test-drb August 2003

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by pamelabarnard＠ameritech.net

Hi, I also just found my portable TI Silent 700 data terminal. Also in very good condition. I used it to access various systems after hours on the job. I curious, what kind of information did you learn? Would you share any with me? Thanking you in advance! Sincerely, Pamela Barnard

23 years, 1 month

RLV12/RL02 issue solved... thanks

by cvendel＠att.net

Hi Everyone, I solved the issue with mounting the RL02 on my Vax4000-200 last night. I took the advice of one of the people who responded back about what the settings and vectors are, compared to what the system expects. Turned out: a. I had a bad RLV12 card b. My 2nd card was setup for 22bit addressing So I reset it back to factory 18bit settings, plugged it on, did a mount/automatic dla3: and viloa! Up is came, I set sef to it and did a directory listing and there were the files all sitting patiently waiting to be read once again. I have a backup across 3 rl02's as bak files, now I am going to work on doing a restore to a dia1: drive that I have in my system as a scratch disk... Thanks again to everyone who has helped out on this, now does anyone have a spare rk05 decpack and a qbus controller they want to sell or loan me??? Curt

23 years, 1 month

TIL308 readout

by lectromech＠worldnet.att.net

I happened upn your message about Til 308 chips. Do you still have any available? If you do let me know. Bruce Brandl lectromech(a)worldnet.att.net

23 years, 1 month

IBM History site

by jpl15＠panix.com

Whilst Browsing - ran across this fascinating - and well designed! - group of pages on IBM's site. Includes a whole section on "IBM Dress" rather tongue-in-cheekingly called 'The Way We Wore'... http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/ Enjoy. There are many sections that go into great detail about historical IBM gear and systems, many fine pix, etc. Cheers John

23 years, 1 month

Will trade my AIM-65 for a nice Sinclair ZX-80, or maybe a ...

by tosteve＠yahoo.com

Hi, Looking for a nice trade for my Rockwell AIM-65 computer system. Would like a: - Sinclair ZX-80 - KIM-1 - HP-85 (maybe) Thanks! Steve.

23 years, 1 month

HP Integral questions

by vp＠mcs.drexel.edu

ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote: > 1) What's the space on top, under the printer cover, for? I've found the also floppies, the side of the compartment near the printer is deaper to accommodate 2 (maybe 3) floppies on their side. **vp

23 years, 1 month

OT: RE: Grammar, was RE: Work In KC Area?

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Aug 6, 9:54, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Patrick Rigney wrote: > > James Sissel wrote" > > > > > > My pet peeve is people who don't know the difference between your and > > > > you're. > > > > Mine is "utilize" and all its forms. What is wrong with "use"? > Mine is Architected. It always makes me think of someone bludgeoning > people by swinging an architect around by his/her ankles... Mine is "burglarized" (or "-ised"). The noun is "burglar", the verb is "burgle", and the past tense is "burgled". "To burglarize" would be to turn someone into a burglar. On Aug 6, 13:00, John Lawson wrote: > "Verbing nouns wierds language" Indeed :-) -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

23 years, 1 month

Your old PC jr.

by stgeorge＠myhome.net

Hi, I ran across a reference to your webpage; searching for a power supply for my 386-25 . If you haven't given away your computer, I'd like to suggest that you hook it up, as an X-10 box, for home automation . The freeware that comes with X-10; probably won't run on a machine that old; but I'm told that the device works off a serial port; and that there is software out there; that was written specifically to use this standard on "older" machines . Also, take a look at the big manufacturers of home/industrial electrical contracting equipment . There are clock boards, eprom cards, your old box, is still valuable, TO YOU . Hava-goodun, Ken .

23 years, 1 month

ECMA 46 tape standard

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Aug 5, 21:43, Tony Duell wrote: > > I've been asked about a quarter-inch tape standard from 1976, called > > ECMA-46. > I have here the manuals (user and technical) for a Penny and Giles 'Data > Logger' -- actually a QIC drive with a RS232 or current loop interface. > The user manuals says > > Recording Media : DC300A, DC300XL or equivalent 1/4in. data cartridge > conforming to ISO4057 (ECMA 46) > > Recording Format : 1600 bpi phase encoded data to ISO 4057 [...] > What I don't know is wherte ISO 4057 and ECMA 46 are essentially the same > thing, or whether the latter just specifies the physical form of the > cartridge (The manual could be interpretted either way). Neither do I, offhand, but virtually all the ECMA standards are available online. Unlike some standards bodies, the ECMA believe they should be accessible if people are to adhere to them. Anyway, ECMA 46 is at http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-TR/TR-046.PDF BTW, many ECMA standards were adopted verbatim by ISO, so if you need a copy of an ISO standard, and you know there's a corresponding ECMA one, just download the ECMA version. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

23 years, 1 month

Primate Programming

by Edward.Tillman＠valero.com

Speaking of former Soviet (ne Russian) programmers -- When was the last time one of *US* developed a tetris, or programmed a rotating Rubik's cube to be both defeatable and indefeatable? They got some pretty sharp cookies over there... Cheers... Ed Tillman Store Automation Tech Support Specialist Valero Energy Corporation San Antonio, Texas, USA Office: (210)592-3110, Fax (210)592-2048 Email: edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com> -----Original Message----- From: Joe [mailto:rigdonj@cfl.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 5:20 PM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Primate Programming At 10:05 PM 8/5/03 -0400, R. D. Davis wrote: >Quothe Tillman, Edward, from writings of Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:06:20PM -0500: >> And both management and users treat/pay us like lower-level primates too... > >The interesting thing about this is that a large percentage of >management and users are much closer to primates, intellectually >speaking, than we are. > >> From: Vintage Computer Festival [mailto:vcf@siconic.com] >> This pretty much sums up the current state of the IT job market in the US >> right now ;) > >Do you mean that an IT job market still exists in the U.S.? That is, >aside from the H1 visa employees imported for cheap labor along with >the cheap outsourced overseas labor. > I saw a funny article the other day. In it the Indians were whining about all the programming jobs that THEY were losing to the Asian and former Soviet countries. Joe

23 years, 1 month

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