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Personal Replies to Sender Was: RE: DOS disks?

by allisonp＠world.std.com

< "CC:" field. Works very well it seems. FYI: 'R-390' is the military < nomenclature of a high performance military surplus shortwave receiver t < is truly a "classic" as far as its owners are concerned. I would even wa That is one item that comes under the I'd give up a computer to keep. Those were real nice recievers. It could even displace my Allied AX190 (it's only 24years old). Allison

27 years, 10 months

Ohio Scientific (fwd)

by franke＠sbs.de

>>>DEAR AARON: >>>I will be putting the computer on the e-bay auction >>>some time soon. The wieght is under 100lbs. I have >>>gotten a lot of e-mail on this item, i think the only fair >>>thing to do is give everyone a chance at it. >>>Thanks >>>Tom I got the same letter :( > This is what I call the height of hypocrisy. In other words: "I will be > trolling for the best price offered." Everyone should boycott this > transaction. Have a nice day! :) Jep, basicly you're right. Completely right. But help me, I WANT it. I don't know if I can hold myself from bidding. Without questioning I would offer some 200 USD which is good I think (good condition of the lot as a base). And I belive ePay could push me eventualy to some 400 or so USD (Takin the 'imagine what if' measurement). Sigh. Gruss H. P.S.: has anybody som OSI stuff for sale ? -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

27 years, 10 months

UK VCF (Was: Re: Any *really* homebrewing going on?)

by franke＠sbs.de

>>> I think I know at least 3 or 4 Germans who would like >>> to join and I guess there are a lot more. > If I may butt in... Perhaps there is a way you can do this. First, pick a > location that you think will be convenient for everyone, perhaps near the > chunnel(?) or near an airport. [...] > At the very least, you'll have 5 people getting together for a day of > BS'ing about old computers. At best, you'll have a decent first shot at > it, with the momentum to really do a bang-up job of it the following year. That describes exact the way I thought of it. I would start this way, but I'm just not in the UK ...and thats what the thing was about - I already had some talks to Wirtschaften (some Pubs) over here about this, and a meeting somewhere in spring might be reasonable. But it would be a Bavarian (German) mini VCF, and beside the travel distance for our UK list fellows, the Meeting language will be German, at least for most people, since the goal will still be to attract more visitors. Of course everybody is free to use what ever language is possible to talk, but if there is a programm of speaches to be made there will be problems. On the other side, we might attract new followers for the list. So, when only looking at the list I belive a UK (informal) meeting might have more members visiting than one in Bavaria. But feel free to prove me wrong. If there is a response, I will voluntere to organize it. Gruss Hans -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

27 years, 10 months

Dumpster Diving was Re: Washington DC area vintage sour

by franke＠sbs.de

>>> Seams to be an attitude of all management - bann whatever >>> you don't undestand >> I think the attitude of many companies in the UK is "if we wanted to give >> it away we would do so, once we have decided to throw it away it stays >> thrown away". > Say you ran a company, and being a good collector and occasional dumpster > diver, you had a policy that anything broken could be taken home by > employees if the company decided they didn't want to fix it. So the > hacker employees are happy because they get some nice stuff they can fix > and use in their spare time. But what happens when employees start > intentionally breaking things, or worse, pulling small parts out of > equipment to make it look broke, so they can then take it home and replace > the missing fuse or chip? I think that is why you have the rather > seemingly unreasonable policies about discard equipment. Thats the simple way of avoiding any possibility, as far away it might be. An empolyee like you described could even in Germany, where we have very strict laws agains random kickin of employees, be fired winthin some days. AND will be responsible for any possible financial loss - Thats a bit like your cracy pruduct cases. So taking of parts is ok at most companies (with permission) but using them for profit (no, a single sale at a flea market is also not considered profit) could harm you more than being charged with murder. >> I think with the modern ideas about environmentally friendly disposal of >> waste it would be appropriate for the local authorities to turn a blind >> eye to 'scavengers' like ourselves and thus reduce the amount of useful >> stuff which ends up in landfill ;-) Of courese - extending the usage of any thing is the best environmental protection strategy (maybe without suizide), especialy with wares that used a lot of energy and other recources to produce - often a lot more in construction then at any time later - like cars or computers :) > Until one loathesome scavenger cuts a finger off on some particularly > sharp piece of metal and sues the owner, the trash company, the maker of > the trash container for not making it so they could get inside in the > first place, etc. (at least in the U.S.) Yes, and only in the US. Ok, our European product laws are maybe sometimes a bit week, but the combination of better rights for the customer and a very junky law system isn't helpful either. And worse, if we would bothe get hurt (in the US) I have to be lucky to get 1/20th of your payment ... American Courts are somewhat picky about the victims ... Gruss Hans P.S.: A surplus store has some PC-234 printers on sale. These are Printers for the TI-74 Basic handheld. They seem to be new or at least in very good shape in the original box. The price is some 85 Mark, so any interest ? -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

27 years, 10 months

Kurzweil KVS

by ddameron＠earthlink.net

Hi Doug and all, At 04:59 PM 10/28/98 -0600, you wrote: >On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Sam Ismail wrote: > >> Unless you used "1000 word vocab" to qualify the claim, in which case I >> still think there may be an earlier contender. Speech recongition goes >> back a long way, perhaps as far back as the 50s. > >Yes, commercial and 1000 word vocab were the qualifiers; let me know if >you still challenge the claim, otherwise it gets immortalized in a web >page soon. > >And given that AI didn't really get started until around 1960, and that >storage for digitized speech would have been very expensive back then, I'd >be interested in any references you could provide for speech recognition >way back in the 1950's. > In a recent "Electronic Design" magazine, the column "40 years ago", there was an article about IBM and digitized speech. It is an interesting column, as well as Bob Pease's. -Dave

27 years, 10 months

DOS disks?

by JRichardson＠softwright.co.uk

>> oops, that was supposed to go to Sam only. >> ELM needs a "reply to sender" key. *sigh*. In exchange the menu option is "reply to sender" but that replies to the list, despite the name of the original sender appearing in the "from" column. One day MS will write some software that works... (OK, so that's completely off-topic... but it won't be so much ten years >from now... look at it as being ahead of its time... :) cheers Jules > > >

27 years, 10 months

Dumpster Diving was Re: Washington DC area vintage sour

by JRichardson＠softwright.co.uk

>>> I think the attitude of many companies in the UK is "if we wanted to give >>> it away we would do so, once we have decided to throw it away it stays >>> thrown away". >> >> Let me add a little perspective to this.

27 years, 10 months

PCjr with no disk drive?

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

The disk drive was an option, like the hard drive on the XT. In my PCjr manual, the disk drive manual is a separate booklet. The owner was supposed to install it, I think. BTW, why is the PS/1 called that if it came after the PS/2? >drive, but instead a face plate covering the slot where the drive would >go? I saw such a thing today and was curious if there were ever any >PCjr's released without internal disk drives. Obviously this one was. > >The inside is rather bare as well. There is not the usual cards inside. > >I also saw what looked to be a very small IBM computer. It had all the >connectors on the back, for video, keyboard, printer. It also had two >3.5" bays side by side in the front. The front cover was missing so I >couldn't get any model number off it (not even on the label on the >bottom). The only thing I saw on the label was "Type 2100". I'm thinking >it might be a PS/1 or something. It was really small, measuring about 12" >wide by 3" high by 12" deep. > >Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Ever onward. > > Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0 > See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details! > [Last web site update: 09/21/98] > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

27 years, 10 months

Nixie stuff (Was: Re: A Proposal (was...))

by allisonp＠world.std.com

< > > Don't they run on 170 volts or somesuch wild figure??? < > < > A nixie tube is basically a neon bulb. It turns out that if you drive < > neon bulb from DC, then the cathode appears to glow, and the anode < > doesn't. A nixie tube has a number of cathodes in the shape of the < > required symbols (often, but not always, 0-9), and a mesh anode. < < Wow. I didn't know that. I thought you had to supply the Nixie with AC 160-250V DC, thought he dc does nto have to be wel filtered or regulate < I'll have to rig up some kind of ladder network, I guess. I have a boar A transformer with a 120v secondary and a voltage doubler will do. The current is very low, nominal series resistor is something like 47k. < out of an ancient calculator with 9 or 10 Nixie tubes (and a neon bulb < for the '-' sign). I've always wanted to fire it up, but never had the < time to build some kind of high-voltage BCD driver. This sounds like a That's where the work is. Back when those were used inexpensive HV transistors with a 100v breakdown were hard to find and ICs good for more tha 30V were scarce. So there were some creative tricks used depending on the specific tube used. < for a PIC, a kind of serial to Nixie driver. I could always drive it wi < an ancient UART (the kind that didn't need a CPU) and a pile ot TTL, bu < I think the PIC could keep the part count low. Uart and a small pile of ttl really. The bulk of the hardware will be the drivers unless you can use the 74141. Allison

27 years, 10 months

Dumpster Diving was Re: Washington DC area vintage sour

by franke＠sbs.de

> I don't know what the law is in the UK regarding dustbins (trashcans) but > regarding skips (dumpsters) it is something like: > Person X makes a contract with a waste disposal contractor Y. Y delivers a > skip to X's premises, and probably leaves it in the road (at precisely the > worst place for motorists trying to get around it :-) ). X throws stuff > into the skip, but it remains X's property, and to pull it out is theft. > Eventually X has thrown in all he wants and phones up Y to collect the > skip. When Y does, the stuff in the skip becomes Y's property. Almost same for Germany, although the point of changing ownership is depending on the contract. In most cases the ownership changes when the item ist dumped, althrough no court will rule agains a dumping person when the item is taken back. The same is true for any public trashcan/ dustbin. As soon as it is droped it belongs to the owner of the dustbin. > At work, I used to skip-dive a lot. I was once told that I was breaking > the law because I had removed a Superbrain from the skip. Lucky one! > However, skip-diving is now officially banned. I > have been quite strongly warned off several times, once for just looking at > the skip! The warnings came from quite high up, passed down through my > boss. Seams to be an attitude of all management - bann whatever you don't understand. Gruss H. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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