> (Thank goodness *somebody*'s coloring all
> those boring old black and white movies! 8^)
True story.
When my sone was about 5, he had very interesting taste in TV shows. It
went something like this:
- If it is animated, watch it.
- If it is live-action in color, change the channel.
- If it is live-action in B&W, watch it for a while to see if it's funny.
Roger Ivie
ivie(a)cc.usu.edu
At 07:40 PM 1/1/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Yeah. EGA is pretty much the same as standard VGA (where windows is
>concerned). The colors (to me) look alot richer and more vibrant on an EGA.
>Maybe they just ditched the CGA/Herc drivers then.
3.1 (and 3.11?) had support for Hercules Mono. Which, iirc, wasn't such a
bad standard at 720xsomething (better than std VGA?) Of course, you didn't
get all those pretty colors... (Thank goodness *somebody*'s coloring all
those boring old black and white movies! 8^)
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At 12:21 PM 1/1/98 -0800, you wrote:
>If you're talking about the GEM I think you're talking about. Wasn't it
>licensed from Digital Research? GEM is also the basis for the 16 & 32-bit
>Atari's. I just can't remember at this point if the PC version ran on DOS,
>or if it required CP/M to run.
GEM is DR's product, and it did (does) run on the Atari ST & Falcon. Ran on
the PC over DOS, iirc.
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> Right. And if you ran MS Works 2.0 for DOS on an XT, which was
unfortunately
> what had to be done for a while with me, it would show characters maybe a
> second after they are type, especially on a Leading Edge Model D, which
was
> first priority to replace among the 8 XTs that were slowly being phased
out.
I've used MSW on XT's (even a PC), and I don't remember its being all that
slow. What were you doing? Editing War & Peace?
> MS-DOS edit or Windows Write works very much faster. (Don't get me wrong
here,
> I love the Leading Edge Model D, it's just so damn slow)
I think they're pretty quick (faster than the IBM XT, anyway!)
"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> HP 9000's are PA-RISC based UNIX workstations running HP-UX.
Um, no. Well, if you buy a new one you will get a PA-RISC CPU but
that is not historically true. You need to look at the series number
to figure out what the CPU is:
500 - FOCUS (HP-proprietary 32-bit stack machine)
200 - 680[01]0
300 - 680[1234]0 (I think the 310 was the only 68010-based series 300)
800 - PA-RISC
400 - 68040
700 - PA-RISC
I think these days there is also a Series 600 that is PA-RISC and
a "T500" that is PA-RISC.
Some of these also have HP 9xxx numbers besides the "9000 Series xxx"
designation. If you go back and look at how they were originally
sold, the "HP 9000" was briefly just the FOCUS-based systems, which
eventually became the HP 9000 Series 520, 530, 540, and 550, and I
think I have seen references to the 9000 Series 520 as the "HP 9020".
The HP 9000 Series 226 and 236 were originally sold as the HP 9826 and
HP 9836; I believe there was some sort of upgrade involved for the
9836 that made it capable of running HP-UX (in addition to the
original BASIC, Pascal, and HPL).
-Frank McConnell
>When I first ran winders it was on a 386/16 with 4mb of ram
> it seemed fast enough to do a lot of useful work.
>
>
> Allison
Well, yeah. But, that was when a Winders program came on a couple of
floppies, before the code -- and graphics -- bloat. A program, then, did
less and had less junk (toolbars and suchlike).
Still, some things _have_ improved in speed. My Corel Draw 3 on my laptop
handles text in a rather leisurely fashion, wheras Corel Draw 7 is quite
snappy.
manney(a)nwohio.com
I dug up a few more 1984 catalogs, and would like to find out about some stuff
in them (I think I have a destination for the catalogs themselves, so don't
ask me about buying them)
One is a Misco 1985 catalog, which is just general office stuff. Not much in
that.
The other is an Advanced Computer Products (19)84/85. This one has some
computers that I have never seen before. If anyone has a clue about them...
*A $500 NEC PC-8200, a very small 16K thing
*A $1400 Sanyo MBC 1150 Z-80 based thing
*An Epson PX-8 portable for $995
*A macintosh ad saying that it is a 32-bit computer. What gives?
*A Sanyo 25" color monitor for $719
*$45 parallel cables
*Rockwell International AIM65, looks more like a huge desktop calculator
Well, I think that I will learn it and use it a bit first. I will say when I
am done with the tutorial :) How much would people pay for it, anyway? It is
in almost perfect condition, with the reference card, and all that.
In a message dated 98-01-02 13:07:22 EST, you write:
<< Are you still interested in selling Visicalc for the Apple II and the other
stuff? I'm interested.
Sincerely,
Tom
>I mentioned a while ago that I saw a copy of Apple II visicalc. Well, I
>finally got it. It has all the stuff, and is a 1981 copy. I was wondering if
>there was a PC version or port for DOS?
>>
I have finally gone through most of this...
VAX/VMS manuals (Boy, do I need those!)
A lot of PDP-11 diagnostics on punched paper tape (I have a mylar pt reader,
will that do for reading these?)
XXDP on 9-track tape. A DOS/BATCH distrib tape and some manuals.
Loads of RSTS/E manuals and sales stuff. DEC catalogs.
Copies of RSTS PROFESSIONAL magazine. (!)
Some very detailed PDP-8 manuals (As in they include schematics)
The PDP-8 User's Guide
User's Guide to the DECsystem-10. The PDP-10 refrence manual.
The latter has some wonderful panel pictures, I'll scan those...
Some other 10 miscellaneous.
Manuals and a bootdisk for my Rainbow! Now all I need's they keyboard an monitor...
According to the disk it's CP/M 8.0
A few scratch magtapes and RX02. Some TK50 cartridges.
A card reader/punch for Unibus.
More as I go through it...
Oh yea! There's a VAX/VMS magtape distribution in here, version 4.6
-------
Are you still interested in selling Visicalc for the Apple II and the other
stuff? I'm interested.
Sincerely,
Tom
>I mentioned a while ago that I saw a copy of Apple II visicalc. Well, I
>finally got it. It has all the stuff, and is a 1981 copy. I was wondering if
>there was a PC version or port for DOS?
