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VCF Midwest 4.0 on April 26-27 at Purdue University

by sellam＠vintagetech.com

VCF Midwest is happening on April 26-27 at Purdue University in Indiana. Patrick has told me he's going to literally break the legs of any people who are able to come but don't. I've seen Patrick do this and it was not pretty. Please don't piss off Patrick. Start making your plans to attend NOW. http://www.vintage.org/2008/midwest/ Both VCF-MW and VCF Europa are occurring on the same weekend. We are hoping to have some sort of simulcast between the two to the extent possible in overcoming technical challenges and time zone differences. -- 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 ]

18 years, 1 month

Fwd: [FG] [Fwd: viz, Arthur Clarke]

by rtellason＠verizon.net

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [FG] [Fwd: viz, Arthur Clarke] Date: Friday 21 March 2008 11:03 From: Gus Gere <gere at sasktel.net> To: "fidoguns at fidoguns.org" <fidoguns at fidoguns.org> Crosspost <http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyimages/1085.jpg> or via http://tinyurl.com/2hlgpu ------------------------------------------------------- -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin

18 years, 1 month

NGEN B26 - CTOS floppy?

by aek＠bitsavers.org

> I would commit an unnatural act to get a set of CTOS system disks. It appears Bear Striklin (typewritten.org) has B2x software, though I've not been able to contact him about it.

18 years, 1 month

Aurthur C. Clarke has passed

by feldman.r＠comcast.net

Clarke was an early user of KayPro lugables. >From: Randy Dawson <rdawson16 at hotmail.com> >Subject: OT: Aurthur C. Clarke has passed >at home, 90: >http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4476240

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S100 archive?

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

Fred Cisin wrote: > I think you'd have trouble copyrighting a copy of a copyrighted work. It depends. Certainly when Andy Warhol makes a mechanically- assisted reproduction of a Campbell's Soup Can, or 32 of them, he's making original art... just based on a trademarked logo. I know, trademarks are not the same as copyrights. But other artists do montages of newspaper clippings to great effect, and there the originals were protected by copyright. Or look at Blue Man Group's "Project 13". They didn't own the copyrights to the original documents, yet they make a perfectly good statement using them. At the same time I'm sure BMG pays for the clips of Devo and Freebird they use to great effect in their shows :-) His status as a former commercial artist of course has a lot to do with his other art. I bumped up against that specialty several times over my career and have a lot of respect for what they do. I also like Roy Lichtenstein, BTW :-). Others here probably don't like this kind pop-art stuff. But my experience with commercial artists has really made me appreciate mechanical processes as well as the results. Tim.

18 years, 1 month

Aurthur C. Clarke has passed

by roger.holmes＠microspot.co.uk

>>> It is sad that he has passed on. He was a brilliant, visionary man >>> that, luckily for us, left a legacy of great writings that will >>> live on. >> True. But if I remember authors right, 2001 never did come true. But geostationary communications satellites did. > Nor did 1984 - however, meanwhile, I hear people call Orwell an > optimist. > > Anyway, the old SF visionaries are leaving us. Asimov, Lem, now > Clarke; > the golden times of SF disappear. > > Concerning 2001: I doubt I really want to have a HAL9000. Nothing wrong with the hardware, it had been programmed to be a serial murderer under certain conditions. Deliberate, not even a bug and of course contrary to the laws of robotics. Somewhat like HAL, sadly my father has dementia and likes reciting nursery rhymes (and gets them wrong), which gets under the skin of the other residents of his nursing home and he had a fight with an old lady who broke his glasses and he hit her with his walking stick. The staff took the stick away and later we got a call to say he had had a fall, hardly surprising. Gone slightly off topic there a bit, sorry. Does anyone here have a use for a BROKEN wide format Hewlett Packard ink jet printer? I think we got it in 2000, so not ten years old quite yet but useful for printing schematics if you have the knowledge/patience to repair it. It might even be a current model, things move slowly in the wide format side of things where low volumes force design costs to be recouped over longer periods.

18 years, 1 month

Parametron PC-1

by cclist＠sydex.com

> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:37:42 -0700 > From: "Marcin Wichary" The parametron computers were late 50's/early 60's, not 70's. CHM has a brochure on the NEC box: http://www.computerhistory.org/brochures/companies.php?alpha=m- p&company=com-42bc20c009b92 A couple of photos here: http://www.math.cs.musashi-tech.ac.jp/~shida/museum/parametron.html This book dedicates a chapter to parametron computers: http://www.i-ise.com/en/lecture/lect_200512b.html Herb Grosch mentions meeting Eiichi Goto in his "Bit Slices" autobio: http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/computer.html If you search on the Kana string for "Parametron", you'll find lots more: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A1%E3%83%88%E3%8 3%AD%E3%83%B3 Also, these Japanese papers on the PC-1: http://museum.ipsj.or.jp/guide/pdf/prosym/1996prosym_008.pdf http://www.iijlab.net/~ew/pc1/mtac.html Here's a page full of links to various PC-1 resources (many in English): http://www.iijlab.net/~ew/pc1/ ...and there's Eiichi Goto's parameteron patents in the uspto.gov database (I'll leave the search to you; it's pretty easy). Cheers, Chuck

18 years, 1 month

Plessey PMDD/8b - *ANY* Information available?

by hachti＠hachti.de

Hi folks, I want to get a Plessey PMDD/8b get to work on a PDP-8/e. It is not my system and I currently don't have access to it. So I would be very lucky to get every piece of information about the drive. I think it has a cartdridge. That's where my knowledge ends. And I know that there's no documentation with the machine. So I need the luck that somebody can help me out. Is that drive RK05 compatible and works with RK8-E? Could I hook a RK05 from a 11/23 to an RK8-E controller? Or are there differences? Would be great to be prepared when I arrive at the machine... Many thanks, best wishes, Philipp :-)

18 years, 1 month

Morrow MD2 - Available in B.C.

by dave06a＠dunfield.com

Forwarding (after confirming with originator) an offer for two MD2 system located in BC. If interested, email me off-list and I will forward to you the email of the originator. Dave ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Subject: Morrow MD2 Date sent: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:21:34 -0700 I have two Morrow MD2 CP/M computers which I would like to get rid of. One, when last checked a couple of years ago, was still working and complete with original software, books, and Lear Siegler terminal. The other was a spare and although it used to work I borrowed a disk drive from it. And I'm not sure about the books and software for this one. I see you already have one of these, but if you are interested please let me know. I'm in BC. ------- End of forwarded message ------- -- 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

18 years, 1 month

BBC Micro reunion TONIGHT at Science Museum in London

by sellam＠vintagetech.com

Hopefully this gets out in time for those that may be able to attend: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7303288.stm -- 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 ]

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