Hello guys,
thanks alot for your answers. Unfortunately, I hadn't time yet to read the articles but I'll sure do that as soon as it's the case.
To answer the question where I'm situated; I live in Germany. Lawers around here try to find possibilities to gain money by pointing out websites
in wwhich law stuff my be broken in any way. It's absolutely rediculous and I don't want to have to pay a thousand euro jsut because a picture had
been used without getting a permission for example.
But from what you've been pointing out, it seems that it's not a problem to use some logos in the given context.
And the context after all is purely educational / historical. So I guess that it shouldn't be a problem.
I dont think that there will be issues the my ISP.
Nethertheless, is it necessary to ad something like "Alll logos are trademarks of their owners bla bla..." ?
Anyway, my site will be up soonish, I'll post a comment as soon as it's the case, as I'd like to get your opinions about it.
Thanks,
Pierre
> Chuck Guzis wrote:
> > On 10/10/2006 at 6:37 PM Jim Leonard wrote:
> >
> >> Yes, but he's not using the marks for any sort of financial gain or
> >> libel, so again, he should be fine.
> >
> > In fact, trademark fair-use guidelines are much more liberal and
> > straightforward than those of copyrighted material. "Fair use' in
> > copyright is a mare's nest situated in a minefield.
>
> Surely it's all academic given that we don't know where the original poster
> lives (they didn't say) - won't the copyright law vary wildly from country to
> country? I suspect that the law which applies is the law in the site owner's
> home country, which we don't know.
>
> *generally* I'd say that putting up a bunch of logos for non-profit use should
> be fine - it's not like it's doing the company any harm, or releasing
> information into the wild which isn't already readily visible elsewhere. About
> the worst I'd expect is a polite letter once in a blue moon along the lines
> of: "our logo has changed; please take the old one down and replace it with
> the new one".
>
> As I said though, I'm sure each country's laws differ, and given the global
> nature of the 'net the ones which apply are probably those for the site
> owner's home country (or possibly the country in which their site's ISP is
> based, if different)
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
>
>
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Not exactly, but I can get close (I worked for TI ... in fact in the printer
division). They were introduced in the early-1970's ... I was using second
generation models in 1977. By 1989 (when I joined TI), I'm pretty sure that
they had been discontinued, but they were still in widespread use, and were
still being supported.
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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:32:57 -0400
From: "Evan Koblentz" <evan at snarc.net>
Subject: Timeline of Silent 700 models?
To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'"
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Per the subject line .... does anyone know of a thorough list of all TI
Silent 700 terminals and the years of introduction?
Hello All
I'm still looking for help with the second rescue attempt in Georgia and
need either 182 donors of $10 each or 1820 at $1 each. I would like to get
to these items before winter really gets here, so please if you can spare a
$1 (one buck) send it to the Houston Computer Museum, 15827 Thistledew
Drive, Houston, TX 77082-1432. Cash or a check will do. Again the first trip
was a great success and many thanks to all donors for that rescue.
www.housoncomputermuseum.org
Thanks in advance to all,
John Keys
Hey all,
just a question: I'm working on a website which presents my collection of classic computers.
On the left side, there will be a navigatio bar with the company names and the respective modes.
I'd like to directly use the logos (images) of the brands in order to represent their names.
Could I run into to difficulties doing that? E.g. a company asking me to remove it or otherwise being confrontated
with law issues ?
For those who run a website? What are your experiences?
Thanks for any hints.
Regards,
Pierre
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I've tried manually searching the archives, but I can't find any references...
Was there someone who would be able to read 3 DECtapes for me? Two of them are
>from PDP-11 RSTS systems. The third has sources from ancient UNIX (circa 1974)
possibly 4th or 5th edition.
Thanks in advance!
-scott
staylor at smedley dot mrynet dot com
I have inherited a HP3000 918LX. Surpisingly enough it is OT being from
1999 or thereabouts; hopefully MPE/IX is venerable enough to fit in here.
I didn't like the machine much when it was in production use as a billing
system, but now that its mine I appreciate it a bit more.
However, the thing came out of the box in 1999 with MPE 5.5 with 64MB of
RAM and was intolerably slow. It was since been migrated (by HP
consulting thank goodness) to 7.00 which did not speed it up any.
Running a few simple commands and GLANCE begins to gripe about memory and
CPU usage. I once exported an ASCII file from LOGTOOL and tried to 'grep'
the resulting file in MPE POSIX mode and it took over 2 hours to complete.
FTPing to a 90mhz (!) linux box and the grepping took three minutes.
This was one of the machine were HP inserted NOP's in the firmware so you
didn't get more speed than you paid for, but I would not mind adding some
RAM.
I have some A2580-60001 60ns RAM from a HP9000 D200 which looks to be
compatible with a 918LX. I found other RAM part numbers which claimed to
work with both D200's and 918LX's had trouble finding info on this one
specifically.
Anyone know for sure? I'd rather not release magic smoke.
Paul
> From: "Evan Koblentz" <evan at snarc.net>
>
> I found some interesting things to buy, but then saw the prices... not only
> are they ASTRONOMICAL but the seller lists almost every item, even ordinary
> keyboards, as "Very Rare"... I wanted a Canon X-07 and a Toshiba T100 but he
> posted them at $299 and $399 respectively. What the hell!?!?!?
I ran into those items yesterday while checking out pricing for classic computer
stuff. My first comment is ... I'M RICH :). Second (and more seriously), I read
a while ago that the average selling time for older books is five years. My
guess in both cases is that they are priced for someone that *needs* them.
I found another closed auction today for a BUNCH (approx. 25) of Northstar
Advantage computers/boards/etc. with a starting bid of $500.00 with no reserve.
Good thing I didn't see that when the auction was open :)!!!
All:
I'm doing research for another potential emulation project. Does
anyone have a pointer to an electronic copy of the Tandy Model 2000
Programmer's Reference Manual (260-5403) and the Hardware Reference Manual
(260-5404)? Alternatively, if someone has hard copies that I can make a copy
of, that'd work.
Thanks a lot.
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator
Web site: <http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/>
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
Web site: http://www.altair32.com/
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