test-drb April 2012

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by js＠cimmeri.com

Does anyone have any Venix manuals they're no longer needing that they'd like to sell? I'm running Venix 1.0 on a DEC Pro 350. The manuals for this version would be dated 1984 - 1986. Please PM me. Thanks, John Singleton

12 years, 8 months

Arduino vs 555 reliability

by bob＠theadamsons.co.uk

> A metal-film resistor, used > below its ratings, will outlive any microcotnroller. > > -tony > Well maybe (though no guarantee there), but the 555 would likely have the same sort of lifetime as a microcontroller - arguably poorer. Bob

12 years, 8 months

[REWARD] Request for documentation - update

by l4b.bogdan.barbu＠gmail.com

Hi, I'm offering a reward of $500 to anyone who is able to find any of several IBM documents. I'm not including the list in this message because the table I have prepared might not be displayed correctly with anything except a fixed-width font and I have no idea what each of you are using. Anyway, the details can be found here: http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=25164&p=207984#p207984 Cheers, Bogdan

12 years, 8 months

VAX on Reddit

by lproven＠gmail.com

Shocking headline: "23 year old computer still in daily use at a silver mine. MicroVAX 3100 running openVMS on 12mb memory." Pictures: http://www.reddit.com/tb/sl3ll Comments: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/sl3ll/23_year_old_computer_stil… -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884

12 years, 8 months

Wanted: Tektronix 1992 catalog

by legalize＠xmission.com

Anyone got one? -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 version available for download <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/the-direct3d-graphics-pipeline/> Legalize Adulthood! <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

12 years, 8 months

USR

by wdonzelli＠gmail.com

> Those Total Control Net servers were awesome. It is a good think you included "Total Control" in your post, because USR had an unrelated product called NetServer that was the complete opposite of "awesome". They, along with friends FaxServer and CommServer, were absolute disasters, with field failures hanging around 50 percent. -- Will

12 years, 8 months

one good ripoff deserves another :-(

by jeffj＠panix.com

replying to Grumpy Ol' Fred (Fred Cisin) > I wonder what happened to the class action suit and the regulatory actions? Google found http://www.iomega.com/rinaldi/ Rinaldi Class Action Settlement Wikipedia clarifies that the settlement was a rebate towards the future purchase of an Iomega product. What a ripoff! They made a faulty product and instead of paying a penalty with real money, they issued "funny money" coupons useful only for BUYING more of their crap! The Sharper Image pulled a similar ripoff during their bankruptcy. All gift cards were invalidated, but were then honored ONLY if you paid an equal amount towards a purchase. What a steal: turning perhaps $100 million of debt >from pre-purchased gift cards into a matching-grant program to get another $100 million for their overpriced stuff :-/ Long ago, a fellow was so pissed off with his Vydek word processor that he sponsored a floppy-flinging contest for his stock of 8" floppies. We ought to have a similar contest for Iomega products!

12 years, 8 months

Last Chance on Apple/TRS-80 Stuff before it gets recycled

by slandon＠centurylink.net

I really need to get space back in my house and shed. Got 4 Apple IIGS Monitors tested and working at $20 each TRS80 Magazines, Owners Manuals, Documentation, enough to fill the back of the car for free. Box of 50 Pin SCSI Hard Drives 40-80MB Drives $20 Apple //e Platinum tested and working $20 Lots more from PC Stuff to external 3.5 drives all of it. Monday morning it will be recycled. Im located in Flushing MI

12 years, 8 months

one good ripoff deserves another / Iomega Zip's

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

>> > Why not the SD card? Cheaper, smaller and easy to interface! :) >> >> My gut feeling is that compact flash will live a little longer in >> terms of being able to get interface hardware a decade into the future. >> But I could be wrong and SD might have more legs (certainly fewer >> contacts). And as you point out the serial interface to a SD card is >> very straightforward so I think you have a good point! > As far as I know, both CF and SD cards are docuemtned. The only custom > interfce hardware is the connectors ;-). Although it might be slow, there's > nothign to stop you talkign to an SD card by bit-banging the signals on > the I/O pins of any microcotroller, computer, or whatever. > So I see no reason why you won't be able to read/write SD cards in 10 > years time. My analogy is that Compact Flash are like U--matic videotapes and that SD is like VHS tapes. SD gets most of the consumer uses, but the consumer product lifespan is very short. The CF applications today are mostly industrial uses with lifespans measured in a decade or more. That's why my gut feeling is to favor CF for long legs. Tim.

12 years, 8 months

PCMCIA by any other name

by jonas＠otter.se

On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:31:50 -0700 (PDT), Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote: > One of my colleagues was "caught" soldering a repair in a college computer > lab (that was closed at the time)! That was one of four offenses for > which they tried to fire him. The others included telling an "instructor" > that he was NOT available to come help her and to learn how to do her own > "reset" when the computer was "locked", refusing to change the grade > to passing for a student whose program crashed instead of a clean exit to > the OS, and removing discarded computers from the dumpster. > > While he was banned from campus, they removed and destroyed everything in > his office, which included a SOL, some Northstars, 6? bookcases of PC > Tech Journal, Dr Dobbs, IBM Technical References for all models, etc. > (Yes, he DID have the 8514 and EGA trch refs) > His office was densely packed, with mostly classic microcomputers. I thought the Nazis had been defeated 67 years ago? Did they just escape to your college? Or are your administrators ex-Stasi people? That is just plain evil and vindictive. They should be taken out and shot in front of all the students. /Jonas

12 years, 8 months

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test-drb April 2012