test-drb August 2012

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by jonas＠otter.se

On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 19:46:28 +0100 (BST), ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote: > Ah... That's the differnce. I went to what is called a 'public > school', which _is_ an expensive private school Put it this way, I am > entitled to put 'OP' after my name. Said school seemed not to bother > too much with science/maths and I guess that's reflected i nteh teachers. Yes I know a 'public school' is not public, but private :-) Old Persean? Old Pauline? Old Pangbournian? Order of Preachers? Ordinary Prat? ;-) I could fancy putting 'OP' after my name, with the last interpretation :-) >> better teachers. I don't know if the state schools are generally bad or not. > >From what Iv'e heard they're even worse. Mine was run by the Quakers. They were actually very nice people and didn't force their religion on you, except to require attendance at Sunday Meetings if you had no other church to go to. Meetings were usually only an hour's complete silence, anyway, so it wasn't oppressive in any way. They did have good, and very nice, teachers. Not to say that it didn't cost a lot of money to go there, but not like a public school. /Jonas

13 years, 1 month

Free to good home - DEC TS05 Tape Drive - Manchester UK

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

Good grief, these are not large or heavy devices. You know the TS05 is a little tabletop drive, right? Not much bigger than a big PeeCee. -Dave Dave Wade <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote: >On 02/08/2012 13:03, Julian Smith wrote: >> OK, it'll be free to a bad home too. >> >> I've had it sat in a garage for8 or 9 years (boxed and on a small >> pallet) and I'm unlikely to do anything with it any time soon and >> 'we' are having a clear out as the garage is being converted into >> another room... >> >> Is this of any use / interest to anyone? Was supposedly working >> when I got it, but I've no way to test it. >> >> If it's not of any use to anyone, does anyone have a spare TSV05 / >> M7196 so I can at least pretend I might do something with it? >> >> Before anyone asks, shipping this is not an option... >If its actually on a pallet shipping in the UK is certainly possible. >And although I live in Manchester and am very interested I have no where >to store it myself. There are at least three of us on this list in >Manchester so perhaps we need to get together and look at having some >shared location we can we can have working kit.... >> Julian >> >-- Dave Wade G4UGM >Illegitimi Non Carborundum > >*** For the Hams on the list three special event stations in Manchester >now operational ***** >**** GB2012MV, GB2012MS and GB2012MW. See http://GB2012MS.COM/ for links >and schedules. ***

13 years, 1 month

rsx11m plus V2.1 / 3.0

by quapla＠xs4all.nl

Who is able to supply me with a simh '.tpc' format file of rsx11m plus version 2.1 and/or 3.0? These are covered under the Mentec hobbyist license. Please msg off list if needed. Thanks, Ed -- Dit is een HTML vrije email / This is an HTML free email. Zeg NEE tegen de 'slimme' meter.

13 years, 1 month

Go Science !!

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

Ill get excited when a collaborative open source vessel touches Martian soil :) ------------------------------ On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 6:26 PM PDT mc68010 wrote: >This is amazing and happens 10:30 PDT this Sunday. http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl

13 years, 1 month

Free to good home - DEC TS05 Tape Drive - Manchester UK

by julian＠jnt.me.uk

OK, it'll be free to a bad home too. I've had it sat in a garage for8 or 9 years (boxed and on a small pallet) and I'm unlikely to do anything with it any time soon and 'we' are having a clear out as the garage is being converted into another room... Is this of any use / interest to anyone? Was supposedly working when I got it, but I've no way to test it. If it's not of any use to anyone, does anyone have a spare TSV05 / M7196 so I can at least pretend I might do something with it? Before anyone asks, shipping this is not an option... Julian

13 years, 1 month

Apple 1 demo on video

by evan＠snarc.net

Here's me, at HOPE a few weeks ago, demoing the Mimeo 1. I come off as a total dork on camera, vs. only mostly a dork in real life. Anyway .... here goes .... please keep the heckling to a minimum: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/07/31/2319249/march-presents-apple-i-…

13 years, 1 month

TIROS-related stuff

by cclist＠sydex.com

A fellow posted some stuff related to the TIROS weather satellite on Erik's Vintage Computer forum. http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?31952-Seeking- info-on-Satellite-Weather-gear-%28Was-Seeking-info&highlight=multibus It appears to be a Multibus system that uses two Omnibyte 68K CPUs, a Matrox video card and an unidentified fourth card as well as some sort of calibration board (not Multibus apparently). Does anyone know anything about this? The owner is completely ignorant about this sort of thing and wonders if he should just scrap the whole thing. --Chuck

13 years, 1 month

Plano to Round Rock TX - uhaul space avail - short notice, leaving tomorrow morning

by richardlynch3＠verizon.net

U-haul rented me a little larger van than necessary so I?ve got some space if someone needs to send a smallish system from Plano to Round Rock. Call 469-877-9543 if interested. Richard Lynch

13 years, 1 month

TIROS-related stuff

by elson＠pico-systems.com

Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:44:19 -0700 From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: TIROS-related stuff Message-ID: <5019A333.22904.30EAD0D at cclist.sydex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII A fellow posted some stuff related to the TIROS weather satellite on Erik's Vintage Computer forum. http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?31952-Seeking- info-on-Satellite-Weather-gear-%28Was-Seeking-info&highlight=multibus It appears to be a Multibus system that uses two Omnibyte 68K CPUs, a Matrox video card and an unidentified fourth card as well as some sort of calibration board (not Multibus apparently). Does anyone know anything about this? The owner is completely ignorant about this sort of thing and wonders if he should just scrap the whole thing. Hmmm, the TIROS system was WAY before Multibus and M68K, the first one went up in 1960. I have a few bits of the TIROS sun angle computer, and looked at some of the gear that recorded the slow-scan images to film. Alden was the big maker of weather fax machines in the 1970-1980 range. The date on the plate indicates it was a 1984 NOAA contract and the unit was built in 1987. I can't believe there was any TIROS system operational at that time, I suspect the TIROS label was a historical artifact in Alden's documentation, and that this system was actually used to receive and print out GOES images. The GOES satellite sent high bit rate data while the mirror swept the image of the earth, then received a processed image from a ground station during the time the mirror was sweeping space and relayed that to ground receiving stations for printout. Ships at sea could print out weather maps in near real time, for instance. Jon

13 years, 1 month

Amstard PPC640D - boot idsk?

by alhartman＠yahoo.com

Absolutely not true. I both sold, and owned AST 286 and 386 systems back in the late 1980's, and early 1990's. They were VERY nice systems with a stylish case. Al From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> >> We sold AST, IBM, Viglen, Apricot, lots of Amstrads - the 1st cheap PC >> clones in the UK & also big in Germany under the Schneider brand, I >> believe. > >AST here was expansion boards, no complete machines;? >

13 years, 1 month

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test-drb August 2012