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> Re: Simple Apple Questions
>> I have the Apple][ reference manual and a whole pile of other Apple reference
>> books and material scanned ... I'd like to make this available, but I have
>> not
>> done so due to the copyright question - posting a published book which was
>> sold
>> on it's own merit seems less legit than manuals which came with hardware.
>
>> Anyone have any thoughts/experiences on this?
Seems to me that if the book is out of print and the machine a
long-discontinued one that you'd be on safe ground sharing scans of
reference material for free. Apple's lawyers, never a shy group, will
certainly let you know if they object. I've got a couple of hardbound Apple
reference manuals here too - for the ImageWriter LQ and for the LaserWriter
II and would be glad to scan portions for anyone needing such info.
Seth Lewin
>What am I supposed to do if it becomes obvious I am not going to be able to
>track the guy down? (which it has, except for the new idea of trying name
>lookup directories, I do know his name and his former city and state.)
You could pass them on to the next person that needs a copy. Or even
start a "library" of sorts with it. You send it to someone, they use it
and send it back, and you hold it until the next person needs it.
Of course, that gets into copyright issues, but I'd assume either you
aren't worried, or it doesn't apply, if you already "borrowed" a copy to
begin with.
>and hope everyone doesn't think I am some kind of miserable
>lying bastard. This was an honest mistake.
Like someone else pointed out, don't be TOO hard on yourself... had the
guy REALLY wanted it back, he would have hounded you for it (unless he
did, and you just didn't share that fact). I don't know about others, but
I NEVER loan my only copy of something to anyone that I can't drive to
their house and beat them until they give it back (and even then, they
have to be someone I know well and trust). But I will happily loan extra
copies of something, or duplicates of it. In those cases, I except the
fact that I may never see it again, and I don't care... if a basic
attempt doesn't get it returned, then I just write it off.
Good chance this guy was the same way.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
>From: "Mark Firestone" <pdp11_70(a)retrobbs.org>
`>
>Somebody in the states was going to send me an IMASI 8080 (the computer I
>most desire for my collection) but it got *thrown away*. Snif. It must be
>worth something, as they are setting "new" ones for more than the price of a
>modern pc.
>
>
Hi
Depending on a number of factors, an original IMSAI 8080 goes
for anywhere from $800 to $2500 on ebay someplace. If you'd told
your state side friend that, I'm sure they wouldn't have thrown
it out, thinking it had little value.
The new ones are not the same but have the same look and feel.
Dwight
So about 2.5 years ago, I bought an SGI machine off ebay and the guy let me
borrow the IRIX 6.5 media. I never sent them back and contacted him like 4
months later and said "Whoa I forgot to send them back, can I have your
address?" I meant to send them, but forgot *again*. I have tried to email
him every 5-6 months for the past two years, but his e-mail is dead (domain
name is gone) and his ebay account hasn't been used since 2002. What do I
do?
I am thinking it'd be okay to sell the CDs and if I ever do by some chance
find him again, then I can give him the money.
I feel really bad about this.
Any advice?
---
Thanks,
Torquil MacCorkle, III
Lexington, Virginia
I just noticed that Epson's website contains product information
(including manuals and sales brochures) for some of its legacy products
such as the HX-20 and their old line of desktops. Check it out:
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/SupportIndex.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=…
They even have a link to contact support on the vintage products (though I
doubt you would actually get any help on them...it would be neat to try
one day however and see what happens :)
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> wrote:
> I really don't want to contribute to this thread but I felt compelled to
> point out that as long as you reside in the Republic of California, which
> is a member state of the United States, then you are unfortunately subject
> to the laws of that nation.
No, because I am officially at war with USA, which is an illegitimate colonial
occupant of the land I reside on. This land belongs to the Native American
people, who rightfully hate "the white man" (their term for the bourgeois USA
nation-state) and fully support me and my work, of which they are quite aware
(here I mean not my VAX work, but my work on history of civilisation, ET
connections and exopolitics). When the true legitimate owners of this land say
they hate "the white man" they really do mean the bourgeois USA nation-state
rather than white-skinned people, since I have white skin and yet they recognise
me as their brother. And not because I am in some way special (I'm not), but
because they are brothers and sisters with ALL native peoples of ALL parts of
the world, including the northern regions where the native people have white
skin. (They see me as their Siberian brother, as an Apache told me.)
> The lawyers of the people who may be suing
> you
I care about and support the environment and I recycle everything, so if they
sue me, I'll put their papers in the recycle bin.
MS
In general, MicroVAX III could handle 64 Meg, though some CPU boards did not
have all address lines brought out of Memory Controll Unit pins. Here my
memory gets fuzzy, I am not sure whether that was the case only with those
'workstation' types or that was also a case with backplane based machines.
There was an outfit that was retrofitting such CPU boards for full range of
addresses and I do rememmer whether they were Stateside or in Holland.
The largest Digital memory for backplane based MicroVAX III was a 32 MB
board, but that came quite late in the life of MicroVAX III. The initial
'Minimum Configuration' shipments of those systems were with 8 Meg, then
that was upped to 16 Meg. The 4 Meg board that is mentioned, is probably
partially populated 8 Meg layout. However, there were third party boards up
to 48 MB. Rational for that corkey size was that customer does not have to
trow away original 16 Meg that came with machine and still fit full 64 Meg
complement into two slots.
On 4/17/2004 08:00 AM -0500, cctech-request(a)classiccmp.org wrote:
>Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:49:04 -0400
>From: Paul Koning <pkoning(a)equallogic.com>
>Subject: RE: WTB: Pro380, VAXstation
>To: arcarlini(a)iee.org, cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
>
> >>>>> "Antonio" == Antonio Carlini <arcarlini(a)iee.org> writes:
>
> >> As for a Pro being the easiest route, I wouldn't say so. The bus
> >> architecture is completely unrelated to that of any other PDP11,
> >> and ugly/messy/baroque/bogus at that. There is NO DMA. The
> >> Ethernet card uses the worst Ethernet chip I know.
>
> Antonio> Out of interest, which chip would that be?
>
>Intel 82586, if I remember right. It uses queues, not rings, for its
>commands. There are race conditions in the programming interface so
>that the chip sometimes sets a queue to empty at the same time that
>the driver puts a new entry on the queue, which forces the driver to
>notice that and repair the confusion.
>
>This is why real Ethernet chips use rings.
>
> paul
In the process of debugging that driver, the programmer involved with it,
found and identified a number of problems/bugs that Intel was unaware of
and refused to admit to until they finally isolated and fixed them in a
later rev.
Dave. (I only did NFT and FALs on DECnet-PRO)
