test-drb April 2002

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Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

by blacklord＠telstra.com

Hi Chris, > The VAX. :) (You did say all machines) Unfair! Not the same class! > > Minis excluded, I guess the TRS-80 ;) Err, graphical web browser ? (Wave on the Cpmmies). cheers. Lance ---------------- Powered by telstra.com

22 years, 2 months

New Museum Finds for the Week

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

1. Tandy Portable wordprocessor WP-2 with the manual. 2. A AlphaSmart Pro wordprocessor like the WP-2 except it links up to PC's, Mac's and IIGS's using cables. 3. Panasonic/REAL game console with about 8 or 9 games for it at $1.99 per game. Works great. 4. Sun type 4 and 5 keyboards (1 each) with mice. 5. always technology AL-1000 high performance parallel port SCSI adapter. 6. One of those tan Apple carryon bags for the early all-in-one Mac's for $2.99. (They go for $30 to $60 on eBay) 7. Lots of other items that are too new to put out on here yet.

22 years, 2 months

Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick@idcomm.com] > You may be onto something, but the use of bombastic > descriptors such as > "brain-damaged" suggest you really don't know what goes on in > big companies, Actually, I would argue that the term "brain-damaged" describes more than adequately what goes on in large companies, and most small ones. I would argue that, but I'm tired of arguing... > and have lost sight of the fact that not all people are the > brightest bulbs It's a hard fact to miss. > ... just look at our Chief Executive ... even his Papa, who > was considerably > more articluate than he is, though not a dimwit, was not > terribly clever. If you're talking about the US's president, I'm not sure I can agree with your classification of "not a dimwit" for him -- or his father, or any other politician I can think of... I'm sure there are one or two who aren't idiots; I just can't think of any. > more below ... Indeed... > > average person can watch them and make use of their vocaublary by > > utter such wise words as "duh, footbawl!" > Keep in mind that they're the majority of the user base. Again, that's difficult to miss. 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

Altos 580 and CP/M-MP/M Again.

by doc＠mdrconsult.com

After a long DEC-inflicted delay, I finally found time to replace the Altos' CMI doorstop with a 20MB Seagate ST225. The ST225 formats fine in the Diags and passes all read/write/seek tests, but neither CP/M nor MP/M, booting from floppy, are able to access the drive. I'm fairly sure I'm missing a critical step, like partitioning and making a filesystem, but there's a double hitch. I know nothing about CP/M _and_ nothing about the Altos. Online info is non-existent for the 580 and bewilderingly abundant for CP/M. I'm soliciting "favorite CP/M tutorial" recommendations, as well as a Cx4 for reading the HDD from the OS. Doc

22 years, 2 months

Shiva Fastpath files and documentation

by nemesis-lists＠icequake.net

Hi, I've posted an archive of files and documentation for the Shiva Fastpath series of Localtalk to Ethernet routers here: http://dbz.icequake.net/oldskool/fastpath/ Hope it helps someone. I remember corresponding with Ethan about this quite a while back; don't remember if you found this stuff yet. In any case, here it is! -- Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253

22 years, 2 months

Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Hellige [mailto:jhellige@earthlink.net] > 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... 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

Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

by dquebbeman＠acm.org

> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Torquil MacCorkle III wrote: > > > But, Weren't you impressed with his use of the word 'moonified'? It's like > > he wrote the nonsensical rant with a thesaraus to sound smart. > > > > Yes. moonified threw me for awhile... > > kinda reminds me of some spell checker that we once > used that suggested broccoli as a replacement for Berkeley... Can you say "obg"? Either Enlzbaq is a ebobg, or he has a obg working for him... -dq

22 years, 2 months

3.5" floppy drive specs?

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Does anyone have a handy list of drive specs for the various 3.5" floppy drives that they can post? I need to find a couple of old 720k drives but I don't know what part numbers to look for. Joe

22 years, 2 months

TFE - C64 Ethernet Cartridge (fwd)

by bpope＠wordstock.com

> > We are proud to announce that we have designed and implemented a fully > working Ethernet adapter for the Commodore 64. We call our design TFE > - The Final Ethernet (a pun on the name of the TFC :-). It consists of the > Embedded Ethernet board from Systor Vest AS > (http://www.embeddedethernet.com/) and a single 74LS139 decoder chip > mounted on a custom made printed circuit board. > > To show off our card, we have connected a TFE-equipped C64 to the > Internet. It is running the uIP TCP/IP stack > (http://dunkels.com/adam/uip/) including the web server as well as a > real-time streaming audio server that streams audio sampled from the > Datasette player. It can be reached at http://tfe.c64.org/. > > More information, including pictures of the cartridge, PCB layouts, > and source code can be found at http://dunkels.com/adam/tfe/. > > Note that this is not the same Ethernet adapter that Bo Zimmerman > talked about a few weeks ago. > > Adam Dunkels and Peter Eliasson > April 12, 2002 > > -- > Adam Dunkels <adam(a)sics.se> > http://www.sics.se/~adam > > Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list > Like, this is too COOL!!!!!! Bryan

22 years, 2 months

suggestions on BBC Micro, voltage converter, PAL monitor (in US)?

by nemesis-lists＠icequake.net

Tony Duell wrote: > At last a message that's not part of a flamewar involving Richard > Erlacher.... Maybe we should create a separate list for flamewars. You've got to admit, the OT traffic is interesting at times. -- Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253

22 years, 2 months

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