Yes, I'm (finally) back! I've got my system on Linux now for its
primary, with NT supporting the stuff that hasn't been ported just yet
(mainly EDA tools and the Micro House Tech Library).
I must say, I am impressed. I've done things with Linux that would have
crashed NT, hard, in a heartbeat, and it took them all in stride and
kept on going.
Anyway... I know Zane, at least, is wondering about the rescue I did
>from Fluke. It went well, and I've got a goodly pile of stuff now. I'll
likely be getting rid of most of it, and I'll post a list here as soon
as I can write one up. The first run of freebies will likely consist of
a pair of PDP-11/04's and DSD-880's to match.
Caveat emperor!
I seem to recall that someone was looking for a source for cheap LCD panels
a while back (Allison?). Just got the current Alltronics catalog and
they've got 640 X 480 backlit panels (Sharp LM64P80) for $39.95, and
non-backlit for $9.95.
If anyone's interested in Atari stuff, they've also got NOS Atari 1020
color printers for $14.95, and 2600 trackballs for $9.95.
Alltronics address is 2300 Zanker Rd., San Jose, CA 95131, 408.943.9773
R.
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Who _is_ Jerry Pournelle?
>
>At 12:04 PM 8/31/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>Old computer magazines are another passion of mine. I a large
>>bookshelf full of BYTE magazine, from around 1976 to 1993, and
>
>As had been reported here in May when it happened, Byte is no more,
>but the post-game commentary has begun. See Tom Halfhill's
>analysis at <http://www.wenet.net/~halfhill/bytefaq.html>,
>he was an editor there. Love 'im or hate 'im, Pournelle can't
>stop talking about it or anything else at
><http://www.jerrypournelle.com/fiasco.html>.
>
>I agree with Halfhill's assessment in general, that Byte was
>perhaps the only general computer magazine as compared to so many
>other platform-chauvinistic rags. On the other hand, in the last
>few years, many of my copies of Byte went unread.
>
>- John
>
>
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Well, all of the college guys down here are moving and that means
lots of trash. I picked up an old magazine, Popular Computnig, from
1983. This issue deals with programming languages, all sorts of
comparisons and advice about them. I've never before seen a computer
magazine of this age, and I found it quite fascinating. There was an
article about 'Why you should learn to program', the depth of which
was immense compared to modern magazines. But the letters to the
magazine show that people were'nt any smarter back then, just more
curious and thoughtful. I laughed when I saw this letter:
"I opened up my computer, and found the 6502 processor. Could I get
speed gains by replacing it with an 8088 or 8086?" At least they
know the numbers. Good thing they went to the trouble of checking.
Too bad intel decided to drop numbers and use meaningless names.
When did the downward trend in magazines occur, or was it a steady
process? Another question: I found a VGA monitor in the trash. It hasn't
been dropped and works fine, but the glass is scratched from being
dragged on the sidewalk. Is prone to implosion?
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Hi,
does anybody know who has right now the rights for
the KIM-1 design and the respective ROM code?
Or more in general - is there any successor for
the Commodore Semiconductor divison ?
Gruss
H.
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HRK
Does anyone have a data cable for a TRS-80 Line Printer II? I want to use
it with the TRS-80 Model III, but don't have the cable. I've checked with
RadioShack, and they no longer carry it. I also need boot/program disks
for the TRS-80 Model III.
ThAnX,
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Stable alright, just like a Tiger III Tank:
Shells, mines, concrete barriers, etc. will be hard
pressed to stop it, but the danged thing won't do 35mph
(downhill) . . .
At 10:13 AM 8/31/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>WinNT is quite stable. I've been running it for years - since 3.0,
>I think, under heavy daily software development. Judging from the
>reports I hear, I think it's a bit more sensitive to less-than-perfect
>motherboards, RAM, or peripherals. I've had perhaps two blue screens
>of death, probably due to bad drivers.
>
>- John
>
>>Cross platform development was an easy thing - write one
>>application and let it run on PETs, Tandys, CPM/systems,
>>of coure on APPLE ][s and even on IBM-PCs - oh, did someone
>>say Java ? *grins*.
> In theory. In practice, many P-System programs made calls to
> platform-specific extensions to the language in question,
> linking against a library of a dozen or so routines for doing
> non-standard subroutines written in machine code: block
> memory moves, disk block reads, etc. I don't think those
> were ever standardized between platforms.
> You can't take the average clone of Pacman or whatever from an
> Apple II P-System and run it on another system unless it was
> completely pure - poking video memory ain't pure.
At some degree - there have been a lot of Units available
on different platforms. And as everywhere in these old
days the ctr controll codes had more impact an porting
than anything else. In fact I used the p-system several
times for cross platform developments in the early 80s.
Even for my first app on the IBM-PC - The next few apps
where developed with Turbo Pascal on the APPLE ][+ using
CP/M and recompiled on the PC. I withstand the IBM for
almost two years ...
> See my web page for a history of the UCSD P-System.
Hmm letmesee... only Pascal ?
What about the otherlanguages ?
> I'd love to get a Microengine.
Ibet there are still some out there.
Gruss
H.
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HRK
I went thru hell trying to find out who has the rights to the Commodore Semiconductor Group parts (looking for replacement 6510s for C64s).
You'll never guess who has them...
Gateway 2000
Tony
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On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:23:11 Hans Franke wrote:
>Hi,
>
>does anybody know who has right now the rights for
>the KIM-1 design and the respective ROM code?
>
>Or more in general - is there any successor for
>the Commodore Semiconductor divison ?
>
>Gruss
>H.
>
>--
>Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
>HRK
>
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