test-drb September 2012

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by Gary＠realtimecomp.com

> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org on behalf of Chris Tofu > Sent: Wed 9/26/2012 3:00 PM > Subject: Beware of eBay id TRIPLEHAATA > He keeps e-mailing me and asking me to pull key tops off of keyboards. NO intention of actually buying a k/b mind you (not at the > price I'm asking for one, priced _not_ to sell ;). Beware of this guy, he's simply up to no good! You'll try and be nice and wind up > RUINING a keyboard. What chutzpah! > And relative to a recent thread, YES he does collect keyboards ;) Just for the record (I was the one asking for LA-36 keys) It's not me! I am against breaking up a good keyboard, and only was interested if it was going to be scrapped! Gary

11 years, 7 months

strange remark about your collection?

by cfox1＠cogeco.ca

At 01:08 PM 26/09/2012, you wrote: >On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Sam O'nella wrote: > >>"Computers don't belong in the kitchen" - wife >>although "I want this thing out of the living room!" is a close second. > > Closely followed by, "Are you done with the Apple IIc on the > dining room table?" > > >Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us >Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/ On the other hand most of the interesting additions to my collection recently have come >from fellows who have had to clean out their basements Charlie Fox Charles E. Fox 793 Argyle Rd. Windsor Ont. 519-254-4991 N8Y3j8 www.chasfoxvideo.com

11 years, 7 months

LOBO Systems MAX-80

by gm10＠consulnix.com

Hi, I was curious if anyone had any information about (or experience with) LOBO Systems MAX-80's. I have four of these, and they came with no accessories, documentation, etc. I found an operations manual and a Technical Reference manual, but that's about it. My only testing so far was to connect them to an NTSC monitor, and all I get is some static-like display. Reading the operation manuals, it says something to the extent that it should display static if there are no disk drives attached. But another part of the manual says it should show some text on power-on. I am hoping to connect a floppy to one of these soon, and try to get it to do something useful -- but I wanted to ping the list to see if anybody has played with one of these, or might have additional documentation. Thanks, Garrett Meiers

11 years, 7 months

collusions

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

its come to my attention that theres quite a bit of crosstalk - quote, unquote - on the list lately. Maybe for a long time. I find this very hurtful, not to mention unprofessional, downright unwholesome. If you should be made aware of these intentionally super secret cabals, its your responsibility to expose them immediately. Thank you.

11 years, 7 months

Black Hole nearly dead

by legalize＠xmission.com

The Black Hole surplus in Los Alamos was supposed to close Monday, but they still have a crapload of stuff they are trying to sell, so they will continue to be open on a weird schedule. I went down there this Sunday (yes, they were open on Sunday for a change) to get the 3 Tektronix RGB monitors that go with the Tektronix 4125 that I pulled out of there on my last trip. (Returned with a 5x8 Uhaul covered trailer filled to the top and my car full as well, plus a little overflow on Will Donzelli's trailer.) While rummaging around one last time, I pulled out some more odd non-PS/2 keyboards (VT220, Intergraph, Cray Viking, Amiga, HP 264x), a Tektronix digitizing tablet w/puck & PSU, some manuals (mostly Tektronix), a case of DEC fanfold paper tape and 5 cases of punch cards. Still remaining down there that might be of interest to others: - VAX 3500 in the pedestal case - early model TI Silent 700 desktop - 8 late model Silent 700s with the snap-on case - Televideo 921 terminal (no keyboard) - ASR33 on a pedestal, kinda rough shape - Tektronix 3621 hard copy unit - lots of punched cards, NIB, some in case boxes (5 boxes per case) - paper tape, some of it whole boxes - mylar tape - 2x IBM model 26 card punch - lots of Friden calculators - several Friden flexowriter desks - 2x modcomp racks, looks like they were for disks, but the disks are gone and the wiring harnesses are cut - lots of chart paper rolls, generally free -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals.classiccmp.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

11 years, 7 months

HP 9820A

by pye＠mactec.com.au

I was dropping off some rubbish today at the local council dump, and noticed an old HP machine in the trailer next to me. I didn't even say anything, I just stopped and stared at it and the guy asked if I wanted it. When I said yeah, he replied with "shame you weren't a few minutes earlier, I just chucked two others in the recycling bin and all the manuals and tapes/cards are in the pit." Turned out to be an HP 9820A, and I managed to get the other 9820A and a 9810A out of the recycling bin without anyone noticing. Unfortunately couldn't retrieve anything else. Just wondering if there is anything in particular to watch out for when powering up one of these for the first time other than normal power supply checks? I (obviously) don't know much about these machines at all, but I'm particularly mystified about how the built in card reader worked (is it magnetic?).. Could it be written to as well? Cheers, Chris

11 years, 7 months

VCF Midwest

by silent700＠gmail.com

Greetings from the 7th annual Vintage Computer Festival Midwest! The 'fest is well under way, well-attended and chock full-o-nerds. Updates and occasional pics can be found here: https://twitter.com/vcfmidwest Full pic galleries to come... -j -- silent700.blogspot.com Retrocomputing and collecting in the Chicago area: http://chiclassiccomp.org

11 years, 7 months

Scelbi PCB Card Guides

by nick.allen＠comcast.net

Hi Everyone, had an amazing time at VCFMW this year, looking forward to VCF East! Anyone have any recommendations on where to source the PCB card guides used in the Scelbi? I am working on a chasis for a Mark 8 Minicomputer and want to use the same style card guides. Thanks for your time, -Nick

11 years, 7 months

Model Computers (was: UNIVAC model)

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: > Out of curiosity, have any of us here created a model of a system like this? > I have to admit that in the past I gave serious thought to modeling a > PDP-10. I have not as of yet, but because of the studio photographs on the covers of many of the 1970s DEC handbooks, I've wanted to make 1/12 scale models of PDP-11s. For bonus points, the terminals would work. ;-) The mechanical data to draft these up is surely available in site planning guides and maintenance printsets. It's a lot of work, but I think it's totally feasible. -ethan

11 years, 7 months

Interesting court case on tv used facebook as evidence

by barythrin＠gmail.com

I'm sure I'm late to the game here but I was stuffing my face with pizza and diet coke with my BPA filled cup at a restaurant while they hypnotize me with TV in my face. Anyway, something that struck me as odd although I normally don't listen much to the star struck lawsuit tv shows was a lady suing an ex-roommate for property stolen during a move out debate. I'll leave the long story short but in the argument the plaintiff brought up a facebook conversation apparently between her and the defendant as evidence. The judge asked the defendant if she was aware of the tv or if she denies taking it and of course she denied it, then brought up the conversation which mentions the tv and the defendant apparently commented on it saying it was a loss or something. In the long run the plaintiff lost the case as she wasn't there during the incident, the defendant used the popular defense that it wasn't her on her facebook account arguing and was someone else and the judge said it was all circumstantial evidence so the case was lost. I'm just curious if someone here has legal experience but wouldn't a conversation on facebook have an expectation of privacy? Is that legally allowable in court if it's private email? I wasn't sure if since it's obviously related to the case if there's an exception or obviously if it was a public wall post then it was meant for the public to see and you wouldn't have any expectation of privacy. Since in the IT field we all are probably familiar with having to create disclaimers everywhere for expected use and no privacy, etc it's a curious line for email. Last I recall even though a person uses your computer (i.e. they don't own the equipment) they still have an expectation of privacy and their personal email shouldn't be monitored without consent. I believe universities end up with this conundrum often with personal computers attached to their network, etc. Does anyone here have legal experience for electronic monitoring or submission to court in this day and age? I know it's more likely just an opinion topic I just expected the judge to say something about the evidence not being admissible.

11 years, 7 months

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test-drb September 2012