13 Nov
2006
13 Nov
'06
1:09 p.m.
I just found a cheap NCR monitor mv0951a in a trashbin. Really small and
compact so I snatched/saved it and brought it to the lab. Seems to be VGA
but when i bent down to plug it in, I noticed it had a non-standard AC
plug with 3 small blades! wtf? no one here recognizes it. I'm googling
now. It would be a great little lab monitor if it's not 220v or
some alien design.
-Matt
spliffrd at inch.com
spliffrd.livejournal.com
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1. Re: lisadraw (Jules Richardson)
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3. Re: VCF 9.0 (David Betz)
4. TRS-80 Mod 16 on ePay (Chuck Guzis)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:55:33 -0600
From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: lisadraw
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Jim Leonard wrote:
Jules Richardson wrote:
Oh, I know it is - but so is MS Word, so it seems fair to compare one bloated
word processor with another :-) My point was really that I can believe that a
'modern' word processor could bring a circa-300MHz machine to its knees easily
enough.
So I'm not really blaming the OS at all, just the wp software (except that in
the Word case, it's still Microsoft's fault :-)
cheers
Jules
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Do the other two prefer Leslie Judd?
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:43:58 -0800
From: "Vincent Slyngstad" <vrs at msn.com>
Subject: Re: VCF 9.0
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From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
Hmm, not so sure. This laptop's running at
266MHz with 192MB of memory
and Openoffice under Linux really struggles[1]; I could believe that a
Stop right there. Openoffice is the source of that bloat; not a good
example for blaming the OS in the previous example. Run ps to see how
bad the damage is. My suspicions:
1) Any given VCF is way too far away for the majority to attend.
That's why we're interested :-).
2) Pictures and technical info on systems can be
found on the 'net
already.
3) Discussions (and banter) with system owners can be regularly be had
here already.
Maybe the show talk all happened somewhere else, and I missed it?
... hence for most people a VCF discussion just
serves no purpose, unlike
in the early days when it was something new and different to talk about
(and hence popular discussion even amongst non-attendees)
I thought there were going to be some cool workshops and stuff. Didn't
anyone build anything at the workshops? Or maybe everyone did, so it
didn't seem like a big deal?
I don't think there's anything wrong with
the show(s), or with the list -
it's just that now it's an 'old' concept there's less interest from
the
people who won't be / weren't there.
Surely there's still *something* controversial or interesting about them!
Vince
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:57:39 -0500
From: David Betz <dbetz at xlisper.com>
Subject: Re: VCF 9.0
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I thought there were going to be some cool
workshops and stuff. Didn't
anyone build anything at the workshops? Or maybe everyone did, so it
didn't seem like a big deal?
I built both the Replica 1 SE (and got it signed by Woz!) and the ELF
2K. Both projects were fun and resulted in working boards. I'm now in
the process of adding some of the optional parts to my ELF 2K (like
the serial port and EPROM). Unfortunately, I missed the Apple 30th
celebration because it happened at the same time as the ELF workshop. :-(
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:37:16 -0800
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
Subject: TRS-80 Mod 16 on ePay
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Just thought I'd drop a note to the list that I've got a TRS-80 Model
16 on eBay, item 320048603503.
Thanks,
Chuck
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