Well Mark, I'm still teaching word processing and the short cuts are CTRL-S and CTRL-L and
I mention it most every day. I can remember using an Applewiter-clone and the formatting commands
haven't chnaged. Why do away with things that work and make sense even if students forget them!!!
I try not to scream though. Not good for a teacher.
Murray
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:00:20 +0100
> To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org
> From: Mark Firestone <nedry(a)mail.bedlambells.com>
> Subject: Re: Old Word Processors
> Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
>
> I can still remember screaming at my father (I must have been 13 at time
> time) "it's CTRL-S to save, and CTRL-L to load. How could they make it
> simpler for you?" when he was trying to use Applewriter //e, a very nice,
> full featured, non-WYSIWYG word processor. Good old . formatting commands.
> > There is one microcomputer I would love to have. The Power Mac G5.
>
> Me too. Need some bucks though, and a good excuse to dump the dual G4
> I already own. ;-)
Same here, I've finally gotten over my dislike of Mac OS X, and am *REALLY*
liking it. Largely because it's got Unix underneath which means I can use
it both as my Mac and as my Unix box. My G4/450 is one of the originals,
and finally starting to feel a little old and slow (not bad considering it's
almost 4 years old). Though my video card rocks, I bought an ATI Radeon
9000 for it :^) It's really nice running all my Adobe App's, MS Office, and
Eudora on a system with Unix underneat!
I *REALLY* want a dual G5, unfortunatly I'm not going to be able to get a
G5 anytime soon :^( Still by the time I can get one they should be even
better :^)
Zane
Greetings,
I have recieved an old IBM Model 7011-220. There is very little documentation,
and IBM has no clue...
I have no video adapter or monitor, can someone tell me the type (guessing Sun
13W3...)
Also, can someone provide instructions on how to use this with the Linux term.
program Minicom?
And... *grimaces* anyone know HTH to get the cover off ;)
TIA,
Owen
Marshall
Glen
Noticed your posting about the missing manuals for the E&L z80 trainer.
I am also in same boat, just won mine on ebay,,, minus manuals etc
Did you ever locate any manuals, experimenter books for the unit?
Larry
In cctalk digest, Vol 1 #684 ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
> I asusem that ROM daugtherboards are impossible to obtain, but has anyone
> dumped the ROMS from one?
>
> Any ideas if it's ever possible to find the GPIO and serial interface
> cards for these machines?
>
> Any software out there on the net for it? I have the normal HP disk set
> (System disk, HP-UX commands (2 disks), Utilities, Diagnostics, Tutor,
> and NP Technical BASIC).
>
> Anything else I should know about it?
Check Pete Johnson's website dedicated to the IPC
(http://www.coho.org/~pete/IPC/integral.html)
He has practically *all* the software for this machine. The only
bad ting I can say for the site is that the HPUX utilities work
only on big-endian machines. I have written a converter tool
(HPUX filesystem image to tar [1]) that is hopefully platform
independent, and I will send it to him after I have tried it a bit
to make sure that it is mostly bug free.
[1] so you use it like hpux2tar image-file | tar tvf -
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I think that the daughterboards have standard parts so it should be
possible to create replacements. I have the BASIC sub-daughterboard so
I can send you a dump of the BASIC ROMs if I can find where they are
mapped into the 68K address space.
I have used the IPC to access HP-IL peripherals via the HP-IB port
(using the 82169A HP-IL/HP-IB Interface), and I think it would be
trivial to write a short program to talk with computers over the HP-IL
via the HP-IL serial interface.
There is also a built-in HP-IL interface (to talk to the built-in
ThinkJet), but it is directly connected to the ThinkJet without the
transformers and (anyway) I have not found a way to address the
ThinkJet using IL addressing (rather than the /dev/internal interface).
**vp
I ran across a diamond Javelin Video card that has the mac video connector but
looks like it might have the PC bios. My pm7500 wont recognise the card and
the drivers cant find it either. Anybody have such a card or know if the bios
is flashable? Of course the company that purchased diamond/s3 doesnt support
these products anymore.
> Hey Guyz - not to squelch List traffic, nor appear to be a
> NetCop - but d'ya think it might be possible to try and
> TRIM YER DAMN REPLY CASCADES????
<AOL>
me too!
</AOL>
:-)
(maybe that should have been in caps)
> I mean, 152 lines of triple-posted reply threads,
it's actually remarkably annoying in digest mode too. Seconded only by replies
in which people top-post and include the entire original message, headers and
all, but without any indentation characters...
cheers
Jules
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