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Are there mailing lists or groups just tor ... (Al Kossow)

by michael.99.thompson＠gmail.com

> > Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 08:46:19 -0800 > From: Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> > Subject: Re: Are there mailing lists or groups just tor ... > > There are none that I know of. I've been doing a lot of work this year > archiving > VME information and firmware. > > there's not a lot out there for software, though beyond NetBSD > > On 11/24/16 10:51 AM, Pete Lancashire wrote: > > VME based systems ? I've been given a VME chassis and want to build up a > > 68K based system for fun. > > > > TIA > > > > -pete > My employer is a member of VITA, the group that does the VME standards. I am working with VITA management to get members to send AL documentation on older VME products, and hopefully software too. I am sure that there are plenty of people on this list that would help you get a VME system running. Early Sun systems were VME based, and their documentation on the VMEbus is very good. Michael Thompson

8 years, 5 months

Are there mailing lists or groups just tor ...

by mnusa2＠hotmail.com

Pete, You can start with www.m88k.com You can email me for information. BR Matti On 11/24/16 10:51 AM, Pete Lancashire wrote: > VME based systems ? I've been given a VME chassis and want to build up a > 68K based system for fun. > > HP 9000/3xx ? I think I asked this one before. But can't find searching the > archives or my email. > > TIA > > -pete >

8 years, 5 months

Are there mailing lists or groups just tor ...

by pete＠petelancashire.com

VME based systems ? I've been given a VME chassis and want to build up a 68K based system for fun. HP 9000/3xx ? I think I asked this one before. But can't find searching the archives or my email. TIA -pete

8 years, 5 months

Membership disabled due to bounces

by chocolatejollis38＠gmail.com

Gmail is only the single most reliable mail provider in the world, and bounces never happen. Is anybody ever going to fix this brain dead, bone headed bug, or can we expect to continue getting memberships disabled every couple of weeks?

8 years, 5 months

Thanksgiving Day

by c.murray.mccullough＠gmail.com

I wanted to wish all American readers of this list a very happy Thanksgiving Day from a reader in Canada. Reading 'Classic Computing' still plays an important part in my appreciation of the role of computers from earlier years in why I still enjoy working with computers. Happy computing. Murray :)

8 years, 5 months

Turkey Day Scans: TELEX

by silent700＠gmail.com

I received another big pile of random documentation this week and these floated to the top and landed directly on my scanner: http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/index.php?dir=%2Fcomputing/WesternUnion Circa 1968-9 Western Union TELEX brochures, rate charts and a little bit of ASR32 technical data. Really interesting stuff for fans of early data networks, as well as groovy graphic design! Enjoy... -j

8 years, 5 months

Membership disabled due to bounces

by rlloken＠telus.net

On Thu, 24 Nov 2016, Graham Toal wrote: > Not so. By doing nothing (ie NOT creating an SPF record for the sending > domain) you pretty much guarantee a lack of problems. (At least, these > specific problems). It's the smart aleck admins who do create SPF records > etc who cause the problems, in conjunction with recipients that think these > records are worth paying attention to. The irony is that SPF was invented > by the advertising industry to ensure that their so called 'legitimate' > bulk mail gets through; it does very little to stop actual spam and it > completely messes up mailing lists and people who use traditional SMTP mail > while travelling. Sorry, I shouldn't start on SPF, it just drives me > crazy. If you are a DNS admin, *please* don't fall for the SPF bullshit. > (For some reason Microsoft are totally enamored of it and twist their > clients' arms to enable it :-/ ) You are preaching to the choir. Some of the first implementers of SPFs were outfits that the rest of us would call spammers. As for Micro$oft, my employer trashed our Zimbra and PMDF servers and sent us over to Office365 so now I spend my time babysitting Exchange in the cloud, writing PowerShell scripts, and waiting a Micro$oft minute for things to happen that used to be immediate. And you are right, Micro$ofts loves SPFs but they do nothing at all to expedite our mail through their servers. And in honour of Micro$oft, SPFs, and my 21st century managers, I am retiring in 29 days. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Athabasca, Alberta Canada : heads are naked!" ** rlloken at telus.net ** : - Arthur Black

8 years, 5 months

Reverse-engineering WD1000, WD1001 hard disk controllers

by spacewar＠gmail.com

I've been working a little bit off-and-on for years on reverse-engineering the WD1000 and WD1001 disk controllers (8X300/8X305-based), and their clones. I've only made any significant progress within the last few days, after hacking together my own disassesmbler which deals with the Fast I/O Select PROM. I do NOT recommend using this disassembler yet, for reasons that are explained in the README, but I've put it on github: https://github.com/brouhaha/s8x30x I've made some progress interpreting the firmware of an early WD1000, which only had 512 words of firmware, and didn't support run-time configurable sector size selection. So far I've figured out how they handle the host reading and writing the task file, dispatching the commands, and much of the sector ID search.

8 years, 5 months

Membership disabled due to bounces

by rlloken＠telus.net

On Thu, 24 Nov 2016, John H. Reinhardt wrote: > I was thinking of changing my email to another provider even though I've had > this one for at least 12 years. But if it's because of a configuration > problem, then other providers may react the same way so will it do any good? I doubt that changing your email provider will help. My mail is constantly being disabled now that I am using my ISP address but it wasn't while I was using my work email address but I think that is a coincidence - the problem did not manifest itself until a few weeks after I changed my email address. By the way, I am my employer's email administrator and I know that I was not doing anything special to make the email go through - no spf records, no nothing. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Athabasca, Alberta Canada : heads are naked!" ** rlloken at telus.net ** : - Arthur Black

8 years, 5 months

Membership disabled due to bounces

by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com

seems odd some list serves have this problem and some do not out there... which would suggest it may be a matter of the way the listserv is configured. I hear people with yahoo mail complain about some list serves but they also say some cause no problem at all. Most of it is a mystery to me as I have not run a listserv on a server or a mailserver.. Ed# In a message dated 11/23/2016 10:05:13 P.M. US Mountain Standard Tim, johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com writes: On 11/23/2016 8:00 PM, Eric Christopherson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016, Michael Brutman wrote: >> Gmail routinely marks these emails as spam. And Gmail clearly says: " It >> has a from address in aol.com but has failed aol.com's required tests for >> authentication." >> >> Digging deeper into the header one finds: >> >> "Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of >> cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org designates 199.188.211.196 as permitted >> sender) client-ip=199.188.211.196; >> Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; >> dkim=neutral (body hash did not verify) header.i=(a)mx.aol.com; >> spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of >> cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org designates 199.188.211.196 as permitted >> sender) smtp.mailfrom=cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org; >> dmarc=fail (p=REJECT dis=NONE) header.from=aol.com" >> >> >> I'm no expert on dmarc, but that looks to be the source of the pain. > > Do we have any evidence that his messages are affecting the rest of us, > though? > I get disabled regularly. My address is at Yahoo. Currently I'm sitting at 2.0 out of 5.0 for my bounce score. The previous disabled messages came at: 11/20/2016 11/06/2016 10/25/2016 10/18/2016 10/13/2016 10/05/2016 09/26/2016 09/10/2016 08/23/2016 08/11/2016 08/06/2016 08/01/2016 07/19/2016 07/10/2016 07/01/2016 A fairly uneven distribution. None repeating sooner than 5 days and sometimes taking up to 18 days before hitting the 5.0 bounce limit. I was thinking of changing my email to another provider even though I've had this one for at least 12 years. But if it's because of a configuration problem, then other providers may react the same way so will it do any good? John H. Reinhardt

8 years, 5 months

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