From fu3.org@gmail.com Tue May 15 18:26:50 2007 From: fu3.org@gmail.com To: test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org Subject: WAS: Nice PC-museum.. Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 01:26:50 +0200 Message-ID: <310f50ab0705151626m12830a25gbadd6615264680b5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200705152059.l4FKxmhP084056@keith.ezwind.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============8949347831159533284==" --===============8949347831159533284== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Bob, I have no idea who this person is, and unfortunately I've forgotten what page(s) I followed to get there. -If you snip out all but the domain name from the URL I posted, it seems that _that_ might be your very guy. (Try navigating through the/his "Hobbies" link onto the computer museum, and decide for yourself.. -It's at the bottom of that "Hobbies" page..) - - - Front page updated little over a year ago, so, further inquiries doesn't seem all that impossible, if anyone should be so inclined. 2007/5/15, Bob Bradlee : > On 15 May 2007 10:35:15 -0700, Geoff Reed wrote: > > >although I don't remember the Z-80 being a clone of the 8085 CPU like the = author > >of that site claims. (or has my memory gone faulty?) > > I have heard before from those who equate the entire Intel 808x family as a= class. > >From their perspective the Z-80 was designed around and expanded upon the = 8080 instruction set licenced > from Intel! > The deal gave 8080 programmers a second source, which raised the credibilit= y of the instruction set > against the Motorola 6800 family. > Motorola ended up cutting their own deal providing AMD trading some VMOS me= mory masks for the 68xx > mask set, which they both second sourced for each other to a set of common = customers who demanded a > second source be available before they would finalize a design. > > I agree Clone might not be the correct word choice, but by todays business = standards is not that far off the > mark. > > As to the website in question, a quick look revealed it has not been update= s in years, I am personally > thankful that this person was just enough of a geek to have built a nice ho= bby page. but how managed to > keep it unnoticed ? > > This raises the question of "how much unnoticed?", I ran the page title and= meta content into YGAMS and > came up with some very interesting footprint info. (see YGAMS.COM for the c= urrent beta and examples of > the internet footprinting tool) > > >From page header > My Virtual PC Museum > > > > > "John B Sandlin" came up as a known with a YGAMS of ~253 > The Title "My Virtual PC Museum" only hit ~ 2 on this side of never seen ! > and "07/15/2002 PCs I've Owned" ~ 0 proves this has never been indexed. > > It looks to me that these pages have been unseen and hiding for many years = behind more than just robots.txt > files. Believe me a YGAMS of 0 is almost impossible to maintain once someth= ing has been published and > indexed gets indexed by someone! > > There is little question this is fresh meat, none of the search engines hav= e seen it YET, but that could > change as soon as this mutterings got indexed, if I had but included a link= to the page in question. > > BTW: Does anone here know who this is ? > > Back to my rat-killen, I have wasted enough time today muttering :) > > Bob Bradlee > > I am still trying to get my head around the fact that this email may violat= e 6 or more software patents... > Just in its transmission, not including any possible problems someone might= have with it's content ! > > > > > > > --===============8949347831159533284==--