test-drb October 2015

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by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com

Welcome Corey! how did you get the upside down font in the email sig? Ed# In a message dated 10/30/2015 9:59:06 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, applecorey at optonline.net writes: Well I finally setup a separate email address so I can receive individual messages from cctalk instead of the daily digest which really doesn't lend itself to posting back. Just wanted to say hi. Cheers, Corey corey cohen u??o? ???o?

8 years, 5 months

Know any Fortran programmers who need a more interesting job?

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Fred Cisin > 2 or 3 decades ago, the folk controlling lower division undergraduate > "Computer Science" at UC .. declared, "Assembly language is dead! > Nobody will ever program in it again.", and shifted their program to > Scheme/Lisp. > .. > assembly language may no longer be a great career path, but there will > always be need for some levels of hand optimization. It's worth teaching a bit of machine/assembler language, so that students understand how computers _actually work_, underneath. There's a semi-famous incident from a couple of decades back at MIT: they were teaching a programming course in CLU (an "object-based" language which contributed many ideas to object-oriented programming). So one assignment was to write an assembler - which required being able to print octal numbers. So quite a few of the students wrote 'octal clusters' ('cluster' is CLU jargon for the collection of routines which know-how/are-allowed to operate on members of a class), which used normal decimal read and write to do input/output - and had 'octal add' etc routines which took apart two 'octal numbers' abcdef, stored as the decimal number abcdef, into their constituent digits, added them together individually, did the carries, and then put it all back together. (I am not making this up. This really happened.) Apparently nobody had ever told them that a number in memory is... just a number. At which point it became clear that they needed to know a little more about how a computer actually worked. Noel

8 years, 5 months

IBM cluster for auction

by innfoclassics＠gmail.com

May not be old enough but this is the group I think might be interested. I have just started following GovDeals. https://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?fa=Main.Item&itemID=1624&acctID=4788 Cluster is in Ohio. Pax -- Paxton Hoag Astoria, OR USA

8 years, 5 months

Lurker no more...

by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com

it is pretty neat!!! In a message dated 10/30/2015 1:36:30 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, applecorey at optonline.net writes: I honestly don't remember. I know Woz sent me instructions on how to do it, this was a few years ago. I've just been cutting and pasting the competed signature since then, so I forgot. Maybe I can dig up the instructions over the weekend. FYI. I just got the daily digest on my other email and it apparently strips out the upside down stuff. Cheers, Corey corey cohen u??o? ???o? > On Oct 30, 2015, at 1:27 PM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote: > > Welcome Corey! how did you get the upside down font in the email > sig? Ed# > > > > > In a message dated 10/30/2015 9:59:06 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, > applecorey at optonline.net writes: > > Well I finally setup a separate email address so I can receive individual > messages from cctalk instead of the daily digest which really doesn't lend > itself to posting back. > > Just wanted to say hi. > > Cheers, > Corey > > corey cohen > u??o? ???o?

8 years, 5 months

Know any Fortran programmers who need a more interesting job?

by lproven＠gmail.com

?Why NASA Needs a Programmer Fluent In 60-Year-Old Languages To keep the Voyager 1 and 2 crafts going, NASA's new hire has to know FORTRAN and assembly languages. ? http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a17991/voyager-1-voyager-2-retiring-e… -- 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 Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) ? +420 702 829 053 (?R)

8 years, 5 months

The list seems very quiet today

by rodsmallwood52＠btinternet.com

The list seems very quiet to-day. I have had only one post this morning. Anybody know why? Rod Smallwood

8 years, 5 months

Know any Fortran programmers who need a more interesting job?

by r_a_feldman＠hotmail.com

>From: "Jerome H. Fine" <jhfinedp3k at compsys.to> >Does anyone have any idea as to the actual hardware platform? > Jerome Fine >From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/30/has_voyager_1_escaped_the_sun_yet_y…: "250 Khz General Electric 18-bit TTL CPUs, complete with single register accumulator and bit-serial access to 2096-word plated-wire RAM"

8 years, 5 months

The list seems very quiet today

by cctalk＠beyondthepale.ie

Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote: > > On 30 October 2015 at 12:02, rod <rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com> wrote: > > The list seems very quiet to-day. > > I have had only one post this morning. > > Anybody know why? > > Is everybody off at the top-secret VCF-Paris? > Nah - VCF-Paris is just a decoy to distract the few who might have heard about the ultra secret VCF-Madrid. > On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, Liam Proven wrote: > > No replies to my message about NASA wanting Fortran programmers... > > extinct? or just too shameful? > Too busy trying to contact NASA to see if they are willing to take on someone telecommuting across the Atlantic Ocean (after all, the difference in distance to where the probes are now would not be of any significance). Regards, Peter Coghlan.

8 years, 5 months

There's hope... and then there's aggressively optimistic

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

I love this person's style: http://www.ebay.com/itm/281835789336 It doesn't sell for $25? Fine, re-list it at $35! Noel

8 years, 5 months

Front Panel Update

by rodsmallwood52＠btinternet.com

Hi Guys I just got back from the meeting at the silk screen shop. They are going to start by printing ten PDP8/e panels with the details that are common to both A and B. I'm sending them a couple of overlays. One to convert the common panel to an A Type and the other to make it into a B type. Four A type and Three B type are sold. This means I have three slots left that can become either an A or a B. Same goes for 8/f and 8/m . They will print up to the common point and an overlay will turn it into either an /f or /m This time the stock will be a bit better. Two /f have gone so eight slots are available to become a /f or a /m So to be able to make an 8/e Type A or Type B takes One precut perspex sheet, One screen for each color (two) One screen for the white One matte finish coating Two screens for the overlays One screen for the lamp view ports on the back. Total six silk screens Then I'll add in packing and shipping cost. I'll freeze the order on Monday Then work out the unit price and add in packing and shipping cost. Then call for payment from those without prepaid orders. So there are three 8/e A or B slots and eight 8/f or 8/m slots available until Monday Rod Smallwood

8 years, 5 months

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test-drb October 2015