test-drb February 2011

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Early days of TCP/IP on the desk (was Re: Microsoft Online)

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com> wrote: > Yes, Windows 95 was the first product to incorporate TCP/IP - and I remember the panic it caused. ?:-) ?I was on the MSN team and we were building an AX.25 network - but Bill Gates (quite correctly) saw that TCP/IP was going to quickly replace the telco-based POPs. ?We made the change to include TCP/IP "in the box" *in 1995*. ?We worked a lot.... ?-- Ian I remember that transition. In 1994 and early 1995, I installed Trumpet Winsock on a lot of Windows 3.1 machines. Unfortunately, even up to the August release of Win95, the typical desktop for our users was (admittedly obsolete by that time) a 386SX16 (Dell 316 or some variety of Compaq box) with 2MB of RAM, no hard disk, a 10Mbit Ethernet card, and booting off of a floppy to attach to a Novell Netware server to load apps (Lotus 1-2-3, Word Perfect, e-mail (DaVinci!), etc). The Novell servers, handling hundreds of users each, were high-end Compaq 486 boxes with up to 64MB of memory and a gig or two of disk. If you were blessed by the Network Engineer, your login could be permitted to load the seat-license-locked TCP stack for DOS/Novell and use Telnet and FTP. I had a lot more fun in the science lab where the standard machine was a Mac IIci or one of the SPARCstations (which had TCP/IP set up by default). But thank you, Ian, for your work. I did enjoy setting up TCP/IP out of the box when Win95 came out, vs having to go get bits and have grudging support from our Network guys about getting addresses, etc. (they used to be *very* stingy with assigning out blocks of IP addresses before the days of NAT Firewalls and private address space - the proliferation of TCP/IP to every desk pushed that change). -ethan

13 years, 2 months

Microsoft Online

by jfoust＠threedee.com

At 09:46 PM 2/24/2011, Jason T wrote: >OK, does anyone know what this is?? > >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140474798391 > >Google fails me on this, other than to find that a guy once wrote a >manual for it. A 1991 press release that says the OLE 1.0 spec can be downloaded >from Compuserve and Windows Online: http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-11124989/ole-microsoft-object-li… - John

13 years, 2 months

an amazing device for your perusal

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

http://cgi.ebay.com/Amiga-Atari-St-Amstrad-PC-floppy-disk-drive-EMULATOR-/1… Andrew?

13 years, 2 months

Fwd: FS. SETI Radio Astronomy Ground Station

by lbickley＠bickleywest.com

FYI Lyle ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [TekScopes2] OT: FS. SETI Radio Astronomy Ground Station Date: Thursday 24 February 2011, 20:43:17 From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com> To: hp_agilent_equipment at yahoogroups.com, Tekscopes2 at yahoogroups.com, Vintage-Military-RADAR at yahoogroups.com, AILtech at yahoogroups.com CC: EIP_Microwave at yahoogroups.com, Watkins-Johnson at yahoogroups.com, ArmyRadios at yahoogroup.com, Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net, "Rachel Tortolini" <dr.rtortolini at gmail.com> >From another list, -John ================= ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: For Sale Ground station. From: "Rachel Tortolini" <dr.rtortolini at gmail.com> Date: Thu, February 24, 2011 8:07 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greetings: I have a radio astronomy/seti/ground station for sale minus the antenna. The equipment covers microwave to baseband and fft signal processing. the equipment fills 12 six foot racks. (It covers 10 by 30 foot storage locker. Must sell as I have Parkinson's Disease and must retire. Anyone sincerely interested may contact me and a database can be sent with pictures, etc. Location is Hawaii. You will need a mover but it is all packed and ready to go. I am willing to negotiate price compensation for your shipping cost. Please contact me off-list. Rachel ================= ----------------------------------------- -- Lyle Bickley, AF6WS Bickley Consulting West Inc. http://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"

13 years, 2 months

Bit of DEC Trivia

by ggs＠shiresoft.com

Hi, Found this out and thought I'd share it with the list (note I'll send the answer later after seeing the "guesses"). Q: How many DECTapes (images) can fit on a 1TB HDD? (Also note, this is a "trick" question). Have fun. It'll be interesting to see the answers! :-) TTFN - Guy

13 years, 2 months

WTD: 28C16 EEPROM in PLCC package

by classiccmp＠philpem.me.uk

Hi guys, Seems the EEPROM which stores the MAC address in my HP 16500B logic analyser has developed amnesia. That is to say, it forgets everything a few days after being programmed, and as of today it won't even program correctly. Does anyone have a spare PLCC-packaged 28C16 EEPROM or two knocking about? Ideally I'd like another of the original part, a Samsung KM28C16J-20, which is specced for 200ns. A Catalyst/ONsemi CAT28C16 or any of the many variants should also suffice... My local supplier lists these as "special order only" -- with a ?16+VAT charge to do so, a monstrous minimum order (something like 100 units) and a three week factory lead time. I need maybe three of these at most... Thanks, -- Phil. classiccmp at philpem.me.uk http://www.philpem.me.uk/

13 years, 2 months

Radius Pivot monitor help needed

by sellam＠vintagetech.com

Has anyone ever worked with a Radius Pivot monitor? I'm trying to get one hooked up to a Mac IIci or IIsi but I need drivers and an appropriate video card. I'm pretty sure I have both but finding them at this point will be a major pain. If anyone has the drivers handy, and can let me know what an approproiate video card would be to interface the monitor to a Mac, I would greatly appreciate the help. Thanks! -- 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 ]

13 years, 2 months

SCSI -1 to IDE and SD project

by lynchaj＠yahoo.com

Forgot the URL for the SCSI to IDE/SD project http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder <http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder&param=SCSI2IDE> &param=SCSI2IDE Thanks and have a nice day! Andrew Lynch

13 years, 2 months

Books available in Santa Cruz, CA

by doc＠vaxen.net

Forwarded for a friend... Doc Subject: Free To Good Homes: books of datasheets in Santa Cruz, CA I've been alerted to free datasheets and other similar materials from the 1980s at UC Santa Cruz. The books are on the first floor of the Jack Baskin Engineering building at UCSC. Photos and more information are here: http://bluebox.celestrion.net/ucsc-books/ -- Jonathan Patschke

13 years, 2 months

Sniping Does Not Require Justification!

by jfoust＠threedee.com

At 07:58 AM 2/21/2011, Liam Proven wrote: >Sniping subverts how auctions work. In the average real-world auction that I'm accustomed to, at best as a bidder you might need to register in advance. Once you're there, there is no requirement to notify all other bidders of your interest in an item. In fact, bidders tend to be quite subversive about their interest in an item, so as not to draw attention to themselves, the potentially more-valuable item, or their interest in it. You're free to bid "in the last second." Yes, the auction continues at that point, and that's different than eBay. You're not just wishing for an auction format where all bidders must make their presence known, and then a moment where no additional bidders can register before bidding begins. You can't seriously be wishing for an auction format where all other previous bidders and their max price be known before you bid. We can't just wave our hands and think that it would solve the problem if eBay extended the auction N minutes beyond every moment there was a bid. That would greatly encourage the demand for and use of automated bidding tools. Part of the appeal for buyers and sellers on eBay is that you are generally searching items you know will be for sale and that you can bid on immediately. Would you be happier if multiple proxy bidders all registered to bid and made some token bid just to be part of the game? - John

13 years, 2 months

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test-drb February 2011