Today I got a email from a guy looking to give away a Zenith 8088 system and since I'm no longer up there I can't get it. Anyone interested? If so I will send you his email address. Thanks John
> From: Michael Passer <passerm(a)umkc.edu>
> Being a little hard on Yugo there, aren't we :)? The thing I remember
most
> about Packard Bell was that a friend of my wife's bought one (without
asking
> my advice), needed some help, and it had tamper resistant seals over the
> edges that asserted a voided warranty if the case was opened. My thoughts
> were along the lines of "how dare they?"
They *dare* because of the customers. People who would never dream of
working on a TV set will eagerly open a PC and cause all kinds of havoc. I
use warranty labels in my shop, and the warranty is VOID if the seal is
broken, but if I know the customer has a reasonable level of skill,
tempered with caution, I tell them not to worry about breaking the seal.
I don't sell motherboards any more, for the same reason. Last one I sold
was a dual-processor Asus board (not cheap) and the customer returned it
one hour later with an area about 3" x 5" on the board *charred black* on
both sides of the board. He claimed I sold him "junk" and was in my face
when I told him I wouldn't replace it. Fortunately there was an off-duty
deputy sheriff in the store at the time . . . absolutely not worth the
hassle.
Warranty seals *do* have their uses . . .
Glen
0/0
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me?
And if not now, when?
-- Pirkei Avot
----- Original Message -----
From: Keys
To: cctech@classiccmp
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 1:22 PM
Subject: Latest Finds in Houston
1. Several TI 99/4A cartridges: Extended Basic PHM3026
Plato Interpreter Solid State PHM3122
Logo II OHM 3109
Editor/Assembler PHM 3055
Microsoft Multiplan PHM 313
Return To Pirates Isle PHM 3189
2. Some Atari 2600 cartridges
3. PB Legend 520SX system
4. Silver-Reed EXP770 printer
5. Samsung Composite color monitor
6. TurboPad for TurboGrafix16 still looking for power supplies for these puppies.
7. Sega control pad for the Master system.
8. Several other items to new to list here.
> From: David Woyciesjes <DAW(a)yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
> I'm reminded of one of my users who said her whole computer would
> "freak out" when she used her mouse. (BTW She's right handed...) So, once
I
> get to her desk, everything is okay for me, and using the mouse (located
to
> the right, and behind the keyboard.) was normal.
> So I ask her to show me. That's when I see her heavy, very loose &
> baggy sleeve, wool sweater push down just about every key on the numeric
> keypad. Especially the Enter key. When I pointed this out to her, she
said
> "No it's not. It's the computer!"
> "Really? Okay. Well I'm gonna go downstairs and check the server for
> problems. In the meantime, watch your sleeve, just in case."
> And no, I didn't bother with the server. Just went to lunch. And
> never heard about that problem again...
A similar thing happened on a project I wrote code for years ago. A user
at a remote location reported that the program was inserting spaces, at
random, into the data entry form. Suspecting a faulty keyboard (other
users had no trouble with the same form) I had the locals replace the
keyboard, but that didn't help. Even replacing the entire PC didn't fix
the problem, so my boss told me to go the location and fix whatever was
going on.
Upon arrival I found that the user in question was fairly short and had a
habit of leaning forward into her desk. The problem was, her tits were
pushing on the spacebar . . .
Glen
0/0
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me?
And if not now, when?
-- Pirkei Avot
>From: "Hans B Pufal" <hansp(a)aconit.org>
>
>Zane H. Healy wrote:
>>>2 3 + .
>>>
>>>That's a total of 8 keys to press --
>>><two><space><three><space><plus><space><period><return>
>>>
>>>You should get
>>>5 OK
>>>on the terminal (or something like that, with a 5 in it).
>>
>>
>> Unfortunatly it results in:
>>
>> 2 3 + . .?
>
>The comment on the SOL page says it is a "non-standard" FORTH so perhaps
>reading the docs might be advisable.
>
> -- hbp
>
>
Hi
It sounds like they replaced all of the '.' words. When
people start out in Forth, they find it hard to get used
to all of the shorthand words. Things like . @ ! , don't
have any meaning until one uses them for a while. Since
defining them is so easy, I've always thought the one could
just alias them. Once one got used to the other quirks
of the language, one could take advantage of the shorthand
words.
I still use Forth for most any of the quick stuff I want
to do at home. It is probably the fast way to go from idea
to working program that I've encountered. I've written
assemblers, disassemblers, special editors, special file
transfer and any mumber of utilies with it. It isn't as
strong as perl for string handling but if you know what
you want to do, the language itself doesn't get in the
way. It is said that in Forth, "You don't write a program
for your application in Forth, you modify Forth to be
your application".
Dwight
Check out this beauty:
http://www.siconic.com/crap/Classic%20Computer%20Spider.jpg
She's about 3 inches in diameter. Maybe not the biggest you've ever seen,
but pretty much the biggest that's ever come out of my garage.
I found her hiding in the corner of my garage amidst the last remaining
old computer stuffs that are there. I caught her in a glass, where she
spent the rest of the day until I could figure out what to do with her.
I just let her go at the park down the street.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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>That spider should have been captured and then sent to a lab to test for
>chemical immunity. It may have been a new breed of super spider poised to
>take over the world!
LOL... maybe I'll catch one this summer. I normally leave them alone,
they aren't very active. It isn't unusual for one to sit on the same part
of the wall for a week or more. And since I am fairly sure it is just a
common house spider (looks just like a giant version of the little black
jumping spiders that are all over the same stairwell), I never worry
about being hurt by one.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
>I seem to remember someone saying that the DECservers are basically a
>Q-Bus PDP-11 system. Is this correct, or am I thinking of something
>else? Also, does anyone know what they're based off of and if it's
>possible to make them boot a 'conventional' os by changing their
>bootroms?
The only DECserver I know of based on the Qbus is the DS500, which
uses a KDJ11-D (11/53[+]) as the heart of it... with different
boot roms
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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Hi,
I have recently purchased an HP 9135A hard disc for use with my
HP-87 computer. When I received it I connected it up and did a
CAT to see if it could read the disc. I got the following listing
which makes me believe that the disc drive was last connected to
an HP 9826. I will eventually format the disc, but before I
destroy the contents I would like to know if anybody recognizes
anything and wants it strongly enough to be worth the trouble of
retrieving it.
I'll be away until July 21st, so until that date the disc is guarantied
to be safe. If I haven't received any email by then, I'll assume that
the disc contains no useful information.
**vp
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[ Volume ]: B9826
Name Type Bytes Recs
`e ^ 256 21
`e ^ 256 3
`e ^ 256 3
CHEKSITE ^ e 256 36
MAINMENU ^ e 256 49
PLOTPRNT ^ e 256 143
FORMAT ^ e 256 140
RACKSUBS ^ e 256 114
V ^ e 256 51
SYSSUBS ^ e 256 90
COMS ^ e 256 97
SONDEFLT ^ e 256 238
Z ^ e 256 97
UTILNEW ^ e 256 105
PPNEW ^ e 256 131
CHEKNEW ^ e 256 95
MAINNEW ^ e 256 49
UTIL_HP ^ e 256 106
SF11 ^ e 256 1739
CC ^ e 256 66
SUBSLODR ^ e 256 73
NULL 256 112
UTIL ^ e 256 115
SPECANAL ^ e 256 113
NULL 256 237
