How's this for *strange*???
About 8 years ago, the wife and I bought a dual-recliner sofa at an auction
for $75. It served it's purpose well, through 3 kids and a fat husband.
;-) However, it was time to go. Between taxes and selling my JCB backhoe,
we figured we could afford a new couch, so off we went to the furniture
store (2 hours away, one way).[1]
$30 delivery for the new couch - considering the hassle of hitching a
trailer, burning a good $25 in gas *anyway* I figured this was a good deal.
*Another* $30 to pick up the old one, and I said "Noper -- I have a
sawz-all and a fireplace. We'll take care of it."[2]
Whilst disassembling the old couch to become firefood, under the fabric in
the bottom of the couch, I found an APL "quick reference" card! It's the
size of a playing card, and made of the same material of some really high
end card decks made 25-30 years ago[3]. It's called an "APL Vadis Enum" or
something -- it's Latin, of which I don't speak, and the card's at home,
/me's at work right now. If anyone's interested, I can post an update when
I get another look at the card, and prolly post pictures as well.
It lists most monadic and dyadic functions, some quad functions, etc...
Kinda neat, especially since I learned APL back in college.
Anyway, that's the strangest place I ever found anything classiccmp
related; especially considering the fact that it's been under my... uhhh...
nose all along. ;^>
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
[1] I shop locally when possible, but none of the local stores had anything
close to what we were looking for.
[2] The salesman was pretty decent overall, but after I told him I had a
sawz-all, he said "Do you know that recliner sofas have metal in them?" My
reply: "Uhhh... yea. That's why God invented carbide sawblades." Sheesh.
[3] My parents had a set of these -- their "good set" of cards. They said
for 2 decks of cards, they cost nearly $10USD 30 years ago...
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch at 30below.com
What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????
...Why that "ten year rule" no longer applies: Java.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/05/05/HNjavaat10_1.html
I can already hear the moans of "hear we go again" but I figured this
example is amusing enough... I recall that last time we sort of agreed that
date alone is hardly what makes something "vintage". I still concur.
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Eric?
I apparently cannot make contact with your other email
address, so I'll try here.
I haven't received payment yet (2 months!) for that
printer I sent you.
Please respond.
Steve.
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> I meant to email you yesterday. Apparently it
> arrived a long time
> ago, but the staff at Mail Boxes Etc. didn't put a
> slip in my box,
> so it went unnoticed until I specifically asked them
> to try to find
> it. So the postal service is not at fault this
> time.
>
> I'll put a check in the mail to you tonight.
>
> Best regards,
> Eric
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>Subject: Re: SMD (was Re: All things ESDI)
> From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com>
> Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 17:13:31 -0700 (PDT)
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>On Sat, 7 May 2005 shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure where (it's *not* the Aug 1976 glossy) but I think
>> I've seen a picture of a IMSAI next to a CDC 9762, with the
>> implication that they were connected. Don't know if that was an
>> IMSAI ad or not.
>>
>> Tim.
>>
>> (After 30 years I still think it was probably vaporware... Of course
>> there were non-SMD hard drives (SA4000 style) that were succesfully
>> interfaced to S-100 stuff.)
I've seen a vanilla S100 box with a CDC hawk on it back around '79.
Seems the interface was partially external and the S100 interface
made the bus interface. The system was not a commercial product
but, the hawk disk and the controller was. A similar idea was
used for RK05 drives to DEC boxen.
Allison
Kevin wrote:
> Can anyone advise what OS shipped with the IBM XT 5160 - I can't seem to
> find a definitive answer on the net.
None. IBM-DOS was available for separate purchase, as were several
other operating systems.
All:
I just got a Dell Pocket PC last week and I want to start seeking
out some "classic" stuff for it. For starters, I've done some Googling for
the adventure game interpreter ScottFree for thr PocketPC but I've come up
empty.
Does anyone have a pointer to one? Also, I'd appreciate any links to
other classic stuff for the PocketPC.
Thanks.
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
/************************************************************/
My apologies folks, quite a few people have emailed me and I've been
extremely difficult to get ahold of lately.
I've had a mishmash of severe work issues lately. Geeze, I'm supposed to be
semi-retired. Got a flood of emergencies all at once and I'm going to be out
of pocket for a week or so yet.
Sampling of the crap for those who care to commisurate... We host a lot of
websites for music groups... John Fogharty, Steve Winwood, Keller Williams,
DoubleDose, String Cheese Incident... and... the DresdenDolls.
The dresden dolls announced recently that they were going on tour with Nine
Inch Nails. Wonder of wonder, suddenly their website was sucking up to
45mbps sustained. Maybe it had to do with all those live performance videos
& mp3 files. Anyways... I've spent a lot of time dealing with that (as well
as the politics of getting them to pay for the bandwidth). bw_mod has become
my friend.
Then, for the past two days I noticed some network oddities (you know, when
an admin can't quite put their finger on it but knows something is amiss)...
well, about 6pm tonight I found the culprit. One of the servers that is
colocated with us by another band (not managed by us) got hacked. I found
all kinds of wonderful udp flood scripts, paypal scripts, irc bots, etc.
When will admins learn that their laziness affects others. Anyways, they've
charged me with cleaning up their mess.
Add that to the part time work I'm supposed to be doing, and, well...
loosely translated, forgive me if I take a while to get back to people for a
short bit.
Jay
Hi to everybody,
I am the webmaster of 1000bit.net site, I am here to answer about the
pictures problem you are talking about.
First of all, I would like to tell you something about me.
I am involved in this hobby since the beginning, every computer I bought is
still with me. I am one of the organizer of vintage computer events in
Italy, last year we setup the first Vintage Computer Festival in Italy,
thanks to Sellam.
My site is online since 1998, under different urls, and this is really a
long time in internet era. In all this time many things are changed and my
policy about the use of the pictures is changed too. On my site there are a
lot my own pictures, a lot of users' pictures, a lot of pictures taken from
online auctions and some pictures sent by users.
As you can see on my site there isn't any "copyright notice" or "picture
policy", so all the material present on the site is absolutley freely usable
and downloadable from anyone, beacuse is intended right in this way.
In the last years I have choosed to keep track and so to give credits to any
pictures that i found on the net, but the older ones actually doesn't have
any kind of credits or references.
In all these years no one asked me to remove pictures or something else.
Finally, please don't get angry if you want that I remove "your" picture,
just drop me an email or better I can give you the credits to you or your
site without any kind of problems.
My english is worse than "little rough" (thanks Dwight :-))), but I hope my
intent is clear.
Tix
www.1000bit.net
> Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 17:49:42 -0400
> From: Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu>
> Subject: VK100 (gigi)
> To: cctech at classiccmp.org
> Message-ID: <200505042149.j44LngE2007511 at yagi.h-net.msu.edu>
>
> Curiosity question:
>
> I've been idly watching for a GIGI to appear on the market for a
> while now. Are these things scarce like hens teeth?
Anyone have pointers to the manuals on the net.
Regards,
Garry
