Wow! Nasty.
Kind of a round about way to do credit card fraud, but on the other hand it puts the trail onto the hapless guys who paid for the items on eBay. I suppose eGolds records would just lead to some post office box or even worse, general delivery and i'm sure a battery of lawyers would be required to even get that far. New day, different scam!
I hope you went to the eBay forums with your info, I suppose eBay will do nothing to warn anybody (scams never happen on eBay!).
Any idea how your credit card info got to the scammer?
Gary Fisher
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Original Message (edited for brevity)is below:
Message: 39
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:37:23 -0600
From: John Foust <jfoust(a)threedee.com>
Subject: FYI: identity theft
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Bound to happen! A few odd charges showed up on my business
credit card. I caught it quickly, then went into gumshoe mode.
If you're looking for a good laugh, I just found this anti-Apple commercial, its very vulgar, so be forwarned!
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/apple.wmv
Curt
Hi all,
Chap in Glasgow's got a Sanyo MBC 4050 CP/M machine which is surplus to
requirements - anyone want? Apparently it's got all disks (OS, WordStar,
CalcStar, Reportstar and Datastar) and docs, plus the guy thinks he has
the original packaging in his loft. It's got a daisywheel printer with
it too.
His name's Richard Service - drop him an email directly at
richardservice(a)ntlworld.com if you're interested.
No connection with him - he conacted the museum with a view to donating
it, but we're swamped with CP/M machines as it is!
cheers,
Jules
Joe R. <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> They're understanding as long as they're girlfriends. When they become
> wifes it's a whole different story!
Is it part of the marriage vows to support each other's Life's Work? Did
you make it clear upfront when you first met that running classic computers
is your Life's Work and Mission and that it is what you would be doing
together for the rest of your life ("till death do you part")?
MS
I have bought some cables on ebay but the seller will only ship with
ups. The package is about 5kg. UPS are quoting over $100. Can anyone
kindly receive them for me and forward on to me in the UK. They are 5
6ft dssi cables.
Thanks
Dan
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:13:53 +0100
From: Tore S Bekkedal <toresbe(a)ifi.uio.no>
Subject: IBM 3270 interfacing?
To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org
>Does anyone know anything about the protocol that the IBM 3270 terminals
>uses on the BNC ports labelled I/O? Is there any possibility of hooking
>this up to anything modern?
3270 terminals use... 3270 protocol, at the lower levels, to send noises
down a coax wire. At the higher levels, you get into heavy-duty blue-glue
acronyms you don't want to touch with a condom-covered bargepole. Like BSC,
SNA... <shivers>.
Here's the trick. These 3270 terminals hook up, not directly to hosts (well,
except for a few special cases), but to terminal controllers. The least
ancient of these are type 3174 - search ebay for IBM 3174* and you'll find a
few usually. 3174-2x are best. Pay $10-$50 perhaps.
These normally hook up directly to mainframes, via bus/tag channels or
escon, or remotely to mainframes, via modems and wierd IBM protocols. You
want nothing to do with either.
The 3174s also came with options for token ring (pretty cheap now) and
ethernet (still ruinously expensive) attachment. Get one of those, and get
the latest version of the controller microcode (C6.4 I think) from IBM. This
magic microcode allows you to also use the 3174 as a telnet client - you
boot the controller, power on any coax-attached 3270 terminals - and the
terminal displays a screen which essentially allows you to type 'telnet
<hostname>' and connect, like any other telnet client or serial terminal
(but with a funky keyboard!).
See http://www.corestore.org/emuterm.htm for some my adventures with this
stuff!
Mike
http://www.corestore.org
Today I was cleaning out my room over the garage,
which is where I have my home office and my *MODERN*
computers. In the process of cleaning out one of
the desk drawers, I found an old manual that I knew
I had kept since college in the 1970s, but I had
lost track of where it was.
It's a 1954 "Preliminary Manual of Information" for
IBM Electronic Data Processing Machines, Type 702.
It's 83 pages long and has lots of interesting
information on the 702 system and its related set
of peripherals and other items. On page 4 is a
picture of an installation, with some 727 Magnetic
Tape Units, an operator's console, a 712 Card
Reader, the 702 Arithmetic and Logic Unit, a 732
Magnetic Drum Storage Unit, a 722 Card Punch, and
a 717 Printer.
The main storage unit can hold a total of 10,000
characters, which are stored as dot and dash
charges on 3" cathode ray tubes.
Does anyone on this list remember this kind of
system? It is really interesting reading, looking
at this manual and comparing to where we are today,
or even where we were back in the 1970s, when I
picked this manual up from the "free giveaway"
table outside our college's computer room.
Does anyone know if this manual exists in scanned
form? If not, I'll scan it and send it to Al
Kossow to put on bitsavers.
Ashley
These items free for postage from 19001 - manuals/media sent book/media rate. All in good or better condition.
Macintosh Plus 1MB/kybd/mouse/cables/dustcover. Works, no boot floppies, 20 pounds.
IBM PC "B", mfd. May, 1985. Works. 23-30 pounds.
IBM AT Technical Reference 3 ring binder - purple. Empty.
IBM Personal Computer AT - Guide to Operations. Full manual with floppies - slipcase.
IBM Proprinter X24E and XL24E Hardware Maintenance and Service. Full manual - slipcase.
Couple hundred 360Kb floppies, used.
Email me off-list. Thanks, Bill.
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Message: 26
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:04:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com>
Subject: Re: DEC colours
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, John Allain wrote:
>like the problem of describing right and left to an alien. Where do you
>get the reference colors in the first place? Guess one of us has to find
>a vendor for the three swatches to mail to requesting parties.
And how do we know if DEC maintained the same reference colors throughout
their company history? And if so, perhaps they faded over time? Maybe
someone played shenanigans and switched them out with similar but
different colors at some point?
Who knows? Who cares! Color matching by eye is "good enough".
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
I am moving the websites off the old classiccmp server and onto the new one.
This will be protracted over several days as I have time. After the sites
are moved, then I'll dig into the mailman setup.
So, anyone who has a free website on the classiccmp server (you all know who
you are), please dont make changes to your sites for a few days. If you do,
not a huge deal, just let me know and I'll make another pass for your site.
Jay
