I just got this message from someone inside SCO. The only reason I don't
post his e-mail address is because I don't know if he wanted people
bombarding him with questions or requests for information. But I thought
this might be of interest in case nobody else has heard.
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Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 09:42:19 PST
From: Dion Johnson
To: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)wco.com>
Subject: yo
I just finished arranging a nearly-free source license
for people who want old UNIX sources Edition1-7. There
are about 400 people in the PDP-1 Unix Preservation
Society! (minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au)
I work for SCO and did the wrangling with the legal eagles,
and yes it was a side project. It costs $100, but we will
waive that fee for hardship/justifiable cases
-Dion
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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>Which only goes to show that the spirit of curiosity and challenge that
>motivated the rest of us to stay up all night writing code (or playing
>Zork) is not dead.
>
>What's even better is that the younger members of this list have
combined
>that spirit with a sense of history; they will not be reinventing the
>wheel, but will be building on it.
>
>If you don't know why screens were traditionally 80 columns wide, you
don't
>know if it's okay to toss that idea aside should the technology allows
it.
>
Why ARE screens 80 Cols wide?
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>roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen
know."
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> Yes, in "Wargames," the military did refer to the compuer as WOPR (War
> Operations Planned Response), while the creator of the computer, and to
the
> hero, it was Joshua (the creator's dead son).
Not sure what Capn Napalm meant by that, the thing I remember is that
"Joshua" was (in addition to being the name of the computer creator's
dead son, the light of his life) the secret #2 backdoor password to get
in.....
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hoping to someday have half a brain,
--- mikey
weese(a)mind.net
Anybody need a paperweight? If it's from someone named "Carp", it's
got to be good...
>FS: 630 Copies, shrink wrapped, OS/2 ver. 3.0 (Warp) Blue Spine.
>
>$20. ea. plus s/h & COD. This edition includes the Bonus Pack.
>
>Yours truly,
>Quantalytics, Inc.
>
>Arthur J. Carp
>516.295.3230 (phone & fax, auto-switched)
>mailto:quant@dti.net
>http://home.dti.net/quant/forsale/forsale.html
>
>
-Bill Richman
bill_r(a)inetnebr.com
http://incolor.inetnebr.com/bill_r
(Home of the COSMAC Elf Simulator!)
Open the panel below the CE Panel. A bit to your right is a vertical
board w/lots of screw terminals. I need the voltages of the screw
terminals when the system is running
>[Sys/34 and Voltmeters.]
>Well. My 34 has power, runs, and I think I can use a voltmeter.
>I've measured batteries and such with it. If told what to do, cahnces
are good
>I can get the voltages you need/
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>About 25-50 pounds in weight never mind cost.
>
><b)Using a bunch of PC power supplies to power the DC components.
><My first problem is how I trick a PC/AT power supply to stay on when
><it's not hooked up to anything. Do I need to short something?
>
>Don't do it. First, switching powersupplies get real upset if the are
not
>loaded to some minimum point, they gernerally don't like running in
>parallel and the other is power sequencing.
What's power sequencing?
><Next is the problem of pinouts on the 34. There is ground and +5v
><labelled clearly. THere is also a circuit board with lots of screw
><terminals. Could someone tell me the voltages on those (it's a board
><right below the CE panel and a bit on the right)?
>
>Get and learn to use volmeters. There may be unsafe voltages or
currents
>at low voltages that can be dangerous. Also miswiring could toast the
>machine fully and very completely.
I have voltmeters, and know how to use them, but they aren't much
use when there is no way to power the thing.
>
>Allison
>
>
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I'd recommend consulting Gaylord Hill <GaylordHil(a)aol.com>. He specializes
in Apple II clones.
Sincerely,
Tom Owad
>I used to be a big Apple ][ fan, but I really can't recall any early Apple
>clones that match this description:
>
>"Apple II clone, either a peach or an Apricot, looks like an Apple II, but
>has extended keyboard, also has upper and lower case, shift keys work on
>all characters, not just on a few like Apple II. Cover is White Plastic,
>condition of cover and keyboard good. No label on cover. No identification
>on Motherboard."
Greets:
A lady contacted me recently with the following description of a pretty
good Commodore system she has for sale. I'm not going to get it, so I
thought I'd pass it on to you folks. Please reply directly to her at
RosemaryConte(a)worldnet.att.net --the message is as follows:
I have a Com 128D computer, detachable keybd; 1571 disc dr;
MPS 1000 printer; Magnavox RGB Display 80 monitor. Compat w/ Com 64
software; cables, software, etc.
I'd like to get $100 for it.
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Here's the message I just sent to ClassicMacs mailing list, I'm too lazy to
type it all again ;-)
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Just picked up a Mac II 5/80/two 800k FD's for $15(including a datatronics
keyboard and an Apple mouse), with an ethernet card that everyone seemedd
to think was a second video card... They said whenever they plugged a
monitor into it, the computer shutdown. I hope it hasn't been destroyed...
Anyways, it came with System 6.0.5, Word 4.0 and Illustrator 88(and tons of
documents for both programs), all of which have already been deleted.
Problem is that I'm having trouble getting System 7.0 to run. At first I
couldn't get it to boot at all from the disk tools disk, then I finally
installed it onto one of the three partitions and deleted the Sys6 system
folder. Then it still woudn't boot. I took out the ethernet card and my PC
Drive card(which I think may be bad). Now it tries two or three times
minimum to boot from the hard drive, and usually refuses to boot from the
floppy(although that may be fixed now, I'm not sure). The Apple HD SC Setup
on the Disk Tools disk did not see the disk, so I went back to my PowerMac
which had a copy of a hacked HD SC Setup I had downloaded. Back to the II,
where the disk refused to boot. OK, I finally got it to boot from the HD,
then I opened the floppy, and then the system folder. Finally the normal
System Folder icon is back and it boots again. I launch the hacked HD SC
Setup and it sees a disk at SCSI ID 6(I haven't changed that yet, I need to
take the HD out and find the info on it), but it can't reformat. It says it
can't prepare the disk for initialization, no particular reason is given...
Current config right now is 5/80 with the two 800k drives, and the Radius
Pivot interface. Any ideas? I'm stumped.
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Yesterday I did the Silicon Valley Elderhostel comp. hist. lecture, and in
the Q&A afterwards, a woman from one of the gold rush ~ghost towns in the
Sierra said that her school had been given two HP Vectra 486's, but with no
OS's. HP has been forced to follow MS' ultimatum (who but MS could or
would step on HP?) and can only supply her with Win95, which these boxes
don't have the horsepower for, on CD, but.... no CD drives either. She
badly needs HP Vectra OEM Windows 3.1(1) on 3.5" floppies, and HP's
response to her is basically "We're only allowed to tell you that that
never existed."
Can anybody help with a copy? TVMIA --
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