test-drb December 2011

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by RichA＠vulcan.com

From: Josh Dersch Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 9:08 PM > I just wish UNIX man pages were as well written and as > all-encompassing as the online documentation available on my > Lisp machine. Basically three or four feet worth of the > printed manual set available at a keypress (or mouse click) > or two, thoroughly indexed and cross-referenced, viewable > directly at the command prompt (even while in the middle of > typing a command -- invaluable when you've forgotten how > something works halfway through) from within the editor, or > inside the Document Examiner, with hypertext, formatting, > diagrams, etc... a lovely system and well ahead of its time. Yes, the Lisp Machines were, like the TOPS-20 operating system, "a great improvement on [their] successors." Rich Alderson Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer Vulcan, Inc. 505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900 Seattle, WA 98104 mailto:RichA at vulcan.com mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/

12 years, 7 months

BBC News - Apple founding papers sold at auction for nearly $1.6m

by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com

BBC News - Apple founding papers sold at auction for nearly $1.6m Apple's founding papers have been sold at auction for $1,594,500 (?1.03m). Sotheby's had estimated the three typed partnership agreements would sell for between $100,000 and $150,000. _http://bbc.in/rJJ3q5_ (http://bbc.in/rJJ3q5) Source: _http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16170953_ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16170953) See if people are clicking on this link: _http://bbc.in/rJJ3q5+_ (http://bbc.in/rJJ3q5+) Try the _bitly.com_ (http://bitly.com/) sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: _http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar_ (http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar) Thanks, Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC See the Museum's Web Site at _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)

12 years, 7 months

CPU Wars card game

by pontus＠update.uu.se

Hi all I just found this little card game which looks kind of neat: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/harrymylo/cpu-wars-volume-10-the-card-g… Quite x86 centric, I think the J11 would fit pretty nicely in there. What CPU would you add? /P

12 years, 7 months

cctalk Digest, Vol 100, Issue 34

by alhartman＠yahoo.com

Ok, I dug up the schematic. This is for the Video Only. You'll have to get a copy of the Coco Schematics to find out where to tap the audio (Probably at the input to the RF Modulator, but I don' t know what you'd have to do to make it sound good)... http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/8801/23fa5940.gif (The "New Board" mentioned in the GIF means the Coco 2 logic board) Here is a link to a repository that has the service manuals: http://goyim.dyndns.org:8080/coco/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/ That's the best I can do now, as my Cocos are on a top shelf I can't reach anymore and can't pull one down to look at the installed adapter. Hope this helps. Al

12 years, 7 months

last call for AT & T 7300 UNIX PC docs

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

big box but cheap via media mail. Philip expressed interest in the tech manual. I'll joyfully send it to him if he still wants it. Let me know Phillip. I'll just chuck the rest I guess. Have the Wordstar manual/s too, but no disks.

12 years, 7 months

TV -> D-Sub converter possible?

by vintagecoder＠aol.com

Thanks. Sounds pretty gruesome.

12 years, 7 months

Looking for NeXT cables

by mokuba＠gmail.com

Looking for NeXT mono cables (DB19 -> DB19 ) and Y cables (13W3 -> 13W3 and DB-19) as well as NeXT Mice (broken or working). Anyone got any for sale or swap? -- Gary G. Sparkes Jr. KB3HAG

12 years, 7 months

IBM something, what is it ?

by jdr_use＠bluewin.ch

The collective wisdom of this list should have no problem identifying this ?c ftp://jdreesen.dyndns.org/ftp/ibm_something.jpg Jos

12 years, 7 months

Unix handles file extensions "very poorly"? - Re: Mac/Mac, Programming/Cocoa/HyperTalk Books free - Melbourne

by alanp＠snowmoose.com

On 12/12/11 11:40 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > Microsoft (Patterson) lifted THAT directly from CP/M. It is Paterson, not Patterson. alan

12 years, 7 months

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

by jonas＠otter.se

>> > In my experience, "solderless breadboard" is the usual term, at >> least >> > if you're talking about the things I suspect you are. >> Occasionally a >> > brand name gets used to refer to them. >> >> That's what I've always heard them called. I know they're generally >> considered terrible, but I've had lots of luck with them for >> low-speed >> projects (especially power supplies for tube amps; I've got one >> that's >> covered with capacitor juice from various electrolytics exploding >> and >> has some melted-out holes resulting from diodes installed backwards >> but >> still manages to work just fine). > > They're probaly fine if used within their limitations. That is that > stray > capacitance doesn't matter too much (and be warned it can matter even > when the system appears to be low-speed) and if the odd poor > connection > won't cause too many problems. > > That said, I don't think they save much tiem. The time taken to form > component leads to fit into one of these breadboards, or to strip a > piece > of isulated wire to go in, is not much less than soldering the > components > to stripboard (assuming your iron is already hot). And doing the > latter > will at least eliminate poor conenctions. > > -tony Around 1980-1981 I was working for Volvo Cars. At one time I was given the task of evaluating the optimum location for a knock sensor. I had an engine fitted with a number of knock sensors in various locations on a dynamometer test bench, and a device connected to the ignition which allowed me to advance the ignition from TDC in increments of a few degrees. This thing was provided as an official test device from a large US manufacturer, I have forgotten which one - RCA? GE? GM? It was built with CMOS 4000-series ICs IIRC, and constructed on - solderless plugboard... Changing the amount of ignition advance was done by moving a wire between different holes in the plugboard. Using this kind of thing in an engine test cell, with an engine running under heavy load close by and me standing next to it, struck me as rather shaky to say the least. Especially as a bad connection, or plugging the wire in the wrong hole, could make the engine produce "interesting" noises. Had something serious happened to the engine there might well have suddenly been large parts of metal flying around and plenty of hot oil and water spraying about. It did actually work OK though. /Jonas

12 years, 7 months

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test-drb December 2011