test-drb February 2004

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by Lee.Davison＠merlincommunications.com

> Stuff today is so inaccessible from a retroist point of view. > The cellular networks 50-75 years from now probably won't support > what we use today, and unless cellular towers will be cheap, > abundant, and easy to store in our garage, we probably won't be > setting up our own networks to see how far we can call for fun. Setting up a celular base station while not trivial is not impossible. The hardest part is the RF Tx and Rx sections, of which you need at least two if you want to place calls and three if you want to place a call to another phone on the same base. 50 to 75 years from now the cell phone collectors should be able to make their own base stations and route calls to other like minded people via their ever-on broadband network connections. Cheers, Lee. ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________

21 years, 2 months

Old Amiga game... "Portal"?

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 2/15/2004 12:56:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, vcf(a)siconic.com writes: Gawd damn dave! Will you please use a quoting system that makes it seem like you are actually replying to an e-mail message and not just adding to it? Look at your message below. Can you tell right off where Ethan's message ends and yours begins? I surely can't. This is complete lameness. This is not the first complaint lobbed your way. Are you listening? Better yet, I'll postpone any futher posts indefinately.

21 years, 2 months

Xerox Monitor

by marvin＠rain.org

I just ran across this Xerox monitor, and don't recognize it. Is this anything I should keep? http://www.rain.org/~marvin/xerox.jpg

21 years, 2 months

here's a beautiful HP rack

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2788085365&category=1247 and if anyone likes that one, I have several I'd like to find homes for. Jay West

21 years, 2 months

Old Amiga game... "Portal"?

by dickset＠amanda.spole.gov

Long ago, before I even had a hard drive on my A1000, I had a game for the Amiga that I think was called "Portal". It was more of an interactive story where you played the part of an astronaut returning to a deserted Earth. I have been googling, etc., and can't find it on any game lists. Given that AFAIK, it runs under AmigaDOS 1.1 and probably doesn't have a hard-disk- installable version, I'm sure all of these newcomers to the Amiga scene have never heard of it. So... does this ring any bells with anyone? Do I have the title right? -ethan -- Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 15-Feb-2004 11:50 Z South Pole Station PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -50.9 F (-46.1 C) Windchill -80.2 F (-62.3 C) APO AP 96598 Wind 7.8 kts Grid 065 Barometer 689.9 mb (10254. ft) Ethan.Dicks(a)amanda.spole.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html

21 years, 2 months

HP 8" Drive eBay 2 hours left

by jpl15＠panix.com

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=167&item=2786529895 $50 min bid - from Hawaii Cheers John

21 years, 2 months

Help with RT-11 V02B

by jhfinexgs2＠compsys.to

I have found two RX01 images for V02B of RT-11. But I would prefer to have the files on an RK05 image. Thus, I copied all of the files to an RK05 image after which I used E11 to BOOT the RX01 image (I tried to "BOOT RX0" using SIMH, but I was not successful, although "BOOT RK0" was successful under both SIMH and E11): For those of you who don't remember, the original PIP program handled all of what are now (DIR, PIP, DUP). I am able to BOOT DX0 under E11 and: .R PIP *DX0:/L *RK0:/L and see a directory listing of the files on both devices, so E11 and the code must be working OK. I am also able to take an RK05 image of a V02C RT-11 distribution and BOOT the RK05, so the boot program in E11 is also correct (and works on SIMH as well). HOWEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!! After I "BOOT DX0" and: .R PIP *RK0:*=RK0:RKMNSJ.SYS/U Then back to E11 and "BOOT RK0" It does not work! But if I "BOOT DX0" again and: .R PIP *RK0:*=RK0:MONITR.SYS/U and repeat, then I am able to "BOOT RK0", but I end up on DX0, which is what I would expect since under V02B, the file MONITR.SYS is really DXMNSJ.SYS and has all the stuff to boot DX0 which it does do! So what might be wrong? Any Ideas? In addition, when I: .R PIP *DX0:*=DX0:DXMNFB.SYS/U and then go back to E11 and "BOOT DX0", the expected boot of DXMNFB.SYS also does not work. Maybe I am using the wrong switches for V02B of RT-11 or the files DXMNFB.SYS and RKMNSJ.SYS are corrupted. Note that I am not really concerned with using V02B of RT-11, but I wish to make up a CD containing as many versions of RT-11, including V05.03 and prior, as are available. So while I have two RX01 images for V02B of RT-11, I would also like to have a bootable RK05 image of V02B as well. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.

21 years, 2 months

cleaning a TU58 tape head - is alcohol ok?

by brad＠heeltoe.com

Does anyone know if it's ok to clean a TU58 tape head with alcohol? (or, perhaps, does working on a tu58 lead one to drink? :-) -brad

21 years, 2 months

OT: another reason to not like microsloth - caution, may contain rant.

by witchy＠binarydinosaurs.co.uk

In other news I've just managed to delete my entire classiccmp folder from Outlook, which is nice. All 600-odd messages of stuff. I installed Office 2003 'cos I'm unofficial IT support for Mrs Witchy's school, and the edu version allows 3 home installs. Thing is, because the new Outlook is obviously a complete rewrite of the previous version the default behaviour of folder selecting has changed, only they don't tell you that. In Outlook 2000 when you selected a folder the first message was automatically selected, so if it was one you weren't interested in you could just hit delete and it would be gone, or you could up'n'down arrow to select messages. (Yes, I shift-delete so I don't have to keep emptying 'deleted items'). You could TAB and CTRL-TAB round the windows perfectly happily and whichever folder you tabbed or arrowed onto would be displayed. In Outlook 2003 you can't just TAB round the windows any more. Oh no. You have to TAB and space-to-select just like a web browser. If you select a folder then you've *just selected the folder*, so deleting will delete the folder and it's contents with no warning other than 'are you sure you want to delete the selected item'. Bastards. And before anyone says 'backup' yes I probably should. But since I've had the same outlook file with pretty much no disasters since 1996 why should I start now. More to the point, why should the behaviour of Outlook change with no warning.... And another thing - I have a rule set that all messages from classiccmp go into said folder, and since the deletion I've recreated the folder amidst much swearing. A message has just arrived and a box has popped up saying 'can't move to the classiccmp folder' when it quite clearly can 'cos the fucking folder is there! Gah! -- Adrian/Witchy Owner & Webmaster, Binary Dinosaurs www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - possibly the UK's biggest online computer museum www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - ex-monthly gothic shenanigans :o(

21 years, 2 months

OCR of 644 TIFF files?

by brad＠heeltoe.com

Hi, If you had, say, 644 TIFF files, containing black and white scanned text >from a patent application. And say, you wanted to turn that back into a text file, what would you do? The images contain code listings. Is a commercial OCR program the way to go? Any suggestions? Is there any freely-available OCR which would be up to the task? (it's the Symbolics 3600 patent) If it was 64 pages I'd type it in. But 644... :-) -brad

21 years, 2 months

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test-drb February 2004