test-drb January 2007

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by aliensrcooluk＠yahoo.co.uk

--- Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote: **>> snip <<** > > And here's their web site--they seem to be very > games-oriented > nowadays: > > http://www.enterbrain.co.jp/login/ > > Enjoy, > Chuck > LOL. Just a bit! Enterbrain own the largest Japanese (and Worldwide??) brand of videogames magazines, including: Arcadia (arcade mag) Famitsu PS2 (errr....!!) Famitsu XBox (erm!) Famitsu Wii (that may not be out yet!) Famitsu Weekly (weekly multi-format console mag) Famitsu Wave DVD/Mag I get the last one. It comes out every month and has 2 DVD's packed with adverts, tips, wacky Japanese stuff (well.. most games mags/TV shows are nutty - anyone here in the UK recall Bits or Games Master?), reviews and interviews. Theres usually around 3 hours of stuff. Going well OT, sorry Jay. Regards, Andrew D. Burton aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk

17 years, 11 months

Old Mac music software

by aliensrcooluk＠yahoo.co.uk

--- Joachim Thiemann <joachim.thiemann at gmail.com> w rote: **>> snip <<** > (*) This may be due to the fact that I mostly used > Trackers before > leaping into MIDI. OctaMED is a heck of a great > program, and a good > enough reason to keep my Amiga up and running. > OctaMED :) I tried various pieces of music software on the Amiga including Music Mouse (great idea, but you need Deluxe Music Construction Set to save the music! - I have it now too, BTW), Tracker and a few others. Teijo Kinnunens OctaMED was by far the easiest to use, for me atleast. I have only composed 2 songs so far (using the score sheet window - I have the tracker style code mode, despite being the only way to add special effects). The first was rubbish (seriously), but the 2nd was very good and only took 2 hours to compose. It only last's 1 min 30 secs and is "played" on the Bamboo Zylaphone. I called it "Jungle Beat". Teijo's 2 demo pieces of music that acompanied OctaMED 5 (the version I use) were awesome. Is he still in the music scene somewhere? OctaMED became OctaMED Sound Studio (which I have the demo of somewhere) but I wasn't keen on it. Regards, Andrew D. Burton aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk

17 years, 11 months

Sun E450 server officially vintage

by aliensrcooluk＠yahoo.co.uk

--- David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Zane H. Healy wrote: > > > > > number of times system has inflicted > injuries on the owner > > > > > > That seems reasonable - I'm sure we all agree > every QBUS enclosure > > > ever produced is on topic :-) :-) > > > > I don't believe I've ever been injured by a Q-Bu s > enclosure. You just need > > to be careful! :^) I can't remember loosing any > skin, even on a BA23. > > Granted most of the time I've used a BA123. > > I've never used such a thing, but I have gashed my > hand on the corner of a > disused one. > Never heard of one myself(!), however I have come close to cutting myself when putting a 1MB RAM expansion card into the trapdoor on my Amiga 600 (giving it a whopping 2MB total chip RAM) - I just got a few grazes (spelling?). Regards, Andrew D. Burton aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk

17 years, 11 months

D-shell connector age?

by aliensrcooluk＠yahoo.co.uk

--- Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk > wrote: > > Anyone know where D-shell connectors first appeare d > on equipment? > > Interesting thread going on in a local group at th e > moment about why SCART [1] > sockets are so horrible and nasty (prone to breaki ng > pins, difficult to line > up, prone to falling out etc.) and why something > better, like a D-shell > connector, wasn't chosen instead. > Yeah, the cable seems to put weight on the SCART socket and caused a glitchy SCART socket (or cable?) so we had to stick a thin piece of card in to get it to work!! I use a 3-way SCART box myself now, no more connecting/deconnecting to damage those pins, or the sockets on the TV/DVD/VCR. > Thing is, SCART was apparently first used in > consumer A/V equipment in 1977, > which probably means it was thought up in the > mid-70's. Really? I never realised SCART was so old, I thought it was a modern thing. Or was it just re-introduced by TV manufacturers? Regards, Andrew D. Burton aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk

17 years, 11 months

Anyone else here do AS/400?

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

On 1/3/07, Bob Brown <bbrown at harpercollege.edu> wrote: > I've long had an interest in AS400. Any leads on other systems being > available in the Chicago area? It's not Chicago, but I'm in Columbus (6-7 hrs away) and probably won't do much with the smallish AS/400 I have once I get it to power up (still missing the twinax cable to the console terminal). I'd post model and specs, but it's not where I am at the moment. -ethan

17 years, 11 months

Mac pre-OS X versions and hardware support (was Re: Sun E450 server officially vintage)

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

On 1/3/07, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote: > > > I just what to know if the MAC is vintage if contains a 68000? > > > > Consider this, it's been nearly 10 years since a Mac containing a 68000 CPU > > was even able to run the current version of the operating system. I forget > > if support was dropped with System 7.6, or Mac OS 8.0. > > 8.5. 8.0 dropped the '030 and prior, but an '040 could still run 8.0 and 8.1 > officially, and an '030 could run them with some hacking. Was that due to instruction set differences? Stack frame differences? MMU differences? -ethan

17 years, 11 months

Network question

by rickb＠bensene.com

Chuck Guzis wrote: >I'm beginning to wonder if it's time I upgraded my home network. The >NICs on most of the machines are 100BaseT, with the odd old machine >sporting a 10BaseT. But it's the hubs I wonder about--two old >National Semi 6-port Datamover 10BaseT units coupled together with a >10Base2 (coax) link. It's that coax that I dread replacing--it goes >between floors and snaking it through the walls was a real chore. >My DSL speed is 1.6Mbps, so I'm thinking that there's little reason >to upgrade the setup. Am I thinking correctly or am I likely to see >an improvement in internet access speed if I upgrade? My home network is rather different. My "data center" is out in the shop. The network out in the shop is centered on a 1GB/Sec. Ethernet switch, with all of the infrastructure servers hooked up to it. There's also an earlier 10/100 switch, which supports a couple of older machines that don't really need GigE (dedicated SETI at Home machines). My DSL connection is 1.5Mb/Sec., and I use a nice router/firewall with a separate seconday firewall creating a DMZ between the main home network and the Internet. The secondary firewall connects into the GigE fabric. There's an 802.11G (108Mb/Sec. link speed) wireless access point in the shop for wireless use when I'm out there. The shop is also completely wired with Cat6 cable to many drops. I have two GigE Cat6 lines, one active, one as a spare) that run in conduit underground between the shop and the house. In the house, there's a GigE switch, a 10/100 switch for older machines, an 802.11G wireless access point. The wireless stuff all uses WPA for improved security, although out there where I live, the chances of "snoops" is pretty small. The wireless access point are long-range devices...I can actually connect to the WAP in the house from anywhere within about 100 yards of the house. The house is all wired with Cat6 cable also, with lots of drops. All of these upgrades (previously, everything was 10/100), have made a dramatic improvement with regard to 'response' of end-user machines. The GigE interconnect between the servers and the end-user machines. As far as Internet connectivity goes...in networks, as in racecars, the weakest part is the limiting factor. The T1-equivalent DSL connection is SO much slower than any of the rest of the network, that upgrading everything to GigE made absolutely no detectable difference in terms of speed of access to the Internet. So, if your main concern is Internet connectivity, leave your network as-is. Spending the money to upgrade really won't make any substantial difference there. If you have any time of server-based infrastructure (file server, media server, Email server, etc.) then upgrading the "core" network can make a big difference in terms of response to core network services. If you want your Internet to be faster, spend the money to try to get a faster connection (if possible). With DSL, the limiting factor on speed is the distance from your home to the closest DSLAM, and the equipment used by your ISP. Rick Bensene

17 years, 11 months

my vintage Christmas present

by legalize＠xmission.com

Back in the early 90s, I rescued some equipment from work that was being discarded. This is where I got my ESV/50 and my ARS (Advanced Rendering System) and other E&S bits. At some later time, a former E&S coworker really wanted a board out of the ARS as a keepsake because he worked on it. Since I had not powered up/connected my ARS to my ESV even once and I wasn't yet totally smitten by the "collecting bug", I sent him the board. Since then I have regretted that a little bit because this board wasn't optional in the ARS, there is only one of these boards as it houses the main processor array. However, I also rescued some equipment that I gave to another former E&S coworker. As time went by, he decided that he wanted to get rid of his equipment and asked me if I wanted it. Since E&S equipment is as rare as hen's teeth, I immediately said yes. Well, we went over after Christmas on a sunny Saturday afternoon and picked up the gear. He had an ESV/10 Workstation (a smaller version of my ESV/50), a Freedom 3000 accelerator and an ARS! Now the ARS is probably the biggest baddest piece of iron that the Workstation Division of Evans & Sutherland ever produced. Its a fairly large box, about the size of a deskside SGI Onyx if you're familiar with that. Except its not a whole computer, its just a peripheral! Its whole purpose is to render photorealistic images at full screen resolution in just a few seconds. It has hardware antialiasing, hardware texture mapping, environment mapping and reflection mapping. In the late 80s/early 90s this was pretty hot shit although now you can get it on a cheapo $100 graphics card for your PC. (To many of you, this will be a familiar refrain!) Now that I have a 2nd ARS, I can get one back in working condition. Its a rather unique beasty, considering that only one piece of software (CDRS, the "Conceptual Design and Rendering System") ever supported the ARS. The primary customers of CDRS were car companies doing auto body design. Therefore you had to do high quality renderings that showed how the reflections and gloss would look on the painted car body in order to satisfy the customer. Customers for CDRS were a "who's who" of the car industry at the time: Ford, Chrysler, Daimler-Benz, Harley-Davidson, Renault and I'm sure some others I'm forgetting. If I get the ARS back in working order, then its quite possible that I will have the only working ARS on the planet, unless there are still some kicking around the automotive companies. -- "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, 11 months

Old Mac music software

by gordon＠gjcp.net

Sort of off-topic(-ish) but I'm looking for some midi sequencing software to run on my Powerbook 180. Actually, since they came out in about '92 I think they might well be on-topic. Most of the synths I want to connect are older than that. Anybody got any thoughts on this? I tried Midigraphy but couldn't really get my head around it. Gordon.

17 years, 11 months

Anyone else here do AS/400?

by ISC277＠CLCILLINOIS.EDU

I'm not entirely sure if this is off topic yet(hence why I put it on cctalk), but I know on a hobbyist level it's fairly rare. On Saturday I'll be picking up an AS/400 model 9406-600 originally purchased September 1997 with all the software and docs, licences etc that were ever used with the machine, from the original owner. I've contacted IBM and arranged license transfer (there was thankfully no charge) Does anyone else here deal with AS/400, or have a lingering interest in it? Secondly, I'm thinking of connecting a classic IBM terminal to it such as a 5251 S/34 term instead of the one that comes with it (something fairly modern, not sure of the model yet) I am curious; are any limitations on what I can connect, or are all twinax terminals pretty equal from a connectivity standpoint?

17 years, 11 months

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test-drb January 2007