test-drb March 2007

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by blstuart＠bellsouth.net

> From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> > Yeah, and I just ran a Nessus scan against a web server at work, > and it recommended that I close port 80 because it's a potential > security risk. The only way the data on a machine is 100% secure is > if the machine is disconnected from the network, powered off, and > sitting in a closet. If one requires more usefulness than that > configuration provides, there is going to be some element of risk. > There's just no way around it. "It is easy to run a secure computer system. You merely have to disconnect all dial-up [network] connections and permit only direct-wired terminals, put the machine and its terminals in a shielded room, and post a guard at the door. - F.T. Gramp and R.H. Morris BLS

17 years, 4 months

OSI networking (was Re: FTP)

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

Andrew Back wrote: > I vote we dispense with both, set up an FTAM responder, build an OSI > network, and bury this pesky Internet. This is sort-of like taking the most virulent strain of smallpox there is, bottling it up, and then deciding what to do with it. Some things were cool and are worth saving and continuing to use. Certainly talk, finger, etc., all the wonderfully simple TCP/IP services fall into this category. Other things (OSI networking and its implementation in DECNET Phase V) should be preserved in the computer industry's equivalent of the Holocaust Museum, or the CDC's smallpox samples, lest we ever forget. They literally sucked and wasted billions of dollars of otherwise useful effort from projects that could've used creativity and simplicity rather than seven layers of crappy beauracracy on crappy beauracracy. Tim.

17 years, 4 months

ftp archives disappearing?

by legalize＠xmission.com

Has anyone else noticed that ftp search services like archie seem to have disappeared, that the content on ftp sites isn't indexed by google very well and that large software archives seem to be disappearing? Try searching for old copies of fractint and they are hard to find, even though they were everywhere as recently as 10 years ago. What's happened to FTP? Should we be working to archive large FTP software repositories? -- "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, 4 months

UNIX 'file' command (was Re: PDP-11/40 videos)

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

On 3/15/07, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: > Try this experiment on pretty much any UNIX-likesystem: > > apophis$ cat > foo.txt > GIF89a is a half-decent file format. > apophis$ file foo.txt > foo.txt: GIF file, v89 Nice demo. I already knew about how file works, how the "database" is structured, and I've even tweaked it once or twice to handle new files (Infocom game files, FWIW ;-), but I'd never tried a simple little thing like that. I can see how it would work, but it just never occurred to me to try that. -ethan (who uses 'file' several times a week)

17 years, 4 months

Upgraded my VAXstation 3520...

by technobug＠comcast.net

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:36:59 -0400, Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer- refuge.org> wrote: > The VAXstation 3520 (and 3540) are dual and quad processor pedestal > vaxes > (BA213-sized chassis) that DEC breifly tried to sell, with a weird > (only > used on those models) processor/memory bus called the "M bus". I was > hoping that I could get more than 4 CPUs to function in the > machine, and > after a lot of effort (module order did matter!), I got some > encouraging > results. I bet no one else here can claim that they've got a > "VAXserver > 3560"... [...hack...] Okay, you have my interest. I assumed you sacrificed the graphics card slots for the additional CPU and memory. Pray tell the order. I'm running a 3540 with the second box kept as running spares less the processors and memory. At one time, after one beer too many, I had thoughts of repopulating my second box to a 3540 level and building a M-buss extender to come up with a 3580. However, the hangover and the light of day squashed those thoughts :-)) CRC

17 years, 4 months

ADDS terminal trash talk

by spectre＠floodgap.com

So, Jay and Richard, er, Bidder 6 and Bidder 1, are you guys going to put down some real money on that ADDS terminal or just dance around all night? ;) (noticing the back and forth on the top of the bidder list) -- --------------------------------- personal: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- Apparently I am not very good at being tricky. -- John Hughes --------------

17 years, 4 months

Data General DG/500 - Help

by rborsuk＠colourfull.com

Hi All, I just got in a Data General DG/500 (this is the PC style computer based on the microEclipse chip set). Unforturnately, no docs or software can with the unit. Does anyone have any info on this unit, or can point me in the right direction. Even the connectors on the back are non-standard. Thanks Rob Robert Borsuk rborsuk at colourfull.com -- (\__/) (='.'=) This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your (")_(") signature to help him gain world domination.

17 years, 4 months

Vintage terminals (was Re: PDP-11 available in New Zealand

by ken＠seefried.com

>From: der Mouse <mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> > >>>>> See ftp.rodents.montreal.qc.ca:/mouse/X/mterm.src/ [...]. >> I will grab mterm and check it out. > >Do please let me know if you have any problems with it (this applies to >anyone else interested in mterm, too, which is why the post to the >list). It hasn't been built on that many systems other than my own.... > I used mterm *ages* ago, and it worked well. I *think* I got it to compile on SunOS 3 and a locally molested BSD 4.x on an VAX.

17 years, 4 months

SWTPC craze

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

> >Subject: Re: SWTPC craze > From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> > Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:04:44 -0400 > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org> > >On Mar 14, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Jay West wrote: >> To which Richard replied.... >>> Dude. 10 years ago I don't know if this "hobby" was on anyone's >>> radar. >> I beg to differ. There's quite a few listmembers here that were >> active in the hobby 10+ years ago. I'm also certain there were a >> good number of people doing it well over 10 years ago that still >> aren't on this list. A relative newcomer to the hobby wouldn't >> usually be aware of this. Just because this list wasn't around 15 >> years ago doesn't mean there wasn't a lot of people collecting. > > >10 years ago, I was adopting and hacking on PDP-8 and PDP-11 >systems because it was fun, and I thought it was important to >understand and preserve the technology. I don't think I ever really >considered the notion of it being "a hobby" or any other structured, >labelable/quantifiable thing. I just *did* it, because I wanted to. >Just like today...except now it has a name. > > -Dave Wow! Ten years ago I'd been at it collecting that is for more than 20 years. So yes collecting computers is far older than that. DEC had a computer history collection in their MRO facility going back to before 1983. Allison

17 years, 4 months

Imagedisk 1.15 posted

by dave06a＠dunfield.com

I've just posted an update to ImageDisk to my site. 1.15 includes the ability to have write/format operations pause so that you can manually change the TG43 line state. It also includes a couple of minor fixes to IMD, and some less minor fixes and enhancements to IMDV the new ImageDisk Viewer. I've also updated the source code archive with the latest of everything, including the viewer source code. Enjoy, Dave -- dave06a (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/index.html

17 years, 4 months

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test-drb March 2007