>Interesting story, but I find it hard to believe that emailing outside
>of academic and military circles was done much at all back in 1985.
You obviously weren't around then, were you?
The tough part was finding shell accounts you could get. The Well was
one of the first. I know that's what I had an account on in '85. And
Apple most certainly was exchanging email. The original 'apple vax'
(apple.com later) was a 780 that lived in the top floor of Mariani 1.
I got my first job at Apple from a posting on ba.jobs that came through
that machine.
What we're trying to find out, on two threads now, is how life
was before registered domain names.
--
In the unix world, uucp and netnews, both using bang separated
pathnames. Tom could explain the details of FIDOnet, which had
gateways. Then there were all the other corparate/educational
nets with their own naming rules (bitnet,decnet and dec's internal
networks). Most people had slow point-point links at the periphery.
I seem to recall Mac fans taunting me about how easy
MacTCP was to setup, but I'm not clear on the timing for that...
--
Apple introduced MacTCP in Oct, 1988. NCSA, UofM, and Stanford
packages were available before that. Primary applications were
Telnet, FTP, Mail of various flavors and Gopher.
Tom Jennings wrote:
> Ron Hudson wrote:
>> What kind of screwdriver is a "greenie" screwdriver?
>>
> I thought they were universal!!!! :-)
The yahoo's running airport security in Columbus or Des Moines
confiscated my only greenie sometime before the TSA took over airport
screening, but well after 9/11. It had remained in my carry-on for
several trips shortly before this, but this time when they did a
complete hand-check of my bag, they decided this was an Instrument of
Terror. I thought it was the only way to tighten up the screws in my
glasses, but didn't argue with the nice (ahem) man.
I could buy another one, but this was the one given to me when I took
a work-study job in the Engineering department at college and learned
to solder random serial cables...
--Steve.
>From: "Philip Pemberton" <philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com>
>
>In message <S.0000412101(a)mythtech.net>
> chris <cb(a)mythtech.net> wrote:
>
>> >the attraction is to all the people that burn themselves WHENEVER they
>> >pick up a soldering iron...
>>
>> I thought those burns where a right of passage in using an iron!?!
>
>Yep - picking up the hot end of a soldering iron is another one. Yes, I've
>done that once. That was reason I went out and bought a proper stand for the
>iron.
>
Hi
It is mostly learning to not reach for it when it is
falling. You should jsut let it fall.
Dwight
Havent tried this, but:
http://www.emulators.com/xformer.htm
Cheers,
Ram
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Hudson [mailto:tomhudson@execpc.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 3:42 PM
To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Reading Atari 800 floppies?
Anybody know if it's possible to read old Atari 8-bit 5.25" floppies
with some sort of PC-based software?
I used to develop software for the Ataris and some co-workers just
dredged up some floppies with source code from projects I did for Atari
that were never released. We're trying to dig up a functional 800
system to read them but it would save a lot of hassle if it was possible
to read them directly into a PC, where we have a good emulator.
-Tom
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Havent tried this, but:
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Hudson [mailto:tomhudson@execpc.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 3:42 PM
To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Reading Atari 800 floppies?
Anybody know if it's possible to read old Atari 8-bit 5.25" floppies
with some sort of PC-based software?
I used to develop software for the Ataris and some co-workers just
dredged up some floppies with source code from projects I did for Atari
that were never released. We're trying to dig up a functional 800
system to read them but it would save a lot of hassle if it was possible
to read them directly into a PC, where we have a good emulator.
-Tom
--
Thomas Hudson
http://portdistrict5.org -- 5th District Aldermanic Website
http://portev.org -- Electric Vehicles, Solar Power & More
http://portgardenclub.org -- Port Washington Garden Club
http://portlightstation.org -- Light Station Restoration
http://klanky.com -- Animation Projects
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Hi Jay,
Any reason why I was automagically _un_subscribed from cctalk?
Thanks,
Tad
cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org wrote:
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Tad
*******************************
Tom Hudson <tomhudson(a)execpc.com> wrote:
> I got TWO of 'em! I WIN!!!
>
>-Tom
>
>P.S. One at 9:07PM, one at 9:23PM
Also got it twice (with exactly the same time stamps as you). If there is
somebody playing games, s/he should better be careful or might be sued if
shocked list members suffer heart attacks due to these bad news!
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