test-drb September 2004

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by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

>From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com> > >On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Teo Zenios wrote: > >> To me archives should be made up of just the important stuff, if we didn't >> find it important enough to save it, people 1000 years from now will think >> it is even less important. Who wants to dig through a trillion pictures of >> everyone's pre school finger paintings in an archive our parents put >> together 1000 years from now? > >Well, I for one would be beyond thrilled to see pictures of people and >places and things from 1000 years ago. > >-- Hi Of course, pictures without captions would be of less interest than ones with captions. How many albums seem to lack context. Sellam is right, I'd love to see how people did simple day to day kinds of things from 1K years ago. Dwight

21 years, 1 month

zorba and 4p

by kenziem＠sympatico.ca

I had a modular micro Zorba and a TRS80 4p portable dropped of today. Looking at the zorba website http://www.zorba.z80.de/telcon.htm there is mention that the disks are also available from Don Maslin. Large pile of software and disks with them to play with this Friday. -- Collector of vintage computers http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600 Looking for: PICMG backplane Open Source Weekend http://www.osw.ca

21 years, 1 month

bit-widths, was Re: HP Laserjet ..again....

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> wrote: > I always thought that the technical definition of a "byte" is "8-bits". That's the current definition among beige-box kids, I thought the original definition was the smallest *addressable* unit of memory, wasn't it? That's the reason why RFCs use the term "octet" for 8 bits, not "byte". MS

21 years, 1 month

Snopes on Ken Olsen

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote: > 2) Muy favourite word processor is called TeX.... Mine's troff. Currently using it to write a book on UFOs and exopolitics. MS

21 years, 1 month

Western Union self-winding clock

by FaLLnAnGeL889＠aol.com

Hi, My dad has one of those self winding clocks, and i was wondering if you could point me in the direction of finding a wiring diagram for it? thanks for your time -Kate

21 years, 1 month

[BBC-Micro] CEEFAX short story contest

by charlesb＠summerfield-technology.co.uk

you could in fact quite legally broadcast a teletext signal from a small transmitter if you are capable of building one, you MUST be careful however to make sure that you get no spurious emissions and also dont use an aerial but a coax feeder between the tx and the tuner. (IE link it up exactly as you would a TV). I also have a program somewhere that ran on an RML 580Z that I wrote at school to simulate a teletext server and just made up the pages from text files and displayed them on the screen. it was written for a school message system above reception. If I get time some day I'll try and dig up the disk (if it still is readable) and zip it up and put it up somewhere. regards charles ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk(a)yahoo.co.uk> To: <bbc-micro(a)cloud9.co.uk> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] CEEFAX short story contest > On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 22:20 +0100, gARetH baBB wrote: >> On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Jules Richardson wrote: >> >> > BBC was? I still have a pet project to get a real service up and >> > running >> > at the museum (and if a phone exchange can be simulated, then it's not >> > like we don't have plenty of old modem hardware lying around - acoustic >> > coupler, anyone?) >> >> Q: what do you think viewdata has in connection with teletext (apart from >> most of the display attributes) ? > > Both are examples of early information retrieval systems; the problem > with a museum exhibit being that it'd be somewhat illegal to broadcast > teletext over the airwaves! > > That doesn't stop the simulation using a service such as pip that I > mentioned earlier (which digging around appears to have been public- > access) across a dial-up link, though. > >>From a display point of view it'd make sense to combine it with a > viewdata system (in the sense that one or the other could be used at a > time by a terminal of some form - whether a BBC or whatever) simply to > avoid duplication of cabling, modems etc. > > And an example of a BBS would be a third option of course. It's a case > of making a modem think it was talking to a phone exchange and I'm not > sure what's involved there - but the Colossus guys know all about phone > equipment and have piles of period hardware lying about so I'm sure they > can offer help. > > I'm still not sure what was used server-side to construct and hold > teletext pages either (fro BBC's Ceefax or others); likely a DEC mini of > some sort - BBC machines for page composition? > > cheers > > Jules > > > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.759 / Virus Database: 508 - Release Date: 15/09/2004

21 years, 1 month

Don Maslin

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

Hi Vern Thanks for being there. I hope his wife understands how many people her husband has helped. We all wish her and the rest of her family the best. We have all lost a friend. Dwight >From: "Vernon Wright" <vern4wright(a)yahoo.com> > > >I read the list through the digests, and not always >frequently. So let me re-introduce myself. > >I am a past-president of the San Diego Computer >Society. > >In about 1986 I founded Dina-SIG, a special interest >group of the San Diego Computer Society. Don Maslin >immediately showed up, and we became fast friends and >have remained so ever since. I find it difficult to >speak of him in the past tense. > >Don took on a special project for Dina-SIG, and made >it his own: the archiving of software for classic >computers. > >I have of course talked with his wife Winnie, and >she has asked that people interested in Don's software >archives and his hardware collection hold off on >contact until further notice through this list. > >Within a reasonable time I will locate his archives, >and I will personally guarantee that the archives will >be duplicated and copies deposited with people and >institutions which will honor the attitude that Don >put into this effort - one of love for old stuff and >and of service to the community. > >In time his hardware collection will also be made >available to the community. > >I ask you to consider Mrs. Maslin's position and not >attempt to intervene at this time. > >Vern Wright > >vern4wright(a)yahoo.com > > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. >http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo >

21 years, 1 month

Don Maslin

by aek＠spies.com

I was going to stay out of this, but.. > Within a reasonable time I will locate his archives, and I will > personally guarantee that the archives will be duplicated There is unmarked, unread, and uncataloged material as well. My particular concern is I sent hundreds of 8" discs to Don through his nephwew up here to archive, which he never touched. I can't imagine that I was the only person that did this. It is going to be a non-trivial effort to find, read, and organize all of this.

21 years, 1 month

Don Maslin

by vern4wright＠yahoo.com

I read the list through the digests, and not always frequently. So let me re-introduce myself. I am a past-president of the San Diego Computer Society. In about 1986 I founded Dina-SIG, a special interest group of the San Diego Computer Society. Don Maslin immediately showed up, and we became fast friends and have remained so ever since. I find it difficult to speak of him in the past tense. Don took on a special project for Dina-SIG, and made it his own: the archiving of software for classic computers. I have of course talked with his wife Winnie, and she has asked that people interested in Don's software archives and his hardware collection hold off on contact until further notice through this list. Within a reasonable time I will locate his archives, and I will personally guarantee that the archives will be duplicated and copies deposited with people and institutions which will honor the attitude that Don put into this effort - one of love for old stuff and and of service to the community. In time his hardware collection will also be made available to the community. I ask you to consider Mrs. Maslin's position and not attempt to intervene at this time. Vern Wright vern4wright(a)yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo

21 years, 1 month

Challenger C4P information wanted.

by keith＠saracom.com

Hello, A friend gave me his first computer to go in my collection. Its a Challenger C4P. I do have the original manuals etc. And of course my friend for information. What I am looking for however is additional information, websites etc devoted to it. I have the cassette based version. The first question would be details on the floppy disk version. IE can I upgrade mine. If not, sources for programs for the cassette based unit. For one thing, I would like a terminal emulation program for it. Thanks Max

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