test-drb January 2001

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by ncherry＠home.net

I've managed to boot the 3100 with the Hobbiest CD and now it sits at a '$' prompt. Does anyone have the instructions for install the CD? I had them but can not find them now. Any pointers (links) would be appreciated. Also what/where is the '$' prompt? It doesn't take show commands so I'm guessing I'm stuck in between something. Thanks -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry(a)home.net http://members.home.net/ncherry (Text only) http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/lightsey/52 (Graphics) http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)

25 years

Silicon Valley pioneer William Hewlett dead at 87

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On January 13, R. D. Davis wrote: > Apparently seeing his company deteriorate led to his death. Hewlett > Packard once produced equipment of very high quality, but, alas, it's > product quality has greatly deteriorated and HP appears to consist > mostly of marketing smoke and mirrors, only remaining in business > because of the once excellent products that are associated with the > company name. Granted there's more plastic in them than there used to be, but HP still makes the best test equipment that money can buy, as far as I'm concerned. There's no smoke or mirrors in their test equipment lineup. -Dave McGuire

25 years

Silicon Valley pioneer William Hewlett dead at 87

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On January 13, Shawn T. Rutledge wrote: > > Granted there's more plastic in them than there used to be, but HP > > still makes the best test equipment that money can buy, as far as I'm > > Err, you mean Agilent does, right? *GRR*. NO, I mean HP does. Even if they're calling themselves Agilent now. Fucking suits. -Dave McGuire

25 years

Off-topic (i.e., not "Nuke Redmond" or OS debate): 3270 ISA boards available

by r.stek＠snet.net

Sorry to drift from the MS-bashing going on <g>, but if anyone is interested in a set of 5 8-bit boards (3 full length, jumpered together) pulled from a 5150 based PC which was used for 3270 emulation, please let me know. Will trade for Altair 8800 or for cost of shipping boards (your choice). Bob Stek Saver of Lost Sols

25 years

Silicon Valley pioneer William Hewlett dead at 87

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/computing/01/12/hewlett.obit.ap/index.html

25 years

Nuke Richmond

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com> >The beauty of *nix right now is that its a bit of a chore to install, no >formal support, etc. and that leaves the door open for consultants et al to >make money selling, installing, and supporting it. Not a bad business model >really. I take an aside to this. The current crop of BSD and Linux flavored unix like OSs seem to be as easy to install as W9x. With one caveat, the unix camp is steeped in 30+ years of unix culture. It is this culture that makes if difficult as it's simply different! If you get past the difference and can adopt it's cultural language over prior biases it's fairly forthright and simple to install. Then again I say this as W95 was a royal PITA the first time compared to VMS and other DEC OSs I was familiar with. Then again creating a BIOS for CP/M was pretty intimidating at one time too. Allison

25 years

Eizo and NCR

by optimus＠canit.se

I made to observations today. One was a flat, long slab from NCR, with what seemed like 2 ISA slots in the back. On the bottom, it said on a label: Class 3390 Model 1204 I suppose this was employed in a cash register? Anyone familiar with this machine? I think it measured somewhere around 25?35?5 cm (W?D?H). Later that afternoon, I found an Eizo monitor, model 9052S-T. Since I recently got a very useful 9060S multisync, I thought this could be another good deal. I can't find any information about it, though. How low would it sync? Also, my 9060S suffers from noticable bleeding/ghosting around contrasting edges. Any cure? -- En ligne avec Thor 2.6. When all else fails, read the instructions.

25 years

OT! RE: Nuke Richmond (Long)

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: THETechnoid(a)home.com <THETechnoid(a)home.com> >This is on an HPFS formatted drive. A power failure can screw the >filesystem just like windows if you run fat. I gave up on fat about the >time I got OS/2.... Yes, FAT bad, anything else better. It's relevent too as FAT filesystem is only 18-19 years old and represents the greatest flaw of DOS, WIN3.1 and WIN9x. While off topic, it's interesting and OS designand evolution is something the list members might delve deeper into. Allison

25 years

Nuke Redmond!

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> >I buy nothing but Dell now, a good system that is as tightly integrated >with Windows as any machine out there. I have one at home, and one at the >office. Yet I have to reboot each on average once a week. FYI: my partners employer went all dell and they are far happier with them compared to DEC, compaq and Duratel. They dont seem to experience reboot problems save for when they run one rather badly behaved ACCESS based application. The Access hack (must have been written by script kiddies) even has a sloppy user interface. Don't blame the Cow for soggy cereal unless the Cow makes it. Allison

25 years

Nuke Richmond

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

>> Then again I say this as W95 was a royal PITA the first time compared to >> VMS and other DEC OSs I was familiar with. Then again creating a BIOS >> for CP/M was pretty intimidating at one time too. >> >> Allison > >It all depends on the person. I can install things such as Linux, OpenBSD, >Solaris, OpenVMS, MacOS and RT-11 almost with my eyes closed, and the hardest >part is waiting for the software to move from CD to HD (yes, even with RT-11). >With any Windows variant I seem to have to dedicate a minimum of one day to >cursing and fighting the garbage! Well first time took three days. Now I can do it in about an hour. 28 client system that were horridly configured was the practice. By horrid things like only one 500mb partition on a 1gb disk and other offenses to the mind. All I had to do was learn the OS and install scripting. My favorite kind of fun is taking a wreck like a 486/33 with 8mb ram and 120mb of disk and making a printserver and still have 60mb unused. I can do NT4/server faster though as it wants fewer reboots. Once I learn Linux installs I can do that about as fast for a generic install with most packages. It's the little "you gotta know" things that make a difference. Allison

25 years

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