test-drb January 2003

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by Edward.Tillman＠valero.com

I have to agree with most of what I've read here. Though I'm very new to your list, I'd really much rather it stay an e-mail list. To do otherwise, puts me in mind of the the bulky and cantankerous mail groups in MSN (Hotmail) or Yahoo - lotsa spash and excess drivel, but much less bang for your buck. Further, you'd lose the spontenaiety. For folk who have trouble picking out the thread they want to follow in the lists, they can always configure their e-mail clients with topic folders (yeah, even older e-mail clients like Eudora or Juno; and for those even older, echo/netmail offline readers!). That puts the onus back on the participant, and not on an often overworked administrator or moderator. As an ex-BBS sysop (1.387.57, 1991-1997), that's a position I can well apreciate. Cheers! Ed Tillman Store Automation Tech Support Specialist Valero Energy Corporation San Antonio, TX; USA Phone (210) 592-3110, Fax (210) 592-2048 edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org@PEUSA On Behalf Of Paul > Thompson <thompson(a)new.rr.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:39 PM > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: ADMIN: What if ClassicCmp were a blog? > > On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Zane H. Healy wrote: > > > Email is a fast, sleek and lowbandwidth medium. Web-boards, on the > > otherhand are cumbersome and time consuming. With email I can read > > CLASSICCMP on anything, with a Web-board, I'd be limited to a modern > > computer. If this were to happen, I can guarentee a lot of people would > > leave. > > > -- >

21 years, 6 months

Mac TV

by cb＠mythtech.net

>So I should offer the guy something like 10 bucks for it and then offer it >to the list for like 30 or, that way I can make some money to send to VISA >and someone who loves Macs will be happy and it won't get junked, in other >words. Please don't flame me for wanting to profit, but I'm seriously broke >and need to pay Chris Kennedy/Visa/my parents/go to college/get gas/fix my >power steering/pay J. Darren Petersen/etc. I think a $20 profit is fair, as >I already spent time finding it, gas getting there, and would spend money >obtaining it as well. Thoughts? Yes... if you can snag it for $10, and small profit is worth you time, then by all means, do it. And if it works and/or is relatively complete, let me know... I'll buy it >from you. My overall point before wasn't that you should NOT buy one, just that you should not pay a high price expecting that you will get an even higher price for it later... but if you can get it cheap (like $10), you can be assured you will get some kind of profit on it. There is nothing wrong with making a profit on things... I just didn't want you to get burned thinking that the MacTV was going to get Lisa 1 like prices, and so you ran out and paid $100 for one expecting to resell it for $1,000. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

21 years, 6 months

Still no action (PDP-8/L repair)

by charlesmorris＠direcway.com

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 22:33:17 -0600, you wrote: >><HOPE> Shouldn't be too hard to find </HOPE> >>since it's doing nothing. If it had flaky bits or words or pages, >>different story, but absolutely dead can only be a few things. > >Ya, like a broken core sense wire! Fortunately that is not the case. All 64 X, 64 Y, sense and inhibit lines have the correct resistance. I found fairly quickly that B MEM ENABLE was leaving its source but not getting to the core amps. I couldn't find the presumably broken wire on the backplane so I ran a jumper but still no function. (It's normally high all the time, so a disconnected TTL input is usually 1). this is somewhat depressing that the backplane may have reached end-of-life, if bad wirewraps are starting to show up. It is over thirty years old... Now READ and WRITE are pulsing to the selectors. Unfortunately I don't have a current probe to check out the R/W currents and waveforms. Guess I could put a .1 ohm resistor in the line which would give a 32 mv signal on the 320 ma pulse. -Charles

21 years, 6 months

DEC PDT-11/150

by tim.myers＠protasis.co.uk

I'm having to get rid of my collection due to losing the space it's housed in. The PDP-11/73s have already gone on Ebay, as has the Transputer kit. Next to go is my PDT11/150, you can find it here http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1247&item=23016 11053&rd=1. I never got round to playing with this machine, and I know very little about it, I hope someone can give it a good home. Tim.

21 years, 6 months

Need to get hold of Jim Austin

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

I'd be interested in hearing about HP 1000 Lab Automation systems as well, since my HP-1000E (2113E) was originally part of of.. 3353E I believe. Will J _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

21 years, 6 months

Need to get hold of Jim Austin

by tim.myers＠protasis.co.uk

Could Jim Austin please drop me a line re: HP 1000 Lab Automation Systems. Tim.

21 years, 6 months

Octane comes from October (WasRichard Crandall just cancelled a payment to you)

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

Hans, Likely just another case of Germans doing something better (IMHO), much like DIN versus SAE horsepower. I did know about the R+M/2 method for American gas, and you can get 100 octane here, just not easily in my state.. In California, some 76 stations sell 100 octane. Will J _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

21 years, 6 months

Utter eBay Madness (was help w/pricing)

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

>Would that be traction or stationary ? > Rich Stephenson Don't leave out steam engines as in steam locomotives, railroad equipment... Will J _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

21 years, 6 months

SV: IBM system 3 Re: PDP-12 on eBay (IBM 650 on ebay)

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

I must be due for finding something damned cool then, since I gave my -2065 to Eric as I couldn't rescue it... No way would I let that hit the dumpster! Will J _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

21 years, 6 months

ADMIN: What if ClassicCmp were a blog?

by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

> What is your opinion? Let's answer this one in-list, please. on the car front, I go through www.triumphstag.net which was initially set up as a web interface to the mailing list, but has slowly evolved into something more like what you describe for classiccmp. sounds like that's the sort of thing you'd need as the mailing list is still the primary means of communication but the website adds the registry, 'for sale' list and other odds and ends. The web interface to the mail gateway does have the odd problem now and then, with some posts occasionally turning up twice - drop Dave (who runs the site) an email as he should be able to shed some more light as to why! I think I'd still use the classiccmp mailing list for emails, but it'd be nice to have somewhere to store information (as mentioned in another post to this list) and be able to search archives etc. by the way, I'm never seen all the HTML and base64 junk on the Stag list that seems to come through to classiccmp - it must be filtered out somehow in which case it'd seem sensible to look into how to do that for this list! :-) (and if you could filter out my yahoo automatically-added .sig that's be good too ;-) 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, 6 months

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test-drb January 2003