test-drb April 2002

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1162 discussions

by mtapley＠swri.edu

Fred wrote (about a demo PROM with visible links): >How about using circuit breakers? >Then you would have a manually erasable PROM, without further expenditure >each time that you program it. Then Richard wrote (about the distinction between hard-, firm-, and soft-ware): >It happens that some folks differentiate >between hardware and firmware based on whether you can touch it or not. You >can't touch firmware, at least not in a practical sense, just as you can't >touch software. Hmmm. If the circuit breakers are the type that pop out a button when they break, I *could* touch software, after it was programmed into the circuit-breaker PROM. Actually, if things were set up *just* right, I could arrange to be hit over the head by software (as it was being written to PROM). Do we need a new name for this device? FEPROM (officially Finger Erasable Programmable etc., but we all know it's really Fred's Erasable etc.)? - Mark

22 years, 8 months

FWD: Re: Goodbye VAX hello ALpha

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

Mmmm, Windows user. Crunchy and good with ketchup. -Dave On April 15, David Woyciesjes wrote: > Has anyone seen this news posting? > > -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Goodbye VAX hello ALpha Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 22:55:13 -0400 From: Bill Gunshannon Organization: University of Scranton Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec References: <3Hmt8.2238$GS6.168438(a)bin3.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com> On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Deane Williams <dwilliams296(a)comcast.net> wrote: > Hello > Just wondering is there a reseller/company that will take > VAXes in trade for Alphas?? I'm talking about 3100s and > even some 4000/XXX and 36/38XX series VAX. And after they get done rolling onthe floor laughing you could put them on a truck and send them up here. I can at least promise they won't be taking up space in a landfill. bill -- > > --- David A Woyciesjes > --- C & IS Support Specialist > --- Yale University Press > --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu > --- (203) 432-0953 > --- ICQ # - 905818 > Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 > Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash > -- Dave McGuire "Hush and eat your vegetables, young lady!" St. Petersburg, FL - Mr. Bill

22 years, 8 months

UPS was Re: Need Burroughs Tape Spec's

by nemesis-lists＠icequake.net

> If FedEx dropped their price a little I think more people > would use them vice UPS. Thankfully the SGI Indigo2 and 19" monitor> I was waiting on arrived today by UPS and appears to have come > through the ordeal at least physically intact. Don't count on FedEx either. My Indigo2 and monitor each came in large and small pieces. :/ FedEx Ground in St Louis. -- Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253

22 years, 8 months

ForSale: WangTek tape drive...

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

Wangtek tape drive - Model No. 5150EQ - Assy No. 30551-20B Rev.G Wangtek ISA controller card & ribbon cable - Assy. No. 30475 Rev. C1 10 tapes (5 still in plastic!) - Global G6150 (DC6150 compatible) - I'll answer any queries about the chips on the adapter... - I haven't had a chance to hook it up and try it yet. - Best bid received in 48 hours (5:00pm Thursday, Eastern Time) takes it all. - Considering the weight of the tapes, shipping (from New Haven, CT) will likely cost around $10. - I can easily ship via UPS Ground (my personal preference), or I can do USPS... - I prefer PayPal, but I'll accept Money Order, or cash if you pick it up in person. *** More goodies to come as I clean out & organize the computer room in my house! (Won't my wife be so proud of me! :) - Would it be better to put up a little web page listing the other items I'll be selling, instead of a message like this? Or is this (the 'ForSale:' subject line) okay? -- --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

22 years, 8 months

Download CD images for RSX-11 and RT-11 Freeware CDs from TimShoppa

by dquebbeman＠acm.org

> Jerome Fine replies: > > Add one more "m" to your "Hmm" and it will be the same response > that Hasimir Fenring manages to use in the Dune series. > > Seriously, I don't want to have to maintain my own internet system > since I am much more interested in RT-11. Also, since Ersatz-11 > runs under DOS/W95/W98, the W98 (Yeck) environment has become > a default last resort. Are/were you an Ersatz-11 beta tester, or are you rich? I thought it cost US$3K. -dq -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

22 years, 8 months

UPS was Re: Need Burroughs Tape Spec's

by dquebbeman＠acm.org

> > > From: Dave McGuire > > > > On April 16, John R. Keys Jr. wrote: > > > UPS delivered my Burroughs tape unit model BU4180 yesterday but it was > > > destroyed. They must have dropped it from a high place as this thing > > > weighs in at almost 80 pounds.. > > > > I'm wondering how UPS manages to stay in business anymore. I've > > shipped about four things via UPS in the past year, and EVERY ONE OF > > THEM arrived damaged to some extent. WTF?? > > Meanwhile, I personally have never had a problem with UPS, and with > the volume of packages coming & going in this building, I've never seen > anything bad either. Maybe just a moron for a driver? He didn't mention whether it was residential or commercial delivery; with commercial/business dleivery, you usually end up establishing a relationship with the delivery person; as a result, I think those guys are more carefully because they're going to have to look you in the eye. OTOH, residential delivery drivers just dump the package and run... so in that case, I might suspect a delivery person. But I've seen videotapes of UPS employees offloading planes, and with one guy "going long" you can tell how respectful they are with stuff. And they were being quite jolly about it, too... -dq -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

22 years, 8 months

UPS was Re: Need Burroughs Tape Spec's

by dquebbeman＠acm.org

> I think I mentioned it before relative to UPS but I once shipped a 19" monitor > from here (California) to Virginia IICRC. The monitor made it fine to the guys > driveway (He was watching as the UPS driver pulled up) > > It was being kicked off the back of the UPS truck onto the asphalt driveway > that destroyed the monitor. Pretty hard to pack anything (thats big or heavy) > to withstand that... Yup, I'd be in prison now for beating the UPS driver within an inch of his life.... -dq -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

22 years, 8 months

Explain the NeXTStation "dim monitor" problem, etc...

by dquebbeman＠acm.org

> > > First off -- can somebody explain the common problem with the > >> monitors going dim? Can I fix it? (How?) Is there an internal > >> "intensity" pot that I can adjust to get more life out of the > >> monitor? It is just bright enough not to strain your eyes at > >> the highest brightness setting right now... (It's B&W) > > > >I have always assumed that the electrons just kick the sh*t > >out of the phosphor, and the the phosphor just dies... but I > >hope that's wrong, and that something can indeed be adjusted > >or replaced (other than the daggone tube itself). > > The above basically sums it up. Those early B/W NeXT mono > monitors have very short lifespans. Couple that with not being able > to turn off the monitor seperately from the computer and you > can then see why most of them are pretty dim. This comes up on > Usenet quite a bit still. Once they're dim, they're dim. Don't got no Next stuff, but I figured whatever was true of them would be true of my Apollo (&HP) monitors... -dq -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

22 years, 8 months

Huge Nortel Web Auction this week.

by lgwalker＠mts.net

Just ran across this in the Montreal Gazette. Nortel Networks Corp. has put up for auction untold millions of dollars worth of computers, test equipment, office phone systems, photocopiers and tool kits it once used in St. Laurent and Florida to build Internet equipment for which demand has evaporated. The auction will be Webcast - on http://www.dovebid.com - Thursday and Friday, starting at 9 a.m. A Montreal-area preview day tomorrow will allow potential buyers to physically examine the local assets, not just massive quantities of high-end electronic gear but also fork-lift trucks, heaters, air-compressors and more than 230 Dell laptop computers, PCs and servers. Nortel is conducting a similar preview day at another plant in Boca Raton, Fla. The St. Laurent plant builds Internet transmission equipment and had 6,000 people on its payroll in mid-2000, a figure Quigley estimated has been cut in half. Its gates, on the south side of the Trans-Canada Highway, will be open between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. "Please watch for auction signs," DoveBid's Web site instructs out-of-town buyers coming to see for themselves. Lawrence lgwalker(a)mts.net bigwalk_ca(a)yahoo.com

22 years, 8 months

OS/2 running under VMWare, or other emulator for Windoze

by msell＠ontimesupport.com

BOCHS won't even start on my Win2K laptop. Blows immediately with illegal opcodes. Oh well.... moving on...... - Matt At 04:36 PM 4/15/2002 -0500, you wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: pat(a)cart-server.purdueriots.com > > > > I was hoping to find a way to run trusty OS/2 on my laptop > > when I wasn't > > > busy with work...... > > > They stopped trying to support it in the 2.x days. I got Warp 3 to > > partially boot, but that's all IIRC. I'd say go find > > yourself a copy of > > partition magic (or fips) and dual-boot if you want to play > > with OS/2. :) > >Will BOCHS run on that version of windows? You may have a chance with >that too -- I've heard that it would boot OS/2, but that's second hand >information. > >Chris > > >Christopher Smith, Perl Developer >Amdocs - Champaign, IL > >/usr/bin/perl -e ' >print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); >' > Matthew Sell Programmer On Time Support, Inc. www.ontimesupport.com (281) 296-6066 Join the Metrology Software discussion group METLIST! http://www.ontimesupport.com/subscribe_t&c.html. "One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler Many thanks for this tagline to a fellow RGVAC'er...

22 years, 8 months

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test-drb April 2002