test-drb November 2006

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by evan＠snarc.net

Anybody have recent issues of Make? Somebody told me tonight that I'm quoted, two or three issues ago, but I have no idea what that's about .... So naturally I am feeling curious! Would appreciate if someone could look. Thanks! - Evan (Koblentz)

17 years, 5 months

cloning CDs with errors?

by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

Random thought of the day.... I've seen a few CDs around where the manufacturer has deliberately included errors on the disc to make piracy more difficult - which is a noble enough thing to do, but a bit of a pain in the butt when you want to make a legitimate backup copy of a disc :-( Has anyone come across tools (Linux preferred, but I could stomach Windows if I had to!) which can duplicate such discs and produce errors in the output at the same block as the input? (I assume any software on such deliberately-crippled media would check for the presence of known errors at install / run time) cheers Jules

17 years, 5 months

Still seeing IBM 5140 manual

by evan＠snarc.net

Anybody? Bueller...? I really need the 5140 instruction manual(s).

17 years, 5 months

Acorn Electron on ePay...cheap

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

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17 years, 5 months

IBM PC bios source available

by nfk＠zjtcm.net

Hi ,would u send me the IBM PC bios source? best regards, NFK

17 years, 5 months

Suppose I wanted to make a TTL terminal replica kit...

by legalize＠xmission.com

How hard would it be? I imagine that finding TTL parts isn't so bad, but what about appropriate era keyboards and CRTs? -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>

17 years, 5 months

New data on the Antikythera device

by evan＠snarc.net

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/11/30/astronomy.calculator.reut/index.htm l

17 years, 5 months

Siemens-Nixdorf RM400-10

by Arno_1983＠gmx.de

Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com> wrote: > roosmcd at dds.nl wrote: > > Citeren Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com>: > >> I have one. I'd like to find hardware docs for it. SINIX/Reliant > >> UNIX install media would be heavenly. > > > > I still have a RM-200c, should start that up sometime :). But I have > > two sets of installation media, 5.43 and 5.45 IIRC. Please let me > > know if you haven't been able to find it otherwise and I'll see what > > I can do. > > So far, you're the only other person I've found that ever heard of > these things. > Mine seems to have an intact SINIX install on it, but it looks like I > need boot media to get root. > I'd also like to know a couple of other things, like what EISA and > ISA adapters are supported, how a mouse attaches, since it has a > single PS/2 port, and if a CD-ROM is supported, what models work. Any > help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. > > Doc Manuals for Siemens RM-Series unix based servers (most even available in English) can be found here: http://manuals.fujitsu-siemens.com/softbooks/unix/us/rmop.htm Had to dig up that resource mere weeks ago because the university collection received a Siemens RM600 E. I'm eager to get some hands-on experience but alas that thing is far back on our priority list... HTH, -- Arno Kletzander Stud. Hilfskraft Informatik Sammlung Erlangen www.iser.uni-erlangen.de Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal f?r Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer

17 years, 5 months

Tentative early news of VCF East 4.0 date(s)

by evan＠snarc.net

Mothers Day ..... how did I not realize that???? That leaves June 2/3 and 9/10. If we choose 9/10 then we give people a weekend off after Memorial Day. But would there be more conflicts with graduations (on either of the June weekends) than with the Dayton event? I know all about the "you can't please everyone all the time" rule but we're still trying.

17 years, 5 months

Wozniak book signing book report

by richard.cini＠wachovia.com

All: For those who might not have been aware, Steve Wozniak was in New York last night for a book signing at a Barnes & Noble. I attended this signing and I thought I'd provide a book report of sorts for those who haven't yet been (the last one was in Philadelphia about a month ago). I arrived not knowing what to expect and there were only about 25 people in the gallery at 5:30 (the presentation began at 7pm). This event was competing with the Christmas tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, so I figured, hey, it shouldn't be too crowded. Yeah, right. While I was waiting, I grabbed a copy of iWoz and began reading. My report on the book itself is at the end. There were about 150 seats and by 7pm, 175 people were there. I'd say about 80/20 male/female ratio, from a 9 year old girl with a cello strapped to her back to about 55. Ethnically, it was a pretty diverse crowd. Steve arrived on-time and after a short intro, began his speech. I don't think he stopped to breathe. He spoke constantly for 45 minutes. In spite of his stated shyness, he was a very gracious and engaging speaker. You can tell that his mind is running far ahead of his mouth. Yet, in his speech, you can hear a boyish quality that conveys such excitement about computers and amazement as how he, as the "other Steve" with the engineering brains, created the first color personal computer that could be connected to the TV, and, by his accounts, lit the rocket on the nascent personal computing industry (I think he actually said something like "how we started the industry"). I bet that if the guy from Barnes & Noble didn't keep him to a clock, he would have told stories until closing at 10pm. I spent only a few minutes with Woz. He signed my Woz book, an original instruction manual from my Apple II (which he pawed over, not having seen one in years), and we talked momentarily about my Altair Emulator project. There were people there who brought old computers for him to sign (which he did). Most people just had their books signed. Now, onto the book itself. While I was waiting for the presentation to start, I began reading around the middle of the book and in an hour and 20 minutes time, read almost 100 pages. The book is an easy read and is in a conversational style that after hearing Woz speak, one can easily see how the book was created...he told the stories and Gina Smith, the co-author, wrote them down, preserving his familiar, conversational style. This isn't fine literature, and Steve readily admitted that he's not much of an author. But, if you think of it more as you and Steve sitting at a bar talking about old times, you will enjoy it. Since I began in the middle at a random spot, I didn't read about Steve's early years. He did allude to his childhood in his presentation, and this is where most people will discover the "I didn't know that." facts about Woz. I picked-up the story around the time of Steve creating the Breakout game for Atari. The back-half of the book is filled with common Woz stories about Breakout, the 500 machine purchase from The Byte Shop, his drive for elegance in design (and reduced parts count), and hacking a Shugart floppy drive to make a very elegant floppy controller system. There were some brief mentions of fights with Jobs, like over the number of slots to put in the Apple ][ and the failure of the Apple ///, but any disagreements with the other Steve were treated gingerly. I'm sure there are kernels of rare or never-heard Woz stories in there, but in the pages I read, I didn't really see any. Rich

17 years, 5 months

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test-drb November 2006