I'm sure this is not even an original thought, but the Year 2000 presents
a special opportunity for collectors like us.
Think of all the companies who are right now weighing whether or not those
old mainframes that have been chugging away in their data centers for
years, perhaps even decades, are worth one more upgrade to support 4-digit
years or whether it would make more sense to finally take the painful
route of scrapping their old iron and moving on to PCs or AS400s or
whatnot. I predict a tremendous flood of old mainframe and mini hardware
coming to market like so many cattle which will only peak on December 31,
1999.
This is a once in a millennium opportunity! So make sure you've got
plenty of space and plenty of petty cash to throw around cuz its gonna be
easy pickins.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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On 1998-04-24 classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu said to lisard(a)zetnet.co.uk
:> I have: 1802, SC/MP, 6800, 6809, NEC D78PG11, 8748/9, 8751,
:>8080/8085, z80, z180, z280, z8002, z8001, 808x, 8018x, 80286,
:>80386, 80486 and the micro version of minis 6100(pdp-8),
:>6120(PDP-8+EMA) TI9900, PDP11(T-11, F11, J-11).
:Showoff :-) No 8008? I always wanted a 4004 (anyone listening out
:there, that's a hint) and an SC/MP. Anybody remember Fairchild F8's?
remember, no. heard of, yes. the Great CPU list is a wonderful thing...
:> Now something with a MIPS chip, ARM, sparc or some such would be
:>a great addition of a real RISC processor.
:Well, I've got all of those, and my favourite is the ARM. I've had
:to write MIPS assembler, and it's not great fun.
most risc processors are not fun to program in assembler. some risc
chips - notably the novix and a few other forth cpus - look like murder
to program. however, one of the design criteria of the arm was that it
was to be easy to program in assembler - and the instruction set
certainly suggests that it should be.
(not having one, we can't say "it is", but hopefully that will be
remedied before too long.)
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Communa (together) we remember... we'll see you falling
you know soft spoken changes nothing to sing within her...
There's a big difference between a NUL string and a NULL pointer.
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From: Pete Turnbull[SMTP:pete@dunnington.u-net.com]
Sent: Friday, April 24, 1998 5:22 AM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: [getting old punched cards read]
On Apr 24, 1:35, Captain Napalm wrote:
> Well, I snagged a copy of it, compiled it, found a bug, and fixed it.
> strcpy() (at least on my compiler) will crash if any of the parameters
> are NULL pointers,
That's a compiler (or library, actually) bug. You should be able to copy a
null string.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
On Apr 24, 15:38, Hotze wrote:
> This is very off topic, but anyway: Write a letter to the government.
Writing to *my* government isn't likely to do much good against most spam,
which tends to originate from US sites. All the UK ISPs I know of have an
anti-spam policy anyway.
> Reply to the spammers,
Not often a good idea, since the consensus seems to be that responses
merely confirm that the address they used is (still) valid.
I hadn't thought about the free email account idea, but I'm not sure I want
yet another account.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
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If so I would like to buy a few hundred shares. It
has to be one of the most enormously successful
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On Apr 24, 1:35, Captain Napalm wrote:
> Well, I snagged a copy of it, compiled it, found a bug, and fixed it.
> strcpy() (at least on my compiler) will crash if any of the parameters
> are NULL pointers,
That's a compiler (or library, actually) bug. You should be able to copy a
null string.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
On 1998-04-23 classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu said to lisard(a)zetnet.co.uk
:The PDP-11 architecture has only 7 GP registers (since you can't
:really use the PC for just anything) but that's good for the times,
:and they really are interchangable, so I'd be willing to argue that
:it wins on that.
and having the PC as part of the general register set - even if it is a
bit limited in what you can do with it - is a huge design win; you can
lose an awful lot of PC-specific instructions that way. the SOAR used
such an idea, if memory serves.
:Similar, but in many ways quite different. I just had this
:argument (from a somewhat different point of view) on another
:mailing list. The 68K is much more like a PDP-11 than anything
:else, but it has a lot of clutter added.
what about the CP1600?
:That's my third of a tanner.
hey! some of us are post-decimalisation, you know!
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Communa (together) we remember... we'll see you falling
you know soft spoken changes nothing to sing within her...
<I hadn't thought about the free email account idea, but I'm not sure I wa
<yet another account.
I haven't figured the use for that as an email account isn't want you need
to post to a USENET newsgroup or read from a newgroup.
Allison
>> This is very off topic, but anyway: Write a letter to the government.
>
>Writing to *my* government isn't likely to do much good against most spam,
>which tends to originate from US sites. All the UK ISPs I know of have an
>anti-spam policy anyway.
You're right, but still, if the UK could pass a law to make spam illegal, it
would at least cause ripples to the US and every where else in the world.
>Not often a good idea, since the consensus seems to be that responses
>merely confirm that the address they used is (still) valid.
Four letter words. They do wonders with spammers.
>I hadn't thought about the free email account idea, but I'm not sure I want
>yet another account.
Sorry... I've only got two right now. And usually, I have one, but I had to
get one at Geocities as it's not ISP-dependant, and I'm moving to Guyana, so
during travel, I'll be suffeirng withdrawel from the Internet.
Does anyone have a 386 portable somewhere stateside that I could buy?
Ciao,
Tim D. Hotze
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>
>Pete Peter Turnbull
> Dept. of Computer Science
> University of York
