On April 12, Chris wrote:
> > The Trenton MVA office is in Trenton (ahem) right off of Route 1, and
> >is a fair distance from Edison where TCF is now held. There is likely
> >an MVA satellite office in Edison but I couldn't guess as to where. I
> >try to avoid Edison.
>
> Well.. I guess if the Trenton computer fest is really held in Edison...
> then it doesn't really matter where the Trenton DMV is.
When it was started, it was held at the Trenton State College campus
in West Trenton. Then it moved to the campus of Mercer County
Community College (*after* I moved out of the apartment that was
nearly walking distance from there!)...now the Edison thing.
> Alas, hitting the Edison DMV is useless. NJ only allows you to do the
> initial NF (No Fee) registrations in person and in the Trenton DMV office
> (they are the only one with the NF plates, and for some reason, they
> require it to be in person rather than by mail).
Yup.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire "Hush and eat your vegetables, young lady!"
St. Petersburg, FL - Mr. Bill
> The Trenton MVA office is in Trenton (ahem) right off of Route 1, and
>is a fair distance from Edison where TCF is now held. There is likely
>an MVA satellite office in Edison but I couldn't guess as to where. I
>try to avoid Edison.
Well.. I guess if the Trenton computer fest is really held in Edison...
then it doesn't really matter where the Trenton DMV is.
Alas, hitting the Edison DMV is useless. NJ only allows you to do the
initial NF (No Fee) registrations in person and in the Trenton DMV office
(they are the only one with the NF plates, and for some reason, they
require it to be in person rather than by mail).
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
I've been doing some web searching and reading the "TV Typewriter"
book concerning puched tape encoding schemes, and I'm a bit confused.
I've written a program to punch tape on my PC, and a short bit of code
to read the tapes on my IMSAI 8080, but there are some problems.
Since the unpunched tape leader looks just like a "zero" to the tape
reader, I usually end up with some extra 0's at the start of my
programs on the IMSAI. Also, I have a feeling that the tape reader
may "eat" some of the codes if they're things like X-ON, X-OFF, etc,
although I may be wrong. If I'm going to do something along the lines
of using two 4-bit values to represent each byte, or an escape code to
distinguish real 0's from leading blanks, and maybe include a
full-width (FF) punch every foot or so to allow for easy folding,
while having the reader software ignore them, I'd like to follow some
kind of established standard. Can anyone give me any pointers on
this?
-Bill Richman (bill_r(a)inetnebr.com)
Web Page: http://incolor.inetnebr.com/bill_r
Home of the COSMAC Elf Microcomputer Simulator, Fun with
Molten Metal, Orphaned Robots, and Technological Oddities.
I'm trying to build a development platform for my Imsai. I've tried various
CP/M emulators but haven't found one I like yet.
Has anyone sucessfully run CP/M on a PC without running under dos and/or
windows?
Thanks.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: FLTLT(AAFC) Geoff Roberts [mailto:co.614sqn@aafc.adfc.gov.au]
> I think that means you may have a console password enabled.
> Um. Bad karma.
> There is an alternate procedure in the VMS System Management Manual
> involving SYSUAFALT
> you could give that a go.
There's also an alternate alternate procedure that would involve not
running sys$system:startup.com or whatever, and just trying to run
"authorize," installing the proper images until it stops complaining
about not having them ;)
Of course, that's the long way around. The point is that if you've
gotten as far as actually running that script, you can pretty much do
whatever you like.
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doc [mailto:doc@mdrconsult.com]
> > didn't answer my email, and I really didn't feel like
> playing telephone
> > games trying to find the right number ;)
> That's a darn good reason not to buy _anything_, in my world. But I
> do like Plextor readers. They're much faster in large reads than
> equally-rated other brands, and they seem to get a better sound out of
> music CDs. Plus, they'll boot darned near anything.
I like them too -- I waited a month and a half for somebody to
talk to me about buying one...
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doc [mailto:doc@mdrconsult.com]
> > can also use the conv=noerror option to ignore read errors if you
> > really want whatever data you can get.
> Um, I've not been successful with that option in Linux or in NetBSD.
> I've tried it reading from damaged tape and from damaged CD media. dd
> will keep trying... to read the same unreadable block.
> If I missed the way around that, I'd really like to know.
I'm not sure. I was under the impression that the errors were ignored
and it kept going. This did make a good (AFAIK ;) copy of a disk that had
some problems once for me...
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
On April 12, Gene Buckle wrote:
> > > > the I/O is custom PLD logic that is impressive, if it is standard logic
> > > > chips, that is great that he could find the chips in prototype
> > > > quantities.
> >
> > > It's not a he, it's a she. :)
> >
> > or inbetween ?
> >
> Not a chance. From the pictures at http://www.commodoreone.com, she's a
> cute little wisp of a girl. :)
I wasn't going to mention it...but yes, quite cute indeed.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire "Hush and eat your vegetables, young lady!"
St. Petersburg, FL - Mr. Bill
On April 11, Carlini, Antonio wrote:
> >Ok... I'll bite... what is that "peripheral"? Nukes or something?
>
> Not sure I remember this correctly
> but I have a feeling it was something like
> the Washington metro - where obviously
> "Washington" is a code name for
> some plausible east coast city that
> actually does have a metro, just
> in case my memory is failing again :-)
That would make sense...Washington DC does indeed have a Metro, and
last I heard Tim lived in Bethesda, MD, which is right off the DC
beltway.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire "Hush and eat your vegetables, young lady!"
St. Petersburg, FL - Mr. Bill
