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by drb＠msu.edu

I'm always the last one to see this silly things, but in case lightning struck for once... A documentary about Arpanet, featuring some key names, including F.J. Corbato, and various BBN folks. http://preview.tinyurl.com/6jkh5a Google video and tinyurl, sure to annoy some, to whom apologies. De

17 years, 7 months

cpm handbook claimed

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

The CP/M handbook has been claimed. -- 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?

17 years, 7 months

can anyone help jog my mmeory of an old vax model?

by dgahling＠hotmail.com

The year was somewhere between 1984 and 1989 (I think). I was working in London, Ontario (Canada) at a place called "The Software Library", We arranged with DEC (A guy named Arpad Deak) to get a MicroVax, at least, for a while. I thought it was MicroVax-II or a MicroVax-2000, but it seems not. It would have been an early/late model. It wasn't a BA-23 chasis, or typical IBM PS2 looking case, it actually looked a lot like a toaster, sort of. it looked like a big white block, it was approximately 6" to 1' tall, 6" to 1' wide, and 2 feet long. I think the drive was 146 megs, it could only handle one. It definitely ran VMS. I vaguely remember I think the front cover came off, and the drive was right there, not sure the technology. it's been ages. but does anyone have the slightest idea which one I'm referring to? I tried google, but I can't find any pictures that look remotely like it. the closest thing is like this - http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://hampage.hu/vax/kepek/3300_B.JP… but that's all "wrong". too tall, and the look is wrong. the unit we had was basically flat white, I don't remember any LED's (perhaps one). too many years gone by. Dan. _________________________________________________________________

17 years, 7 months

CP/M Handbook

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

Would someone here like a copy of the CP/M Handbook by Rodney Zaks? -- 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?

17 years, 7 months

PCjr Telnet Server test (again)

by mbbrutman-cctalk＠brutman.com

I'm getting ready for the 25h anniversary of the PCjr announcement on Nov 1st. I plan to have the machine up and running serving as an 'electronic' guestbook for anybody who wants to look at it. If anybody wants to preview it and help me test it (again), it is running. Just telnet to 97.86.233.68. Since the last series of tests I've: - Added user registration and passwords - Added a session timeout - Added a 'leave a comment' feature - Fixed a major bug in the TCP reset segment handling code - Added a 'memdump' command so that you and peek at me in realtime - Recognize ASCII 127 (Rubout) as well as ASCII 8 (DEL) for editing - And quite a few other miscellaneous changes. I didn't do much with the telnet option negotiation. It should be usable by common Linux and Windows clients. It did pretty well with other telnet clients last time, but I didn't get around to things like auto-login or anything specific to terminal types. The code is around 80KB in size, which includes all of the TCP/IP stack. RAM utilization is a bit higher - most of it is buffer space. It has sockets and buffers available for 10 simultaneous users; I'm kind of curious to see how it holds up. (Tracing is at a minimum to speed it up, but it is still a 4.77Mhz machine.) Oh, and while you are on, don't forget to leave a comment! Thanks in advance, Mike

17 years, 7 months

AT&T UNIX PC - Need to hack user/password for access

by billdeg＠degnanco.com

Hi One of my students was able to repair an AT&T 7300 (67MB version) UNIX PC powersupply. Now it boots up, but we don't have the username and password. Any suggestions? BillDeg

17 years, 7 months

anyone got any transactor magazine?

by dgahling＠hotmail.com

anyone got any copies of Transactor magazine? this was a popular c64 magazine from the 80's out of toronto canada. I have quite a few, interested in collecting all the published issues if possible. Dan. _________________________________________________________________

17 years, 7 months

FS: How To Design Build & Program Your Own Working Computer System

by ken＠seefried.com

>> > > If anyone is interested, make an offer for Tab Books: "How To Design >> > > Build & Program Your Own Working Computer System" by Robert P. Haviland >> > > Pub. 1979 . 308 ppg. This is a complete how-to for the SC/MP >> > > microprocessor. >> > > >> > > > > Strangely, I'm sure I have the same title from the same publisher > > sitting on my shelf but it's for an 8080. > Hmm.... > The book is a pretty complete "how-to" for building the authors SC/MP > based "SCAMP" computer. It's quite possible the author did versions with > the same title except focusing on different microprocessors. Other > logical offspring would be the Z80, 6502,and 6800. I had the SC/MP version. I found the TAB books to be uniformly low quality, both in production and content. I found enough fundamental errors in them that I never tried to build the actual machine, as I was prett sure it would not work, or, at least, it wasn't going to be more useful than grabbing data sheets and whipping it up myself. KJ

17 years, 7 months

FS: How To Design Build & Program Your Own Working Computer System

by steerex＠ccvn.com

Thinning my collection of collectible books. If anyone is interested, make an offer for Tab Books: "How To Design Build & Program Your Own Working Computer System" by Robert P. Haviland Pub. 1979 . 308 ppg. This is a complete how-to for the SC/MP microprocessor. Reply to me directly. Postage will be from Western North Carolina. -- Steve Robertson steerex [at] ccvn [dot] com

17 years, 7 months

OT:Humor What people think their stuff is worth

by christian_liendo＠yahoo.com

I find stuff like this funny http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/tag/889529620.html Video Game Collectors Sale - $1 (New York, NY) Reply to: sale-889529620 at craigslist.org [?] Date: 2008-10-22, 5:29PM EDT $200 Atari 2600 Video Computer System with varies games(Pac-Man, Missle Command, etc.) $150 Nintendo Entertainment System with varies games(Top Gun, Bases Loaded, etc.) $100 Commodore VIC-20 Computer Collectors wanting to own a piece of video game history. All original packaging and box. Systems still works. Local delivery available Ethan, 917-334-8123 Location: New York, NY it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

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