test-drb February 2006

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by cclist＠sydex.com

It might make the most sense in online auctions if ALL bids were snipes. Simply bid what you're willing to pay for the item and if it's more than the reserve and higher than any other bid, you've won it by whatever the bid increment is. That's the way I bid on all of my eBay purchases. When I place my snipe bid, I say "I'd be willing to pay this much for the item, after which either I'm not sufficiently interested or I know where I can purchase the same thing cheaper". There's no stress of seeing if anyone else has bid more than I. If I want the item badly enough, I'll get it--no "auction fever". There are some categories where sniping seems to be the rule more than exception and others where the reverse is true. Cheers, Chuck

18 years, 5 months

Robinson's Difference Engine #1 from standard Meccano parts

by bob099＠centurytel.net

http://meccano.us/difference_engines/rde_1/

18 years, 5 months

bogus auction for Altair system on eBay

by marvin＠rain.org

I know of an instance where about $10K was held up by PayPal because of a dispute that eventually headed to court. I've never had any problems with PayPal, but I am very careful and distrustful of the "service". I rather doubt that how the funds were transferred has any relevance. > From: Richard <legalize at xmission.com> > > In article <43FCE97A.10303 at oldskool.org>, > Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> writes: > > > Seconded. ebay and paypal exist for the buyer, not the seller. > > [...] > > Is this why there are some sellers on ebay that are absolutely hostile > to anything paypal? I even had one seller that would only accept > paypal coupled to a bank account, not a credit card (although how they > could tell I don't know).

18 years, 5 months

bogus auction for Altair system on eBay

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

>From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> ---snip--- > >The trickier links exploit the more oddball features of browser addresses. > Some older versions of IE, for example will swallow things like >http://www.ebay.com at 1113982819/ (which actually references google). >Sufficiently obscure to fool the casual user. > >Cheers, >Chuck > Hi I receive at least 2 or 3 phishing emails a day. The best defense is to alway log on separately to the acount ( ebay, bank, credit card or what ever ). Never and I mean NEVER!!! use a link from an email to access a password account. If it looks like something from ebay, it will be there in your account on ebay. That is the way to look for it and not by some pointer in an email. Dwight

18 years, 5 months

Anyone with an ATW800 (Transputer workstation)?

by RMeenaks＠olf.com

I am VERY VERY JEALOUS! I really wanted one myself but could never find one :-( So, I decided to rig my own using off the shelf transputer TRAMS... The blue book should tell you what the commands are (again on my website). Did you download the latest version of Helios? Also, the set of commands can be found by looking at: http://web.archive.org/web/19970725072307/www.perihelion.co.uk/helios/he lp/General/RebootingHelios.html You should be able to terminate the system from the server that is running... Ram > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org > [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Dave Dunfield > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 7:58 PM > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: RE: Anyone with an ATW800 (Transputer workstation)? > > > > Forgot to mention that this is basically a problem with the > host.con > > file. If you go to the links I provided, it will tell you how to > > change it to work off of the regular monitor. I suspect it is > > configured to run X instead. You can use a regular RGB to > VGA adapter > > which is what most people do. > > Thanks for the helpfull hints. > > I "hot wired" an adapter for a DB-15 to a LCD panel which > does RGB with sync on green, and the system came up perfectly > (Nice screen full of Atari logos in the startup). > > Couldn't find a SHUTDOWN or HALTSYS command ('STOP' produces > the encouraging message 'So far unimplimented') ... but > entering ^D to the X-console causes a flurry of disk activity > terminating with what "could be the sound of a head park"... > and returns control to the Mega/GEM desktop on the Atari > monitor - is this the correct procedure to shut down Helios? > > Very cool system! > > Regards, > Dave > > -- > dave04a (at) Dave Dunfield > dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html

18 years, 5 months

Another keynote speaker for VCF: David Ahl

by news＠computercollector.com

Well, this is cool! David Ahl, founder/editor of Creative Computing magazine, confirmed today that he'll speak at East 3.0. ----------------------------------------- Evan Koblentz's personal homepage: http://www.snarc.net Computer Collector Newsletter: >> http://news.computercollector.com Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists & Museum: >> http://www.marchclub.org >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/midatlanticretro/

18 years, 5 months

IPC manuals?

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Does anyone if the HP IPC manuals are scanned and posted online somewhere? I THOUGHT they were but can't find them. Joe

18 years, 5 months

Altair Computer on Ebay

by marvin＠rain.org

Nope, it is rather difficult to read prior messages when ClassicCmp is delivered in digest form :). > > Current price is $2.00 with about 10 hours to go (22:30 PST right now.) > > I rather doubt it will stay there :). > > > > You surely didn't read the thread "bogus auction for Altair system on > eBay" on this mailing list. > > vax, 9000 >

18 years, 5 months

pinging Jules Richardson

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Jules, Did you get my message about the Intel 310 manuals? I haven't gotten areply. Joe

18 years, 5 months

Altair Computer on Ebay

by marvin＠rain.org

I just noticed this one-day listing of an Altair located in the UK: http://cgi.ebay.com/MITS-Altair-8800-Computer-and-Disk-Drive-No-Reserve_W0Q… Current price is $2.00 with about 10 hours to go (22:30 PST right now.) I rather doubt it will stay there :).

18 years, 5 months

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test-drb February 2006