8 Sep
2007
8 Sep
'07
9:31 a.m.
http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-HARRIS-DISKRITER-COMPUTER-
PARTS-REPAIR_W0QQitemZ170147139531QQihZ007QQ
categoryZ4193QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
and notice the 2 mangy mutts at the head of the bed.
Yup, I sure want to lay my face exactly where they
left their fleas, and worse (if you can imagine that).
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8 Sep
8 Sep
10:20 a.m.
On 8 Sep 2007 at 9:31, Chris M wrote:
eBay item 170147139531
Looks like a Harris Lanier box from the 80's, though I'm not familiar
with the "Diskriter" model. Word processing, not terribly exciting
and probably takes HS diskettes.
Chris, please just post the item number for these things or use
TinyURL or the like for the links. The darned eBay links wrap
several lines in my email reader and require me to dig the number out
manually.
Cheers,
Chuck
10:24 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Chris, please just post the item number for these
things or use
TinyURL or the like for the links. The darned eBay links wrap
several lines in my email reader and require me to dig the number out
manually.
... and where possible say in the message what the item is (sounds like that
wasn't possible in this case!) rather than just posting a "look at this"
link.
I rarely waste the CPU cycles to fire up a browser unless I have some idea of
what I'm going to be looking at!
p.s. I think most modern-ish apps will make sense of URLs between <>
characters and not wrap them across multiple lines; I think it is some
standard or other, but there's no guarantee that *everything* from the last
ten years will handle it :-)
cheers
Jules
10:44 a.m.
On 8 Sep 2007 at 18:24, Jules Richardson wrote:
p.s. I think most modern-ish apps will make sense of
URLs between <>
characters and not wrap them across multiple lines; I think it is some
standard or other, but there's no guarantee that *everything* from the last
ten years will handle it :-)
Maybe, but I read all of my email in plaintext (not HTML) only. I use
Pegasus for my reader, which isn't all that old (Version 4.41, July,
2006)--and the eBay URLs don't carry over as links from one line to
the next. If it's longer than about 72 characters, forget it.
Cheers,
Chuck
11:49 a.m.
--- Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Maybe, but I read all of my email in plaintext (not
HTML) only.
Schmott. Velly velly schmott ;)
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11:45 a.m.
--- Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Goofy yahoo even has a new feature (creature) whereby
a balloon opens up if you hover over a url. I can
understand why the goofy thing doesn't recognize such
a url. Goofy
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Chris, please just post the item number for these
things or use
TinyURL or the like for the links. The darned
eBay links wrap
several lines in my email reader and require me
to
dig the number out
manually.
... and where possible say in the message what the
item is (sounds like that
wasn't possible in this case!) rather than just
posting a "look at this" link.
I rarely waste the CPU cycles to fire up a browser
unless I have some idea of
what I'm going to be looking at!
p.s. I think most modern-ish apps will make sense of
URLs between <>
characters and not wrap them across multiple lines;
I think it is some
standard or other, but there's no guarantee that
*everything* from the last
ten years will handle it :-) 
10:36 a.m.
At 10:20 AM -0700 9/8/07, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 8 Sep 2007 at 9:31, Chris M wrote:
eBay item 170147139531
Looks like a Harris Lanier box from the 80's, though I'm not familiar
with the "Diskriter" model. Word processing, not terribly exciting
and probably takes HS diskettes.
Did they run MUSE? I must confess to having a fondness for MUSE. It
probably doesn't hurt that initially the only alternative to the
Harris Mini was a Xerox 860 that I was only allowed near for editing
one manual, or an IBM Selectric.
Zane
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11:01 a.m.
On 8 Sep 2007 at 10:36, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Did they run MUSE? I must confess to having a
fondness for MUSE. It
probably doesn't hurt that initially the only alternative to the
Harris Mini was a Xerox 860 that I was only allowed near for editing
one manual, or an IBM Selectric.
I thought that the Lanier WaPro was something called "OneStep" or the
like. Wasn't MUSE an emacs addon?
A shame that no one collects the old word processing systems; some of
them were quite remarkable in design. Star and Cat seems to be about
as far as people want to go.
Cheers,
Chuck
3:45 p.m.
At 11:01 AM -0700 9/8/07, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I thought that the Lanier WaPro was something called
"OneStep" or the
like. Wasn't MUSE an emacs addon?
I'm pretty sure that the version of MUSE I used wasn't an emacs
addon, it was a screen editor, and you went forward or back one
screen at a time, and couldn't scroll beyond one is on the screen one
line at a time like on pretty much any other system I've ever used.
Still it was very nice, and it was what really got my typing speed
and accuracy up. Not to mention the Harris Mini I used it on
probably couldn't have handled any version of emacs! :^)
A shame that no one collects the old word processing
systems; some of
them were quite remarkable in design. Star and Cat seems to be about
as far as people want to go.
I'm pretty sure that some people have Xerox 860's in their
collections. I do have a Tandy kind of like the M100 that was
basically only for writing. For some insane reason I picked it up in
the early 90's when it was being phased out, and it proved to hard to
get text on and off of it.
Zane
--
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
11:44 a.m.
--- Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 8 Sep 2007 at 9:31, Chris M wrote:
eBay item 170147139531
Looks like a Harris Lanier box from the 80's, though
I'm not familiar
with the "Diskriter" model. Word processing, not
terribly exciting
and probably takes HS diskettes.
Chris, please just post the item number for these
things or use
TinyURL or the like for the links. The darned eBay
links wrap
several lines in my email reader and require me to
dig the number out
manually.
I'll try. I have a fundamental opposition to the tiny
thing, cuz yer never know what yer clicking on.
Granted I've undoubtedly won the trust of everyone on
this list (muahahahahahahaha).
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12:48 p.m.
On 08/09/2007, Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com> wrote:
I'll try. I have a fundamental opposition to the tiny
thing, cuz yer never know what yer clicking on.
Granted I've undoubtedly won the trust of everyone on
this list (muahahahahahahaha).
Just quote the item number.. Or if you really want to post a URL,
http://search.ebay.co.uk/nnnnnnnnnn works nicely where nnn..etc is
the item number. (And you can even use the .com ..)
Rob
9 Sep
9 Sep
1 p.m.
On Sep 8, 2007, at 2:44 PM, Chris M wrote:
Why the worry about never knowing what you're clicking on? If
you're worried about viruses, you're using a computing platform
that's unsuitable for networked applications. If you're worried
about accidentally seeing some bizarre bestiality porn, you need to
just grow a pair and click the "close" button. 'Tis just that simple.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007
Chris, please
just post the item number for these
things or use
TinyURL or the like for the links. The darned eBay
links wrap
several lines in my email reader and require me to
dig the number out
manually.
I'll try. I have a fundamental opposition to the tiny
thing, cuz yer never know what yer clicking on.
Granted I've undoubtedly won the trust of everyone on
this list (muahahahahahahaha). 
1:18 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Sep 8, 2007, at 2:44 PM, Chris M wrote:
Why the worry about never knowing what you're
clicking on? If you're
worried about viruses, you're using a computing platform that's
unsuitable for networked applications. If you're worried about
accidentally seeing some bizarre bestiality porn, you need to just grow
a pair and click the "close" button. 'Tis just that simple.
And if you're on dialup, or even EVDO, waiting for an eBay page to
load and finding that you're totally uninterested is the pits.
Basic mailing list etiquette. If I post a URL, it's just *polite* to
post a 10-word description. Even more simple.
Doc
1:22 p.m.
Rumor has it that Dave McGuire may have mentioned these words:
On Sep 8, 2007, at 2:44 PM, Chris M wrote:
>>Chris, please just post the item number for these
>>things or use
>>TinyURL or the like for the links. The darned eBay
>>links wrap
>>several lines in my email reader and require me to
>>dig the number out
>>manually.
>
> I'll try. I have a fundamental opposition to the tiny
>thing, cuz yer never know what yer clicking on.
>Granted I've undoubtedly won the trust of everyone on
>this list (muahahahahahahaha).
You'll try? What's so hard to take this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Tandy-200-48k-dual-bank-RAM-module-not-Model-100-102_W0…
and trim it down to:
http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ290157890837
???
[[ Simple instructions in Engrish: Trim all between last slash & first
underscore, then trim all after item number. ]]
Unless you're viewing the link on the aforementioned Tandy 200 (which would
then only wrap by 2 characters) I seriously doubt there's a MUA that would
have a problem with the latter URL.
Why the worry about never knowing what you're
clicking on? If
you're worried about viruses, you're using a computing platform
that's unsuitable for networked applications.
Aren't we all? [[ read: who here actually read the list on their OS/2, VMS,
MVS/XA, etc. machines? IINM, there are a few viruses for MacOS, Linux &
friends... and at least a proof-of concept boot-sector virus written in x86
assembly that can infect anything running x86 no matter what OS, I
believe... ]]
If you're worried
about accidentally seeing some bizarre bestiality porn, you need to
just grow a pair and click the "close" button.
Something tells me if there someone were to post a link to such a site, Jay
would 1) have a conniption, then 2) ban said induhvidual and post a warning
WRT the link.
'Tis just that simple.
Couldn't agree more.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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10 Sep
10 Sep
1:15 p.m.
On Sunday 09 September 2007 16:22, Roger Merchberger wrote:
Linux here, and I'm not worried about it, but also don't care to waste my
time with following links to I know not what...
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
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M Dakin
Why the
worry about never knowing what you're clicking on? If
you're worried about viruses, you're using a computing platform
that's unsuitable for networked applications.
Aren't we all? [[ read: who here actually read the list on their OS/2, VMS,
MVS/XA, etc. machines? IINM, there are a few viruses for MacOS, Linux &
friends... and at least a proof-of concept boot-sector virus written in x86
assembly that can infect anything running x86 no matter what OS, I
believe... ]] 
9 Sep
9 Sep
2:14 p.m.
New subject: Tiny URL (was: what's this?)
On 8 Sep 2007, at 19:44, Chris M wrote:
...
I'll try. I have a fundamental opposition to the tiny
thing, cuz yer never know what yer clicking on.
Granted I've undoubtedly won the trust of everyone on
this list (muahahahahahahaha).
If you go to <http://tinyurl.com/preview.php?enable=1> it sets a
cookie on your browser; thereafter everytime you click on a tiny URL
it takes you to a "preview" page first, shows you the full URL and
invites you to click on it.
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