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by JRichardson＠softwright.co.uk

>> When I typed "system disk" I meant one >> with an appropriate collection of utilities, which with code bloat >> can be hard to fit on a 720k disk -- since "edit" needs "?basic" etc. Get the GNU DOS port of vi - has the benefit of being a standard, very powerful, reliable and takes up 120KB or so (OK, that's a lot more than ideal for an editor, but at least you don't need all the extra garbage that you have to have with standard MS-DOS 'edit') - of course, if you've never used vi before, you're gonna hate it :) (not wanting to kick off an off-topic thread in light of the current 'problems' on this list, anyone know how to get MS exchange client 4 to do the auto-include of the '>' quote chars above? I'm sick of having to do it by hand! Email privately, please! :) cheers Jules

27 years, 10 months

DOS disks?

by zmerch＠30below.com

At 04:25 PM 10/28/98 -0000, you wrote: >Get the GNU DOS port of vi - has the benefit of being a standard, very >powerful, reliable and takes up 120KB or so (OK, that's a lot more than >ideal for an editor, but at least you don't need all the extra garbage >that you have to have with standard MS-DOS 'edit') - of course, if >you've never used vi before, you're gonna hate it :) [snip] Well, not if you're accustomed to TS-EDIT on the Tandy Color Computers! vi is a superset (I believe -- been a long time since I used TS-EDIT) but the CoCo clone is a fairly complete implementation of it. One thing about vi / TS-EDIT: 'tis a pain in the rear to use, until you get accustomed to the commands. If you do become highly accustomed to editor, you can go *very fast* with it. Boy, I miss those good old days... ;-) "Merch"

27 years, 10 months

8 inch floppies on PC's (was: TRS-80 Model II stuff!)

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

> For anyone interested (Larry).... I am going home (to Virginia) for >thanksgiving and I will pull out one of my model IIs and get all of the >still useable software and manuals. I will make copies available to >anyone who wants if someone can tell me how to copy the 8" discs to a file >on a PC (either using Linux or Dos). > I can serial port the machines togethet but, I have no idea how to read >off all the sectors of the 8 inches. This is a question that has been dealt with very thoroughly in the past. Sydex (http://www.sydex.com/) has some very excellent software available for dealing with "foreign" floppy formats, and can deal with many (but not all) 8" floppy formats. Instead of going into great detail on how to use these tools, I will instead just refer you to the CP/M FAQ at http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/CPM-faq/faq.html specifically, Q14: "Can I read my 8" disks with my PC?" I hope nobody takes this reply as a brush-off as a result of a good fraction of my business coming from reading old media, including (but by no means limited to) 8" floppy disks. Even though references to non-mailing-list resources seem to very sparse on the CLASSICCMP mailing list, I just want folks to know that there *are* very useful FAQ's out there that deal with the issue thoroughly already. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology Voice: 301-767-5917 7328 Bradley Blvd Fax: 301-767-5927 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817

27 years, 10 months

Road trip/vintage sources

by dcoward＠pressstart.com

Tim said: >One decent source in the area is the Terrapin Trader, the University >of Maryland's surplus outlet in College Park. For more info, see > > http://www.inform.umd.edu/PURCHASE/terptrad/ > Thanks Tim. Speaking of road trips: Next month I going to take my two weeks vacation to retrieve our belongings from storage in Manassas Virginia, where we left them 11 years ago. I'm excited to be finally getting my two analog computers out here to California. Anyway, we will be driving back to California from Nov 14-22. I'm hoping to stop at a few places on the way back, looking for (real old) computer stuff. We already plan to stop in Pennslyvania,Ohio - Lima and Aurora, Michigan - Benton Harbor and Ann Arbor,Chicago,St. Louis,and New Mexico - Albuquerque. If anyone knows of good places to look, and want to share the secret, let me know. What kind of places? Places that dark and dirty. Places with junk arranged in piles. Places with vacuum tube equipment. (I would love to find an example of a vacuum tube analog computer) Places you won't want your kids to play in. On another note: Does anyone in Florida have more information about the plans to tear down the original control room at the Kennedy Space Center? (It was on the news) ========================================= Doug Coward Press Start Inc. Sunnyvale,CA =========================================

27 years, 10 months

Noise levels have become deaf

by danjo＠xnet.com

What - you got one too???? Now I can not swear it is Samnie's handiwork but after get a copy of the Unsubscribe message from the listproc admin I am pretty sure I will be able to hunt down the source. It's more of a nuisance attack anyway... Tho I think DOS is more like it.... > From listproc(a)u.washington.edu Wed Oct 28 11:45:06 1998 > Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 22:22:33 PST > From: University of Washington ListProcessor <listproc(a)u.washington.edu> > To: danjo(a)xnet.com > Subject: UNSUBSCRIBE CLASSICCMP > > Dear user, > > your request > > UNSUBSCRIBE CLASSICCMP > > has been successfully processed. > > You have been removed from list CLASSICCMP(classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu). > Thank you for being with us. BC

27 years, 10 months

Ohio Scientific C3 OEM available

by bill＠chipware.com

I have exchanged email with this guy already, seems like a nice guy. The machine is in Chicago. Correspond directly with him if interested. AZOTIC <azotic(a)aol.com> wrote: >Any one have an idea what a old >OHIO SCIENTIFIC OEM C-3 >is worth. 8" floppy drives. rs232 >terminal, tripple proccessors >even got the repair manuals. I >plugged it in, and it still works. >any collectors ? I need some new >toys.

27 years, 10 months

Doug and the Zuses (was:Re: KEITH, WE HARDLY KNEW YOU was: Noise

by franke＠sbs.de

> I saw a Zuse 23 last week at the Deutsches Museum in Bonn. Pretty > cool (the first transitorized Zuse), but that was just about the only > classic computer they had on display. Oh, did they pull of the DDR 1 Meg chip from display ? I belive this is the most funny Display _and_ a thing to think about with its implications. Gruss Hans Disclaimer: And of coure, I told him to come to Munich and see the real stuff like a Z3 or 2002 (No, not the 70s BMW, but the first (or maybe second, if the Mailuefterl group is right) running fuly transistorised machine) but no, he just had the less interesting part ... :) -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

27 years, 10 months

MS_DOS 2.11 (Was: DOS disks?

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

Very interesting! I learn something new every day! But, was the source available to the public? If not, it's not much different from NT now, which makes source available under an NDA. >MS-DOS 2.11 was a very special version. It was the one where Microsoft >explicitly supported OEM modifications. Even the source code to IO.SYS >was obtainable! Each manufacturer that had something weird could make >their mods to it. For example: PC-DOS 3.20 was the first one to support >720K floppies. But LOTS of MS-DOS 2.11 variants support 720Ks. (NOT ALL >WITH THE SAME DISK FORMAT!!) Or the manufacturer could modify IO.SYS so >that pressing Ctrl+Alt+Meta+CokeBottle switches to power-saving "suspend >mode", etc. > >Accordingly, 2.11 was usually tied to a given manufacturer. DG 2.11 was >not quite the same as Gavilan 2.11, etc. Typically, MODE.COM would be >heavily customized, and frequently IO.SYS would have a few differences. >For example, Gavilan 2.00, 2.10 or 2.11 all supported 3.5" disks, but >only 2.11 worked right. And 2.11K, 2.11L, etc. also supported double >sided disks. > >If you CAN, try to find a copy of that 2.11 for your machine; the one >modified by the hardware manufacturer to work with the weirdities of your >hardware. If you choose to use one of the newer versions of DOS (6.2x is >the most reliable for a couple of reasons), at least keep a copy available >of the MODE.COM that was customized for your machine. You might need to >use SETVER, or disassemble and look for the code that goes: >MOV AH, 30h >INT 21h >CMP AX, > >Using the newer version of DOS MIGHT cut you off from some of the >customizations, but hopefully MODE.COM may have most of the ones that you >need, such as MODE LCD , etc. > >-- >Fred Cisin cisin(a)xenosoft.com >XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com >2210 Sixth St. (510) 644-9366 >Berkeley, CA 94710-2219 > > >On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote: > >> Cameron Kaiser wrote: >> > >> > Weeeeeeeell, I landed a Data General One laptop. Normally I eschew MS-DOS >> > based machines, simply because I'm a racist pig etc., but this one has an >> > interesting notebook mode and a built-in terminal program at 1200bps. Except >> > that the screen is harder to read than James Joyce, it seems like a winner >> > and it works great. >> > >> > Question. Anyone know what version of DOS this uses? Does someone have any >> > boot disks out there, or at least have the system files available for >> > download? The drives are 3.5" DD, right? >> >> Came as I recall with MS-DOS 2.11, should use anything up to 6.22, >> though of course it's tricky building a 720k 6.22.system disk. 3.3 >> is probably your best bet, although I think there were some hardware >> specific utilities on the original material that might come in rather >> handy. Nice machine -- the only DOS laptop to tempt me prior to the >> Zenith SuperSports. >> -- >> Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/> >> >> WARNING: The Attorney General has determined that Alcohol, Tobacco, >> and Firearms can be hazardous to your health -- and get away with it. > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

27 years, 10 months

Noise levels have become deaf

by Marty＠itgonline.com

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Marty ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: Noise levels have become deaf Author: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu at internet Date: 10/28/98 10:56 AM Hmm... Looks like Sweet Sam decided that if he couldn't shout me down, he'd just slam the door in my face. What a guy! --- Return-Path: <listproc(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 22:21:11 PST Reply-To: listproc(a)u.washington.edu Sender: listproc(a)u.washington.edu From: University of Washington ListProcessor <listproc(a)u.washington.edu> To: bill_r(a)inetnebr.com Subject: UNSUBSCRIBE CLASSICCMP X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN X-UIDL: ee07c31fcdb321395d34af85335a15b0 Dear user, your request UNSUBSCRIBE CLASSICCMP has been successfully processed. You have been removed from list CLASSICCMP (classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu). Thank you for being with us. > Bill Richman incolor.inetnebr.com/bill_r (Home of the COSMAC Elf microcomputer simulator!) ------ Message Header Follows ------ Received: from lists5.u.washington.edu by smtp.itgonline.com (PostalUnion/SMTP(tm) v2.1.9i(b5) for Windows NT(tm)) id AA-1998Oct28.105618.1767.73348; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 10:56:18 -0500 Received: from host (lists.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.13]) by lists5.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id HAA18374; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 07:53:33 -0800 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id HAA60506 for <classiccmp(a)lists.u.washington.edu>; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 07:53:29 -0800 Received: from falcon.inetnebr.com (falcon.inetnebr.com [199.184.119.1]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id HAA29 424 for <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 07:53:28 -0800 Received: from mail.inetnebr.com (sentinel.walco.com [206.222.203.20]) by falcon.inetnebr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA14454; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:53:27 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199810281553.JAA14454(a)falcon.inetnebr.com> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:55:39 -0600 Reply-To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu Sender: CLASSICCMP-owner(a)u.washington.edu Precedence: bulk From: bill_r(a)inetnebr.com (Bill Richman) To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Noise levels have become deaf Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu, danjo(a)xnet.com X-Sender: bill_r(a)inetnebr.com X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN

27 years, 10 months

eBay (aka: ePay, eVay, oyVay, etc...)

by cmcmanis＠freegate.com

Ok, I have to draw a line on this one Sam ... At 05:36 PM 10/27/98 -0800, Sam wrote: >Well, if the guy who bought the Atari 1200XL thinks he got fair market >value, I'm happy for him. But I don't want to have to pay some schlub >$600 for an Atari 1200XL the next time I see one go up for sale (luckily I >won't have to, I paid less than $5 for mine at a thrift store, and if I >want another I'll probably find it for around the same price). What that >guy thinks is a "fair price" does NOT equate to "fair market". There is a >huge distinction. There IS a huge distinction, there is no such thing as a "fair price." Its a myth, it don't exist, deal with it. If this "schlub" as you so affectionately refer to them knew about your thrift store (and I can guarantee you he will) then you won't find Atari's in thrift stores and you won't find them at swap meets and the _only_ way to get one will be to pay more than what some other "schlub" is willing to pay. And if the price is too rich for you then you won't own one. What's a "fair" price for a Picasso? a Rembrandt? That is exactly what a market IS and it is actually _incredibly_ fair. Without external intervention it will settle on a price that people are willing to pay. To use the 1200XL example.. Word will get around that a 1200XL goes for 600 on Ebay, so enterprising folks who have been in thrift stores will start scrounging around for them, and then they will all put them up on eBay and the large number of them will cause the price to come down, probably way down but it may not get down to a level you are comfortable paying. For heaven's sake, you think there is a "fair" price for a house in Silicon Valley? Of course not, the MARKET supports a median house price that is well above what any ordinary mortal could pay for, but only because there are enough people willing to pay that price. When people said, "This is f__ ridicululous!" in 1991 guess what, houses stayed on the market until the price came down. When I bought my house I offered nearly 100K UNDER the asking price, got the house and it STILL lost 15K in value over the next couple of years! Now its going back up, great, but that will change when the guys from eBay who got rich on the IPO have all bought there houses. Economics, not just an idea it's a discipline that actually predicts these things pretty accurately... --Chuck

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