22 Sep
2005
22 Sep
'05
2:52 p.m.
Sun 3/140 (saw one on ebay months ago, liked it). Also
early Apollo, Tektronix, perhaps SGI, and other stuph.
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22 Sep
22 Sep
5:47 p.m.
Chris M wrote:
Sun 3/140 (saw one on ebay months ago, liked it).
Also
early Apollo, Tektronix, perhaps SGI, and other stuph.
Location is helpful (partiularly country) - old workstations tend to be
heavy and shipping costs make things prohibitive (particularly overseas)
A Sun's probably easiest to find intact - still lots around complete and
working (exception being VME-based SPARC machines it seems), and the
media's readily available.
Apollos tend to be really thin on the ground (manuals and Domain OS
media even more so).
Tektronix systems still fetch real money.
SGI system units are easy enough to find but the older ones use
proprietary keyboards - most of which seem to be missing (Indy-era
systems and newer work with a PC-compatible keyboard so no problem with
those). Media can be tricky to get hold of.
cheers
Jules
23 Sep
23 Sep
10:42 a.m.
I'm in New Jersey currently, but that's likely to
change in a matter of weeks (n.e. Pennsylvania
probably). The Tek stuph is the most interesting to
me.
--- Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
Chris M wrote:
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Sun 3/140 (saw one on ebay months ago, liked it).
Also
early Apollo, Tektronix, perhaps SGI, and other
stuph.
Location is helpful (partiularly country) - old
workstations tend to be
heavy and shipping costs make things prohibitive
(particularly overseas)
A Sun's probably easiest to find intact - still lots
around complete and
working (exception being VME-based SPARC machines it
seems), and the
media's readily available.
Apollos tend to be really thin on the ground
(manuals and Domain OS
media even more so).
Tektronix systems still fetch real money.
SGI system units are easy enough to find but the
older ones use
proprietary keyboards - most of which seem to be
missing (Indy-era
systems and newer work with a PC-compatible keyboard
so no problem with
those). Media can be tricky to get hold of.
cheers
Jules
5:14 a.m.
OK, what is "stuph"? This is the second message that I've seen from you
using that term.
Joe
At 11:52 AM 9/22/05 -0700, you wrote:
Sun 3/140 (saw one on ebay months ago, liked it). Also
early Apollo, Tektronix, perhaps SGI, and other stuph.
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9:26 a.m.
OK, what is "stuph"? This is the second
message that I've seen from you
using that term.
Say it out loud. :)
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7:28 a.m.
At 06:26 AM 9/23/05 -0700, Cameron wrote:
I know what it sounds like. I was trying to be tackful but I guess I'll
just go ahead and say what I was thinking. It makes the original poster
look lazy/immature/ignorant or possible all three. It's not just his
repeated use of the (non)word "stuph" but also his grammer, lack of
punctuation and capitalization as well as other distorted spellings.
Joe
OK, what is
"stuph"? This is the second message that I've seen from you
using that term.
Say it out loud. :)
11:33 a.m.
> > OK, what is "stuph"? This is the
second message that I've seen from you
> > using that term.
Say it out
loud. :)
I know what it sounds like. I was trying to be tackful but I guess I'll
just go ahead and say what I was thinking. It makes the original poster
look lazy/immature/ignorant or possible all three. It's not just his
repeated use of the (non)word "stuph" but also his grammer, lack of
punctuation and capitalization as well as other distorted spellings. 
1:43 p.m.
At 11:28 AM -0700 9/23/05, Joe R. wrote:
At 06:26 AM 9/23/05 -0700, Cameron wrote:
I know what it sounds like. I was trying to be tackful but I guess I'll
just go ahead and say what I was thinking. It makes the original poster
look lazy/immature/ignorant or possible all three. It's not just his
repeated use of the (non)word "stuph" but also his grammer, lack of
punctuation and capitalization as well as other distorted spellings.
Joe
I think I'm going to have to agree with Joe on this, and my spelling
is probably notorious! At least I attempt to use proper spelling,
grammar, and punctuation. I find email from those that don't bother,
or worse, purposefully mangle it, to be rather painful to read.
Zane
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OK,
what is "stuph"? This is the second message that I've seen from you
using that term.
Say it out loud. :) 
2:10 p.m.
New subject: Way Off Topic - was RE: interested in obtaining early workstations
...
I think I'm going to have to agree with Joe on
this, and my
spelling is probably notorious! At least I attempt to use
proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation. I find email from
those that don't bother, or worse, purposefully mangle it, to
be rather painful to read.
Actually, I kind of like it in a warped sort of way. When I am asking for
applications for a Teaching Assistant who would like to work on the
department web site it gives me a very easy way to reject out of hand over
half the applicants who can't be bothered to put their best foot forward.
Some of the emails read like they were IMing a buddy.
No class at al.
Gil
A. G. (Gil) Carrick, Director
The Museum at CSE
University of Texas at Arlington
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Box 19015, 471 S Cooper Street
Arlington, TX 76019
817-272-3620
http://www.cse.uta.edu/TheMuseum at CSE/
2:47 p.m.
>>>OK, what is "stuph"? This is the
second message that I've seen from you using that term.
>>
>>Say it out loud. :)
>
>I know what it sounds like. I was trying to be tackful but I guess I'll just go
ahead and say what I was thinking. It makes the original poster look
lazy/immature/ignorant or possible all three. It's not just his repeated use of the
(non)word "stuph" but also his grammer, lack of punctuation and capitalization
as well as other distorted spellings.
Irony abounds.
The word you meant is "tactful." Unless, of course, you meant lots of horse
harnesses.
Yours in Peace,
the guy still looking for HP Touchscreen error code explanations
3:20 p.m.
>>>> "Zane" == Zane H Healy
<healyzh at aracnet.com> writes:
Zane> I think I'm going to have to agree with Joe on this, and my
Zane> spelling is probably notorious! At least I attempt to use
Zane> proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation. I find email from
Zane> those that don't bother, or worse, purposefully mangle it, to
Zane> be rather painful to read.
I agree. So if someone writes like a teenager, treat their mail as
from a teenager. No problem.
paul
9:09 p.m.
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Brad Parker wrote:
"Joe R." wrote:
...
Yo, wurd up dawg!
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It's not just his
repeated use of the (non)word "stuph" but also his grammer, lack of
punctuation and capitalization as well as other distorted spellings.
yes, but he has mad skillz :-)
10:22 p.m.
New subject: Assembling PDF's from images
I know several people here use tools to take a directory of images
and turn them into a PDF. I'm looking for some advice on how to do
this. Ideas on how to do this using either free or commercial
software is fine. I gather that the images will be JPEG (I don't
know they are planning on capturing the images yet, and will try to
convince them to use a loss less format, an option might be TIFF or
Nikon RAW).
Should anyone care this is for a Historical Library, and you now know
as much as I know.
Zane
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24 Sep
24 Sep
1:11 p.m.
New subject: Assembling PDF's from images
Zane H. Healy wrote:
I know several people here use tools to take a
directory of images and
turn them into a PDF. I'm looking for some advice on how to do this.
Ideas on how to do this using either free or commercial software is
fine. I gather that the images will be JPEG (I don't know they are
planning on capturing the images yet, and will try to convince them to
use a loss less format, an option might be TIFF or Nikon RAW).
I've always used ImageMagick's convert utility to do this - with a flat
directory of images it'd be a single command from the shell.
Hooks are provided from all sorts of programming languages if you want
to do something much more complicated (as well as providing logging
output, which might be important given the context)
cheers
Jules
7:14 a.m.
At 09:28 AM 9/23/05 -0400, you wrote:
And thusly Joe R. spake:
That sounds like some of the "tech support" people that I deal with!
Joe
OK, what is "stuph"? This is the second message that I've seen from you
using that term.
Joe
stuph is phat. But only iph its vintage computing stuph.
Yo Yo Yo!,
Bryan
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