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The Virtual Revolution (History Of The Internet)

by aliensrcooluk＠yahoo.co.uk

Hi all, I wasn't going to send out an email about this, but I thought the 2nd episode was just as good as the first one, so here I am :) In short, the programme (airing BBC2, UK, around 8:15pm Saturdays) The Virtual Revolution looks at the history of the internet (US Military, ARPAnet, The Well etc.) and it's influence on modern life (hackers, terrorists, social networking etc.). The official site can be found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/ Video's of some of the interviewees (including Tim Berners-Lee and Peter Thiel) can be found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/interviews.shtml A whole host of computers have been seen (for a few seconds) on the programme, including an Altair 8080 and a PDP-10. Some short clips of the programme can be found on YouTube. All of episode 2 can be found on BBC IPlayer here (for the next 7 days only): http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qsbvv/The_Virtual_Revolution_Enemy_… The whole show is 654MB (about 55 minutes long), if you wish to download it. Regards, Andrew B aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk

16 years, 2 months

Kittyhawk drives (was Re: Looking for: Dauphin DTR-1 Floppy)

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: > On Feb 5, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: >> >> As an additional aside, it's one of few devices that used the HP Kittyhawk >> drive (a 1.3" 40mb drive). ?Quite a marvel of engineering in 1993... > > ?I have several of the 20MB Kittyhawks and a single 40MB unit. I have a couple of 20MB Kittyhawks. The place was out of stock on 40MB units when I found them. >?I've done a > bit of hacking on them with home-brew SBCs. ?They are a little weird in some > ways, but they're really neat, I like them. Yep. I hooked mine to an IDE-64. Quite portable. -ethan

16 years, 2 months

a work in progress, and why I haven't been around here much...

by rtellason＠verizon.net

Have a look here: http://mysite.verizon.net/rtellason/nancy.html and you'll see what's been keeping me occupied for the better part of the past year or so... The page is still a work in progress, I need to add some pictures at some point. The worst is over, and it's time for me to move forward, including plowing through a really absurd number of posts in this folder. One other thing I'll mention in passing, a new friend, also widowed, has an H-8 computer system to deal with, I told her that I knew just the place to find someone who would be interested in it. I have no details on it at the moment, though I've seen it. I also told her that just powering it up was probably *not* a good plan at this point since it's been sitting for a number of years unused... Any of you guys interested in it, feel free to contact me off-list. Onward... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin

16 years, 2 months

PLEASE CHANGE THE SUBJECT OF A THREAD (Was RE: cctalk Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3)

by thomas.gardner＠sbcglobal.net

See what I mean (from Issue 10) > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Tony Duell) > 2. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Chuck Guzis) > 4. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Dave McGuire) > 5. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Chuck Guzis) > 6. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Dave McGuire) > 7. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Ethan Dicks) > 8. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Chuck Guzis) > 9. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Ben) > 10. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (allison) > 11. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Tony Duell) > 13. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Tony Duell) > 14. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Dave McGuire) > 15. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Dave McGuire) > 16. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Dave McGuire) > 17. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Chuck Guzis) > 18. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Chuck Guzis) > 19. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Dave McGuire) > 20. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Chuck Guzis) > 21. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Dave McGuire) > 23. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Ethan Dicks) > 24. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Chuck Guzis) > 25. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Dave McGuire) > 29. Re: cctech Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 (Ben) Tom

16 years, 2 months

Free SGI Onyx2 in Linköping Sweden

by pontus＠Update.UU.SE

Hi This is a longshot, if you can make it to link?ping with a truck within two weeks, I can probably hook you up with 4 racks worth of SGI Onyx2. /Pontus.

16 years, 2 months

Poly8813 on ebay

by billdeg＠degnanco.com

> > >> > From: dwight elvey >> > >> > Hi >> > I thought I'd mention that there is a Poly 8813 ( actually a 8812 ) >> > on ebay. >> > > > I tend to think his asking price ($8000) is WAY too high in spite of the > condition since it doesn't include any docs or disks. But if anyone > decides to buy it, I can supply a copy of the manuals and other board > documentation if they aren't already online. > > The 8812 is not the original and much rarer Polymorphic Micro-Altair, later called Poly-88. Those came out in 1976 and might fetch $8000. The 8813 series were advertised into early 1979 and are worth more like $400-600 at best, in unknown condition. Bill

16 years, 2 months

OT: identifying radio coils

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

I was wondering if anyone has an Alenco 108TK am/fm radio kit and knows the specs of the coils in that kit. I'm tinkering about with replicating that kit as a small PCB to be put into a wooden cabinet. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

16 years, 2 months

DOS Widgets

by dave09＠dunfield.com

Not many DOSheads left (I still have a DOS machine on my desk which I use daily), but perhaps someone will still benefit from this... FWIW - I've started to catalog and post some of the various widgets I've created for DOS over the years. Items range from trivial utilities to fairly complex packages. Some of these were commercial packages that I once sold mail-order (and later the web), while others are just things I put together for my own use. I'm not sure if/where I'll post it permanantly, however for now I've put a link at the bottom of "Dave's old computers" - Enjoy. Dave -- dave09 (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/index.html

16 years, 2 months

Poly8813 on ebay

by marvin＠west.net

> The 8812 is not the original and much rarer Polymorphic Micro-Altair, > later called Poly-88. Those came out in 1976 and might fetch $8000. > The 8813 series were advertised into early 1979 and are worth more like > $400-600 at best, in unknown condition. > > Bill The 8812 is the same as the 8813 with the exception of it only having two disk drives. Re: the Micro-Altair. The story I've heard is that the Poly88 was originally named the Micro-Altair, but the name was changed because of objections from MITS. I've talked to a number of people who used to work at Polymorphic trying to find out if the Micro-Altair actually existed as a physical product. To date, I haven't found anyone who has said the Micro-Altair actually existed. FWIW as I've mentioned from time to time, I probably have the largest collection of Poly documentation left as well as stuff I've never heard of before. When Poly shut down, they put all of their stuff that was left in storage. A friend of mine knew the owner and acquired a lot of it, and gave it to me. One of my many todo projects is to get this stuff saved as it includes source code and manuals for most of their products. There is a little over one full filing cabinet full of docs in addition to several boxes of parts. Something that I find fascinating is one of their business plans after Poly had a change in management about 1981 as it includes flyers and information about their then current product line.

16 years, 2 months

Data I/O System 20B MOS Memory Programmer

by technobug＠comcast.net

I just was given the above named beast and a search of the usual places produces nil. Anyone have any info or manuals on this item? CRC

16 years, 2 months

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