20 Mar
2013
20 Mar
'13
8:58 p.m.
I mentioned having a Univac 3 available for sale and have some interest.
When I watched a video linked to by a person on the IBM-MAIN mailing
list some time ago, there was a few Univac links, so I looked to see
what was there for Univac 3
this turned up which is supposed to be the US Army system
http://youtu.be/ICGPML5lzoY
There are tape drives in the short bit of video which are not
Uni-servo's and are probably not connected to the Univac near the end,
but you can see the system's drives in one bit of the video. NOte that
it had no disk storage it was all tape with the OS at the BOT of every
volume, or bits of the application.
Anyone recognize the logo on the tape drives (probably not Univac) at
the 23 sec point? it is a big red circle with two side bars. Rings a
bell to me but I haven't figured it out yet.
There was also a CHM show about timesharing with Univac that came up,
but I don't think the tape drives are the same Uniservo's that the U3
used, so is probably later. Also the theme is timesharing which of
course the U3 was definitely not ever going to do.
thanks
Jim
20 Mar
20 Mar
9:11 p.m.
Anyone recognize the logo on the tape drives (probably
not Univac) at the 23
sec point? it is a big red circle with two side bars. Rings a bell to me
but I haven't figured it out yet.
It is just a little too blurry, but the shape suggests Collins, but
the proportions of the bars is just a bit off. The red circle also
suggests the RCA meatball.
--
Will
9:21 p.m.
On 03/20/2013 09:11 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
Collins made tape drives?? Wow, I never knew that. That's wild.
Were they any good? (their radio hardware is tough to beat, IMO)
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Anyone
recognize the logo on the tape drives (probably not Univac) at the 23
sec point? it is a big red circle with two side bars. Rings a bell to me
but I haven't figured it out yet.
It is just a little too blurry, but the shape suggests Collins, but
the proportions of the bars is just a bit off. The red circle also
suggests the RCA meatball. 
10:25 p.m.
New subject: Univac 3 video on youube - tape drives
On 3/20/2013 5:58 PM, Jim Stephens wrote:
I mentioned having a Univac 3 available for sale and
have some interest.
When I watched a video linked to by a person on the IBM-MAIN mailing
list some time ago, there was a few Univac links, so I looked to see
what was there for Univac 3
this turned up which is supposed to be the US Army system
http://youtu.be/ICGPML5lzoY
There are tape drives in the short bit of video which are not
Uni-servo's and are probably not connected to the Univac near the end,
but you can see the system's drives in one bit of the video. NOte that
it had no disk storage it was all tape with the OS at the BOT of every
volume, or bits of the application.
Anyone recognize the logo on the tape drives (probably not Univac) at
the 23 sec point? it is a big red circle with two side bars. Rings a
bell to me but I haven't figured it out yet.
There was also a CHM show about timesharing with Univac that came up,
but I don't think the tape drives are the same Uniservo's that the U3
used, so is probably later. Also the theme is timesharing which of
course the U3 was definitely not ever going to do.
thanks
Jim
Might be Potter. The head assembly looks similar to one in this photo:
http://www.dvq.com/ads/potter_dm_11_61.jpg
Bob
21 Mar
21 Mar
4:18 p.m.
New subject: Youtube annoyances (was: Univac 3 video on youube)
I'm starting to think we really need to get this sort of content
migrated to archive.org where we can watch it without constantly being
hounded by advertisements and overlay popups.
Google has managed to take something wonderful and enjoyable like
YouTUbe and turn it into an experience worse than commercial
television. I'm as much a capitalist as the next guy, but YouTube has
things like making me watch 30 seconds of commercial about something
I'm never going to buy in order to watch a 15 second video clip.
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5:09 p.m.
New subject: Youtube annoyances (was: Univac 3 video on youube)
Meet AdBlock Plus. Enjoy advertisement free YouTube.
And if you think the video watching experience is annoying, I suggest
you try and manage a few subscriptions with the *WONDERFULLY*
redesigned "My Subscriptions" page. The fuck was Google thinking
getting rid of the grid view? Also the new channel design... well I
could explain my opinion on it, but I'll let someone else:
http://youtu.be/7lpTxMNIwfk
Cheers,
Christian
8:27 p.m.
New subject: Youtube annoyances (was: Univac 3 video on youube)
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
Meet AdBlock Plus. Enjoy advertisement free YouTube.
Indeed. Every time I watch YT one someone else's machine, I'm surprised
by the number of ads. :)
g.
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8:52 p.m.
New subject: Youtube annoyances (was: Univac 3 video on youube)
I really like:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/
Or if I'm doing a whole bunch:
http://jdownloader.org/
Just download them and watch at your leisure with VLC.
22 Mar
22 Mar
3:01 a.m.
New subject: Youtube annoyances
On 3/21/2013 5:52 PM, Jason McBrien wrote:
may be stating
the blatently obvious but the ffmpeg + this on linux
works On other platforms not so much. Totally useless and bugered on
Windows, havent bothered with trying it on the mac, connections to my
macs are too slow.
However the ffmpeg on linux if upgraded does a really good job of
converting a lot of media.
BTW On this topic, the CHM media collection is quite nice and is
embedded i think so you don't get hit by bullshit.
jim
12:56 p.m.
New subject: Youtube annoyances
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Jim Stephens <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:
may be stating the blatently obvious but the ffmpeg +
this on linux works
On other platforms not so much. Totally useless and bugered on Windows,
havent bothered with trying it on the mac, connections to my macs are too
slow.
However the ffmpeg on linux if upgraded does a really good job of
converting a lot of media.
I just went into the about:configuration for the add-in and pointed it at
the ffmpeg that installed with Handbrake and it seemed to work fine.
I don't bother converting anymore, since most Youtube videos now come in
mp4 or on2 flavors, and what isn't converted, VLC can play back FLVs just
fine.
21 Mar
21 Mar
10:17 p.m.
New subject: Youtube annoyances
On 03/21/2013 05:27 PM, geneb wrote:
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
To Firefox I usually add SiteBlock and Ghostery. Lately, I've been
adding Flashblock as well.
AdBlock Plus is also available for Opera (for the non-Firefox people).
--Chuck
Meet AdBlock Plus. Enjoy advertisement free
YouTube.
Indeed. Every time I watch YT one someone else's machine, I'm surprised
by the number of ads. :) 
22 Mar
22 Mar
3:38 a.m.
New subject: Youtube annoyances (was: Univac 3 video on youube)
On 21 mrt. 2013, at 22:09, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove <captainkirk359 at gmail.com>
wrote:
Meet AdBlock Plus. Enjoy advertisement free YouTube.
I use this:
<http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm>
Works system-wide, as opposed to a browser plug-in that only works in one specific
browser. Could even be used site-wide on a router. If someone were to tell me how to do
that on an Apple AirPort router, I would be most grateful.
.tsooJ
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4:25 a.m.
New subject: Youtube annoyances
On 03/22/2013 12:38 AM, Joost van de Griek wrote:
Works system-wide, as opposed to a browser plug-in
that only works in
one specific browser. Could even be used site-wide on a router. If
someone were to tell me how to do that on an Apple AirPort router, I
would be most grateful.
Dunno about Apple, but the HOSTS trick doesn't allow for wildcards, so
you're always playing catch-up as the ad sites add new subdomains.
In the bad old days of Windows NT, there was rather clever little
program that would serve to redirect references to a specific IP gateway
through a filter before passing them along.
It worked quite well and I don't know whatever happened to it. It also
allowed for wildcard expressions.
--Chuck
9:13 a.m.
New subject: Youtube annoyances
[replacing the
local hosts file]
Works system-wide, as opposed to a browser plug-in that only works
in one specific browser. [...]
Dunno about Apple, but the HOSTS trick doesn't
allow for wildcards,
so you're always playing catch-up as the ad sites add new subdomains.
12:43 p.m.
New subject: Youtube annoyances
On 03/22/2013 06:13 AM, Mouse wrote:
Well, instead of fiddling files, you could always just
tell your house
DNS server it's authoritative for the node(s) you wish to prune out of
existence for you. You could put in a wildcard 127.0.0.1 record or
just leave the zones in question empty....
I do in fact do that for the more odieus cases--just an entry in the
dnsmasq config file. But you still have to edit it...
--Chuck
23 Mar
23 Mar
9:49 a.m.
New subject: Youtube annoyances
On 21-mrt-2013 22:09, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
Meet AdBlock Plus. Enjoy advertisement free YouTube.
And if you think the video watching experience is annoying, I suggest
you try and manage a few subscriptions with the *WONDERFULLY*
redesigned "My Subscriptions" page. The fuck was Google thinking
getting rid of the grid view? Also the new channel design... well I
could explain my opinion on it, but I'll let someone else:
http://youtu.be/7lpTxMNIwfk
The irony, the first thing I saw was an ad...
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