to intercal, it officially doesn't. There is a (convoluted, like everything else) way to make it ignore a line of code. Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 2 months

Write only programming

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Franchuk [mailto:bfranchuk@jetnet.ab.ca] > How dare you call a programing languge that has the 'Come from' > statement > far right! get your compiler and start writing real code > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/intercal/ That's not to mention the "PLEASE ABSTAIN FROM" directive... Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 2 months

NYTimes: A Long Time Ago, in a Lab Far Away...

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> > The Stewart Brand-penned article for Rolling Stone > > 1972? That picture of the laptop is friggin' incredible. Yes, 1972, and what you saw was a mockup of Alan Kay's Dynabook, that being perhaps the best extant photo of said cardboard computer... -dq

22 years, 2 months

Multiple floppies in one system?

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> > > ASSIGN D: C: > > > > > > Meaning D: would be the equivalent of C: > > > > Wow, sounds just like the DOS/CMD.EXE (NT, 2000) command called > > > > SUBST > > > > as in identical syntax... > > You're right. It's the SUBST command. There is no ASSIGN command (but it > sounded good). Actually, yes, there is... it had problems, SUBST was the cure? -dq

22 years, 2 months

DEC BC09J cable

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 28, 21:25, Tothwolf wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Pete Turnbull wrote: > > I believe the common order in the States is to swap orange and green > > pairs, which is T568A. > I haven't found 586A to be used more than 586B here in the US. Nearly > every ethernet installation I've worked on used 586B, but I have seen 586A > used quite abit for Token Ring over twisted pair. That's interesting. That's the first time I've ever heard an opinion direct from someone who uses the stuff. My belief was founded on things I've seen written by people who write standards or interpretations of them, no more than that. In other words, not people who actually do it. I always wondered why we'd do it differently. Perhaps we don't :-) -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 2 months

thinning out my Apollo collection

by wilby98＠yahoo.com

It is time for me to thin out my Apollo "herd". I have 8-Apollo's and plan on keeping only 2. They are DN3500's and DN3000's. Most are complete but a few are missing power supplies. I also have a bunch of keyboards, accessories. They were/are running the Domain OS (the ones I powered up). Most came from one source in the UK. You can see a picture at: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wstan/puters I am trying to make more room for my VAXen. Plus, I want to share and give others a chance to have one. They are here in Amsterdam, NL. I can help you with finding a freight forwarder if you want to go that route. Contact me directly for more information. Regards, -- Bill Amsterdam, NL

22 years, 2 months

MZ3850

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On February 28, RMChadwick(a)aol.com wrote: > any body know what the instuction set for the MZ3850 CPU is or better still > sourse code for the racal RA6790/gm or variant of that rx so i can change the > cpu for one that works. I too have a Racal 6790/GM...if you find a solution to the Unobtainium Processor problem, please let me know. ;-) -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf

22 years, 2 months

Idiocy on eBay, I can't stop laughing!

by geoffr＠zipcon.net

And the "AOS Windows" Disk is NOT MS-Windows... the ONLY reason that any of the disks say anything about MS is that at that point Xenix was still owned my Microsoft.... At 03:39 AM 2/28/02 -0600, you wrote: >On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Bill Dawson wrote: > > > This page says it all: > > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2004856941 > > > > And check out the TOS! ROLF. > >Gosh, what an idiot... I might even have a similar set of disks around >somewhere. > >-Toth

22 years, 2 months

Need paper tape encoding format

by vcf＠vintage.org

Is there info somewhere that shows how symbols are encoded onto paper tape? Ideally it would include the actual hole positions like so: 8 4 2 1 A: * B: * C: * * (Note: this is not an actual example but just an example of the format I'm looking for. Of course.) Thanks! -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

22 years, 2 months

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test-drb March 2002