test-drb December 2011

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by d_cymbal＠hotmail.com

Does anybody have a Visual 1050 with hard drive setup? I am looking for any doc/pointers on how to get a hard drive configured under CP/M for this system. Thanks.

12 years, 7 months

russian PDP-11 like K1801BM2 CPU Startup reading w/o, address?

by jonas＠otter.se

>> CdS cells have quite a few problems that have made them obsolete for > > I don;t disagree that there are other devices that have advantages in > many applciaitons, and it's entirely reasonable to then use said > other > devices. But thee CdS photoresisto also has an advantage -- it's a > resistor. At a constnat ligjht level, the I-V characteristic is > pretty > darn lienar. That makes it ideal for the sort of amplitude-control > application that we've been discussisng > Indeed. They are probably perfectly good for photometric applications too, where it doesn't matter if it takes some time for the cell to adjust to the illumination. And as far as environmental issues are concerned, it would certainly be much better to get rid of CFLs. There has actually been some coverage in the news here about CFLs being thrown in glass recycling containers instead of being handed in as toxic waste (there are reasonably easily accessible places that accept toxic waste everyhere here as well, but nowhere near as many or as accessible as glass recycling containers) and causing problems at the recycling plants. LED lighting is being promoted instead. So far, there has been no discussion about environmental issues with semiconductor manufacturing... /Jonas

12 years, 7 months

Computer Machinery Corporation?

by jks＠jksq.com

I founded CMC in 1968 assuming we're talking of the same Los Angeles based firm. If you want any information about it, contact me and I'll try to fill you in. Jim Sweeney Law Offices of James K. Sweeney 2001 Wilshire Blvd.; Ste. 200 Santa Monica CA 90403 Tel: 310-477-0272 Fax: 310-496-0122 e-mail: jks at jksq.com website: www.jksq.com

12 years, 7 months

Mac/Mac Programming/Cocoa/HyperTalk Books free - Melbourne Australia

by toby＠telegraphics.com.au

Macintosh Revealed - Programming with the Toolbox (Chernicoff) - Vol 2 - Apple Press/Hayden THINK C Object-Oriented Programming Manual - 1991 THINK C Standard Libraries Reference - 1991 THINK Reference - User Manual - 1991 THINK Reference - User Manual - v2.0 - 1992 THINK C User Manual - 1991 LAN WorkPlace for Macintosh User's Guide - First Edition - Oct 1992 HyperTalk Programming (Daniel G. Shafer) "includes Version 1.1" - Hayden Books - 1988 Symantec C++ Compiler Guide v 6 - 1993 THINK C for Macintosh (THINK Class Library Guide) - v 6 1993 Symantec Think C for Macintosh User's Guide - v 6 1993 Symantec C++ For Macintosh (Compiler Guide) - v 7 1994 Symantec C++ for Macintosh (Visual Architect & THINK Class Library Guide) - v 7 1994 Symantec THINK C for Macintosh (User's Guide) - 1994 Steven Levy, Insanely Great: "The Life And Times of Macintosh, The Computer that Changed Everything" - with stamp "Publication/Embargo Date, 1 May 1995, Penguin Books Australia Ltd." Learning Cocoa (O'Reilly) - May 2001 First Edition Using the Macintosh Toolbox with C - Takatsuka/Huxham/Burnard - Sybex 1986 While these are in Melbourne, Australia, if paid by PayPal I can ship anywhere, advise country/city/postal code/zip, and whether surface (60-90 days) or air, but please let me know ASAP. I can't ship anything after about Tuesday 6th Dec. --T

12 years, 7 months

Automatic file associations - Re: Unix handles file extensions "very poorly"? - Re: Mac/Mac Programming/Cocoa/HyperTalk

by dm561＠torfree.net

Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:52:03 +0100 From: Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de> MikeS wrote: > ---- Original message: > Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:13:38 +0100 > From: Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de> > > > >Files should have an header wich describes what type of data the file > > >represents. > > > Why? > > > What is so terribly wrong with using the file's _name_ to describe the > > type > > of data a file represents, so that those "humans" that you seem to > > disdain > > elsewhere can also know and work with its type, not just the computer? > You ask me what's wrong? Never heard of a file called "your_win.jpg.exe" > for example and was most Windoze users are doning with such a file and how > its name is displayed on most windoze machines? I'm not a UNIX expert so I must have misunderstood; you mean UNIX cares about file extensions after all and I can't name a UNIX executable "your_win.jpg" ? At least the modern DOS equivalent (which is what we're talking about, remember?) *does* show the all-important .EXE in the file name, as will Windows if you've enabled it. How does UNIX warn me at a quick glance? ... <Half a dozen paragraphs of the traditional redundant and totally irrelevant Microsoft-bashing drivel removed for readability> ... > > BTW, I think this quote from Ritchie himself sums it up perfectly: > > "Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity." > > > m > Hmm, wasn't it "Unix IS user friendly, but it is a little restrictive what > his friends are.." Look it up! I think you'll find dozens of references, as well as to your quote, e.g. http://inagist.com/CodeWisdom/146592721312817153/ or http://quotes.prolix.nu/Technology/Computers/ > PS: > Sorry for my broken english, never learned it in a shool or so, it's > entirely from using unixoid OS's and communicateing with people like you > over the net. > Proably it's still better as your german :-) I doubt it; born and raised in Hamburg my German's actually pretty good. m

12 years, 7 months

Cheap Chinese electrolytics - a plague - Re: TV -> D-Sub converter possible?

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

On 12/14/2011 08:29 PM, Toby Thain wrote: > I've "field repaired" at least five units in this way, giving them a > happy rebirth - The rest of the monitor lasts a lot longer than the > stupid capacitors do. Building in obsolescence like this should be a > crime that puts people behind bars. If they had successfully built in obsolescence, then all the parts would fail at the same time. The US big 3 automakers to their credit did a pretty good job with this for a long time. Yeah, cars in crashes still had good parts to pick over in a junkyard, but by the end of a cars natural life there really wasn't an awful lot left to pick over. Not that I'd wish a 1974 Dodge Monaco on just anyone :-) Tim.

12 years, 7 months

Computer Machinery Corporation?

by jks＠jksq.com

I just saw your message about CMC which was the company I founded in 1968. I had no idea people other than I ever thought about it anymore. I can help with information with anyone who is interested. Jim Sweeney Law Offices of James K. Sweeney 2001 Wilshire Blvd.; Ste. 200 Santa Monica CA 90403 Tel: 310-477-0272 Fax: 310-496-0122 e-mail: jks at jksq.com website: www.jksq.com

12 years, 7 months

Anyone collect "electronic organizer"s?

by alexeyt＠freeshell.org

I've got a Sharp YO-470 here that worked last time it had batteries in it. Free to a good home; if you live outside the US I'll ask that you pay shipping. Please reply off list. Alexey

12 years, 7 months

Cheap Chinese electrolytics

by spasticcolin-cctalk＠yahoo.com

From: John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Cheap Chinese electrolytics - a plague - Re: TV -> D-Sub converter possible? Message-ID: <201112171752.pBHHptS8082368 at billy.ezwind.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote: ..."When it first started happening, I heard the excuse it was a case of industrial espionage gone wrong where an ingredient was left out of the recipe..." at the time I heard 3 guys from the factory got together and stole 3 parts of the formula from a tiawanese factory and defected to mainland china for a $1M bounty. But they didn't know of a 4th part; the corrosion inhibitor. Without the 4th part the caps were supposed to little time bombs, slowly eating away at their aluminum cases. I do know I woke up one night after having a dream of popcorn popping only to find a ATX p/s with caps going off like popcorn in the room next door. I unplugged the PC and put it in the bath tub and went back to sleep. Changed out the p/s the next day and it worked fine. ________________________________

12 years, 7 months

russian PDP-11 like K1801BM2 CPU Startup reading w/o, address?

by jonas＠otter.se

>> > It may be, but CdS cells abound, and I don't see them going away >> > anytime soon. There's so little cadmium in them that I really don't see >> > it ever being a problem. > You and I know it's not a problem,. but that is hargly going to satisfy > the non-scientific idiots we have in charge. I beleive that all CdS LDRs > are not RoHS compliant ;-(. This doesn;'t affect home constructios (at > least not in the UK), it does matter if you're going to use them commerially. CdS cells have quite a few problems that have made them obsolete for photographic purposes: temperature dependence, slow response and memory effect. They need a significant time to adjust to a different level of illumination to give a normal response. The response becoming non-linear with age has also been reported. For a long time cameras have been using silicon photodiodes instead. As an example of the memory effect, the manual for a Durst darkroom exposure meter, which I have just been given and which uses a CdS cell, says to illuminate the CdS cell immediately beneath the lens of the enlarger for 15-20 seconds before making a measurement. They do work well all the same, most of my cameras that actually have an exposure meter use CdS cells. And they seem to be easily available. /Jonas

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test-drb December 2011