test-drb October 2007

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by jetfreight＠hotmail.com

hello i just bought a very low time atc 510 in canada the sim does not have any manuals with it i wonder if i can buy some copies of the manuals from you or any kind of training programs i got your email from the internet thanks j singh

17 years, 1 month

cctech Digest, Vol 50, Issue 62

by mross666＠hotmail.com

Message: 1 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:25:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> Subject: Re: Things to do in SF before VCF > > Will, the only guy here NOT attending VCF. > > Nope. I ain't going either, dang it! >My work schedule sucks, also. Not just you guys, I won't be near the place. Wrong coast, plus my wife is VERY preg and could just possibly go 'pop' at an inconvenient time! Not too sad tho - just had a major coup, see: http://www.corestore.org/3.htm :-) Cheers Mike http://www.corestore.org _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook ? together at last. ?Get it now. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102225181033.aspx?pid=CL1006269…

17 years, 1 month

rs232 interface for Radio Shack PT210 printing terminal

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

I've decided to make a couple serial boards for my Radio Shack PT210 terminals so I can have them talk serial. How many people here have PT210s who'd like a serial board? -- 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, 1 month

Did I get an RL01 pack instead of RL02?

by charlesmorris＠hughes.net

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:00:39 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: >Defective, or bulk-erased, which amounts to the same thing. >RL01 were long behind it by 1983, which would make me initially expect >that it probably was some other cause than RL01 vs RL02 issues, >leaving "blank media" or "non-DEC media" as likely issues. > >-ethan I saw Al Kossow's response too - thanks, Al... I had no idea that there were different (low-level) formatting on the same physical media! So I emailed the seller and got the following (excerpted) response: >It was in a rack with other discs that had been used on a pdp11/23 PLUS system, >having two RL02 drives, and was presumably used to archive obsolete >paper-plant simulation programs, written in FORTRAN 77. The disc >cartridges in this set were of multiple manufacturers, and seemed to >have been bought from the lowest bidder. I have CDC's, Memorex's, and >even some DEC's. No idea as to whether it was bulk-erased, but that is starting to sound more likely, given the above history. He has volunteered to mail me a "real" (DEC) pack, at no additional cost - that's superb fleabay service and definitely exceeded my expectations. Meanwhile, anyone got one or two more packs I can purchase? -Charles

17 years, 1 month

Did I get an RL01 pack instead of RL02?

by charlesmorris＠hughes.net

I bought an RL disk pack on Ebay, supposedly for an RL02 drive. It is a Memorex "Mark III T" with a small label "Made in USA CI 04050" and various previous-owner stickers/scribbles showing first use in 1983 up through 1985. The shock indicator is not red. But it won't load in any of my four RL02 drives (the Ready light never comes on, so track 0 is not being found)! Since the drive has embedded servo info, so head alignment between drives is not an issue, there are only two remaining possibilities that I can think of: 1) the pack is defective (factory servo tracks are trashed), or 2) it is an RL01 (5 Mb) pack, which looks physically identical but will not work in an RL02 drive. Any thoughts... Would this be the likely result (no Ready light) of putting an RL01 pack in an RL02 drive? If so, anyone want to buy it (or preferably trade for the proper pack)? thanks Charles

17 years, 1 month

New Topic - Keyboard on Xerox Memorywriter 630

by dmc_67301＠yahoo.com

I have an old Xerox Memorywriter 630 typewriter that is in good condition except that one key on the keyboard doesn't work and one key that works about half the time. I'm looking for a working keyboard for this machine or someone who knows how to fix the problem. Thanks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

17 years, 1 month

Color Dot Matrix; Was Re: IBM junk

by roger.holmes＠microspot.co.uk

> > I always get really poor text quality with MacPalette II though, so if > anyone else is using it and knows what I'm doing wrong, let me know. > IIRC, MacPalette II only prints in Tall Adjusted, so many the poor > text is > just an artifact of that, or maybe one is meant to use different > fonts. Er, no. It was designed primarily for C.A.D. and simple pictures, so text quality was not a high priority. Its too long ago, but when I wrote MacPalette 1, it was based on the ImageWriter 1 driver. MacPalette 2 was in turn based on MacPalette 1. The text is just imaged into the off screen pixmap by QuickDraw so MacPalette does not have much control on what it looks like. I think there were some Apple magic font adjustment tables in there, maybe they were in a resource where you could edit them. They controlled things like how many pixels to offset the images of the characters by when making bold text and maybe things I never got into, which might be useful to you. I just had a look on my hard drive and I have a floppy disk image of MacPalette II, but on my Intel Mac, double clicking it says the application to open it is not supported on this system. I found the paragraph below on the web when I Googled "Apple font characterisation table", unfortunately at the time, Apple had not documented it, and it seems like they never got around to it. "For certain types of devices, such as a screen or the ImageWriter printer, the Font Manager uses the font characterization table from the device driver to determine any additional information that QuickDraw may need. The font characterization table contains information about the dots per vertical inch and dots per horizontal inch for that device, along with information about the different styles that the device can produce. Non-QuickDraw devices, such as the LaserWriter printer, return an error when the Font Manager requests their font characterization table." Roger Holmes, Technical Director, Microspot Ltd.

17 years, 1 month

VCF 10.0 Press Release

by sellam＠vintagetech.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE COMPUTER HISTORY PIONEERS CONGREGATE ON NOVEMBER 3-4 AT VINTAGE EVENT Vintage Computer Festival Celebrates History of Computing with live antique computers and living legends from the computer industry LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA (PRWEB) October 26, 2007 -- The Vintage Computer Festival, a yearly event that celebrates computers and their history, is being held on November 3-4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Anticipation is building for what is expected to be the biggest and most well-attended event since the Festival's founding ten years ago. Celebrated once a year in Silicon Valley, as well as three other locations worldwide, the Vintage Computer Festival is the largest and most prestigious event of its kind, featuring a lecture series, an exhibition of working vintage and antique computers, and a marketplace for traders to buy and sell vintage computers. Collectors from around the world attend this event, which was founded in 1997. The Festival also recognizes its own history this year as it marks its tenth anniversary. This year, attendees will be treated to several historical figures in the computer industry, including Lee Felsenstein (designer of the classic Osborne 1, one of the first portable computers, and the SOL-20, one of the first personal computers), Al Hoagland (designer of the first commercial disk drive), legendary MIT proto-hackers Bill Gosper Steve Russell (author of the first videogame, Spacewar!), Wesley Clark (not the general, but the inventor of the first transistorized computer in the US) and prolific computer book author Lance Leventhal, who wrote dozens of computer self-help books throughout the 1970s and 1980s. One of the keynote sessions at the Festival this year is a panel featuring the engineers who in the early 1960s designed the LINC (Laboratory INstrumentation Computer), which was a revolutionar computer design that some consider to be the first "personal computer". The Festival also features a marketplace for collectors to buy, sell and trade vintage computers. There is also a screening of documentaries and films on both days of the event that have vintage computing or vintage technology themes. Some of the filmmakers will be present to talk about their work and give introductions to their films. There will also be an abstract artist (Christine Finn) on site throughout the event constructing a collaborative artwork based on discarded technology, culminating at a talk she will give on the piece at 3:00pm on Sunday. The Computer History Museum is an ideal location for the Festival as it allows attendees the opportunity to tour the Museum's collection while also attending the lectures and exhibits organized by the VCF. Tours of the Museum's collection will be given throughout the afternoon on each day of the Festival. Special theme tours during the weekend will include "A Brief History of the Internet" and "The History of Video Games", which are both guided by Museum docents. There will also be live demonstrations of ancient mainframe computers that have been painstakingly restored to working condition, including an IBM 1401 mainframe circa 1960 and a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-1 minicomputer circa 1961 running Spacewar!, the first ever videogame, written in 1962. The game's author, Steve Russell, will also be speaking at the Festival. The Computer History Museum is located at 1401 North Shoreline Blvd. in Mountain View, California, just off highway 101. The Vintage Computer Festival opens at 9:30am each day, with first sessions beginning at 10:00am and the exhibition and marketplace opening at 2:00pm each day. The film festival runs from 11:00am to 6:00pm each day. The Festival officially ends at 6:00pm on Sunday. Complete event information including admission, directions to the venue and the event schedule can be found on the VCF website: http://www.vintage.org/2007/main/ # # # -- 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, 1 month

table of contents for all issues of BYTE?

by legalize＠xmission.com

Does anyone know of a web site that lists the TOC (article titles and authors) for all the issues of BYTE? I know there's lots of computer graphics goodness hiding in the run of BYTE magazine, but I don't know which issues to look for... -- "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, 1 month

freight shipping = ~$1/lb.?

by legalize＠xmission.com

OK, for a pile of stuff I got from dovebid, I used a new freight shipper -- adcom worldwide. This time, the bill turned out to be about $1/lb. I just wondered if that seemed reasonable, overpriced, etc., or if anyone had any stories about adcom. The packaging of the items was a little sloppy, but otherwise they seemed OK. Better than CTS, but still not up to the level of excellent service I've gotten with Craters & Freighters. (I would have used C&F, but they don't have a location near Reading, PA.) -- "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/>

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test-drb October 2007