test-drb September 2006

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by sellam＠vintagetech.com

TEN YEARS AGO, a typical home computer system might have been a box with an Intel processor inside running a Microsoft operating system. And there were a few Macs. Today, a typical home computer system might be a box with an Intel processor inside running a Microsoft operating system. And there are a few Macs. What a crock. Give me them old timey computers, damn it! VINTAGE COMPUTER FESTIVAL 9.0 November 4-5, 2006 Computer History Museum Mountain View, California http://www.vintage.org/2006/main/ Make an entry in your PDA! It is time once again to shun your modern day computing monstrosity and spend a weekend with its venerable ancestors at the ninth annual Vintage Computer Festival. VCF 9.0 takes place on the weekend of November 4-5 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Highlights of this VCF event include: * A celebration of the 30th anniversary of Apple Computer Apple didn't want to do it, so we will! Hosted by Bruce Damer of the DigiBarn, this gala event will feature a bevy of early Apple founders, including the big man himself, Woz! * A reprise of the original Sol-20 prototype Nine years ago, at the very first Vintage Computer Festival, Lee Felsenstein and Bob Marsh reunited after many years to jointly present the original prototype of the Sol-20, which hadn't been seen in public for over 20 years. This year, Lee and a gaggle of Processor Technology alumni will bring back the venerable grand- daddy of all Sol-20s to celebrate this ground-breaking personal computer. By the way, coverage of the first Sol-20 reunion can be found here: http://www.vintage.org/vcf98/vcfpics3.htm * The first Vintage Computer Film Festival That's right, a film festival dedicated to movies and documentaries that have a vintage computing theme! At the past two VCF events we've screened Jason Scott's "BBS Documentary" and Greg Maletic's "The Future of Pinball", as well as "Walking Rainbow", a remembrance of Homebrew Computer Club co-founder Fred Moore. We've decided to take these screenings a step further and turn them into a full-blown film festival to coincide with the VCF. Film buffs will definitely want to take note and stay tuned for further announcements. * Hands-on Build-It-Yourself workshops The VCF is proud to debut the first Build-It-Yourself workshops, featuring the hottest retro-computing and retro-gaming kits out there, including Andre' LaMothe's XGameStation Pico Edition and Bob Armstrong's Cosmac ELF. More details to come soon. * Speakers, Exhibits, and the VCF Marketplace Of course, no VCF would be complete without a terrific line-up of amazing and interesting speakers. This year's bunch includes Paul Saffo of the Institute for the Future, microcomputer historian C. Murray McCullough, Archaeologist and VCF Fellow Christine Finn, and more to come with new speakers being added weekly. We're also receiving submissions for some phenomenal and exciting exhibits. Perhaps you've got a computer you'd like to bring along to show to the world? Sign up to be an exhibitor! Go here: http://www.vintage.org/2006/main/exhibit.php And of course we have the ever-fabulous VCF Marketplace featuring hard-to-find items that will start your adrenaline pumping. Bring cash. Lots of cash. * more, More, MORE! Another fantastic celebration is in the works, and I don't think we're done just yet, so watch for upcoming announcements to litter your inbox and check the website for more exciting details to be revealed in the coming hours, days and weeks! Best regards, Sellam Ismail Producer Vintage Computer Festival http://www.vintage.org/ P.S. The Macs were then, and are now, much cooler than the PCs ;) -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

17 years, 10 months

Joysticks (was Re: Advice on old C64 floppies? )

by aliensrcooluk＠yahoo.co.uk

--- "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: > At 5:13 PM -0700 9/5/06, Zane H. Healy wrote: > >Do the Amiga CD32 pads work? I simply *ASSUMED* > they would be wired > >differently, I didn't bother to try to plug it in . > There was actually one > > I found indication online that the CD32 pads shoul d > work, however, I > can't get any of the fire buttons on the one I hav e > to work. The > directional part seems to sort of work, but I had to > use the space > bar to fire in the game I was playing. > > Zane > I have gotten CD32 pads to work on my Amiga. The red button can be used a a joystick fire button, and one other can *sometimes* be used for games that detect 2 joystick fire buttons. It was only a theory that they might work on other computers. Lke I said in my original mail, some of the wires *may* need swapping to get it to fully work. Regards, Andrew B aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk

17 years, 10 months

portable printing terminals

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

I'm aware of the TRS-80 PT210 and the TI Silent 700 line of portable printing terminals. All are incapable of printing lowercase. Is anyone here aware of one that does do lowercase? -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

17 years, 10 months

SGI -> Mips/Irix EOP'd

by dholland＠woh.rr.com

bye-bye... http://www.sgi.com/support/mips_irix.html Not unsurprising, but I don't think it leaves SGI with much of a product... What's left their Linux Altix's? David

17 years, 10 months

Byte magazines: 1976 - 1986

by Watzman＠neo.rr.com

Re: "I wouldn't scan (especially post!) them as JPEG images. I'd suggest that you do this the way that Al Kossow does with Bitsavers docs - scan as a 1bpp TIFF" I absolutely disagree with this. These are not product manuals. They are magazines. Much of the interest is in the advertisements. Photos in the magazine are in color. I've been doing a lot of exactly this type of work (40,000+ pages worth) and the right way to do it is to create an Adobe Acrobat PDF file, but the scans should, in my opinion, be color JPEGs for pages with color, and 256 shades of gray grayscale for pages that have no color at all. All scanned at 300 dpi, unless there is a specific reason to scan at a higher resolution. As to the original post, I don't think it's inherently wrong to destroy the magazines for scanning, and they are not all that rare, but neither are they all that commonplace (I have a complete set from the first issue to sometime in the mid 1980's). As to copyrights, they are copyrighted, the copyrights are still valid, the owner (McGraw Hill) still exists and might or might not object (much depends on what is done with them). However, the most likely outcome even if they do object is that they send you a letter asking you to take them down and cease distribution. I can't imagine an actual action against anyone who complies with such a request. By the way, if you do scan them, I'd like very much to have them. -Barry Watzman

17 years, 10 months

Nixies, was Re: Octal

by marvin＠rain.org

> From: "Roy J. Tellason" > I wouldn't mind getting some nixies to play with at some point, but it's not > a real high priority item on my list. I did have one assembly that I picked I've found that nixies are not very hard to find; just check out older test equipment. I picked three pieces of test equipment a couple of weeks ago for basically nothing, each of which was working and used nixies for the displays.

17 years, 10 months

DEC SC008 Star Coupler for trade

by bob＠jfcl.com

I've got a DEC SC008 star coupler, complete with rack, doors, and everything that I'm never going to use. There's no way I'm going to ship it (it's a complete short corporate rack, after all!) so anybody who wants it would have to live within driving distance of Milpitas CA. I'd really like to trade it for an H967 "short" traditional rack. Note that the 967 is neither the taller H960 traditional rack, nor is it the shorter new "corporate" style rack - the 967 is about 50" tall (with casters) and holds 24U. I'd be happy with just the bare rack; I don't need doors or side panels. H967s aren't that common, though, so it's a long shot that I'll find one. Let me know if you're interested in the SC008, even if you don't have one. Thanks, Bob Armstrong

17 years, 10 months

Recommendations for operating system

by evan＠snarc.net

>>> I think that this just squeaks in as being on topic. Granted, this is the on- and off-topic list, vs. cctech as frequently (and recently!) noted here. But having said that, and at the risk of starting the you-know-what conversation, I * strongly * disagree with putting "Pentium" (or anything newer than most computers based on a 286/386) into the on-topicness of classiccmp. I know this is supposed to be a vaguely family-friendly list and all, but as for the fucking 10-year-rule, I say let's fucking throw it away and never fucking bring it up again. Chronological rules don't work because of Moore's Law.

17 years, 10 months

SunOS install docs

by compoobah＠valleyimplants.com

There are two different "M" files: there's the miniroot, which must be copied to the swap before it's booted with the -sw flag. The other file is MUNIX, which is M(emory resident)UNIX, and fits entirely in RAM with a RAMDISK filesystem. It is what is used to label a disk when the disk is blank and can't be used for the miniroot.

17 years, 10 months

portable printing terminals

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

> >Subject: Re: portable printing terminals > From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> > Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:35:23 -0700 (PDT) > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > >On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, David Griffith wrote: >> I'm aware of the TRS-80 PT210 and the TI Silent 700 line of portable >> printing terminals. All are incapable of printing lowercase. Is anyone >> here aware of one that does do lowercase? > >There was an accessory ROM for the Silent 700 series for lower case. >It was not a very nice font. > >-- >Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com What about the DEC LA12, it was a complete KSR printing terminal with/WO modem. Allison

17 years, 10 months

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test-drb September 2006