It is probably
a bad idea to spam (even if it is ~on-topic)
your fans,
It's no more on-topic than it would be if HP were spamming
about the new ES47 (unless dnpg are still selling* the
HUB90 stuff and friends).
Antonio
[*] And the original definition of on-topic was something like
"not sold commercially for at least 10 years"; under that
definition this would clearly fail.
While not disputing that the original message was off-topic, I thought
that actually 'stuff _related_ to classic computing' could be advertised
here.
In other words if somebody finds a source of still-in-production
paper/media/chips/etc for our wonderful toys then it was OK to mention it
here.
No I don't want this list to turn into a load of adverts, but equally, if
somebody has a source for some obscure consumable then that might benefit
the rest of us..
For example, I would consider it OK to mention that :
Standard thermal fax paper rolls (available in the UK from Rymans amongst
other places) work fine in the HP9866 printer (used on the 9830
'calculator' and other machines)
[That happens to be a true statement, BTW. And I am not sure the 9830 is
a 'calculator' by any reasonable definition, as it's a desktop machine
with a few K of RAM running BASIC...]
-tony