test-drb January 2003

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Apple Macintosh- where would this be useful?

by kendonchatz＠yahoo.com

I have a 13 year old apple macintosh that works like a dream. It's loaded with programs, and this great little machine got me through law school and helped me launch my career. When my employer switched over to a compaq system, I could no longer use this machine to work on projects at home and was forced to pick up an etower package instead. For the last 5 years, it's sat in my basement waiting. Everything works perfectly, including the printer, and all of the parts are original. Any tips on where I might take this machine so that it can be used? It's a shame to let it sit here and rot. Ken Donchatz kendonchatz(a)yahoo.com Columbus, Ohio --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now

21 years, 11 months

SGI Discussions? was Re: Mac SE/30 accessories availability?

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jan 18, 13:07, David Holland wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 23:19, Brian Chase wrote: > > I'll wait to get an Onyx. Actually, the Origin 2000s are quite lovely, > > too. They're still really off topic for this list. > Wot about SGI Crimson's? (Or in my case, a Power Series frame, w/ > Crimson boards in it) Or are they too new (and LARGE :-) ) for the > list? I think Brian may have meant Onyx2, which is basically an Origin2000 with a shedload (or at least half a rack's worth) of graphics engine. Crimsons and Power Series are certainly on-topic here. > (The optical mouse I have for it is in too bad a shape to be really > usable anymore - the felts shot, and it sticks to the metal plate/mouse > pad too much for my tastes.) Why can't you clean it, and replace the felt? -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

21 years, 11 months

AM100 Emulator

by kirk＠access.pptnet.com

Mike, Thank you! This is incredible. I can't believe you wrote an AM100 emulator, and not only that, HOW FAST you've done it. It works great, too! This is just fabulous. I cannot believe my eyes. I can't wait for the 1.0 release! Is this a pure hobby for you? I am a 16 year coder, and i gotta say, i am 100% humbled by your work. This is just amazing. I am a huge AM fan and OASYS (old theos) for Z80 fan. I have Theos, but i sold my old am100 w/ 2 cdc hawks years ago (and believe me - i am pissed beyond reproach that i did that!!! ) Nice work, mike! Kirk Barrett PPT <mailto:kirk@pptnet.c>

21 years, 11 months

OT: Crazy C Problem

by jss＠subatomix.com

I'm testing the code I've written to spamproof the ClassicCmp web site and archives. I call the system SpamCamo. The file filter works great and produces links as it should. The CGI program is not behaving and is giving me some *very* wierd behavior. I'm stumped. First, if I compile with this: $ cc -o spamcamo.cgi cgi.c spamcamo.cgi.c -lcipher I get a "Bus error (core dumped)" exception from the first statement in my program, which is printf("DEBUG: 0\n"). I have used gdb to verify this, and it tells me that SIGBUS is occuring inside isatty() in libc. Now, if I compile like this, switching the order of the source files but making NO changes to the source files themselves: $ cc -o spamcamo.cgi spamcamo.cgi.c cgi.c -lcipher The program proceeds to the first call of strdup(), which returns NULL and sets errno to EINVAL. strdup() is definitely receiving a valid string. Furthermore, malloc(1) (as in "allocate one byte") in the same place also fails with EINVAL. The machine is not low on memory. Even furthermore, the code that is failing in this case (in cgi.c) works correctly when compiled against a test program (proof: http://www.subatomix.com/test_cgi.cgi?a=b) instead of spamcamo.cgi.c. This is what the program does (i.e. not much) before calling strdup(): printf() function call function call getenv() return strcmp() funcion call getenv() return strdup() <--- SIGBUS occurs here I get the same results on two FreeBSD boxen. One is running 4.5-RELEASE and the other is running 4.6-STABLE. I'd like to think this is something I've done wrong and not a bug in libc. Any ideas? -- Jeffrey Sharp

21 years, 11 months

VMS command question and help, off-topic

by Fred.van.Kempen＠microwalt.nl

i do have a multia ... what needs to be done? --f > -----Original Message----- > From: Antonio Carlini [mailto:arcarlini@iee.org] > Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 1:33 PM > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: RE: VMS command question and help, off-topic > > > > Antonio Carlini (arcarlini(a)iee.org) wrote : > > > > > Can you zip it up so it's easier to download? > > > > didn't help very much, > http://www.kotelna.sk/freddy/multia_v72.bck.gz > > (913652 bytes), along with the original > > http://www.kotelna.sk/freddy/multia_v72.bck > are there. > > I didn't mean to make it smaller - I just didn't > want it to download as a text file. ZIP files > download correctly, other random stuff depends > on the server settings (IIRC). > > Anyway, I managed to get it using a download > manager and I've managed to restore it to > a floppy. I don't have a Multia so I won't > be able to test it. I can either dig out > rawread or try using dd on my Solaris > box - just let me know which you would > find easiest to deal with (and the exact dd > command you would prefer, if that matters). > > I can email the result or ftp it to you > if you have a server. > > Antonio > > -- > > --------------- > Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org > >

21 years, 11 months

Dear Santa, I would like a Yamaha CX5M ...

by spectre＠stockholm.ptloma.edu

Anyone ever seen someone out there trying to get rid of a Yamaha CX5M? It's about the only MSX machine I have significant curiosity about due to its specialised music abilities. -- ----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu -- I used to miss my ex-girlfriend, but then my aim improved. -----------------

21 years, 11 months

Update: BBC Acorn

by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

Pete, > Well, someone else has offered to copy Disc 1 for me. I've also found a > few other people who have ARM Evaluation Systems, so once I get a good Disc > 1, I'll put the set of six on my website (and if anyone from any of the > Beeb sites wants to make a copy, that's fine by me). Any suggestions as to > format to use for the images? I expect you know far more about this than I do! "Pete's own undocumented image format" is probably not a good idea :-) Other than that anything that has some supporting documentation available would seem sensible - it'll always be possible to convert between formats then. I get lost trying to remember all the issues regarding writing to discs in different machines (wish there was a website that collected all that information together, for various platforms) - I can't for the life of me remember if it's possible to write to beeb discs with a PC, which would probably be my preferred option. My BBC Master can emulate an XT so maybe there's something on that side that can take a PC format 5.25 disc and write out to a beeb disc. I have no idea... I'm more concerned about the disc set being archived somewhere than delving in and playing around with my ARM unit now though - same goes for other systems. I've already got machines that are non-runners at present because the software has gone and is unobtainable :-( > so 50 or 100 seem likely > numbers for the quantity of ARM Development Kits made to fit Beebs. hmm, mine was pretty late then if they did only make 50. Mine came from Kent uni; I have no idea what it was doing there, but the same place sourced quite a few bits of beeb equipment. Maybe they did some official product testing or something. cheers Jules __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page >from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

21 years, 11 months

Prelinger & Computer Chronicles Archives

by whdawson＠localisps.net

Found in the Prelinger Archive: On Guard! The Story of SAGE Innovations in computer technology as weapons in the Cold War. ca 1956 IBM Watch stream or download movie as DIVX (38M), MPEG2 (280M), VCD (123M) http://webdev.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collect ionid=06855 Also, 230 Computer Chronicles Episodes are available for viewing or downloading: http://www.archive.org/movies/computerchronicles.php Gary Kildall Special : http://www.archive.org/movies/movies-details-db.php?collection=computerchron icles&collectionid=1814&from=BA Bill

21 years, 11 months

Archived digests?

by mhstein＠canada.com

Thanks muchly, Jeffrey! The problem was that the archive list on the main page only goes up to Nov. 2001, but these URLs did the trick. m -----------------Original Message----------------- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 22:08:32 -0600 From: Jeffrey Sharp <jss(a)subatomix.com> On Thursday, January 16, 2003, M H Stein wrote: > with the previous system I could retrieve the missed messages, but am > apparently too dense to figure out how with the present system. Help? http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/ http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/ -- Jeffrey Sharp

21 years, 11 months

PerSci Model 277 Dual 8" Floppy Drives - Info Needed

by mhstein＠canada.com

---------------------Original Message------------------------- From: "Tim Myers" <tim.myers(a)sunplan.com> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Subject: PerSci Model 277 Dual 8" Floppy Drives - Info Needed Does anyone have any info on these drives? I have some in a CP/M system (Ithaca Intersystems DPS-1), and they seem completely dead. They have an electric load mechanism, but when I insert a disk, nothing happens. Popped the case and can't see anything obviously out of place. Tim. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cromemco used these in early models of the System 3; not exactly the most reliable. Sorry to say, I scrapped several of them a year ago and, although I've got manuals for most Cromemco stuff I don't think I've got any docs on these. But I'll have a look and let you know if I find anything. Meanwhile, there are probably several people on this list who have them and could perhaps at least compare notes with ya. They are getting power? Good luck, mike

21 years, 11 months

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test-drb January 2003