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Von Neumann machines. The key to space and much else. 2441
The term seniority when referring to a currency refers to the primary currency for other countries to have their holdings in. Such currencies...
The Science of Data Recovery by "Mr. Stack
The Science of DATA Recovery Hosted by "Mr. Stack" Can we recover that which is lost? Can data which is written to disk be relegated to the ashes of time...
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Unix, actually, with a little Hayes modem thrown in at the end. Ashley, for her...
NEW and FREE ZX81 PROGRAMS
Bonjour, This month, I am proposing to you the adaptation of the board game "OODUNNIT" or also known as "WHODUNNIT" and "CLUE". A crime was committed...
Random Access Tape
Howdy, Group, Been having a conversation with this guy regarding tape vs disc. He asked if a hard or floppy disk was more like a tape recorder, or...
Random Access Tape 2446
sqrfolkdnc' worte, in part: Of course the LGP-30 had main memory AND the accumulator on DRUM, and addresses...
Random Access Tape 2447
After reflection I'm willing to yield some ground on this, but "bullpoo" is hardly justfied. And you're an butt. Of...
Random Access Tape 2448
Michael Wojcik I'm going to let you worry about the implications of agreeing with an butt...
Random Access Tape 2449
I don't agree with that definition. On average one half of a track's medium has to be traversed, and on average one-half of the...
Random Access Tape 2450
Continuous tape - one of the options we have been discussing - has no "end". For continuous...
Random Access Tape 2451
Charles Shannon Hendrix I validated this feature on IBM 2420 9 tracks in about 1968 plus 1. When you wrote the tape using the standard OS access...
Random Access Tape 2452
Let me throw a bit of cold water on this part of the thread. DDS drives write an END OF MEDIUM block after any data write. This comes after the FileMark that the operating system...
Random Access Tape 2453
This implies that no bits can be appeneded on those tapes. I don't believe that. These were dinky...
Random Access Tape 2454
If you could handle error recovery on block reads right you could just keep reading. You would get one or two empty ones...
Random Access Tape 2455
9-track finished. There wasn't with magtapes either without patching normal code. You cannot fool...
Random Access Tape 2456
Steve O'Hara-Smith' That's what the tape dangling in the vacuum is for. The idea is the tape stops...
Random Access Tape 2457
Mike Ross Hehehe. In my branch of the service (USAF) we had Burroughs, Sperry, Univac, DEC, around 25,000 reels of tape (I was stationed where all their software was written in the early 80...
Random Access Tape 2458
toober' To pick nits, they were not bits... That system was trinary - hole, no-hole, or...
Random Access Tape 2459
Peter Flbutt Not to my knowledge. Yes, Multics standard tape format had a block number in each block, and the tape DIM noticed an error if the number...
Random Access Tape 2460
That's how Pyramid would install their dual Universe Unix OS-x and DC-OSx (the SysVR4 Mips one)... We'd make a ROFS...
Random Access Tape 2461
Michael Wojcik One might note that early disk drives could have *fixed* heads, much like drums...
Random Access Tape 2462
Yes, but those are still random-access devices, because the device can read from non-adjacent points A and B without pbutting over intervening points. I'm talking about the logical "read head" (as in...
Random Access Tape 2463
Please don't toppost. I've fixed it for you...once. Not quite. There is the physical geometry and then there is the paths the heads have to...
The Bubble Sort 2464
Charles Richmond Insertion sort takes the next unsorted item and searches the sorted item list to...
The Bubble Sort 2465
Charles Richmond Hi Why not use a distribution sort. While quicksort works well for a small number of items, as the items...
The Bubble Sort 2466
Greg Menke) writes: One advantage of an insertion sort is that the table stays in sequence as you build it. This is good...
The Bubble Sort 2467
Charlie Gibbs wrote On 10-25-05 13:35,: Um, er, I was referring to something different: Not a procedure that keeps a table in order while building it...
The Bubble Sort 2468
Patrick Scheible If you just sort the keys, and leave the rest of the record in...
Filemode 79 2469
David Kreuter the cp67 development group split off from the science center (on the 4th flr) and absorbed the boston...
Filemode 79 2470
two other pieces of folklore somewhat related to the closing of burlington mall location 1) the news of burlington mall closing and killing the product (since all the people were required to support mvs-xa...
Did Apple really rip off Xerox with the Mac
J. Otto Tennant Close. "Formica" literrally means "FOR MICA", i.e. the material was intended as a subsbreastute for MICA...
MVCIN instruction
Leonard Woren 3081d engine was only slightly faster than 3033 ... about five mips. 3081k engine was around seven...
Big Bertha Thing blogs 2473
Big Bertha Thing PI Cosmic Ray Series Possible Real World System Constructs Access page to 46K ZIP file Astrophysics net ring access site Newsgroup Reviews including alt.politics.bush Calculate PI upto 3000 decimal places. Ready to...
Vintage Computer Festival 8.0 Event Guide
Vintage Computer Festival 8.0 Saturday & Sunday, November 5-6 Computer History Museum Mountain View, California This is your complete VCF 8.0 event...
1311 vs 2311 disk capacity 2475
Sarr J. Blumson Well, I wouldn't trust my memory either. :-) But I believe the 1620 only had 4 data bits, or at least only...
1311 vs 2311 disk capacity 2476
Charlie Gibbs There was a whole art to calculating optimized block sizes for various S-360 tapes and disks. As you said, the maximum was theortical only. Not only did...
1311 vs 2311 disk capacity 2477
Okay, let's try this again; a power glitch caused my machine to crash, but apparently not before it spat out fragments of the message I was...
Gartner: Stop Outsourcing Now
WM some topic drift ... when i was an undergraduate ... i got con'ed into teaching a one week computer clbutt during spring break ... to the technical staff of the newly formed...
Dangerous Hardware
When I was in high-school there was a Univac 9200 that we were trying to get...
Dangerous Hardware 2480
I still have a working Dataproducts B600 lineprinter from the early 1980's. This does 600 lines-minute, but has 136 hammers, one for every character...
Dangerous Hardware 2481
Saw this one first hand as a member of the rescue crew: Jackbutt "machine operator" gets his head right arm...
Dangerous Hardware 2482
Tris Orendorff posted here before I started my civilian computing career at UNOmaha in the spring of 1970, hired on the basis of my experience as a crack operator...
Dangerous Hardware 2483
Tris Orendorff' wrote, in part: Does anyone else have a dangerous hardware story? I have a story not about a dangerous computer, but rather a computer in a dangerous place. In the...
Dangerous Hardware 2484
Phil Weldon I worked at CICV (Combined Intelligence Center, Vietnam) under MACV, in a small walled-off compound on the outskirts of Saigon, after I got back...
Dangerous Hardware 2485
senate does confirmation of general and flag officers from above ... When a promotion selection board adjourns, the results from...
Dangerous Hardware 2486
When I served time in our Navy I was buttigned such programmer-clerical-software sysadmin work...
Dangerous Hardware 2487
Anne & Lynn Wheeler Ahhh... Thot that might be what you were referring to. I Was There. In the fall of '67, and I didn't even know...
Dangerous Hardware 2488
Phil Weldon I got one of those, too. The company I worked for in 1989 made Automated Voice Response systems. The machine designs dated back to the early 70's with the messages recorded on...
Dangerous Hardware 2489
The IBM MSS a.k.a. 3850 was a large tape robot (large storage for many tapes, with quite a few tape drives to read them...
Dangerous Hardware 2490
I'm a programmer, but I used to have to deal with a couple of Siemens 0777 laser printers (laserdrucken). They were very fast and printed on continuous forms paper (33...
Dangerous Hardware 2491
H'mmm...the 1443-N1 (the model that could be directly attached to an S-360 channel) had four available typebars, with character sets with 13, 39...
Dangerous Hardware 2492
Tris Orendorff Lots. There was the time I was walking past one of our mini-computers when an electrolytic capacitor on one...
This is New!! No Gimmick!You WILL MAKE
This is New!! No Gimmick!You WILL MAKE $$$$$ I tell you I have tried lots of these make money schemes and...
2nd level install duplicate volsers 2494
some number of collected past posts mentioning dasd architecture, vtocs, pds directories, multi-track searches ... including stories of shooting major performance problem for large national retailer ... that was purely mvs and didn't really involve vm...
2nd level install duplicate volsers 2495
ref: for a little drift on the subject of changing from a real memory constrained environment and the uptake of rdbms: now the original relational-sql implementation was done on vm370...
make tons of cash EASY
What is $5 and 15 minutes when it can make you earn $100,000 ? Not much, if you ask me... You've probably seen a lot of those kind...
Why does my address appear as part of my name 2497
No, they don't show up in a mailbox. They show up in a newsgroup. I thought I never would...
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