On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 11:43:59PM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: [...] Good to know. Alas, I am willing to accept just one plugin in my browser, the one which allows me to turn js off selectively. So far, the choice went for noscript. I know other folks swear for umatrix or smth, but I am still with the one I tried already. The other plugin would be one allowing me to right-click somewhere in the page and choose "copy url to the cache". And the one for browsing gopher sites. Hmm. I wrote "just one plugin", now there is three of them. Hmmm... Never mind. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola at bigfoot.com **

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 09:11:34AM +0000, U'll Be King Of The Stars via cctalk wrote: Yeah, mee too. I have recompiling lynx in the jobs queue for months. The version I am using is close to useless for browsing, because too old... -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola at bigfoot.com **

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On 3/13/2021 12:02 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: Sadly No. Some good reading but, I guess another classic computer design is lost forever, as well as the VAN with the IBM 1130 in it. Ben.

On 3/13/2021 1:49 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: Well I am using Duck Duck Go, from CANADA. I have not yet checked the internet archive yet. I suspect that means spending money, or travelling around. Well I live in the middle of CANADA, no where for computing. If I could hit the the stacks I would. I just want the basic information, word length , memory etc. A simple on line FAQ would work nicely, like the PDP 8 FAQ. Ben.

I strongly suspect that this is the same fellow who published a paper on the ECP-18. You might drop him an email: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allen-fulmer-a4bb5b29 Forget DDG--I use google with an anti-tracking plugin. --Chuck

On Sat, 13 Mar 2021, ben via cctalk wrote: Well, I don't know from "SERIOUS". and, I don't spend money, and hardly never travel, anymore. Never pass up the chance to hear from those who were THERE! Folk such as Chuck are the greatest information resource there is. You might not get much response, but try to contact those who were involved, or at least present. And, in the spirit of teaching to such eggs, . . . In using information retrieval search engines, PRECISION VS RECALL are at the expense of each other. Go for maximum RECALL, because you can always do your own relevance ranking to increase PRECISION of the recalled set, but only if you got the maximum RECALL to have the hits in your set. (My biggest contribution was pointing out that when quantifying the "best possible" results, one needs to also quantify the "worst possible". Nobody agreed that the integral under the curve was a good quantification of a RECALL/PRECISION curve.) And, always remember that because search algorithms are relevance ranking of overlaps with search terms, synonyms, or co-appearing words, therefore, instead of putting a "SUBJECT" in the query, you need to put in whatever words seem most likely to be in the result that you are looking for. Even if that means getting some Apatasaurus when you were looking for "dinosaur" mainframes. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com

Also, if you bother to follow some of the links, you get this: "My freshman year in high school the math department was considering purchasing a simple electronic educational computer. It was called an ECP-18. It has 1024 15 bit words of drum memory. It had the coolest front panel. You programmed it in machine language by toggling in the instructions." And that person is probably still alive and could give you some information. --Chuck