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Hi all,
I know that this one has probably been covered countless times before
and has been shot down but I am new to the list and have not seen this
discussion before so please hold back your flame ;)
I understand the trouble of unreliable mail servers, I have been
afflicted with this problem myself recently, so why not look at a
technology that was specifically designed to fill this job.
We could set up a private news server using INN. This way we could even
divide the chat up into appropriate groups i.e. ccmp.offtopic,
ccmp.dec.pdp8 etc etc so that people who are just interested in a niche
collection don't have to bother with all the talk of other classic
computers. However people also still have the option of reading
everything on the list
I also understand that one of the main attractions to this list is that
it is subscription based which I guess keeps a lot of the spam from
reaching it. However NNTP does support authentication. We could have a
web interface similar to the one that we have at the moment that allows
read-only access to the groups so that other people can search them.
But we also could limit posting only to people with logons.
From what I have read I also see that people like the mailing list
approach because it allows them to connect to the internet for a short
amount of time and collect all of their email and read it later. I know
of many NNTP readers that allow offline viewing via synchronization.
This means that people who move about a lot can view over the web if
they want but it also keeps the people who use their ASR33's happy
because NNTP is a clean protocol. (By clean I mean that it has not been
infected with HTML).
just my $0.02
Regards
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Chris Blackburn
E-Mail: cblackburn36NOSPAM at softhome.net
E-Mail: cblackburn36 at NOSPAMgmail.com
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On Mar 7 2005, 15:32, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Adrian Graham wrote:
>
> > Isn't that something to do with using DUX.SYS instead of DU.SYS or
am I
> > getting confused with RT11XM and something like RT11SJ? It's been
16 or 17
> > years since I last sysgenned an RT11 box :-\
>
> What's the difference between RT11XM and RT11SJ? What do the last
two
> letter signify?
SJ is the Single Job monitor, which allows you to run one thing at a
time from the console.
FB is the Foreground/Background monitor, which allows you to run a
background task as well.
XM is the eXtended Monitor, which is like FB but in addition allows the
use of more than 56kB memory (by paging). Device drivers for XM have a
three-letter filename, with the third letter always being 'X'.
BL is the BaseLine monitor, which is what is on the distribution media.
It's like SJ, but includes all the devices you're likely to want to
boot from (so you can do a SYSGEN and transfer your customised monitor
to your preferred boot medium) and excludes all the frilly bits you
might want but aren't needed for a SYSGEN.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
For the last couple days I have been reading the Origins of Cyberspace
auction catalog that Christie's put together and it's really a very nice
book (except for the prices). It shows me several things I need to be on the
lookout for to put into the museum's library and on display. Check it out
if you can.
>Yes, but does anyone here actually save every message? I delete
>everything that's not of interest to me in the present. This doesn't
>help me for the future, though, so chances are slim I'd be able to
>search my personal archives for references to a previously unknown device.
I'm actually amazed how many people DO save every email.
In fact, most of the people I work with, not only save every email, but
also never move them from their inbox. They just have these huge,
multi-megabyte inbox files (they would be multi-gigabyte, but I have
everyone save for 1 person and myself set to use Eudora, which IMO
properly handles attachments by detaching them from the email when it is
received... so you don't end up with every last 20 MB attachment filling
up your email database).
And then you have my wife, that knows how to delete, and knows how to
file messages... and still has some OCD issue with saving every email
that isn't spam. (I'm the opposite... I throw out just about every email
I get... if it isn't important to my life in some way, it gets junked as
soon as I am done with it).
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Got these in the mail the other day a copy of TV Typewriter Cookbook by Don
Lancaster, the Cheap Video cookbook by Don Lancaster, and a digital VT1200 -
Installing and Using The VT1200 Video Terminal manual. I believe that I
have other copies of the both the Don Lancaster books down in storage
someplace.
Roger,
>>>>>> The guy ended the auction early, so it's mine! $55 shipped, and already
paid for.
That is great news! Please tell me what I need to do (i.e., how much $$ you
want me to send) to get a copy of the BASIC.
Evan
Evan's personal homepage: www.snarc.net
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>From: ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
>
>> Be sure to check the labels on the stepper motor. Some years ago I had a
>> brief "aquintance" with a SSSD drive from Control Data. I binned it
>> immediately, as it showed that the steppermotor needed 115VAC !
>
>Never! I've enver seen am 8" drive with anything but a 24V stepper motor.
>
>The spindle motor is often mains powered (and often 115V, to be powered
>by an autotransformer if you have 230V mains). It's a capacitor-run
>induction motor, and you generally have to change the pulleys (and maybe
>the belt) when going between 50Hz and 60Hz mains, to get the spindle
>speed right.
>
>My P851 and P854 systems have CDC floppies (and I have the CDC service
>manual for them). They have 24V steppers and AC-line powered spindles.
>
>-tony
>
Hi
I looked at the manual for the SA800/801 and the +24V is used
for the stepper and head load but it is also used for some
of the electronics. Where the exact voltage is critical, there
is a zener. It would nost likely work anywhere +- 2 or 3 volts.
Dwight
On Mar 8 2005, 17:18, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> They use 'eyelet' rivets, not pop rivets, but for home use, as long
as
> the pop rivets don't touch the boards above or below, you should be
> OK.
> I won't say that no 3rd party ever made a plastic-handle hex card,
but
> it is awfully wide to not have a stiffener of some sort. ISTR some
> 3rd party tape controler (TC-131?) had some kind of machined block on
> either corner for extractors, but I don't recall what they did to
keep
> the board from flexing; perhaps a metal L bracket?
I've got one hex comms board and one 3rd party memory that have no
stiffeners, the comms board has plastic blocks on the corners with
extractor levers. Both are a pain because they flex a lot, and both
are sitting on a shelf somewhere in the workshop, not in a machine.
Even quad QBus cards without some stiffening are a pain.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
On Mar 8 2005, 22:09, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Lots of corporate entities will have transparent web proxies
> intercepting port 80 though. I'm not sure how clever they are - do
they
> intercept *all* port 80 traffic then either process it or fail, or do
> they pass through non-HTTP traffic on port 80 as though it was never
> touched by the proxy at all? I imagine both types exist, at least.
Most that I know of interpret the traffic, so NNTP on port 80 would
fail on those.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
> Not when I first sent it in January of 1999, and certainly not this time
>
>(somewhere I have the code I wrote to generate this ... where that is, I
>have no idea ... )
>
> -spc (But hey! You inline replied!)
>
>
If you're on Linux/Unix, check '/usr/games/morse'.
Fair chance of something being there.
