9 Feb
2006
9 Feb
'06
10:53 p.m.
what you get someone whos got everything else. Or at
least every other IBM incompatible on the planet (ok
Im not quite there). Also a must for the truly
masochistic (gcr floppies). What every guru/sicko
needs. Alas the shipping is prohibitive if youre on
this side of the pond.
--- Free_Software_for_DOS at yahoogroups.com
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I don't know if there is a mirror... But I have
tried
downloading the files again and it works! Try
downloading later. By the way, the program is just a
much more functional version of GS which is already
on
the Free Software For DOS website.
Denis
> Short Stop's Pages
<short_stop_for_software at yahoo.com>:
On 9 Feb 2006 Denis Andrianov wrote (snipped):
> Tja, hier habe ich geplant, andere Programme zu
stellen, die
> > eventuell von Nutzen sind. Die kriegen keine technische
bugs, too!
> Unterstützung* von mir. Aber ich
freue mich
auf Bescheid, wie
> > das Programm bei dir funktioniert hat... and >
> :) I recognized that broken German text,
because...
>
> > Hi everyone. It has been very quiet lately on
this
> > mailing list. Anyway, here is something
interesting. A
> > new (2005) port of Ghostscript is now
available
for
> > DOS. ............ Please
> > add this link to the Free Software for DOS site:
> > http://www.caddit.net/programming.php.
>
> ... I've visited that site repeatedly since
December,
and tried to
> download the Ghostscript binary and source
packages,
but no luck - the
ZIP
server stops serving. I know for sure that's
the
problem, because I get
>
> its timeout message, appended to the part of the file that actually
>
> comes down the pipe.
>
> So until that problem gets fixed, and I can look
the
program over, I
> can't recommend it in the Free Software pages.
>
> Denis - do you know if there is another download
site?
Peace,
Steve @ Short.Stop
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10 Feb
10 Feb
12:22 a.m.
On 2/9/2006 at 10:53 PM Chris M wrote:
what you get someone whos got everything else. Or at
least every other IBM incompatible on the planet (ok
Im not quite there). Also a must for the truly
masochistic (gcr floppies). What every guru/sicko
needs. Alas the shipping is prohibitive if youre on
this side of the pond.
What tickles my sense of irony was that when it started up, Victor began
harrassing small businesses that had similar names. IIRC, under threat of
legal action, they actually forced a retailer who'd been doing business as
Victor Electronics for 20 years to change his business name. Victor got a
fair amount of press when it started up--but didn't last long...and then it
fizzled.
23 Feb
23 Feb
5:14 p.m.
the same Victor that made the 9000 started out by
making calculators I was told (by a dude who worked at
JPL). Possibly adding machines even earlier? But I'm
extrapolating for no good reason. Is this the same
company?
--- Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
What tickles my sense of irony was that when it
started up, Victor began
harrassing small businesses that had similar names.
IIRC, under threat of
legal action, they actually forced a retailer who'd
been doing business as
Victor Electronics for 20 years to change his
business name. Victor got a
fair amount of press when it started up--but didn't
last long...and then it
fizzled.
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2 Mar
2 Mar
5:07 p.m.
I have a couple of victor 9000 in questionable condition, and the manual
for them. Take all, in Dallas Texas, free.
Patrick
Chris M wrote:
the same Victor that made the 9000 started out by
making calculators I was told (by a dude who worked at
JPL). Possibly adding machines even earlier? But I'm
extrapolating for no good reason. Is this the same
company?
--- Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
What tickles my sense of irony was that when it
started up, Victor began
harrassing small businesses that had similar names.
IIRC, under threat of
legal action, they actually forced a retailer who'd
been doing business as
Victor Electronics for 20 years to change his
business name. Victor got a
fair amount of press when it started up--but didn't
last long...and then it
fizzled.
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10 Feb
10 Feb
4:26 a.m.
Chris M wrote:
what you get someone whos got everything else. Or at
least every other IBM incompatible on the planet (ok
Im not quite there). Also a must for the truly
masochistic (gcr floppies). What every guru/sicko
needs.
They're pretty common on this side of the pond for some reason - I can only
assume that at one time one of the big UK national companies standardised on
them and bought them in the thousands, and they've gradually filtered into
private ownership. I can't imagine so many were bought from new by individuals.
cheers
Jules
23 Feb
23 Feb
3:23 p.m.
Dude...if they're so common, can you grab one for me
and float it over on some sort of makeshift raft? No
way I'm paying shipping from the UK. That's a sport!
;)
--- Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
They're pretty common on this side of the pond
for
some reason...
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10 Feb
10 Feb
5:38 p.m.
what you get someone whos got everything else. Or at
least every other IBM incompatible on the planet (ok
Im not quite there). Also a must for the truly
masochistic (gcr floppies). What every guru/sicko
The hardware is a bit odd... It clearly shows the Chuck Peddle influence,
it's full of 6522s (3 on the mainboard, 3 on the disk controller), and
the disk read/write circuit is very similar to that in a Commodore PET
drive...
A couple of odd things. Firstly, the Centronics port is driven by GPIB
buffers (75160 and I think 75162). A 'little matter of programming' and
the right cable would get you a GPIB port there,
Then there's the user port. A 50 pin header on the mainboard. It's almost
a complete 6522 (I think one of the port lines is used to clock the sound
circuitry), along with a light pen input and power lines. Odd....
And the sound iput. THe encoding half of the codec is wired to the
receive side of the 6852. The input to that codec comes from a pin on
header on the mainbosrd (along with power lines, ground, etc). It would
not be hard to feed an audio signal in there, the hard part would be to
write/find the necessary software....
-tony
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