- test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org - classiccmp.org

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca> > I kind of thought the ZX81 was a VW Bug :) Some would say more like a Morris Minor. And BTW the Bug makes a lousy doorstop ;>) Glen 0/0

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DSQD Drives (Was: RE: Diags/Boot image for Altos 580)

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> > Buy? Who said anything about buying??? I can get all the drives that I > want for next to nothing. If I do pay for a PC, it's only about $1 each. Joe, if you ever run out of sources (fat chance) I've got mountains of 5.25" drives you can have for five cents a pound. Hell, I've got over 20 of 'em here at home! >Most of the times that I use a 1.2M > drive to read/write other formats, it fails. Even when it doesn't fail the > copies don't hold up well. I could NEVER read my SB 180 disks (QD) in a 1.2 > Mb drive. In fact, I finally pulled the 1.2 Mb drive out of my main PC and > put a 360k drive back into it since the 5 1/4" drive was used almost > entirely for reading/writing old disks. Yup, I did the same thing on my main box, and getting rid of that 1.2MB drive has really simplified my life. Glen 0/0

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HP LJ 2 mobo -> Apple LW 2 NT

by mythtech＠mac.com

>crap this should have gone direct to Chris. Crap... and my reply should have gone straight to you. (I didn't even look that it was actually addressed to the group) Sorry again! -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

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Fwd: FS: oscope [Tektronics]

by doc＠mdrconsult.com

From: "Kaboozel" <kaboozel(a)localhost.com> Subject: FS: oscope Newsgroups: austin.forsale Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 02:54:16 GMT Tektronics 453. 50MHz with 1 good 10x probe. It's not pretty but it works perfectly. $100 obo. send email to ctilbury (at) austin (dot) rr (dot) com

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list changes & RFC on archives & rack chassis

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com> >I know that some people (very few) have technological impediments that >force them into HTML (Outlook, etc., I think). This is bunk! Outlook can and does post without html, it's easy to turn off. Please, NO HTML and No IMAGES. The latter was part of a few spams we got! Allison

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list changes & RFC on archives & rack chassis

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Dave McGuire > > On March 20, Ethan Dicks wrote: > > In theory, I support this, but if it's possible to filter them down > > to their textual content on the way through, that might be good, also. > > I know that some people (very few) have technological impediments that > > force them into HTML (Outlook, etc., I think). > > Nope. Even LookOut Express can be told not to HTMLize messages. Some > people use webmail services which spew huge amounts of HTML...but > quite frankly, there are plenty of such services that don't...and > anyone who chooses one that does should probably be suspended by their > toenails and pummeled into unconsciousness with an organically-grown > cucumber. > > In short...there is *no* excuse for sending HTML email other than > inexperience or stupidity. > > -Dave > > -- > Dave - what/where are the web mail services that don't send html mail? Or even a service I can telnet/ssh into for e-mail... I'm going to be switching to a new ISP for home (Comcast cable), so this is a good time to really start some SPAM prevention measures... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

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Ultrix' /etc/crontab as a time-bomb [short joke].

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Hihi, our little training in risk-assessment tonight is the following sippet of a crontab entry, scheduled to run dayly around midnight: (cd /usr/preserve ; find . -mtime +7 -a -exec rm -f {} \;) why is this a bad idea and what happened to me last night as I was playing with my VAX6460? Answer: the /usr/preserve was a symlink to /usr/var/preserve which didn't exist. What happened next? All files that were not accessed for more than 7 days were being deleted (and I basically installed this system 3 days ago but had fast forwarded my system time from 1976 to 2002 the day before. :-) -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org

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Vintage hardware trivia quiz [funny]

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Found this at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/30/22794.html History Are you an old bastard? 7. >Clunka Clunka Clunka< is the sound you would most associate with: A. The Clothes Dryer B. A washing machine with an imbalanced load C. A flat tyre on your car D. A tape safe door shutting repeatedly on an annoying user's foot E. An imbalanced DEC RM05 Disk assembly moving around the computer room by itself during a head crash 8. You drop a screwdriver down a ventilation hole in the powersupply at the back of a VAX 11/780. You expect: A. A very careful removal process B. A powersupply failure C. A nasty >crack< noise D. Power outage to the computer room? E. Looting of the shops in the two adjacent streets after the local transformer trips out 9. The nine-track tape you're using is having problems reading some very important survey data for some critical research - only getting half-way through the tape before failing. You would: A. Clean the read heads, which probably are dirty B. Have the tape sent to a commercial data recovery centre C. A, then reduce the temperature of the computer room, and try to complete the read D. Report the failure to the user E. Just cut and repeatedly paste data from the beginning of the data file until the file's up to size 10. The greatest danger to the RA60 removable hard disk media was: A. Not being locked into the drive spindle tightly B. Not being able to be removed from the drive spindle after use C. Disk damage if the cover lock unlatched itself during use D. Dirty read heads E. A preventative maintenance by the Engineer 11. The correct combination of carefully timed disk seeks on the drives in an RA80 disk drive rack could cause: A. A 'Tune' to play B. A Small vibration C. A Large vibration D. A very large vibration E. The disk rack to run in 'horizontal' mode 12. A user has been looking through the sad remnants of their life and found a large box of several thousand punchcards of their undergraduate work, which they would like you to do something with. A good Administrator would: A. Call a Computer Museum and get them read B. Write a quick program to interface to a scanner and read them C. Give the user the Punch card hole code info so they could type them in D. Throw them in the bin and tell the user that they've been demagnetised E. Throw them at the user from a fourth-floor window Sorry, no answers, it says: -Key There is no key. There is never a key! You don't need one. Not if you're the real McCoy! Not if you can clockchip your car computer to get an extra two miles an hour out of the old Rustang before it drops it's driveshaft after the excess vibration. Not if you remember the heady days of a card punch machine that was so loud it had the pensioners down the road digging trenches and sorting out their meat rations. But we can take votes. -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org

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Cut me some slack (was Re: Spectrum makes a comeback)

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

I find it outrageous that Amstrad is trying to cash in on the Spectrum name, after they dumped the product line years ago. Did anyone check the fine print where it says that each game "expires" after a period of time, and in order to keep playing you must pay again? Piss on that! Here's a cheaper solution (and a better selection): go to World of Spectrum at http://www.void.jump.org/ and download an emulator. They're available for a lot of platforms including Unix, Amiga, and Win CE. (Warajevo is my personal favorite for Win9x). You now have *free* access to over 10,000 programs, which you can also download from WOS. If you happen to have a *real* Speccy (or a TS2068 with emulator cart) and a Win9x peecee, you can then download Taper, which you can use to transfer the programs to a cassette, or directly into the input of your Spec/2068. Anyone up for a run at Enduro Racer, Rainbow Islands, or Chuckie Egg? ;>) Glen 0/0 From: Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> > On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Gareth Knight wrote: > > > The Sinclair Spectrum is being relaunched by Amstrad as part of their email > > phone. > > http://www.amstrad.com/ams121101/emp_games.html > > That's too cool. I must have one. > > Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival

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386/BSD should be on TUHS.

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Hi, I want to bring my first private UNIX machine, the i486/33 back into its original state running 386/BSD 0.0new or 0.1. Shouldn't these releases and the patch-kit be put up on TUHS? I'm not sure I still have backups, and a fresh install would be nice. regards -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org

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DSQD Drives (Was: RE: Diags/Boot image for Altos 580)

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> > For me it's easier to get the > CORRECT drive and media than it is to cobble something up that may or may > not work or be reliable! FINALLY -- the voice of reason regarding the "will this media work in that drive" questions. Match the drive and the media and avoid a hassle and a lot of lost data. Thanks Joe! Glen 0/0

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Attn: stan perkins

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Stan, I can't find your address but I thought this might interest you. Joe HP PASCAL 9000 LANGUAGE 500 REFERENCE MANUAL Item # 2011192981

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list changes & RFC on archives & rack chassis

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com > > On Mar 20, 12:59, David Woyciesjes wrote: > > > From: Jay West > > > > B) I also like the 'self-policing' idea of making posts to the list > > from > > > non-subscribers get a subject tag of [OL] or something like that. > > > > Another good idea. > > > > Can't the system compare the From or ReplyTo field against the > > subscriber list, and take action from there? > > People like me might need some assistance here. You see, my > _actual_ > > e-mail address is DAW(a)yalespress3.unipress.yale.edu. Yale ITS just > provides > > an alias for me which is David.Woyciesjes(a)Yale.edu. Both work fine, and > I > > think both are in the headers of my messages. Confuses some other > automated > > mail systems... > > Good point. There are almost certainly people on the list who've > subscribed from a different address than the one they have the mail sent > to. Not insurmountable, but it does need consideraton. > > -- > Of course, it depends on how people get subscribed/added to the list. I would think addresses can be changed by hand on the server, right? Maybe this would be fixed on a case by case basis. Either way, messages would still go through until Jay, or someone designated by him, updates the address list... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

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TI 980B picture

by erd_6502＠yahoo.com

As requested, I have posted a picture of my recently aquired TI980B at... http://penguincentral.com/retrocomputing/pix/ti980b/02cj003a.jpg I am still in the cleaning/checkout phase. I have not applied power to it yet. I need to get a better digital camera. Right now, I'm using an Apple QuickTake 150, but I don't have the close-up lens. It would cost new >from Apple about 50% of what I paid for the camera, PSU, external battery pack and download cable. :-( As it is, I've taken hundreds of excellent outdoor shots with it. It's awful for indoor photos where detail is important. I think its default minimum focal length is about 24" and the flash is so bright it causes spots on reflective surfaces (the closeup lens also has a flash diffuser). I might try to rig up a 2' string and a flash diffuser to at least not take pictures that will be clearly outside the boundaries of the camera's physical limitations, but even so, I still need a new camera. My current favorite is a Kodak DC290. The only thing I've seen with as much manual control that's newer is the DC4800. Comparing them side-by-side, I still think I want the DC290. Even got a fistful of 16MB CF cards to go in it! As for the TI 980B, with the exception of the very scary, undocumented, rack-mounted 2-square-feet of prototyping board that was cabled into the DMA slot, it looks very clean. I have no idea what this peripheal was supposed to do, and since it was stored at a high-school electronics shop (which is being cleaned out this year which is how I got the TI in the first place), it's covered in bent pins and broken wires. I also know there are several missing chips (they came in the bottom of the box - some jumper blocks with jumper resistors and a few 74181s, at least). I doubt I'll ever be able to discern what this homemade peripheral ever did, so I expect to photograph it and recycle the chips into other classic machines (there's some Motorola RTL chips on there! Perfect for my attempts to replicate a DEC W706/W707 if I ever get that far). If I can get my camera happy making closeups, I'll see about adding some pictures of the CPU and memory boards to the pic of the front panel. -ethan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/

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list changes & RFC on archives & rack chassis

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Mar 20, 12:59, David Woyciesjes wrote: > > From: Jay West > > A) Reject posts to the list which contain any kind of HTML content... > > > Sounds good to me. > > I think a Reply To Sender telling them why it got rejected might be > a good thing. Then we might not piss off some 70 year old guy trying to give > his F-1 a good home... You probably still would, becasue although I've yet to find a mail client that can't send plain text (every version of Outlook I've seen can), chances are the 70-year old isn't sure how to change it. My father certainly wouldn't know how. > > B) I also like the 'self-policing' idea of making posts to the list from > > non-subscribers get a subject tag of [OL] or something like that. > > Another good idea. > > Can't the system compare the From or ReplyTo field against the > subscriber list, and take action from there? > People like me might need some assistance here. You see, my _actual_ > e-mail address is DAW(a)yalespress3.unipress.yale.edu. Yale ITS just provides > an alias for me which is David.Woyciesjes(a)Yale.edu. Both work fine, and I > think both are in the headers of my messages. Confuses some other automated > mail systems... Good point. There are almost certainly people on the list who've subscribed from a different address than the one they have the mail sent to. Not insurmountable, but it does need consideraton. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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list changes & RFC on archives & rack chassis

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Mar 20, 10:53, Jay West wrote: > A) Reject posts to the list which contain any kind of HTML content. I think > this would be fairly unobtrusive - most people don't want HTML posts here > anyways. This would reject a lot of spam, I think, but would reject some "real" posts as well. Personally, I find the multipart/alternative posts aren't too hard to deal with, it's the ones that use odd MIME settings (like multipart/signed and various other unnecessary stuff) that irritate me most. > B) I also like the 'self-policing' idea of making posts to the list from > non-subscribers get a subject tag of [OL] or something like that. This one I > am not sure how to do off the top of my head, but would think it pretty > straightforward. Comments? I think that's a good idea. Then people can do their own filtering if they want -- by eye if not by procmail or similar. I'd be very happy with that. > 2) WRT the archives at www.classiccmp.org THAT is a project I have fallen > far behind in. When I moved the list from the old ISP to the new ISP (me in > both cases, long story)... something broke in getting emails from the list > to the archive mechanism. I noticed this maybe a month ago, and when I > started digging into it I realized it was time for a change - the archives > there are not searchable and that just isn't acceptable. I really miss the archive. I find the threading very useful, and I'd certainly regard that as an important factor, more so than searching (I can use Google for that). However, I have some idea of the resources that go into maintaining lists and archives, and I'm grateful for what I've got :-) Thank you for providing it. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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Toilett processing (Was: ZX-TEAM meeting and Webcam)

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Mar 20, 15:50, Hans Franke wrote: > Isn't using a PDP-11 as perhipheral processor for a ZX81 > a bit out of scope ? Surely you don't think it should be the other way around? :-) > (*) Ach ja: if the TU (toilet user) had tried to open the > door, a message like 'The sanitary sywstem of this UDP > facility would apreciate if you also cleanthe door handle' > should be added. LOL! -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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list changes & RFC on archives & rack chassis

by mythtech＠mac.com

>BTW, the latest AOL cannot be 'de-HTML-ized' from what I've heard - you can >send plaintext mail, but if you reply to an HTMLized email, the entire >message stays HTMLized and you can't change it. This is correct. There is not way to "turn off" HTML at all in the latest AOL. The only thing you can do is use ONLY the default email text settings. If you do that, then AOL will send a text only email. But ANY alterations to it will cause AOL to send HTML email (you can redefault it in the prefs to turn it back off). And if you receive an HTML email, you can't de-HTML it in AOL. Once HTML, always HTML in AOL. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

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Disabling DSD-440 bootstrap

by tom＠sba.miami.edu

Does anyone know what jumpers to change to disable the bootstrap on the DSD-440 controller? Actually, if anyone has the rest of the jumper settings, I would also like to know for reference, since I don't have any docs for it. Thanks, Tom

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list changes & RFC on archives & rack chassis

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Allison > > From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com> > >I know that some people (very few) have technological impediments that > >force them into HTML (Outlook, etc., I think). > > This is bunk! Outlook can and does post without html, it's easy to turn > off. > > Please, NO HTML and No IMAGES. The latter was part of a few spams > we got! > > Allison > > Well, I'm using Outlook on my Mac, and HTML/Richtext crap is off... Or should be... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

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Toilett processing (Was: ZX-TEAM meeting and Webcam)

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Chris > > >- How about a TP holder that measures the weight? Or a spring loaded > >arm, that contacts a switch when it get near empty. With a wheel at the > end, > >you can also have it provide drag on the roll, for spin control. Then it > >won't be so easy for my cat to run all around the house with it... > > You read my mind... I was going to suggest a spring arm pressing against > the roll. The further the arm travels, the lower the roll. This should > also take very little adjustment since you are looking for % left. > Actually, since rolls all share a common spindle diameter... it would be > easy to have this auto adjust for good thick rolls vs, cheap economy > paper. You know the end location, so add a sensor to know when the roll > has been changed. When the "new roll" sensor is tripped, take the current > reading, that is max size. Now you can calculate the difference from > there to empty, and relay a % left no matter what the initial thickness > is. (the only time this would start to be off is on roll "reloads" of > partially used rolls).... > > .... > Nah... a simple spring arm reading resistance based off roll diameter > would probably work best. > It doesn't even have to be that complicated. The cardboard tubes are all the same thickness, give or take a millimeter, so you know where the stop point is, all the time, every time. Set the switch to trigger the TP=LO warning about 1/4 or 1/2 inch away from that point. --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

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list changes & RFC on archives & rack chassis

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On March 20, David Woyciesjes wrote: > Dave - what/where are the web mail services that don't send html > mail? I investigated this some time ago and found several; I didn't keep a record of them though. > Or even a service I can telnet/ssh into for e-mail... For the latter, a friend of mine runs a shell account service...I will ask her if she's interested in a little publicity; if she is I'll send a message to the list about it. > I'm going to be switching to a new ISP for home (Comcast cable), so > this is a good time to really start some SPAM prevention measures... Sounds like a good idea. -Dave -- Dave McGuire "Watch those lateral G's man, St. Petersburg, FL I've got sandwiches in my lap!" -Sridhar

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VAXstation 4000/90 with /60 graphics

by jkunz＠unixag-kl.fh-kl.de

Hi. I converted a VAXstation 4000/60 to a /90 by replacing the main system board. The new machine works well: KA49-A V1.0-006-V4.0 08-00-2B-37-58-9D 32MB OK 83 BOOT SYS but when I plug in the old graphics board from the /60 I get: KA49-A V1.0-006-V4.0 08-00-2B-37-58-9D 32MB ?? 016 2 0000 >>> Is the /60 graphics board not compatible with the /90 main system board? -- tsch??, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/

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Toilett processing (Was: ZX-TEAM meeting and Webcam)

by mythtech＠mac.com

>- How about a TP holder that measures the weight? Or a spring loaded >arm, that contacts a switch when it get near empty. With a wheel at the end, >you can also have it provide drag on the roll, for spin control. Then it >won't be so easy for my cat to run all around the house with it... You read my mind... I was going to suggest a spring arm pressing against the roll. The further the arm travels, the lower the roll. This should also take very little adjustment since you are looking for % left. Actually, since rolls all share a common spindle diameter... it would be easy to have this auto adjust for good thick rolls vs, cheap economy paper. You know the end location, so add a sensor to know when the roll has been changed. When the "new roll" sensor is tripped, take the current reading, that is max size. Now you can calculate the difference from there to empty, and relay a % left no matter what the initial thickness is. (the only time this would start to be off is on roll "reloads" of partially used rolls) Two problems with the earlier mentioned rotation counter... 1: you need to deal with vastly different sheet counts (Scott will turn WAY more times than Charmin will, but both are roughly the same diameter, just Charmin is thicker so has fewer sheets per roll, thus fewer turns till empty). And of course, a turn based counter needs to subtract for roll re-rolling... for the times the cat decides to use it as a batting toy, and unrolls half of it onto the floor. The counter has to subtract turns as you spin the paper back onto the roll. Oh yeah... and a spin counter would be throw off by those 4am "where did the end of the roll go blind half asleep multiple rotations trying to find the start" situations. Nah... a simple spring arm reading resistance based off roll diameter would probably work best. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

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list changes & RFC on archives & rack chassis

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jay West [mailto:jwest@classiccmp.org] > A) Reject posts to the list which contain any kind of HTML > content. I think > this would be fairly unobtrusive - most people don't want > HTML posts here > anyways. And - I would bet that most all SPAM contains some > form of HTML, so > this might not get rid of all SPAM forever, but I think it > would make the > very few that come here dwindle to even less. Comments? > B) I also like the 'self-policing' idea of making posts to > the list from > non-subscribers get a subject tag of [OL] or something like > that. This one I > am not sure how to do off the top of my head, but would think > it pretty > straightforward. Comments? I like plan B. It sounds simple enough, and people can decide whether to trash the off-list mail themselves. Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

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list changes & RFC on archives & rack chassis

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On March 20, Ethan Dicks wrote: > In theory, I support this, but if it's possible to filter them down > to their textual content on the way through, that might be good, also. > I know that some people (very few) have technological impediments that > force them into HTML (Outlook, etc., I think). Nope. Even LookOut Express can be told not to HTMLize messages. Some people use webmail services which spew huge amounts of HTML...but quite frankly, there are plenty of such services that don't...and anyone who chooses one that does should probably be suspended by their toenails and pummeled into unconsciousness with an organically-grown cucumber. In short...there is *no* excuse for sending HTML email other than inexperience or stupidity. -Dave -- Dave McGuire "Watch those lateral G's man, St. Petersburg, FL I've got sandwiches in my lap!" -Sridhar

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ZX-TEAM meeting and Webcam

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: John Lawson [mailto:jpl15@panix.com] > Press-fit roll spindle with shaft encoder attached to one > serial port on > a PDP-11 running a backround job counting total turns, > comparing against > approximate turns-to-roll-exhaustion, and triggering (thru > another serial > port) an appropriate alarm, or perhaps printing out a TP-LO Warning. Actually, I think it may be better to mount a strategically placed laser diode, and a reflector on the opposite side. That would take a visual cue at the point the roll got thin enough to let the laser hit the other side... > Now how do you tell if the previous occupant actually washed their > hands? A very low-power line running to the edge of the drain, that would allow the water to complete the circuit when it hit the bottom of the sink. You could couple that with a soap dispenser sensor (Is that anything like conjunction junction?) and get a pretty good test. Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

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ZX-TEAM meeting and Webcam

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On March 20, Doc wrote: > > > Go stand in the corner. > > > > Oh c'mon Doc. Surely I didn't get you with THAT one. ;) > > It was just so *lame*! Yeah, I know...I'm sorry. I'll try to do better next time. ;) -Dave -- Dave McGuire "Watch those lateral G's man, St. Petersburg, FL I've got sandwiches in my lap!" -Sridhar

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Toilett processing (Was: ZX-TEAM meeting and Webcam)

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Ethan Dicks > > --- Hans Franke <Hans.Franke(a)mch20.sbs.de> wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Ben Franchuk wrote: > > > > Glen Goodwin wrote: > > > > > 1 -- Build an interface for every device under the sun, including > > > > > the toilet seat. > > > > That is easy -- a micro switch ... now how do you tell if the ROLL > is > > > > almost empty ? > > > > > Press-fit roll spindle with shaft encoder attached to... a PDP-11... > > > counting total turns, comparing against approximate turns-to-roll- > > > exhaustion, and...printing out a TP-LO Warning. > > Or an optical sensor mounted parallel the axis of the roll that would > trigger when the diameter was too low. How about a color-based sensor > that could detect the difference between the cardboard core and the > paper? What about a shaft encoder that measures angular velocity... > for low velocities, there must be lots of paper (when the roll is full, > 3 squares per second produces, say, 1/60 RPM; but when the roll is nearly > empty, the same linear pull rate produces 1/20 RPM - kinda the opposite > of linear bit-density calculations on variable zone recording floppies > and hard disks). There's probably a way to embed an inertial sensor in > the holder to measure the force it takes to start the roll moving... the > possibilities are endless! > - How about a TP holder that measures the weight? Or a spring loaded arm, that contacts a switch when it get near empty. With a wheel at the end, you can also have it provide drag on the roll, for spin control. Then it won't be so easy for my cat to run all around the house with it... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

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list changes & RFC on archives & rack chassis

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> ---------- > From: Cini, Richard > > Jay: > > I like the HTML filter, although the number of HTML posts is pretty > small. > > The only thing I ask you to consider is somehow obfuscating member's > email addresses in the searchable article database. I've noticed spam in > two > email accounts that I've previously used when posting to the list. These > two > accounts I don't use in any Web-related way that could be clipped by a > spambot (like posting in newgroups). That's why my MSN account is mostly > spam but my work account and Optimum Online account are virtually > spam-free. > > Obviously this makes it hard for off-listers to contact individual > members relating specifically to that post. Comments? > > Rich > > ========================== > They can always send a message to the list itself to find someone. Jay - Is there a reason that the Reply To All field only goes back to the list? --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

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list changes & RFC on archives & rack chassis

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Jay West > > 1) Ok, here are the two things I was considering doing to change the > mailing > list settings.... > > A) Reject posts to the list which contain any kind of HTML content... > Sounds good to me. I think a Reply To Sender telling them why it got rejected might be a good thing. Then we might not piss off some 70 year old guy trying to give his F-1 a good home... > B) I also like the 'self-policing' idea of making posts to the list from > non-subscribers get a subject tag of [OL] or something like that. This one > I > am not sure how to do off the top of my head, but would think it pretty > straightforward. Comments? > Another good idea. Can't the system compare the From or ReplyTo field against the subscriber list, and take action from there? People like me might need some assistance here. You see, my _actual_ e-mail address is DAW(a)yalespress3.unipress.yale.edu. Yale ITS just provides an alias for me which is David.Woyciesjes(a)Yale.edu. Both work fine, and I think both are in the headers of my messages. Confuses some other automated mail systems... > 2) WRT the archives at www.classiccmp.org THAT is a project I have fallen > far behind in. When I moved the list from the old ISP to the new ISP (me > in > both cases, long story)... > Understandable. > 3) This isn't really important - just random "what if" thinking out loud - > I > was considering moving the mailing list and mail list archives off to a > separate machine that does nothing but classiccmp. This is being > considered > for logistics reasons, not for horsepower/load reasons..... > Makes sense. Sorry I can't help with a case tho... Many thanks to you and for your effort here... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

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urgent business/investment deal

by foo＠siconic.com

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, minespower steel wrote: > VERY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS ATTENTION STRICTLY FOR YOU ONLY > > FROM THE DESK OF > ALHAJI USMAN YERIMA. > IKOYI, LAGOS. > PHONE;234-803-3088-100 > BUSINESS ATTENTION. > URGENT BUSINESS DEAL If the number of these Nigerian scam offers I get is any indication, we're now on a mailing list for these freaks and are doomed to receive at least 2-3 of these a week. Now it is really time to clamp down on non-subscriber posts. I mean for real. This is really getting annoying. Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

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list changes & RFC on archives & rack chassis

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Jay: I like the HTML filter, although the number of HTML posts is pretty small. The only thing I ask you to consider is somehow obfuscating member's email addresses in the searchable article database. I've noticed spam in two email accounts that I've previously used when posting to the list. These two accounts I don't use in any Web-related way that could be clipped by a spambot (like posting in newgroups). That's why my MSN account is mostly spam but my work account and Optimum Online account are virtually spam-free. Obviously this makes it hard for off-listers to contact individual members relating specifically to that post. Comments? Rich ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile) -----Original Message----- From: Jay West [mailto:jwest@classiccmp.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 11:54 AM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: list changes & RFC on archives & rack chassis 1) Ok, here are the two things I was considering doing to change the mailing list settings.... A) Reject posts to the list which contain any kind of HTML content. I think this would be fairly unobtrusive - most people don't want HTML posts here anyways. And - I would bet that most all SPAM contains some form of HTML, so this might not get rid of all SPAM forever, but I think it would make the very few that come here dwindle to even less. Comments? B) I also like the 'self-policing' idea of making posts to the list from non-subscribers get a subject tag of [OL] or something like that. This one I am not sure how to do off the top of my head, but would think it pretty straightforward. Comments? 2) WRT the archives at www.classiccmp.org THAT is a project I have fallen far behind in. When I moved the list from the old ISP to the new ISP (me in both cases, long story)... something broke in getting emails from the list to the archive mechanism. I noticed this maybe a month ago, and when I started digging into it I realized it was time for a change - the archives there are not searchable and that just isn't acceptable. So - I have been looking for software to HTML'ize the mailing list that allows searching as well. I really need suggestions here as my initial searches came up less than satisfactory. The archives are currently using hypermail. My criteria is something that is FreeBSD and Sendmail friendly, and allows searching the archives OR viewing them by thread. I don't mind if the emails need to get stored in a database, but if they do, mysql must be the database used (picky aren't I). The only package I found had statements all over it to the effect that "this package will no longer be supported by the author". I did notice the list archives for netsaint that are stored at sourceforge look REALLY nice, and do allow searching, but didn't see a good way to follow threads. I would greatly appreciate it if anyone can point me to mail list archives that work well (for the user) and look nice (or to software for unix that does the same). Please send these suggestions to me off-list at jwest(a)classiccmp.org 3) This isn't really important - just random "what if" thinking out loud - I was considering moving the mailing list and mail list archives off to a separate machine that does nothing but classiccmp. This is being considered for logistics reasons, not for horsepower/load reasons. I have all the spare components (cpu, memory, drives, etc) but no spare rackmount chassis. I can just order a rackmount chassis under my company which I'm perfectly willing to do, but was wondering if anyone had a rackmount chassis just laying around that they didn't need and would donate to the cause. The key criteria - EIA units (space!). I would strongly prefer a 1U (1 EIA unit, or 1.75 inches) tall unit. We charge on rackspace by the inch, so I want the machine to take as little space as possible so I can obviously sell the rackspace to other paying customers. I would consider a 2U (2.5 inches) tall unit (which I already have spare) as a fall-back plan, but definitely nothing taller than that. Anyone have a spare laying around? If so, please contact me OFF LIST at jwest(a)classiccmp.org Regards, Jay West

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What's Need to Connect TS05 to PDP 11/23

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Douglas Quebbeman wrote: > > > > I know there is going to be a catch to this... > > > > But which interface card will I need to add a TS05 > > (Cipher streamer 9-track drive) to a PDP-11/23? > > Why a catch? - The 11/23 has a low-order digit of three, which > identifies it as a Q-bus machine. So you need a subsystem called TSV05 > (as opposed to the UNIBUS TSU05), and the controller is M7196. Takes > 6.5A @ 5V, counts as 3 AC / 1 DC loads on the logic lines. Why would I suspect a catch? From the conversations I follow here regarding PDP-11s, it always seems to "depend"... You should know this: I have *never* *ever* used a PDP-11. I did use a DEC-10 extensively (including a little MACRO-10) and a Harris 1200 (PDP-8 clone). > > Like "which version of the 11/23", and there's an > > 11/23+ too, isn't there? > > Right, but shouldn't matter for this purpose. Sure, the TSV05 is a DMA > controller, so the number of address lines in the system is a concern, > but, the /23 has at least 18 address bits, and that should do. (See the > addresses from the manual: these show 6 octal digits = 18 bits!) > > Ah, well, there is an "extended features switch" (pack at E58, position > 9). This switch must be "on" for 22-bit addressing (and for streaming in > 100ips mode, IIRC). Maybe this is the catch you're looking for? > > I have not yet installed mine, however... - will be in a /23-PLUS. > Currently, I only have a TSU05 available (and am still looking for the > switch desingations...). Ok, so I need to locate a TSV05 if the box by some chance doesn't already have one (not in my posession yet). -dq

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Anybody need Indigo R3000 parts?

by mrbill＠mrbill.net

Anybody need Indigo R3000 parts? I've got four or five machines with system board and LG1 framebuffer and at least one SCSI drive sled each, and at least 16meg RAM. No keyboards or mice tho. If you're in the Austin area and ask nicely, I may just give you one if you come pick it up and ask nicely.. If you're anywhere else, I'd prefer small trades to make it worth boxing up and hauling to the postal place (and you pay shipping, of course). Just trying to clean out the garage... Bill -- Bill Bradford mrbill(a)mrbill.net Austin, TX

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MVII Diags Chapter 2

by cdl＠proxima.ucsd.edu

> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 10:10:09 -0600 (CST) > From: Doc Shipley <doc(a)mdrconsult.com> > To: Classic Computers <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> > Subject: MVII Diags Chapter 2 > Sender: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Reply-To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > > OK, Friends & Neighbors. > First, I'm starting to think that the original tape is damaged. The > cptape utility suggested by Jochen seems to be Doing The Right Thing, > but gets errors. dd has no qualms at all as long as the TKZ50-GA is set > to a variable blocksize, but errors out on file #7. If I set > "conv=noerror" for dd to ignore read errors, it saws away forever at > the same file. And, if I boot the uVAX from either the original or the > one "probably good" copy [1], sometimes it sees the RD53 disks as RD51. > Not consistently. When it does, it hangs solid on a custom format. > > I'll be putting the -GA on a VMS box this evening and try the VMSTPCE > copy. It makes sense to make the tape in its native OS. > > > [1] I did get a good set of files with the TUHS cptape. Problem is > that AFAICT the partner program, maketape, only understands 512*N > blocksizes. The diags tape has a lot of files in 80B blocks. The good > copy was made with dd, setting blocksize file by file. 82 files, > that is.... Here are a few shell scripts that might be useful. Originally run on Ultrix 1.2 on a VaxStation II but should be more general than that. Written for the specific purpose of investigating and duplicating MVAX diagnostic TK50 tapes. carl = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = #! /bin/sh # This is a shell archive, meaning: # 1. Remove everything above the #! /bin/sh line. # 2. Save the resulting text in a file. # 3. Execute the file with /bin/sh (not csh) to create the files: # tapemap.sh # read_tape.sh # write_tape.sh # This archive created: Tue Jan 5 08:21:44 1993 export PATH; PATH=/bin:$PATH echo shar: extracting "'tapemap.sh'" '(161 characters)' if test -f 'tapemap.sh' then echo shar: will not over-write existing file "'tapemap.sh'" else sed 's/^X//' << \SHAR_EOF > 'tapemap.sh' X#!/bin/sh Xwhile : Xdo Xdd if=/dev/nrmt0 cbs=80 conv=unblock >>logfile Xdd if=/dev/nrmt0 of=/dev/null 2>>logfile Xdd if=/dev/nrmt0 cbs=80 conv=unblock >>logfile Xdone SHAR_EOF if test 161 -ne "`wc -c < 'tapemap.sh'`" then echo shar: error transmitting "'tapemap.sh'" '(should have been 161 characters)' fi chmod +x 'tapemap.sh' fi # end of overwriting check echo shar: extracting "'read_tape.sh'" '(356 characters)' if test -f 'read_tape.sh' then echo shar: will not over-write existing file "'read_tape.sh'" else sed 's/^X//' << \SHAR_EOF > 'read_tape.sh' X#!/bin/sh X# read_tape.sh X# read MicroVax diagnostic tape into an assortment of files X# Xdir=/data Xtape=/dev/nrmt0 X Xmkdir $dir/hdr Xmkdir $dir/txt Xmkdir $dir/eof X Xmt -f /dev/rmt0 rew Xi=1 Xwhile [ "$i" -le 108 ] Xdo X dd if=$tape bs=80 of=$dir/hdr/$i X dd if=$tape bs=512 of=$dir/txt/$i X dd if=$tape bs=80 of=$dir/eof/$i X i=`expr $i + 1` Xdone X Xmt -f /dev/rmt0 rew SHAR_EOF if test 356 -ne "`wc -c < 'read_tape.sh'`" then echo shar: error transmitting "'read_tape.sh'" '(should have been 356 characters)' fi chmod +x 'read_tape.sh' fi # end of overwriting check echo shar: extracting "'write_tape.sh'" '(348 characters)' if test -f 'write_tape.sh' then echo shar: will not over-write existing file "'write_tape.sh'" else sed 's/^X//' << \SHAR_EOF > 'write_tape.sh' X#!/bin/sh X# write_tape.sh X# write MicroVax diagnostic tape from an assortment of files X# Xdir=. Xtape=/dev/nrmt0 X Xmt -f /dev/rmt0 rew Xi=1 Xwhile [ "$i" -le 108 ] Xdo X echo " file $i" X dd of=$tape bs=80 if=$dir/hdr/$i X dd of=$tape bs=512 if=$dir/txt/$i X dd of=$tape bs=80 if=$dir/eof/$i X i=`expr $i + 1` Xdone Xmt -f $tape weof 2 Xmt -f /dev/rmt0 rew X SHAR_EOF if test 348 -ne "`wc -c < 'write_tape.sh'`" then echo shar: error transmitting "'write_tape.sh'" '(should have been 348 characters)' fi chmod +x 'write_tape.sh' fi # end of overwriting check # End of shell archive exit 0

24 years, 3 months

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ZX-TEAM meeting and Webcam

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On March 20, Doc wrote: > > Hmm, what about buffer overflow detection? > > > > Excessive packet...erm...length? > > > > UDP...User Droppings Protocol. > > > > Dave, > Go stand in the corner. Oh c'mon Doc. Surely I didn't get you with THAT one. ;) -Dave -- Dave McGuire "Watch those lateral G's man, St. Petersburg, FL I've got sandwiches in my lap!" -Sridhar

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Info wanted on old Memorex model 214 HD

by aek＠spies.com

> Does anyone here have any info on this old hard > drive I bought at "Weird Stuff"? It's a rebadged Fujitsu. AED used them in the WINC 08 product. >From memory, it's 20mb.

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Digital DEClaser 1100

by flo＠uk.thalesgroup.com

Ian King wrote: > Does anybody have a Digital DEClaser 1100 manual - I need one for > a machine I have recently obtained. I found the Installation Guide and Operator's Guide for this on a colleague's desk at the weekend. I will scan it if no one offers the URL of an existing copy. Regards, Paul

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Keyboard conversions

by foxvideo＠wincom.net

At 10:28 PM 19/03/2002 -0500, you wrote: >With all this talk about making a LK201 work on a PC or vice versa - and >this moderately-broken Amiga keyboard I have laying around - I was >wondering if anyone could give me some info so I design/build an adaptor >to make a PC (perhaps mac or some other KB) work with an Amiga? With the >lack of a surplus of Amiga kb's on the eBay market, I was thinking it >might be a worthwhile hack. > >Mostly I guess I just want a source of info about the Amiga keyboard (this >is for an A2000 btw) so I could think about how I might design it. > >Thanks > >-- Pat What is the problem with the Amiga keyboard? I repaired one of mine (dead enter key) with parts from a Commadore 64. Cheers Charlie Fox Charles E. Fox Video Production 793 Argyle Rd. Windsor Ontario Canada N8Y 3J8 519-254-4991 foxvideo(a)wincom.net Check out the "Camcorder Kindergarten" at http://chasfoxvideo.com

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ZX-TEAM meeting and Webcam

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Now how do you tell if the previous occupant actually washed their > hands? On entry, the PDP-11 signals a bank of ultraviolet lights that illuminate whatever bacteria are hanging around ont he various fixtures... -dq

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Info wanted on old Memorex model 214 HD

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Hi, > Does anyone here have any info on this old hard > drive I bought at "Weird Stuff"? > > It's a Memorex model 214 - weighs about 50 lbs, has > 4 6" platters I think. > > I'm interested in it origin, use, size, etc. Dunno, but it's pretty cool. Any more available? -dq

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ZX-TEAM meeting and Webcam

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> > But surely, if you link up a different keyboard (good idea as the Zx81 > keyboard is unusable IMHO), and then use an LCD display then there's not > much of the original ZX81 left. Sure there is. If you change the keyboard and monitor on a PC it's still a PC -- same for the ZX81. In most cases we're just adding peripheral i/o devices, RAM, and beefier PSUs and mounting the whole mess in a larger enclosure. OTOH I saw plenty of plain black ZX81s at this year's meeting, used to demonstrate software. > > Sure, some of these operations are slow, but the point is that we're doing > > a *lot* with "obsolete" hardware. If we can get this kind of functionality > > That applies to a number of serious old-computer user groups, actually... Yup, it's great that there are so many people out there still fanatically hacking so many different machines . . . Glen 0/0

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ZX-TEAM meeting and Webcam

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Pete Turnbull <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com> > > Wasn't the ZX81 board already prepared to use a 6116 instead ? > > Yes, it was. I put 6116's in several. Pete, what modifications to the board are required in order to use a 6116? Thanks, Glen 0/0

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playing with the VAX 6460

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Hi, this was my first 5 hours trying to do just some useful work with the VAX 6460 (phicus) under Ultrix 4.5, now that the worries are beyond getting it booted and getting free from VMS, I remember again how hard UNIX can be in terms of compatibility (of course that's all nothing as compared to how hard it would be on VMS :-). I was going to build the essentials of the amenities of the modern times, like gzip, GNU tar, bash and less, and Emacs and gcc and GNU make. All I did accomplish was to make Ultrix's date(1) Y2K complient warping my system time from 1976 up to 2002 :-). The patch is attached for those who have the sources. That was easy. Now gzip would build and install without remaking everything all the time because of my system time being decades behind :-). Gzip was easy too. Next was tar, and here came the first problems. The fact that Ultrix' cc is a k&r compiler and cpp is somehow not up to date is causing great pains. Lots of stuff fails because of this. I did try the VAX C compiler (vcc), which supposedly is ANSI-C, but it made the confusion worse. Some locale stuff was a common theme of stuff failing, which of course I hate. I never cared for locales, and I get upset if some locale crap goes in the way of getting things to work. But I figured, I needed to fast-forward my build- efforts to GCC. I have GCC-2.9x.3 (latest before 3.0) with an eye on making NetBSD from that platform. First I had to make GNU make, because the GCC installation procedure has become more sophisticated. Building make almost failed too had I not applied some broad strokes to make cpp and the locale stuff happy. Now with GNU make, that GCC build would still fail quite early for some strange syntax errors reported by cpp. I could actually build cpp and cpp0 without all the rest, but putting GNU cpp in front of Ultrix cc didn't do much good at all. Of course there may be lots of other things wrong, for I doubt anyone at GNU/Cygnus has tested the autoconf process on Ultrix/VAX lately :-). So, I decided I have to get some super old version of GCC, like 1.42 or earlier, that has a chance of having been tested on Ultrix back then. From that platform I might be able to move on to a more recent GCC version. Tried to build at least bash, but once again cpp woes in the lib/readline build (and readline is really my main reason for wanting bash!)`That's where I gave up on GNU stuff for today. Tried some kernel making again, on Ultrix, both 4.5 binary and 4.2 source. I think config(8) is indeed doing the symlinks to the BINARY objects, so doconfig should not be required indeed. However, I cannot seem to be able to bump up my MAXUSERS variable effectively. I have set maxusers to 128 but when I try my 3rd telnet connection I am being sent away. I somewhere read that Ultrix had some hard restriction to cut more money out of per-user licenses. Any idea what I might be doing wrong in terms of maxusers? Tried to build the Ultrix-4.2 kernel from sources. Need to supply the -s option to the config(8) command (to use sources instead of binary symlinks.) However, the 4.2 sources seem to be incomplete!!! I am missing at least sys/kern_lmf.c. Has anyone here ever built successfully >from the Ultrix-4.2 sources? kern_lmf.c seems critical and cannot be optioned out. Tried to play with 4.3BSD sources, Tahoe and Quasijarus. I must have FTPed the Quasijarus files in ASCII mode or Michael is using a strange compress format, as neither Ultrix compress nor gzip recognizes it as theirs. Noticed that the TUHS archive's Tahoe version has some broken files (as noted in BROKEN) that's sad. Tried to un-tar the src.tar.gz of Tahoe to get to 4.3BSD's config(8) tool (it's a good idea of Ultrix to put the config(8) tool into the sys/ tree rather than the usr.(s)bin/ tree.) That's where I noticed that the src.tar.gz is broken very early in the process. May be with GNU tar it could find a point to continue after the error, but then I need to build GNU tar first. Ah, the worries of UNIX. But it was always fun and never so frustrating as to make me want to throw hammers like I want to when I am stuck with VMS. Of course I appreciate tips as to how modern GNU stuff is built on Ultrix. regards, -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org

24 years, 3 months

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Info wanted on old Memorex model 214 HD

by tosteve＠yahoo.com

Hi, Does anyone here have any info on this old hard drive I bought at "Weird Stuff"? It's a Memorex model 214 - weighs about 50 lbs, has 4 6" platters I think. I'm interested in it origin, use, size, etc. Thanks! Steve. pics here: http://68.5.43.239:8000/amigapics/hd1.jpg http://68.5.43.239:8000/amigapics/2.jpg __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/

24 years, 3 months

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Digital DEClaser 1100

by I.R.King＠plymouth.ac.uk

Hi, Does anybody have a Digital DEClaser 1100 manual - I need one for a machine I have recently obtained. Thanks Ian

24 years, 3 months

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What's Need to Connect TS05 to PDP 11/23

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

I know there is going to be a catch to this... But which interface card will I need to add a TS05 (Cipher streamer 9-track drive) to a PDP-11/23? Like "which version of the 11/23", and there's an 11/23+ too, isn't there? I'm not sure of which it might be; I have a photo, but it's not very high-res. tia, -doug q

24 years, 3 months

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ZX-TEAM meeting and Webcam

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On March 20, Doc wrote: > > > 1 -- Build an interface for every device under the sun, including the > > > toilet seat. > > > > That is easy -- a micro switch ... now how do you tell if the ROLL is > > almost empty ? > > Ummm, an infrared laser & sensor array at the crucial point? Hmm, what about buffer overflow detection? Excessive packet...erm...length? UDP...User Droppings Protocol. Eeew. -Dave -- Dave McGuire "Watch those lateral G's man, St. Petersburg, FL I've got sandwiches in my lap!" -Sridhar

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Trouble in VAX land.

by hugh＠openbsd.org

Almost two years ago I received a VAX 4000 100 on "long term loan" >from a local university. It has served faithfully, building three OpenBSD/vax releases and many snapshots between then and now, but... last night it quit! Luckily, it appears to be only the power supply at fault. Results of two attempts at firing the machine up: : KA52-A V1.1, VMB 2.14 : Performing normal system tests. : 72..71..70..69..68..67..66..65..64..63..62..61..60..59.. : KA52-A V1.1, VMB 2.14 : Performing normal system tests. : 72..71..70..69..68..67..66..65..64.. It runs for a bit, and powers off. I've isolated the power supply from the machine, and nothing is obviously burned out, but it still only runs for a second or two. So I find myself in need of a replacement PSU. I believe that even an older MicroVAX 3100 system can donate a compatible unit, and if you have such hardware you can raid, please find a screwdriver and let me know. It's important this machine or its successor be back building soon, and if desired I will pay for shipping of suitable hardware from anywhere in North America to here, Vancouver, Canada. BTW, if you happen to be in South America or Western Europe, and have a VAX you don't know what to do with, let me hear about this as well. We have developers in Argentina and France who are eager to obtain machines of their own to hack on. Thanks folks, /Hugh

24 years, 3 months

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