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> From: Dwight K. Elvey [mailto:dwightk.elvey@amd.com]
> $250.00 set from a good source. The sockets split open,
> the Philips screwdriver points rounded and damaged the screws
> and the ratchet busted without even using a cheater.
> It had a life time guarantee. I found the replacements just
> as useless. Worse still, the plating from one of the replacement
> sockets peeled up and slashed my hand.
Hans is right, windows is just like that. :)
> It is better to have tools that don't break or damage
> your hardware than to have guaranteed junk.
Yep, not to mention that I prefer to deal with more reputable
organizations, like the IRS, or the DMV, or the mafia.
Chris
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> > > I find it interesting that the gaming market is one of the
> > > main defining markets for current PC hardware...the very market that
> > > PC users used to scorn. I've always thought it was stigma that was
> > > unfairly applied to the Amiga, even if it was better at it than the
> > > PC's of the same time period.
> >
> > Good point -- name something that the Amiga didn't do better...
> >
>
> The Amiga was doing "desktop publishing" *before* the term
> was coined!
In what year do you place this revisionist history? People were
casually using the term "Desktop Publishing" in 1985, the year
the Commodore Amiga A1000 was launched...
Regards,
-dq
At 07:29 AM 23/04/2002 -0700, Carlini, Antonio wrote:
>It's amazing DEC went to such
>bother calculating VUPs by running
>a set of real benchmarks on a finely
>tuned system and then reporting a
>measure based on some weighted
>sum when this procedure would have saved
>**sooo** much effort:
I didn't expect the command procedure to be as good as the real benchmarks
but given that the benchmarks are hardly likely to be available for end
users I was just interested to see if this command procedure was of any
use. At least you can run it on any VMS box.
>According to this proc, the machines
>I can reach right now report:
>
>VAXstation 4000-90A: 26.0 bogoVUPs (should be 32+ VUPs)
>VAX 4000-700A: 30.8 bogoVUPs (should be ~40 VUPs)
>VAX 4000-705A: 34.4 bogoVUPs (should be ~45 VUPs)
>Alpha 2100 4/200: 35.2 bogoVUPs
>Takara (EV56@500MHz): 87.2 bogoVUPs
Well it's in the ball park, though it looks like it's giving only about 75%
of the accepted VUP rating.
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au
| "If God had wanted soccer played in the
| air, the sky would be painted green"
>
> I don't recall any "Windows 2.0", but rather Windows 286 and Windows
> 386.
The floppies said Windows 286, but the box said
Windows 2.0...
-Douglas Hurst Quebbeman (DougQ at ixnayamspayIgLou.com) [Call me "Doug"]
Surgically excise the pig-latin from my e-mail address in order to reply
"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away." -Tom Waits
Hi,
I've got an old FutureData 2300 System. It has an 8085 CPU and two 8 Inch floppy drives.
What is it?
What is it good for?
What operating systems run on it?
Where can I find Software/Manuals/...
Would also trade it with an SMD Controller for my MicroVAX II
Greetings from Germany,
Flori
Hi Dick,
> > Good point -- name something that the Amiga didn't do better...
> >
> > Chris
> >
> Survive ... that's something it didn't do better.
>
Still alive, kickin' & new machines are about to be released :-)
cheers,
Lance
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I've got an ALS Z-Card for my Apple //e, and was wondering if anyone had
CP/M or MP/M for it. Any info on it would be greatly appreciated. I've
tried using google, but haven't really found anything of much use.
Also, has anyone tried making a 'soft disk' using SRAMs or an EPROM? I've
now got a bunch of EPROMs that would be nice to be able to dump a 'disk
image' that I could perhaps boot off of onto them. Any ideas from anyone
on this?
OR... perhaps something I could use a PC to emulate the disk... just
throwing some ideas out there. It'd be nice if it emulated the Disk ][
card so that I could use it as a drop in replacement - is there any easily
accessible docs for that?
-- Pat
> 1. Tandy Portable wordprocessor WP-2 with the manual.
I bought one of these New on closeout, boy what a waste of money since I've
never really used it. I've even got the cassette recorder and cable to
hook it up.
> 2. A AlphaSmart Pro wordprocessor like the WP-2 except it links up to
> PC's, Mac's and IIGS's using cables.
Actually the WP-2 should link up with anything with a serial port, if it's
got a comm program with the right protocol. I did this once, it was a royal
pain as I recall.
Zane
