24 Oct
2007
24 Oct
'07
7:13 p.m.
So, I'm going to be spending a few days out in the San Francisco area
before VCF (I'll be there Weds afternoon through early Monday).
Can anyone suggest other (non-computer) related things to do while I'm
out there? Or if anyone wants to show off their collection of big
iron, that might be interesting too. :)
Pat
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7:43 p.m.
There's always North Beach ;) And get some
vegetable ice cream at
Polly Ann's.
And weird Asian food.
The submarine PAMPANITO is worth a visit, as are some of the other ships.
And that weird tidal model thing, if it is open.
And the Nike site.
And Exploritorium (sp?).
--
Will, the only guy here NOT attending VCF.
25 Oct
25 Oct
12:13 p.m.
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 22:43, William Donzelli wrote:
I remember the last time I was there ('81 :-(...) getting some really good
sourdough bread at fisherman's wharf...
There's
always North Beach ;) And get some vegetable ice cream at
Polly Ann's.
And weird Asian food.
The submarine PAMPANITO is worth a visit, as are some of the other ships.
And that weird tidal model thing, if it is open.
And the Nike site.
And Exploritorium (sp?). --
Will, the only guy here NOT attending VCF.
Nope. I ain't going either, dang it!
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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8:18 p.m.
New subject: [OT]: Kam Packet Controller
Any ham here? I'm looking for a KAM / KAM PLUS TNC...Lots of people here
are hams, maybe someone willing to sell one... :o)
Thanks
Alexandre Souza
PU1BZZ
26 Oct
26 Oct
3:27 p.m.
New subject: [OT]: Kam Packet Controller
At 12:18 AM 10/26/2007 -0300, you wrote:
Any ham here? I'm looking for a KAM / KAM PLUS
TNC...Lots of people
here are hams, maybe someone willing to sell one... :o)
Thanks
Alexandre Souza
PU1BZZ
I have only my little KPC-3
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25 Oct
25 Oct
10:19 p.m.
New subject: NeXT OD achiving
I have one OD drive in a cube that works (for how long, who knows). I
also have a 0.8 OD disk that I need to archive, and later install
onto an HDD. Installing by booting from the OD seems really risky so
I'm thinking of doing a dump(8) of the OD drive dd'ing it to files on
a larger hard disk, and then using using restore/dd to a new HDD.
I remember a thread a long time ago about archiving NeXT OD images.
Given the fragility of the drives, chances are I'll only get one shot
at this, so I would appreciate hearing from anyone with experience
archiving, and then using such images.
2:47 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
My
work schedule sucks, also.
And I'm across the Pond, with no possibility of crossing it.
And to borrow one of Tony's expressions, my financial situation has gone
completely pants. So I'm stuck here too.
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Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/
Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/
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Will, the only
guy here NOT attending VCF.
Nope. I ain't going either, dang it! 
26 Oct
26 Oct
4 p.m.
And to borrow one of Tony's expressions, my
financial situation has gone
completely pants. So I'm stuck here too.
I don;t beleive I've ever used that expression...
But like you, I have a cashflow problem. It's all flowed out. It is the
way of the world that certain groups of people get well-paid and
electronics hackers are not among them.
-tony
27 Oct
27 Oct
11:44 a.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
electronics hackers are not among them.
-tony
This reminds me of an old comic I had seen in an old issue of EDN (early
80's).
I dug it out to make sure I still have it, so I'm going to scan it
The Two engineers made a remark about the speed of their computer design.
"It's fast all right, the only thing that goes faster is my paycheck."
=Dan
[ "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them" ]
[ Pittsburgh --- http://www2.applegate.org/~ragooman/ ]
25 Oct
25 Oct
12:32 p.m.
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I was hoping to go to VCF and sell some P112 kits, but my studies are
consuming every bit of free time. I haven't even sent off for a new run
of boards or done anything with the recently-discovered leftovers from the
first run.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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Will, the only
guy here NOT attending VCF.
Nope. I ain't going either, dang it! 
2:07 p.m.
On 25 Oct 2007 at 15:13, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Nope. I ain't going either, dang it!
Nor I--20 years was enough. My wife still goes down to visit once a
year to remind herself why we moved.
I used to fly my kite in the fields on North First Street when North
First was notable as the road to the Alviso dump. Great Italian
prunes in Santa Clara, cherries in Sunnyvale when it was easier to
get a good phone connection to Seattle than to Los Gatos.
Cheers,
Chuck
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