Hi all,
Sorry for barging in like this. I still have a DSSI cable
plus 7 DSSI terminators in my trunk. One list member needed
3 terms, another needed a cable and 4 terms. Can these
people please contact me off-list with their shipping info,
so I can unload them from my poor, overloaded car?
Now, back to our regular silence,
Fred
which uses AT&T WE32100 CPU? I have a small gift for
you if you have such a system.
vax, 3900
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Hi
I know someone that has a 11/45. I've been thinking
of making an offer on it but have no idea what people
consider the going rate for such a machine. Does
anyone have any idea? I don't want to insult him
but then I don't want to pay way beyond what I could
get one elsewhere.
Dwight
Some time back, someone (Tom?) got a Furguson BigBoard from me in a trade.
I've found a little documentation and the distribution CP/M disk. I'd
like to send
this stuff off to the board's new owner.
(was this part of the Imlac deal maybe???)
On Aug 6, 8:32, Joe R. wrote:
> I went to a HP Calculator conference in England about 6 or 7 years
ago
> (pre-9/11) and I carried a LOT of calculators, parts, accessories and
tools
> with me. I was very concerned about going through security and
customs but
> had almost no trouble.
I've not had any trouble recently, but here are three instances from
the past. I used to fly regularly from Edinburgh to Belfast in
Northern Ireland, or to London.
On one occasion I was taking a pre-production Acorn Archimedes to demo
in Belfast, but since I was flying I didn't take the monitor. Needless
to say, that was the time security (actually, Special Branch) asked if
they could see it working to prove it was a computer (didn't look quite
like a PC), and eventually I had to dismantle it to persuade them.
Once (late 1980s) I was travelling to Belfast with just a briefcase and
small shoulder bag; in the shoulder bag was my toilet bag, spare shirt,
socks, etc. In the toilet bag was the usual toothbrush, etc and a
teaspoon and a small scalpel. The young lady operating the security
scanner took about a 5 millisecond glance at the blurry image and said
would I "mind leaving the scalpel behind, please." We compromised --
she kept the (detachable) blade.
Last one: travelling from London back to Edinburgh I arrived with just
a few moments to spare, only to be stopped by security who spotted my
small toolcase in my bag. All the tools were OK, though they insisted
on pulling most of them out, but they took everything out of the small
side pocket until they found a small ziplock bag containing the rather
grubby damp sponge for my soldering iron. "Would you mind telling me
what this substance is, sir?"
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
> > I would kill for a VAX 6000 in the UK. Mmmmm... *dribble*
>
> :D I walk past a 6000-410 every time I go upstairs here, and there's a
> 7000 just round the corner in stores. They're both backup machines for a
> customer though so you can't have 'em.
Bastard. Dibs! ;)
> > I'm still a student though, so i've not got a permanent base
> > to keep one at. And I thought a uV-II in a BA123 was a
> > bastard to heft around every end-of-academic-year...
>
> BA23 is the way forward, though still bloody heavy.
I was just chatting to Greg this morning about swapping my worldbox for a BA23. Sad to see it go because it's so pretty and noisy, but I can rack a BA23 and get some work out of it.
alex/melt
At 08:12 PM 8/6/04 -0400, you wrote:
>my job takes me a lot of different places. Two years ago, yes, TSA was not
as organized or as efficient as today. They are doing a necessary job to
keep planes flying and people going where they want to go. Due to the fact
that I worked for TSA two years ago, I am very familiar with what they have
gone through. Now, all you do is check your bags in and they open them only
if their MRI machine spots something with enough mass to potentially be a
problem. They don't make you wait in line much longer now than you did
before TSA was there. Passenger screening is also very efficient at most
large airports anyway. They started with the notes inside when they quit
having you stand in front of them while they checked your bags. I haven't
been through any in the last year that did it the old way.
>
>As for it being BS, I disagree. I would rather have things safer than
welcome another attack on US soil because things weren't being checked.
It is BS when 10 million illegal Mexicans and others can simply walk
across the border and enter (and stay) the US. And lets not even get into
how many TONs of drugs are shipped into the US everyday. I live near one
of the busiest airports in the US (OIA) and there's hardly a week goes by
that I don't hear of a bust at OIA or Miami or some other majot airport
where baggage handlers are smuggling in TONS of illlegal drugs, weapons,
animals and other material. A recent check at OIA revealed that there were
several HUNDRED badges missing that would allow anyone with one of them to
get into the secure areas of the airport. INS recently raided Miami airport
and arrested allmost 50 baggage handlers that were illegal aliens yet they
still had access to secure areas of the airport. I could go on and on but
my point is that the passengers being screened and harassed over and over
but there are PLENTY of other areas in the airports, ports and borders of
this country where security is non-existant! If 10+ million mexicans can
walk across the border don't you think 10 terrorists can do the same thing?
Security is one thing but mindless, pointless inspections and taking away
things like eye glass screwdrivers is something else altogether.
Joe
>
>best regards, Steve Thatcher
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: "Joe R." <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
>Sent: Aug 6, 2004 7:02 PM
>To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
>Subject: Re: Holy cow...
>
>At 02:14 PM 8/6/04 -0700, you wrote:
>>On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Joe R. wrote:
>>
>>> >You know when your bag was checked because the TSA puts a form in your
bag
>>> >saying they did.
>>>
>>> I beg to differ. I sat in Kansas City airport two years ago and spent
>>> abut 3 or 4 hours with the security people and watched as they opened
>>> numerous bags and I didn't see them put a sticker on ANY of them. Even
when
>>> flying and reclaiming baggage I've never seen one of those stickers.
>>
>>Have you flown recently?
>
> No and I have no intentions of flying as long as this crap continues. I
>have a very low treshold for BS! So don't expect to see me at VCF or
>anywhere else if it involves flying.
>
> Joe
>
>
>
Do NOT stay at the Pacific Lodge Hotel. That's also right on El Camino. I had
my original reservation there last year, and left after the first night because
it was a total dive.
Here's a bunch of stuff I have to get rid of. I really hope there's a good
home out there for the somewhat rare Sparc I have, I think it's a pretty
one-of-a-kind device.
- A portable Sparc I have that was custom manufactured for the US
military. Built to mil-spec, it comes in an imposing grey briefcase.
Somewhat portable, has a battery backup that seems to consist of 22
NiCad AA batteries. Has a mysterious IC slot on the bottom with no
chip in it that is not part of the original Sparc hardware it's based off
of. 64mb RAM, it's an IPX under the hood. Has no disk, and the disk
enclosure uses some kind of proprietary connector that you might be able
to get to work with a normal SCSI drive. It has all sorts of cool features
like an airtight enclosure and a depressurization valve for lugging it
through the desert and changes in altitude. Last time I powered it on
it worked fine and was able to netboot SunOS 4.1.4.
- Two C64s + drives, an apple 2c, mac plus (4mb RAM), apple imagewriter
dot matrix printer with about a 50 yr supply of ink cartridges and
refill kits.
- A real VT220 with a dodgy power button that could probably be fixed
easily.
- A miscellaneous assortment of external SCSI enclosures.
All this (or part of this) can be yours for S&H. I'm not part of this
mailing list so please e-mail me privately.
Steve.
which uses AT&T WE32100 CPU? I have a small gift for
you if you have such a system.
vax, 3900
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