I've got a surplus of these DEC VT520 terminals that I'd like to clear out
of here so I'm proposing what I think is a good deal. Normally I sell
them for $25 each but I'll offer TWO for the low low price of only $35
plus shipping. Since the keyboard for these things is about 2.5 times the
width of the terminal itself, and because the terminals don't weigh that
much, shipping will not be too much more than shipping for just one. So
you actually get a pretty good deal here. But you have to buy two ;)
For more information on the DEC VT520, check out my VCM listing:
http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=1158
If you're interested, let me know and I'll setup the listing on the VCM so
you can go nab it. I'll create the listings on an as-requested basis to
save myself time.
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I got in a Convex Meta Series 19" cabinet. It's in terrific condition and
has a cool black and metallic silver color scheme. Unfortunately, the
rest of the Convex has been gutted :( And not by me, BTW.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem terribly useful as a generic cabinet for
non-Convex stuff. It doesn't have standard rails for mounting your basic
rackmount type gear. It has a power supply at the base that used to power
the Convex, and also has four power strips lining the back side. A very
nice cabinet, but of limited use unless you're a Convex junkie.
So if anyone wants it, it's yours. Because of its weight, I doubt you'd
want to ship it, in case you're really after one for some ridiculous
reason. If you do want me to ship it, e-mail me privately and we'll
discuss.
Otherwise, any local takers come and get it. If it isn't gone by next
week, off to the scrapyard :(
Photo available upon request.
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Is anyone aware of a *nix program to go through mailbox format mail files,
and removing duplicate emails (I would guess by message id). In addition,
I'd like to split up a single very large mbox file into separate chunks,
say... 200mb each. Would be nice if the program would show the date ranges
of emails in the chunk.
Yes, I can write something like this, but before I spend the time on it I
was wondering if anyone had, or knew of, a tool to do this.
I'm trying to get the complete mailing list archives in order. There are
definitely chunks of the archives missing (so if anyone has a complete set
back to the start, just send them to me on CD *grin*). There's always been a
few chunks missing, and I'd really like to get it all back together for the
new server. Plus, set up some stuff to automate maintenance of the raw mbx's
which are running "just a tad large" right now.
Thanks for any help.... (off list please)
Jay West
G'day Latent "Nova-heads" -
A "distress rescue situation" exists for a Nova 4/X system , dual 9-track
tape drives, top-loader disk drive in a 3-bay rack, in Bakersfield, CA. I
was told by a representative of the owner of this system that it will be
trashed or "donated to a local charity" by
Saturday.
Please contact me off-list for more details if you can help save this nice
system.
Bruce
Bruce Ray
Wild Hare Computer Systems, Inc.
bkr(a)WildHareComputers.com
...preserving the Data General legacy: www.NovasAreForever.com
>From: aek(a)spies.com
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>> Remember 'the little garden'?
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>Great little Chinese place on El Camino just before Arastradero.
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>RIP
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Hi
Some how, I am missing the context of the "The Little Garden / TLGnet Inc."
messages. What the heck is all this about?
Dwight
On Jan 15 2005, 0:04, Tom Jennings wrote:
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> [ Attachment (text/plain): 1058 bytes
> Character set: X-UNKNOWN
^^^^^^^^^
Where did that come from? :-)
> I assume this thing runs Windows? Any idea what version?
It could easily be DOS. Frameworks was a DOS office applications
suite. IIRC it included a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a basic
database. Borland bought out Ashton Tate but they kept Frameworks as a
DOS suite.
I think Frameworks is still around, and it should run under windows, so
if Tore can get the files off the machine they should be usable. Ah
yes, I've just found www.framework.com (they seem to have dropped the
"s"). Tore, I think you should ask around and see if anyone has an old
copy you could borrow.
> ??? isn't this an LCD laptop? I can't imagine the interface
> to the screen is anything but proprietary.
A lot of older Toshibas are plasma displays. Tore said this one is
plasma, so it must be fairly old and probably runs DOS or Windows 3.1.
I agree, Kermit might not be a bad way to get the files off. The .exe
file from MS-Kermit will easily fit on a 720K floppy, and version 3.15
will also run under Win95 (and probably XP, I can't remember if I tried
that last time I used it because I upgraded the old bench PC to Linux
after a few days). You can get it from
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/mskermit.html
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Network Manager
University of York
John Allain and others mentioned PANIX recently on the 90's Internet
Boom thread. I got a response from my friend David Spector, who helped
out with Panix. At the time he was working as a UNIX system manager
and senior systems programmer at NYU's business school.
David identified the systems used as the Mac IIfx, but the IIfx wasn't
introduced until 1990. The IIx was introduced in late 1988. Since he
pegs the time as early 1988, the machines in question must be a Mac II
with PMMU; David still has the receipts somewhere and might verify
this sometime. This period would correspond with the announcement of
A/UX in February of 1998. (These introduction dates are taken from the
book Apple Confidential 2.0 by Owen Linzmayer.)
Here's what David had to say:
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With regard to PANIX...
In a nutshell, I helped start PANIX, which was funded by my old friend
Alexis Rosen, by supplying the developer discount that bought a couple
of MacIIfx's. I provided the UNIX expertise to get everything up and
running; they ran A/UX and we used nuBus-based serial cards (name
escapes me at the moment... I'll surely remember it later). At the
time I was the Senior Systems Programmer at NYU's Graduate School of
Business (long before it was the "Stern School of Business."
The original machines lived for a while on my dining room table in my
5th floor walkup on 18th St & 8th Ave in Chelsea and used my spare
lines with a couple of Zyxcel 9600bps modems until we got the machines
configured correctly and did all sorts of hacking on the serial
drivers for those (at the time) very kool (now, they would be
dreadful) serial boards. After the systems were set up we moved
everything to Jim Baumbach's Brooklyn Height's basement where we had
16 phone lines brought in. The MacIIfx's lived on top of a hand-wired
plexus UNIX machine that Jim had liberated from one of his past lives.
At the time (late 80s) the only other interesting dial-up in NY was
Echo (East Coast Hang Out) run by Stacey Horn; I mean there were lots
of BBSes but nothing at all resembling either Echo or PANIX. Echo, by
the way, was considered by most people to be the East Coast equiv. of
TheWell. I had an account on echo for a zillion years... still have
my panix account too, of course..
As an ex-Systems Programmer from Courant (the NYU Academic Computing
Facility) I arranged for Panix to get mail and news from NYU via UUCP
(Bill Russell, a great friend and mentor, was NYU's Network Manager);
the path was ...ihnp4!{cmcl2,acf4}!panix. They didn't get a real
Internet connection until the ARPAnet/NSFNet split happened and the
rules loosened up which if I recall correctly was a UUNet connection
in about 1990.
..ah! those were the days...
feel free to pass on to whomever might be interested in such
historical tidbits.
David HM Spector
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I stopped at a surplus place today and found a NIB Hayes "Government
Model" 2400 baud MODEM. The box says "Government Use Only". Does anybody
know what the story is about that?
Joe
