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http://news.computercollector.com.
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[Computing] I have been told that _Introduction to Objectivist
Epistemology_ was required reading at the Xerox PARC lab where OOP
was invented, but this may be merely an urban legend. --
wilcoxb at cs.colorado.edu (Bryce Wilcox)
--
In view of the temporal sequence, it seemed plausible to
ask whether Rand¹s work had any actual influence on Kay and
his colleagues at Xerox PARC. In October 2001, I sent
electronic mail messages to Kay, and to all the members of his
original Smalltalk team whose e-mail addresses were available
on the Internet, asking this question. The replies I received
were unanimous: Ayn Rand¹s epistemology was not discussed
by or known to any of them. Kay kindly sent me an extended
reply, reproduced in Appendix A
http://www.objectivistcenter.org/events/advsem03/ReedOOP.pdf
I just found a nice book that I'm sure a few people (Tony in the least)
would find interesting (if they don't already have a copy).
It's called "HP-41 Synthetic Programming Made Easy" by Keith Jarett. It
was published in 1982 by Synthetix. There's no ISBN but it does have a
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number of 82-62786. It's 192 pages and
seems very in-depth.
No results turned up in online used book stores but several web references
result from a search, including one here in the Museum of HP Calculators:
http://www.hpmuseum.org/prog/synth41.htm
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Continuing my trend of top-posting, forwarded-to-personal-addresses
naughtiness in search of a copy of this book. Was anyone able to find
a copy? If not I can make the 200 mile drive to the nearest
(supposed) copy and see how liberal the library allows me to be with
my laptop and scanner.
On further archive scans, I noted that some may have documentation
(brochures, manuals, etc.) for the commercial model (ct-650) or photos
of finished systems. I am interested in obtaining copies of ANY
related material.)
TIA,
-dhbarr.
PS: Sorry about doubly forwarding the list.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David H. Barr <dhbarr(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:05:45 -0600
Subject: Paperclip Computer Book
To: design.fort(a)ns.sympatico.ca
Greetings!
What ever happened with your project listed on:
http://www.computermuseum.20m.com/alcosser.htm? Do you still have the
book? I'm interested in building one of these things myself, but I
have NEVER been able to find a complete copy of the book.
Please respond, even if it is decidedly in the negative.
Thanks in Advance,
-dhbarr.
Has anyone played with the LVD SCSI to IDE bridges that Acard is selling
now? I'm trying to figure out if they'll sync down to the speed of the SCSI
bus that they're plugged into. I'm thinking about getting a SCSI-to-IDE
bridge for my VMS system which currently uses UW-SCSI. If it will work, I'd
just as soon buy a LVD bridge, as they're cheaper and will be better when I
finally upgrade my VMS system.
I'm tending to suspect they don't sync down, as they sell U-SCSI, UW-SCSI
and U160 LVD SCSI models.
Zane
I received a request for computer rescue at Kalamazoo College
www.kzoo.edu in Michigan. Below is a mostly-complete list.
They'd like someone to pick it up in early January.
- John
Epson MX 80 F/T printer
Epson ? the big picture - monitor
Gateway 2000 486/25C - computer
HP ? computer 45945C
OKI DATA microline 182 ? printer
Compaq ? computer & keyboard
Panasonic ? monitor
Osborne ? computer + software discs
Seagate ? harddrive? ? 2 of them ST225
Northgate ? computer
HP D class 9000 ? computer
Sun-UltraSCSI
Sun?- monitor
Gateway 2000 ? keybord
HP 700/96 ? monitor
computer shell
Apple ? computer port
HP ? keyboard
?computer
?computer
AT&T Unix PC-computer+screen
Sun Ultra I ? computer +screen
IBM-PCAT ? computer
IBM-PC?
Apple IIe
Digital VT100
On Dec 29 2004, 10:29, John Allain wrote:
> RJ45 type cables also factored in with IBM's Token Ring
> connectivity. There were adaptors, probably Baluns to go
> from the largish connectors to these. This _could_ be one.
Not very likely, though. I think Jim is more likely correct, that it's
a console cable or at least some sort of serial cable. The colours
Marvin mentioned are often used for flat cable; baluns are for twisted
pairs.
Also, serial cables commonly use a scheme where the innermost two wires
(4,5) are ground, either side are receive and transmit (3,6), and
handshake lines DTR/DSR (or DCD) (2,7) and CTS/RTS (1,8) are at the
edges. By that scheme, Marvin's cable would short DTR to DSR and RTS
to CTS, which makes sense.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Does anyone by any chance have a good 11/70 backplane that's surplus to
requirements? I've a couple of QED-95 boardsets(1), but no 11/70 this side
of the Atlantic to put them in... :-(
(I plan to build a tabletop 'ultimate 11/70' with the QED-95, modern
switcher power supply, Emulex SCSI, and internal SCSI disk... got all the
bits except the backplane!)
Alternatively, and even less likely, does anyone have a spare CIM-60 card?
This is the QED front panel interface card that's required to use the QED-95
with an 11/35 chassis...
Replies via email please, the list digests I receive are patchy at present -
they arrive all in a lump every ten days or so, with nothing in between!
(1) purchased on epay - latest one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5149783592
Discussion point: this seller has had quite a few QED-95s recently, and also
quite a few Setasi PEP70/Hypercache sets. The PEP70/Hypercache consistently
goes for much more money than the QED-95 - up to $300-400 for a set, I've
seen. Anyone care to speculate why?
Thanks
Mike
http://www.corestore.org
