Actually, they gave ample warning that this was going to happen. It's
supposedly to prevent spammers and other nare-do-well's from culling email
addresses from the member IDs.
I changed mine before the deadline because I knew that I'd wind-up with an
AOL-looking ID if I didn't (like "dorkus1277574")
Rich
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[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Marvin Johnston
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 2:10 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Forced eBay ID Change?
"Zane H. Healy" wrote:
>
> Anyone else have their eBay ID forcefully changed recently? I've had an
account for over 6 years and I predate the rules against using an email
address. Looks like the b******* have decided to forcefully change all of
us using email addresses for our ID's so as to better control the flow of
information to us.
Yes, mine was also changed *without* my permission. IMNSHO, they are
attempting to divert attention from the incompetant operations people.
They are idiots.
I found a box full of these today. They appear to be disk drive
emulators using Flash memory. M-systems is still in business but they say
that these reached end of life in 1999 and don't have any software or
manuals for them. Does anyone remember how to program and use these?
They're half length 8-bit ISA cards.
Joe
Hi folks,
I don't think this is restricted to the Merlin Tonto (Sinclair QL remade by
ICL as the One-Per-Desk office companion and rebadged by British Telecom and
New Zealand Telecom) since they didn't make the monitor:
http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/icl/opd.phphttp://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/icl/tonto.php
I dug it out of storage tonight because this morning I got a load of
handbooks and manuals as well as the original BT Merlin software set in nice
blue wallets, and since it worked a year ago (as you can see in the pix) and
has simply sat on a shelf in the house since then I just fired it up.
Machine is fine and self-tests then beeps while its prompting for the
date....fine....I hit the power button on the monitor and it just screeches
at me before I quickly turn it off - it sounds like the wires on the yoke
ringing loudly so is it possible the poor thing is objecting to being moved
>from a not-so-heated room to a heated one? The storage room is warm enough
in winter that it doesn't go below freezing point (and it's very dry too),
but in the last couple of days here it's been in the low 50s farenheit.
Anyone seen screeching monitors before?
Cheers :)
--
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(
I have come across an Apple IIe with a True Data Corporation card in it.
S/N 0267 model 350405901 rev a
cable out to 25pin female D
4 dip switches
Sure would like to know what it is for! :) And, of course, would love to find the dip switch info.
Many Tks
Harve
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Two points:
1. DECnet/E only supports the "old" network terminal protocol, which
is object 21. The other one is "CTERM" which is implemented by VMS
and one or two other operating systems, but not DECnet/E. In fact, I
think none of the PDP11s do it; it's way too complex.
2. DECnet/E works fine on E11. It's been a while since I've tried
that but I did use it, under Linux that is. I was using
the "tap" pseudo-ethernet to debug DECnet/Linux against DECnet/E...
FWIW, there's an implementation of the "old" network terminal protocol
in the DECnet/Linux kit; with some hacking you can probably port that
and use it to talk to DECnet/E that way.
paul
>But if you don't and you still want to get rid of them then let me or
>the list know and someone will surely take them. Don't throw them out.
A few months ago, I couldn't give them away! I tried, no one would take
the things.
> BTW my 5150 has the monochrome monitor but it doesn't have the original
>MDA card so if you don't need your's anymore I could use it.
Humm... I'm nearly positive I chucked a small pile of them a month or so
ago. I'll have a look and see if I have any more.
-chris
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>> concerning gcc/binuils & pdp-11
>>
>> - gcc's (3.3.2) backend generates "unix" style asm
>> - gas wants "gas" style asm and doesn't like the "unix" style asm
>> - the pdp-11 gcc maintainer knows this and has some fixes which he's
>> going to release soon
>
> GCC version 3.x generates code that, um, sucks. For most C-based
> programming, there is absolutely no reason to "upgrade" beyond the
> older (V2.95.3) release, which works fine with the pdp11 backend.
There are plenty of day one bugs in the pdp11 backend. Some have been
fixed recently, others remain. It may be that the 2.95 version did a
better job of float handling than the early 3.x series, but I don't
think it actually gets it right. And there were problems with -(SP)
and (SP)+ modes for bytes... The calculation of instruction lengths
(to select between branches and "long branches") is also wrong.
I volunteered to take up the pdp11 backend maintainer slot, and I'm
trying to get some of these fixes in.
It would sure help if I could get explicit input. "It sucks" is not
data I can use to improve what's there. If people know of problems,
please submit bug reports. (Bug reports submitted by the standard gcc
bug submittal process would be best.)
By the way, the gcc backend generates either "dec" or "unix" output;
the "dec" output isn't technically valid dec syntax but it IS valid
gas syntax.
paul
>You're right, the old IBM PC
>stuff is getting hard to find. I started looking for it about 1 1/2 years
>ago and I haven't found a single one in the surplus places.
I have two IBM 5150 machines, and possibly one monocrome IBM screen to
match (but I'm pretty sure the screen is broken).
I've been trying to decide if I should throw them out, or attempt to ebay
them (along with at least one IBM XT, and possibly an AT)
-chris
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-----Original Message-----
From: SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com [mailto:SUPRDAVE@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 4 February 2004 5:52 AM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: 5.25 disks/programs available
I scavenged some old disks from someone that was cleaning up their office
after moving. Listed below is some items someone might want. Otherwise, I'll
just
format and keep them for extras. They all look like new and seem to be
unused.
system disks for Dell system200 pc. DOS/gwbasic/utilities
borland turboC 1986 5disk set
Microtek USD-III 1.0 5 disk set
x6800 assembler
something called matrix desktop. 8 disk set
Turbo C++ 10 disk set
procomm plus 2 disk set
MS mouse and paintbrush, several copies of each
MSDOS 4.01 from TRC techology research. Has the old style ms logo on them. 6
disk set
MS windows 3.0 from z-nix company 5 disk set
pay for shipping and they can be yours
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