Hi Jay
Since my experience has been that most of these
people don't tend to reply to email, a verification
mail might work. If someone is not on the list and
they send to the list, just have a message sent to them,
asking if they, as non-list members want that mail
posted to the list with yet another verification
address to send to.
Those that use multiple emailing addresses may have
to deal with it a little but maybe they can just sign
up for each address.
Dwight
>From: "Jay West" <jwest(a)classiccmp.org>
>
>I agree totally.
>
>However, the only way to deal with it is close the list from public posting,
>or have me read each post in detail and make a judgement call. I'm open to
>suggestions.
>
>Jay West
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Vintage Computer Festival
> To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 2:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Workslate do you still have it ?
>
>
> These kinds of messages are almost getting as bad as the spam.
>
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Will Davis wrote:
>
> > I am interested in it if you do. Please drop me a line back. Thanks. Will
>I
> > have a workslate, workslate pen plotter, Several bits of software on
> > the minicassettes the workslated uses.
> >
> > Who wants it?
> >
> > Whatcha got to trade?
> >
> > Anybody got a Poly 88 5 board working S100 bus computer?
> >
> > Atari Portfolio?
> >
> > Any HP handheld (hp 35, hp 67, hp 97, hp41, hp 71, hp 75)
> >
> > just because it's not on the list doesn't mean I am not interested in
> > it.
> >
> > Wanna trade?
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > MSN 8: Get 6 months for $9.95/month.
> >
>
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>
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I found out more about the movie.
Made right before Steve McQueen did Great Escape.
Two Naval officers were on leave and ran into civilian at the Lido casino who said that odds could be computed if they knew the past series of positions of the roulette ball. They recorded the positions and used a signal lamp to send them to their ship, officer on ship entered them into computer and relayed via signal lamp back the predicted next winning position. I think they always bet on the top 3 predicted positions.
They were staying in a suite at the hotel and ran into a cute young women who turned out to be the admiral's daughter. The admiral was staying at the suite downstairs and noticed the flashing signal lamp and thought there were spies around. Nobody could decode the Morse code signals of the roulette positions.
Finally all were found out and confessed to the "gambling".
Mike
>Ron, the first time was because you were there as my
>guest. And since I
>had my collection stored there I was part of the team
and >was allowed
>certain priveleges.
I dealt with the Surplus exchange in Kansas City
before
the "public" was allowed in. These not for profits
can sell in at last Missouri and I think here in CA
w/o collecting any sales tax if they just go thru the
effort to register properly. THere is no reason for
an "attitude" unless they want to generate it.
The surplus exchange invited in people that would tell
them the maximum amount about what they had they had
no experince with and how to get the maximum money for
it.
If there had been a group like this when they were
getting all the 370s and such about 15 years ago, I
would have had all you guys over them like stink on
s**t, but some organizations get taken over with
people who take care of their own needs and don't
welcome other commers as competition for the good
donations. The worst of this is in the Friends of
the Bookstore groups, who have "collectors" and
"dealers" on their boards to "help" with the
donations.
Anyway, lest this previous paragraph sound like it
is directed at the pravious poster, Sellam, or anyone
on this list, it is not. But the fact is, look at
the Goodwill Computer sales and other thrift stores
who are not for profit. THere is no reason that any
group that is not for profit need have a problem for
selling to the public. It is up to the charter of
the operation who they sell to, or give to.
The Surplus Exchange in Kansas City i think is one
of the best examples of how to recycle equipment that
there is anywhere. They have rules to get the most
out of donations first directly to their "members"
and other charities, in recycling better grade stuff
directly to those groups, and then with variety of
programs to extract value from the donations on down
to just selling scrap.
There have been rough spots in the road, but I dont
think the result has been bad, and as I said I think
they are one of the best to deal with anywhere.
I know nothing of the group you mentioned, but what
is on the list, and would be a bit put off they were
not friendly as well. There is no reason they have to
be other than their own choices.
Jim
At 08:15 AM 8/25/03 -0400, you wrote:
>This e-mail has been classified by the sender as: INTERNAL USE ONLY
>
>hi curt,
>you know if anything like this is available on current times?
Take a look at <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/mds-800/startrek.txt>.
Joe
>
>i remember staying after work a few nights a week to get like 8-10
>of us playing. i was reminiscing over the weekend and googled for
>it.... this was a cool game.
>
>thanks,
>
>craig
>
>
>=========
>Actually this is a Star Trek game involving ascii graphics on VT100
>terminals, you would choose from Federation, Orion or Klingon ships. It was
>a really cool multi-user game, you could talk to the other players in real
>time and it got very addictive (until the Admin pulled it off the Vax cause
>it was killing it! :-)
>
>
>Curt
>
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Hi
I wonder if there is something different in the way the
search engines are treating our mail group. We seem to be
getting many of these kinds of messages. I think there are
several today. I was also wondering if anyone that has
answered one of these has gotten a reply? Twice I've sent
to one of these request without a reply. Are these people
for real or is it some method to get valid email addresses?
Also, why don't these people just joint the mail group?
Dwight
>X-Authentication-Warning: huey.classiccmp.org: mailnull set sender to
cctalk-admin using -f
>From: "Savvidis Ioannis" <I.Savvidis(a)cmc.ase.gr>
>To: "'cctech(a)classiccmp.org'" <cctech(a)classiccmp.org>
>Subject: OSI offer
>
>Mr Palamara hello.
>
>Although I would presume it's a bit late, I was wondering whether the OSI
>C3B is still available.
>
>I'm looking forward to hearing from you,
>
>Kind regards
>
>John Savvidis
Hi Jim,
I found a post of yours to the cctech mailing list, stating that you have an
IBM Selectric Manual. I was wondering if you could help me at all.
I have one of the original 1960 IBM Selectrics, but the carriage (I think
that's what it's called - the mechanism with the typing ball) stops at the
tab position. When I hit return it moves to the farthest left position, but
it will only move five spaces before stopping. After that it will only type
in the same place until I hit return again.
My husband seems to remember from his high school typing class, a three key
combination that will "unlock" it from this position.
Any ideas or advice you may have would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thank you!
Shana Leslie
shana(a)wackywitch.com
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Owen Robertson wrote:
> on 10/3/02 12:30 AM, Lawrence Walker at lgwalker(a)mts.net wrote:
> > Actually there are Intel "white" Next's. Doubtfull they would be Pentium
> > based tho.
>
> I have a NeXTstep 3.x CD that says it contains the black and white (NeXT
and
> Intel) versions of the OS. So by 'Intel' does it mean PCs, or specialized
> Intel based hardware? I always thought it meant that it would run on 486
and
> higher PCs, but I haven't been able to get it to boot on any, which leads
me
> to believe that it isn't for generic Intel hardware. Or maybe I need a boot
> floppy which I don't have.
It runs just fine on Pentium systems, at least with the subset of video
and network cards it supports. Up until the end of 2000, DreamWork's
Animation used a variety of Dell Pentium systems, maybe even some PIIs,
for their pencil test stations. In 2001, we moved to Linux/Intel based
system.
If you need a NEXTSTEP 3.3 boot floppy, I'll mail you an image which you
can use dd or rawrite.exe to put onto a 1.44MB floppy.
-brian.
Hello.
Is it possible to mail me this boot disk image (for booting NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a
PC).
Thanks.
frederic.wailly(a)wanadoo.fr
A bit off topic but true.
Best Buy in the Portland, OR area has free AOL CD's on the rack with a
price tag of $0.02
Wonder if they offer an extended warranty on them...
