test-drb September 2001

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by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

Today Tim Olmstead passed away from a battle with cancer. A great loss. For those less familiar with his efforts for the classic computer community the _Unofficial CP/M Web_ site is his effort. For me I lost a friend and someone that shared the love of a system he could totally understand to the very hardware and bits that made it run. Allison

24 years, 1 month

World Trade crash...

by LFessen106＠aol.com

In a message dated 9/11/01 10:19:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, edick(a)idcomm.com writes: > Yes ... Dubya must have REALLY pissed someone off! Reports are that these > were > specific attacks, and that there was also an apparently intentional crash on > a > helipad near the Pentagon ... <sigh> You'd think they'd get closer than > that > ... > > Dick For those of you with friends and loved ones in these areas my heart and prayers are with you. At 10:40am here on the east coast there have been 4 attacks so far. The world trade center twice, the pentagon, and the state dept bldg in washington. -Linc Fessenden In The Beginning there was nothing, which exploded - Yeah right... Calculating in binary code is as easy as 01,10,11.

24 years, 1 month

ENOUGH ALREADY

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

-----Original Message----- From: Jay West [mailto:west@tseinc.com] I sincerely agree as to the tragedy of recent US events. My heart goes out to all affected. HOWEVER, this is a classic computer mailing list. The discussion on the WTC stuff is very interesting, but it belongs on all the myraid of other lists present on the net for this purpose. What on EARTH posessed people to think we needed blow by blow updates on this list about current world events? Think - if you have to put "OT" in the subject of your message, it probably doesn't belong here. Regards, Jay West Jay --- Thank you for your sympathy... What possesed us to post updates here? Since I was the first to mention it (IIRC, I might be wrong), I'll answer... Simple. Many people here were stuck at work, without any source of news, to find out what was happening. Major news websites were useless, since they were all swamped yesterday. I know of a couple people, who didn't know a thing about it, until I sent a message. They were then able to take care of necessary business in due time. If I upset someone by posting an OT message to one of my mailing lists, and helping someone in the process, I say too bad. Suck it up. There are a few times when an OT post is accepted. Yesterday was one of them. But, yes, now is the time to kill this thread from the list, now that everything has calmed down some... It's time to help your neighbors. Call your local Red Cross, and make an app't to donate blood. --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu <mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu> --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

24 years, 1 month

Where are the Anti-OT measures?

by celigne＠tinyworld.co.uk

I'm not disputing the importance of this issue, but this isn't the place.

24 years, 1 month

essential CP/M files

by frustum＠pacbell.net

Since somebody brought up the issue of CP/M, I have a question for the old CP/M hands out there in classiccmp-land. Short version: If you were stuck on an island with a solar-powered CP/M machine and only one floppy disk in CP/M 2.2 format, which programs and utilities would you want on that disk? Longer version: I've been (slowly) adding support for emulating a double-density (dual density, actually) northstar disk controller in my Sol emulator, Solace. When I release this version of the emulator, I was wondering what disk images to present with it. I know full well that I might be the only person who will really use this, and a few dozen people may fire it up, mess with it a bit, and that's all. Still, having spent so much time developing it, I'd like to present a polished package. There is, fortunately, a wealth of CP/M files still out there on the net, but my goal isn't to collect them all and put them on my site. What I want is to have some essential/useful general CP/M programs, then collect just those that are specific to the Sol version of CP/M (or another S-100 machine using a VDM). Any opinions of what I should distribute with the emulator? Here is what I am planning on so far: STAT PIP ASM MAC DDT ED DUMP LOAD SUBMIT XSUB This list was chosen simply because these are the standard programs/utilities that D.R. shipped with CP/M 2.2 and are described in their user's manual. Unfortunately, I don't have FORMAT, MOVCPM, PUTSYS, GETSYS, or SYSGEN since all this has been bootstrapped up off of the single floppy that was in my machine when I got it, and that disk didn't include much of anything other than the boot tracks. I could recreate them, but it would take some time and it is time I'd rather spend in other ways. It probably doesn't matter anyway since there is no good reason to SYSGEN as the emulator has only one memory size. Although there are lots of replacement programs for those listed above that are undoubtedly better than the stock CP/M 2.2 programs, I am going to use the originals from D.R. and leave it up to any user who cares enough to customize it as they see fit. I plan on adding one disk utility to allow making a sector-by-sector copy of virtual disks so that new boot disks can be created. NSCOPY is the one I use on my real Sol, so it is probably the one I will distribute with Solace. As a reminder, the Sol uses an 8080, so I can't use a lot of the fancy Z80-ified programs that are out there. Thanks for any opinions you can share. ----- Jim Battle == frustum(a)pacbell.net

24 years, 1 month

OT: Some new WTC pics...

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

I got a couple more pictures of the World Trade Towers... http://pages.cthome.net/squeege/wtrade/updates.html --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

24 years, 1 month

Please, more computers...

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 10:10 PM Subject: Re: ENOUGH ALREADY >volume lists than this one! I for one would like to read something about >classic computers, as I'm feeling the need for a refuge from the madness! Please, radio, TV and whatnot is saturated with the news. I need a break >from it. Right now I need something else even if off topic just not that one. Allison

24 years, 1 month

New scores!

by west＠tseinc.com

Just unpacked a truely rare and valuable item.... A CE alignment disc cartridge for an HP 7900A disc drive! woohoo! (also about five 7900A disc cartridges) Also just obtained three 7906D disc drives, three 13037 disc controller subsystems, three 13037 disc interface cards, about ten 7906 disc cartridges, and all associated cables! Of course, I am truely not worthy to own such gear, since I seem to think FOUR is 101 *GRIN* Jay West

24 years, 1 month

ENOUGH ALREADY

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

I couldn't agree more! I'm down to three mailing lists anymore, and this list is the only one I activelly read. I'm also noticing that it has more posts about this than the other two put together, and they're BOTH higher volume lists than this one! I for one would like to read something about classic computers, as I'm feeling the need for a refuge from the madness! Zane > Well, I'll second Jay's opinion. I hope others who feel likewise will > do the same. > > I understand your need to discuss these events. I suggest you do so > with your family, friends, and co-workers. > > Respectfully, > > John > > Jeffrey Ingber wrote: > > > > Thanks for the HTML. > > > > Right now, it would seem that you are in the minority - as most people > > seem to have more pressing issues than Classic Computers. > > > > Jeffrey H. Ingber (jhingber _at_ ix.netcom.com) > > > > On Wed, 2001-09-12 at 16:21, Jay West wrote: > > > I sincerely agree as to the tragedy of recent US events. My heart goes out to all affected. > > > > > > HOWEVER, this is a classic computer mailing list. The discussion on the WTC stuff is very interesting, but it belongs on all the myraid of other lists present on the net for this purpose. > > > > > > What on EARTH posessed people to think we needed blow by blow updates on this list about current world events? Think - if you have to put "OT" in the subject of your message, it probably doesn't belong here. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Jay West > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature >

24 years, 1 month

Fwd: gulovsen@law.uiuc.edu: Wang disk conversion referral

by dtwright＠uiuc.edu

Hey all, If anyone can help this guy out, it'd be greatly appreciated... if you can help, please contact him directly. It sounds like they're willing to pay for the help too. Thanks... ----- Forwarded message from "Gulovsen, Grant" <gulovsen(a)law.uiuc.edu> ----- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:20:04 -0500 Reply-To: "Gulovsen, Grant" <gulovsen(a)law.uiuc.edu> From: "Gulovsen, Grant" <gulovsen(a)law.uiuc.edu> Subject: Wang disk conversion referral To: CCSP(a)LISTSERV.UIUC.EDU X-Loop: dtwright(a)uiuc.edu Despite asking all College of Law faculty members to convert their WANG-based documents to WordPerfect/Word many (many, many) years ago, we have a faculty member who now needs to pull an old article off of two 8" WANG disks (ugh). Does anyone out there know anyone who is capable of performing this onerous task? Obviously we would prefer to find something reasonably priced on campus, but he is willing to pay for a commercial service. Thanks (and he promises to convert all of his old WANG disks as part of this process). Sincerely, Grant Robert Gulovsen Director of Information Services University of Illinois College of Law 203A Law Building, MC-594 504 East Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, IL 61820 phone: 217.244.0157 fax: 217.244.1478 email: gulovsen(a)law.uiuc.edu url: http://www.law.uiuc.edu ----- End forwarded message ----- - Dan Wright (dtwright(a)uiuc.edu) (http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright) -] ------------------------------ [-] -------------------------------- [- ``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.'' Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan

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