27 Oct
2008
27 Oct
'08
12:38 a.m.
I have come acquired a Heathkit Box of an RTTY Software program,
unopened and
I do not want to open the box and ruin it's value to collectors
The only number on the box are there
SF-9006
00108
In the estate sale there was a unbuilt kit with an 8 inch disk drive
that a ham friend of mine bought
The box size is about 12" X 12" X 3" thick
I expect it is full of Floppy disks and a manual or instruction sheet
I expect there may be 8 inch floppies in it as if they were 5 inch, why
would teh box be so big ???
Any info on contents and value appreciated
Thanks
73, Dennis N6KI
28 Oct
28 Oct
12:41 a.m.
Sorry, I can't even guess.
--- On Mon, 10/27/08, Dennis Vernacchia <n6ki at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
From: Dennis Vernacchia <n6ki at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Old Heath Software - New In Box - Query
To:
Date: Monday, October 27, 2008, 12:38 AM
I have come acquired a Heathkit Box of an RTTY Software
program,
unopened and
I do not want to open the box and ruin it's value to
collectors
The only number on the box are there
SF-9006
00108
In the estate sale there was a unbuilt kit with an 8 inch
disk drive
that a ham friend of mine bought
The box size is about 12" X 12" X 3" thick
I expect it is full of Floppy disks and a manual or
instruction sheet
I expect there may be 8 inch floppies in it as if they were
5 inch, why
would teh box be so big ???
Any info on contents and value appreciated
Thanks
73, Dennis N6KI
12:06 p.m.
I have come acquired a Heathkit Box of an RTTY Software program,
unopened and
I do not want to open the box and ruin it's value to collectors
I wonder why _anyone_ would want to buy a sealed box of unknown contents
and then not open it up. Surely the purpose of software (if, indeed,
that's what's in the box) is to be run on a suitable computer.
-tony
2:31 p.m.
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Verzonden: dinsdag 28 oktober 2008 20:06
Aan: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Onderwerp: Re: Old Heath Software - New In Box - Query
I have come acquired a Heathkit Box of an RTTY Software program,
unopened and I do not want to open the box and ruin it's value to
collectors
I wonder why _anyone_ would want to buy a sealed box of unknown contents and
then not open it up. Surely the purpose of software (if, indeed, that's
what's in the box) is to be run on a suitable computer.
-tony
Yep and they all think they have the crown juwels..
Are you coming to the mainland this weekend ?
Going to Allschwil I mean.(I can't )
-Rik
29 Oct
29 Oct
9:19 a.m.
I have come
acquired a Heathkit Box of an RTTY Software program,
unopened and I do not want to open the box and ruin it's value to
collectors
I wonder why _anyone_ would want to buy a sealed box of unknown contents and
then not open it up. Surely the purpose of software (if, indeed, that's
what's in the box) is to be run on a suitable computer.
-tony
Yep and they all think they have the crown juwels.. Are you coming to the mainland this weekend ?
Going to Allschwil I mean.(I can't )
Alas not. Thrre's no way I have enough spare money for something like
this. I have to restrict my meetings to those of HPCC, which I can get to
essentially for nothing.
-tony
30 Oct
30 Oct
12:18 p.m.
. . . or
whether Schroedinger's cat is dead or alive
If he would feed his cat ... 
2:50 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
If 'he' == 'ard' then I can assure you I do feed my cat. And I know
he's
very much alive, AFAIK dead cats do not sit and purr next to me, and
don't deposit dead rodents on the floor...
I ment the OTHER cat ...
. . . or whether Schroedinger's cat is dead or
alive
If he would feed his cat ...
-tony
PS... you are expected to eat them , why else would the cat bring them
to you ... ;)
5:52 p.m.
On 30 Oct 2008 at 22:00, Alexandre Souza wrote:
It's just courtesy on the cat's part. When I had a cat, she used to
bring dead marsh shrews and rough-skinned newts to me. Nothing eats
those (outside of bacteria), not even cats.
Cheers,
Chuck
PS... you are
expected to eat them , why else would the cat bring them
to you ... ;)
My cat brings cockroaches to my feet. Am I expected to eat them? :oO 
11:05 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
It's just courtesy on the cat's part. When I had a cat, she used to
bring dead marsh shrews and rough-skinned newts to me. Nothing eats
those (outside of bacteria), not even cats.
My cat somehow knew I was afraid of bugs, and so would kill them, hide
the carcass, and then produce a particular meow to let me know it was
okay to come out.
Peace... Sridhar
PS... you are expected to eat them , why else would
the cat bring them
to you ... ;)
My cat brings cockroaches to my feet. Am I expected to eat
them? :oO 
11:31 p.m.
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
My cat somehow knew I was afraid of bugs, and so would
kill them, hide
the carcass, and then produce a particular meow to let me know it was
okay to come out.
What happened when you accidentally found where the cat was hiding the bodies?
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31 Oct
31 Oct
1:13 p.m.
My cat somehow
knew I was afraid of bugs, and so would kill them, hide
the carcass, and then produce a particular meow to let me know it was
okay to come out.
What happened when you accidentally found where the cat was
hiding the bodies?
1:56 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
There is enough room in a good mainframe to NEVER find them.
The mainframe would've chopped the cat up into tiny pieces and cooked it.
Peace... Sridhar
My cat somehow knew I was afraid of bugs, and so would
kill them, hide
the carcass, and then produce a particular meow to let me know it was
okay to come out.
What happened when you accidentally found where the cat was
hiding the bodies? 
9:40 a.m.
When we lived further out of town and I could allow the cats to roam,
my cat used to bring me fish. There was a creek in the woods with a
footbridge over the shallow part, and he would sit on the bridge and
pounce on fish as they swam under. It didn't happen very often, but it
did.
On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:05 AM, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>
wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
It's just courtesy on the cat's part. When I had a cat, she
used
to bring dead marsh shrews and rough-skinned newts to me. Nothing
eats those (outside of bacteria), not even cats.
My cat somehow knew I was afraid of bugs, and so would kill them,
hide the carcass, and then produce a particular meow to let me know
it was okay to come out.
Peace... Sridhar
PS... you are expected to eat them , why else would
the cat bring
them to you ... ;)
My cat brings cockroaches to my feet. Am I expected to eat
them? :oO
30 Oct
30 Oct
6:26 p.m.
Alexandre Souza wrote:
No, you
kill them for the cat ...
PS... you are
expected to eat them , why else would the cat bring
them to you ... ;)
My cat brings cockroaches to my feet. Am I expected to eat them? :oO
Nooo, I'll change my pet. Maybe an Aibo!?
Alexandre - Brazil, you know. The land of confusion
11:33 p.m.
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
Alexandre Souza wrote:
No, you
kill them for the cat ...
Ah, this must be why my cat brought live rodents into my bed before I
finally put a screen on the bedroom window.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
PS... you
are expected to eat them , why else would the cat bring
them to you ... ;)
My cat brings cockroaches to my feet. Am I expected to eat them? :oO 
28 Oct
28 Oct
4:20 p.m.
New subject: Old Heath Software - New In Box - Query
In article <m1KuttS-000J1gC at p850ug1>,
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) writes:
I wonder why _anyone_ would want to [...]
Haven't we already been through this on the list a hundred times
before, Tony?
People do things you wouldn't do because other people are not you.
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29 Oct
29 Oct
9:21 a.m.
New subject: Old Heath Software - New In Box - Query
In article <m1KuttS-000J1gC at p850ug1>,
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) writes:
Of course. And there are plenty of things that _I_ don't want to do -- in
fact that I have no interest in at all (whether doing them, watching
them, or somehow making use of the results) that others do want to do.
Fine. And in many cases I can understand why said people want to do
whatever it is.
But I really can't understnad collecting cardboard boxes that may or may
not contain some piece of software, and then never opening them to check.
-tony
I wonder why _anyone_ would want to [...]
Haven't we already been through this on the list a hundred times
before, Tony?
People do things you wouldn't do because other people are not you.
1:20 p.m.
New subject: Old Heath Software - New In Box - Query
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Verzonden: woensdag 29 oktober 2008 17:22
Aan: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Onderwerp: Re: Old Heath Software - New In Box - Query
In article <m1KuttS-000J1gC at p850ug1>,
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) writes:
Of course. And there are plenty of things that _I_ don't want to do -- in
fact that I have no interest in at all (whether doing them, watching them,
or somehow making use of the results) that others do want to do.
Fine. And in many cases I can understand why said people want to do whatever
it is.
But I really can't understnad collecting cardboard boxes that may or may not
contain some piece of software, and then never opening them to check.
-tony
You want to know if the cat is alive or dead ;-)
I wonder why _anyone_ would want to [...]
Haven't we already been through this on the list a hundred times
before, Tony?
People do things you wouldn't do because other people are not you.
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