test-drb March 2013

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by rickb＠bensene.com

No, in fact it was Outlook's wonderfully helpful address auto-complete feature, along with me being in a hurry and not verifying the address list before hitting send. -----Original Message----- From: Jules Richardson [jules.richardson99 at gmail.com] Received: Monday, 04 Mar 2013, 12:54pm To: cctalk at classiccmp.org [cctalk at classiccmp.org] Subject: Re: Anti-Virus On 03/04/2013 10:35 AM, Fred Cisin wrote: > On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Rick Bensene wrote: >> My apologies for the misdirected email to the list. >> Rick Bensene > > But, unlike college administrators, > there was no attempt to blame the error on "a virus" Well, it was obviously a network misconfiguration :-)

11 years, 2 months

BS about "changes in cost of cheapest machines" (Was: Raspberry

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

------------------------------ On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 5:57 PM PST Fred Cisin wrote: >It's ZX80 time. >You CAN do wondrous things. >Or, you can bemoan the "need" for fancier crap. > >WHY can't they just say, "it's FUN! and you can cobble together the rest >of what you need to make it usable from the crap that is lying around" >And THAT is fun, too! Because it's ideological. Because it's the great great grandson of Acorn (I want one), it can't just be fun. It *has* to be wondrous, sliced cheese, the missing link, the Teseract. It *has* to be the life giving manna distributed by angels. All dat. Give him some credit though. He kind of summed it up appropriately - OLPC. STAMP, Arduino, TI Launchpad, Rpi, ... next. It is a learning tool. It is fun. It may even be awfully useful. It just ain't all dat.

11 years, 2 months

Commodore calculators was RE: Calculators

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

------------------------------ On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 1:50 PM PST Josh Dersch wrote: >On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> > > That's what a mailing list is for Josh. To ask questions and get >> information. >> > >> > No, you logorrheic moron, it's for asking questions you can't find the >> > answer to with a two second Google search. >> >> >> I shall remembr this next time somebody asks a hardware quesiton on >> PDP8s, PDP11s, PERQs, HP9800s, etc. The scheamtics are on bitsavers or >> wherever, and that's all you need to find the problem... >> > >Yes, Tony. Asking a question or looking for advice about specific >hardware behavior after doing a fair amount of research on my own is >-clearly- the same thing as asking a question answered by just entering the >search term into Google. Thanks for clearing that up. > >- Josh O man. You see Joshy you touched on a nerve. Stomped on one even. Tony's been accused of the same thing. Perhaps for entirely different reasons. But Tony is as logarithmic as I am.

11 years, 2 months

Commodore calculators was RE: Calculators

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

------------------------------ On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 4:27 PM PST Liam Proven wrote: >On 3 March 2013 23:55, Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com> wrote: >> On 3/3/2013 3:38 PM, Chris Tofu wrote: >>> >>> Doofis butt nugget. >>> >>> >>> What, are you twelve years old? >> >> 12 + 34. If it's any of you cotton picking business. >> >> Act like it. > >He's not smart enough to. I've had the misfortune to have had him >pester me privately by email. He can't spell, can't quote and has both >poor interpersonal skills and very poor manners. He believes a load of >superstitious nonsense and pesters people in private to try to infect >them with his mental dross. It is my considered opinion that he is >both of low intelligence and is not a very pleasant human being. > >I have him killfiled by means of a mark-all-read rule in Gmail, which >at least doesn't break up threads like deleting his messages would. >Sadly the Gmail UI means I see his messages if they are the last in >the thread - and he does like to try to get the last word. Still, it's >better than nothing. > >I recommend doing similar. I have bad manners? You obviously are an obsessed, mentally oppressed, disturbed individual. You can't quit telling people how badly you want then to ignore me. This is approximately the 3rd time. See a therapist. >-- >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 >

11 years, 2 months

Raspberry Pi

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

------------------------------ On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 4:16 PM PST Liam Proven wrote: >The CBM C64, the various Ataris and all the other successful home >computers were really pure games machines, with fancy graphics, stereo >sound, built-in joystick ports and so on. You've stated the pi is only a real use-ful computer because of it's ability to get on the net. But most bandwidth these days is used for rubbish. So what what exactly is wrong with the gaming aspects of the earliest, cheap home machines??? I purchased my first C64 AFTER buying my first (real) compatible. >The only /serious/ 1980s home computers - the ones /not/ mainly used >for games, that were also used for education, from primary >schoolchildren up to extensive use in universities, was the BBC Micro >family. Many an honors student would have loved to get their hands on a "game" computer in the 80s. I don't recall too many people that even had one. Most of us who had jobs bought one after hs. Admittedly something more capable. But I doubt 30,000,000 C64s would have sold if it was a boring brick.

11 years, 2 months

Commodore calculators was RE: Calculators

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

---------------------------- On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 2:59 PM PST Josh Dersch wrote: >On 3/3/2013 11:29 AM, Chris Tofu wrote: >> >> ------------------------------ >> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 10:57 AM PST Josh Dersch wrote: >> >> On 3/3/2013 10:26 AM, Chris Tofu wrote: >>> Did Commie make only one? >> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=commodore+calculators >> >> Hope that helps! >> - Josh >> That's what a mailing list is for Josh. To ask questions and get information. > >No, you logorrheic moron, it's for asking questions you can't find the >answer to with a two second Google search. It's more fun to ask. An apparently fun for at least a few to answer. All you do is complain and respond with utterly ridiculous answers. >> Doofis butt nugget. >> >> > >What, are you twelve years old? 12 + 34. If it's any of you cotton picking business. >Josh

11 years, 2 months

3/9/13 19th Annual Antique Science & Retro-Tech show & swap meet this weekend

by barythrin＠gmail.com

Heads up for folks in the DFW area. Nice show full of vintage and antique scientific equipment. Been there quite a few times and always interesting stuff on the tables for sale. ANTIQUE SCIENCE & RETRO-TECH SHOW & SWAP MEET<http://www.slideruleguy.com/tx-1q13.htm>is this coming weekend in Irving, TX. DFW Airport Hotel 972-399-1010 4440 W. Airport Freeway (Hwy 183) Irving, TX exit Valley View Lane 10:00 am to 4:00 pm $5.00 ADMISSION

11 years, 2 months

Slide Rules

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

------------------------------ On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 3:01 PM PST Fred Cisin wrote: >> > Iwould also avoid 'lubricating' it with isocyano acrylic >> >hydro-copolymerising adhesive... >On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Chris Tofu wrote: >> Oh I have to disagree there. Dip it in that crap then lay it on the >> desk. I guarantee it'll never get stolen. > >Keep your hand on it until the glue has set. But then I get stolen. But there goes that logoerria again. Fred started it. > >

11 years, 2 months

Slide Rules

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

------------------------------ On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 2:49 PM PST Fred Cisin wrote: >> > Iwould also avoid 'lubricating' it with isocyano acrylic >> >hydro-copolymerising adhesive... > >On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Chris Tofu wrote: >> Oh I have to disagree there. Dip it in that crap then lay it on the >> desk. I guarantee it'll never get stolen. > >around here, that's a way to lose a desk. Defeats the purpose of stealing a slide rule though. Wouldn't it make more sense to take the desk w/o the funky contraption stuck to it? You in Oakland Fred?

11 years, 2 months

Commodore calculators was RE: Calculators

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

>> Shout out to all the other Logarithmic Morons out there! > >No, he did mean "logorrheic". >http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=logorrheic look who's logorrheiing

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test-drb March 2013