Not mine, but I had to post it....
http://youtu.be/w68qZ8JvBds
instruments
a. HP Scanjet 3P, Adaptec SCSI card and a computer powered by Ubuntu v9.10
OS as the Vocals. (hey, the scanner is old)
b. Atari 800XL with an EiCO Oscilloscope as the Organ
c. Texas instrument Ti-99/4A with a Tektronix Oscilloscope as the Guitar
d. Hard-drive powered by a PiC16F84A microcontroller as the bass drum and
cymbal
Where can I find an archive of old Apple price lists, particularly from
the 70s and 80s?
--
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?
>from something I dug up
"OpenOffice Writer can read WordPerfect 5.1 documents, as can Microsoft
Word"
see
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/reading-wordsatar-…
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, what is there in the way of modern software that can
> read Word Perfect 5.1 (probably some 5.2 as well) for DOS documents? The
> good news is that I retrieved all these files at some point in the past
> from the 3.5" floppy they were on. :-)
>
> Zane
>
>
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Interesting article about the 40th anniversary of
the progenitor of many modern operating systems.
It even mentions our very own Al Kossow,
"One holy grail that eluded us for a long time
was the first edition of Unix in any form,
electronic or otherwise. Then, in 2006, Al Kossow
>from the
<http://www.computerhistory.org/>Computer History
Museum, in Mountain View, Calif., unearthed a
printed study of Unix dated 1972, which not only
covered the internal workings of Unix but also
included a complete assembly listing of the
kernel, the main component of this operating
system. This was an amazing find?like discovering
an old Ford Model T collecting dust in a corner
of a barn. But we didn't just want to admire the
chrome work from afar. We wanted to see the thing run again."
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-strange-birth-and-long-life…
I love the picture of the very first man page.
601 . [Science] All science is either physics or
stamp collecting. --Ernest (1st Baron) Rutherford (1871-1937)
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As I mnentioend the other night, I've added the parallel printer port to
that TD1100 viewdata terminal. The output is a DA15 socket, and in fact
the hardest part of adding the port was cutting the back panel of the
unit ot allow the conenctor to come through. I had to remove the back
panel entirely from the PCB, which invovled desoldering the line wires
and the mains wiring....
Anyway. I then had to make a cable from the DA15 to a 36 pin Microribbon
conenctor to conenct ot a Cnetronics-interfaced printer. As I mentioend,
I'd gueessed as to what the signals were, so I sued those guesses for the
initial wiring.
Connected the unit to an old Epson FX80+ and pressed the 'print' key on
the terminal. It printed. Some garbage, some readable text. I then
rememebred the pritner setup screen (type 'P#' at the dialer screen) and
found it was set to 'teletext compatible' -- i.e. it would handle the
various teletxt/viewdata controll codes and graphics. I reset it to
'ASCII text' and tried again. This time it printed correctly -- almsot.
It was double-spacign the lines.
I then realsied that the pritner had previously been used with a BBC
micro, a machine that, by default, sends only a <CR> as a newline.
There's a DIP swithc in most old Epsons to cater for this, it foces the
AutoFeedXT line on the inteface conenctor low. Only problem was, I didn't
haev the printer manaul.
Oh well, I just took it apart and traced the conenctions from the
AutoFeedXT pin through the filter resistor to a DRIP swithc. Turnrf it
off (so it no longer asserted the AutoFeedXT signal) and put the pritner
together. This time it worked fine. My gueses on the printer port signals
had probed to be correct.
In case anyoen else wants to do it, here's the wirelist (and colours) of
the cable I made :
1 o----D3------Or----o 5
2 o----D6------Bu----o 8
3 o----D7------Pu----o 9
4 o----D0------Bk----o 2
5 o----D4------Y-----o 6
6 o----D5------Gn----o 7
7 o----Err/----R/Bu--o 32
8 o----Gnd-----Gy----o 19
9 o----Gnd-----W-----o 30
10 o----D1------Be----o 3
11 o----D2------R-----o 4
12 o----Init/---Tq----o 31
13 o----Stb/----Pk----o 1
14 o----Ack/----R/Y---o 10
15 o----Busy----R/Gn--o 11
DA15P 36 pin Microribbon
-tony
Hi guys,
Does anyone here have a surplus of GPIB, HPIB or IEEE488 cables (they're
all the same thing) with metric threads? (the thumbscrews will probably
be black -- the silver ones are AIUI usually some SAE thread type or other).
I'm after a couple of the short 1-2ft "instrument to instrument" cables,
a 1-metre (to replace a nasty little knockoff cable which has
excessively long thumbscrews) and a 2-metre (to replace a buggered up
Belden cable).
These seem to be commanding utterly insane prices on Greed-Bay, and are
basically unavailable elsewhere...
Thanks,
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/
Does anyone know how to get in touch with Vince Briel these days? I've
tried e-mail to no avail and his website is a closed loop.
If you are in contact with him please pass along that I'd like to speak
with him.
Thanks!
--
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At 7:29 -0600 12/6/11, <cctalk-request at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Dec 2011, Liam Proven wrote:
> > > As I write I am on my easy hinge from an excellent early Yule party. Mine
>> Joys of predictive text entry on a keyboardless smartphone. Er, when
>> drunk. That was /meant/ to say "I am on my way home..." 8?)
>
>Damn.
>
>I thought that it was a nice colorful idiomatic expression.
LOL. I have always wondered where all the nice colorful British
idiomatic expressions come from. At last I know!
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