On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 at 23:21, Wayne Sudol via cctech
<cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity, is there a reason you do not use Acrobat for creating
> pdfs?
I have been making PDFs for at least 20 years now, probably more.
AFAIK I have _never_ used Acrobat to create them. I print from
LibreOffice to its PDF generator, or I use any random Mac OS X app as
under that OS all apps can output PDF -- PDF is the native rendering
format of Mac OS X.
I do not normally use Windows but I believe that most modern Win10
apps can save as PDF.
I mostly use Linux and there is no Acrobat for Linux. The reader app
was discontinued years ago and no longer works on most modern distros.
With considerable effort I have managed to start it inside a Docker
container but it's complex and difficult; normally I just use Xviewer
or Okular.
You ask as if Acrobat were the normal or default way to make PDF
files. I don't think that's been true for decades now.
P.S. Please bottom-post on mailing lists. Thunderbird, for instance,
runs on all major OSes and talks to Hotmail/Outlook.com just fine.
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Greetings
I'm looking for any and all information I can find on the DEC Rainbow
ethernet cards.
I know for sure that two exist, both plugged into the communications slot
that most rainbows have filled with a hard disk controller. DEC made one,
and Univation made the other. Univation also advertised a ARCnet card, but
I found that only in one issue of Digital Review and the next issue moved
up to Ethernet.
So far all I've been able to find is DECnet DOS/Rainbow 1.0 which might
have drivers for the former on it. I've seen no trace of the latter.
Also, is there a convenient way to extract teledisk disks these days to
something like an image file on Linux/FreeBSD? MAME almost can do this (I
can read it in with the Rainbow emulator and diskcopy to a flat file that I
can then examine), but I was hoping there was a tar-like tool to do the
deed.
Warner
On Monday, August 16, 2021 at 22:46, Wayne S wrote:
> I asked because i was curious if what you wanted to do could not be
> done in Acrobat.
Never having used Acrobat, I cannot say.
-- Dave
I have these 5-1/4" diagnostics disks but no need for them. If you're
interested, I'll send them to you for the cost of the postage from
Durham, NC.
* Diagnostics for IBM Personal Computer AT, ver. 2.03 copyright 1981, 1986
maroon disk label, p/n 6183111
* Advanced Diagnostics, ver. 2.20, copyright 1981, 1986
dark blue label, p/n 6139804
They are in excellent physical condition. Sorry, I don't have the manuals.
(I used to work for a ComputerLand store in '81-'82 and probably
acquired them there.)
They might be available for download somewhere, but these are the
physical, displayable versions.
**Richard
Scored an A3000. Prior owner cut a hole where the floppy goes and mounted
a PC floppy in there. Looking for an original front plate and the matching
floppy drive to restore machine to original look.
- Ethan
30 years ago this month the IBM PC debuted at $1565. Some say this began
the era of mass-computing and it is now what classiccmp.org
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> is all about! For those interested in the OS world
LINUX is 30 years old. Time has passed but this is what classic computing
is all about.
Happy computing.
Murray ?
It was sitting in the trash. No keyboard, no power cord. Case was open
and some of the bundles of wires inside are disconnected, so I doubt
it's in working condition.
I'm not much of a hardware collector, so I was hoping to put it in the
hands of someone who would like it.
