A fellow who was putting the air in "Microsoft Tire" (c) is going to
prison. Microsoft claims that the air they give free with the tire is
not free. You can download the air and install the air and use the
air, but noone can help you do it or they will spend 15months in
federal prison and pay 3/4 of a million beans in damages for helping
you and charging nothing for it but a quarter for the electricity it
cost to put the air in.
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-microsoft-copyright-20…
Jeff
These went exceptionally fast.
Timing of the first response was Jim Capp by about 1 minute. So if Jim will send me his physical address off list, I?ll coordinate with him in shipping them.
David
> On Oct 7, 2019, at 6:05 AM, Jim Capp <jcapp at anteil.com> wrote:
>
> David,
>
> I?m interested and will give them a good home. I?m in Pennsylvania, so coffee would not work. I?m also willing to cover your shipping costs.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim
>
>
>> On Oct 7, 2019, at 8:56 AM, David <david at kdbarto.org> wrote:
>>
>> I?ve got a few books I?ve just pulled off the shelf and no longer want/need.
>> I?m hoping someone will give them a good home.
>>
>> UNIX System Labs Inc UNIX(r) System V Release 4
>> Programmers Guide: System Services and Application Packaging Tools
>> Device Driver Interface/Driver-Kernel Interface (DDI/DKI) Reference Manual (2 copies)
>>
>> AT&T 3B2/3B5/3B15 Computers Assembly Programming Manual
>>
>> Sun Microsystems Inc (Sun Technical Reports)
>> The UNIX System - 1985
>> Sun 3 Architecture - 1986
>>
>> I?m willing to split postage on mailing them wherever. If you are local (San Diego)
>> I?m willing to meet you wherever for an exchange and a coffee.
>>
>> David
>> (Also posted on the cctalk mailing list)
>>
>
Well I said no more computers I can't lift, but exotic systems keep
finding me. So today we pulled a Tandem CLX out of a basement, along
with a few boxes of docs, 9-track tapes and random odd and ends:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/m2N7RKN3JXcmVTUC8
There's such as thing as "so obscure that no one knows/cares about
it". I've had those before. Do I have another? It sure is heavy.
-j
This is a long shot, but...
There was an Able Computer document at VCF Midwest, and through a
miscommunication, it wound up on the 'free' pile. Did anyone here get it?
If so, I'd like to try and get it scanned in, and made available.
The thing is that documentation for Able products is hyper-rare; we only have
those for the UNIVERTER and QNIVERTER, and some preliminary notes for the
ENABLE. So if this can somehow be located...
And while I'm at it, if anyone has any documentation on other Able products
(there's a list here:
http://gunkies.org/wiki/Able_Computer
which I think is fairly complete), it would be great to get that scanned in
too. (Not advertising brochures, we have a couple of them.)
Thanks!
Noel
> From: Jason T
> didn't know you were at the show. Thanks for coming out!
I wasn't! :-) This is via Paul A, who was there.
I don't recall where they were before they got free-piled (he told me who it
was who had it, but I had no particular reason to store those bits in my
memory).
Noel
I?ve got a few books I?ve just pulled off the shelf and no longer want/need.
I?m hoping someone will give them a good home.
UNIX System Labs Inc UNIX(r) System V Release 4
Programmers Guide: System Services and Application Packaging Tools
Device Driver Interface/Driver-Kernel Interface (DDI/DKI) Reference Manual (2 copies)
AT&T 3B2/3B5/3B15 Computers Assembly Programming Manual
Sun Microsystems Inc (Sun Technical Reports)
The UNIX System - 1985
Sun 3 Architecture - 1986
I?m willing to split postage on mailing them wherever. If you are local (San Diego)
I?m willing to meet you wherever for an exchange and a coffee.
David
(Also posted on the Unix Heritage Society mailing list)
Hi everybody,
as I don't recall seeing this offer around here (may be just rusty memory on my side however...), I thought I'd forward this for good measure.
I'm considering making the 2k mi trip together with my Dad but would do so only as a last resort to save the machine from being scrapped.
I think I have some excess CPU boards, maybe a clock board, spacers and PCU/fan boxes from a gutted E4k class machine here (southern Germany) so I might be able to help people looking for parts.
So long,
Arno // DO4NAK
> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2019 14:26:06 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Mike Spooner<mikes at aalin.co.uk>
> To: The Rescue List<rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: [rescue] Very Last Chance - E6000 and/or parts
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> In spite of my efforts to find a good home for my 18x250MHz Sun Enterprise E6000 a couple of months ago, I still have it. Unfortunately, the house is now sold and the E6000 needs to be gone by next Sunday.I can store it at work for a few weeks whilst sorting out shipping etc for any takers.
> I am located on the Isle of Man, so most of you won't be able to just drive round and pick it up!
> Thus I'm willing to split it up into it's constituent modules - if you need PCMs, CPU/Mem boards, I/O boards, a disk board, clock module, peripheral power supply, Sun FC transcievers, memory DIMMs, QFE SBus cards, keyswitch module, peripheral cable harness, etc to keep your E3000/4000/5000/6000 sprightly and running,*please* drop me a line, ASAP. At a pinch, I might even be able to extract the 16-slot Gigaplane backplane from the steel chassis.
> Alternatively, if you know of anyone else who might be interested,*please* pass this message and my email-address on to them.
> I'll post the full list of component modules/parts here in a day or so.
> -- Mike Spooner
Hi,
I am restoring a Computer Automation Alpha LSI/2 minicomputer and need some help with software documentation.?I have a?Computer Automation Alpha LSI/2 minicomputer and cards, and I have binary images of the paper tapes, but I don't have the manual for using the software library tools.
By any chance does anyone have any of the documentation for the standard software library that came with the machine? BLD, OMEGA, LAMBDA, STP, etc? There was a standard paper tape that had all the basic software for assembly language coding and for loading and linking. The tape images are on bitsavers.org, but the manuals don't seem to be available.
The manual was called the Software Documentation Manual.?
Thanks for your help.
David Carroll
