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Slow mac need more HD speed 2793
Religious idiots didn't burn the library. That's a myth. You are probably referring to the destruction of...
Low res. movies was: Slow mac need more HD speed 2794
Michael Wojcik Probably not in Circuit Cellar -- they only started publishing in 1988 when PCs with tape...
Water Was Low Res
Robert Billing I was once called in to repair a GE Terminet printer that was...
stamps & tokens was Low res. movies
I'm collecting phrases that have died in my lifetime, such as "that and a token will get you on the subway". The NYC busses and subway eliminated tokens for a magstripe farecard with...
Obsolete phrases was: stamps & tokens 2797
OED2 for 'flare, v.1' (note the 1973 citation): b. transf. A gradual widening or spreading outwards; also, that part which spreads. Also attrib...
Obsolete phrases 2798
Ah, but what about future versions where - they release scent only when someone's around - they detect pets and release more and more - multiple units within wireless range all collaborate and synchronize re...
Obsolete phrases 2799
Hehe...when I was an undergrad 25+ years ago and in the marching band, our football schedule included Oberlin, which is not too far away. One year, when CWRU played Oberlin at home, a fair...
Obsolete phrases was: stamps & tokens 2800
Don't remember. But I learned to type as an office-boy circa 1947, from an instruction manual...
Obsolete phrases 2801
Hmm, went to be with a headache. One of the best articles on random strings I have ever read (also, possibly, the only one) was by Mr. Thurber...
Obsolete phrases 2802
Perhaps it's not worthwhile hearing from them. Most people don't realize what they have to do to tune in TV or radio. Even in 1983, when I was wearing baggy green...
Obsolete phrases 2803
Power amp, tuning circuit, and other dumb radio stuff... yes. The "handset" would have consisted of the preamp, socket for keying and the 'secure' stuff like scrambler. If you suspected that your wire...
Obsolete phrases 2804
My grandparents retired a few years ago and were tossing their office furniture, including a 1916 Royal typewriter. I was...
Obsolete phrases 2805
Ah, I've done alittleresearch into this: A homonym is a word that has the same pronunciation or spelling (or both) as another word, but a different meaning. Homonyms can be subdivided into: * Homophones...
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That's Procrustus. I heard the short-short version that he had ONE bed: if you were too short, you were stretched to...
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David Scheidt Something like this was done with early "high density" computer storage. Magnetic cards would be filed together in a bin and each card...
Obsolete phrases 2808
I've programmed about fifty lines of COBOL in my entire career. But as it happens, I do remember that...
Obsolete phrases 2809
While we're on the topic of new topics, how about those phrases that get corrupted (e.g. by homonym errors) by people who don't know...
Low res. movies was: Slow mac need more HD speed 2810
Stamps already ARE currency, effective by some international treaty from the 1850's, already implemented before the US Civil...
Low res. movies was: Slow mac need more HD speed 2811
Sorry, I f***ed up. And I don't know the correct term to use. I was thinking about a currency that never loses nor gains value. I...
CrayCyber.org makes SGI Origin 2000 available for public
Hello, Cray-Cyber.org is a non-profit organization which provides access to historic supercomputers for free over the internet. Furthermore we reconstruct a museal computer room by obtaining vintage (super-)computers, putting them...
Unisys TO300 lost keyboard
From Deep Down Under, mpholland(at)gmail.com I have had a Unisys TO-300 terminal in my possesion for a year or so. I am wanting to hopefully connect to my FreeBSD box...
VM maclib reference
the original superset of DCSS, I had started on CP-67 and referred to it as virtual memory management (VMM) ... this included handling CMS disk i-o as...
Zeroing core
Yes, though often as a single "TX" and-or "RX" light. In these cases, again, 0x0000 or 0xFFFF is superior for human observation. I seem to recall...
How to find your soulmate IN ONE DAY Using The 4th Dimension
Uses of The 4th Dimension ------------------------------ Since I discovered The 4th Dimension, one of the conclusions I have reached is, The 4th Dimension is an infinite access to The Truth. Throughout this website...
IBM up for grabs 2817
before they sold the cottle rd facility (to hitachi) ... when 87 cut thru the middle of the property, the plant rec area came up on the other side of 87 ... as...
IBM up for grabs 2818
Anne & Lynn Wheeler some other pictures from site referenced in previous article ... cottle road site: in the plant site pciture from the air .... hiway...
Code with Character
Code with Character by Tod Golding When I'm writing code, I like my types to be straight shooters. I'm not into types...
IBM microwave applicationearly data communications 2820
I believe by the late 70's that the WU charts showed 90 megabit links between several East Coast concentrations. It's...
IBM microwave applicationearly data communications 2821
isn't there a big unfinished half-built tower off of connecticut(?) somewhere around friendship hills(?) ... behind a whole foods(?) store. sometime in the 70s(?), san jose had...
IBM microwave applicationearly data communications 2822
ref: one of the things that i worked on as part of HSDT ... was design a replacement encryptor .. that i could build for...
IBM microwave applicationearly data communications 2823
Anne & Lynn Wheeler The 1944 specs (as published by the NYT) were: "Each channel would be 20 megacycles wide, twenty times as wide as the whole broadcast program spectrum of the country...
DCSS as SWAP disk for zLinux
re: i couldn't find softcopy for my presentation ... so last night, i scanned the hardcopy. the pdf isn't bad, but the ocr processing...
Burroughs Medium Systems
My favorite memory of running mainframes was the huge red HALT button on the console. Would the unit actually start smoking if a bad instruction...
50th Anniversary of hard disk
According to this source: the introduction date for this drive, the IBM 350 Disk File (part of the IBM 305 RAMAC computer system) was Sept. 13, 1956 (other sources, including IBM's own...
Sprint backs out of IBM outsourcing deal
frequently the executive experience for managing IT organization is totally different than executive experience required for operating the rest of the business...
Free to good home: IBM RT UNIX
Greetings. THE GOOD ======== Moving again, and it's time to face the reality that I'm never going to get...
Free to good home: IBM RT UNIX
note that old operating systems and source use to be freely available. both cp67 and vm370 were free and shipped with source and source maint...
VAX" Tradename reused ! 2830
Chilling: Just pour a cm or so of N2 on the bottom of a dry chiller box with a spacer or grill so the goods don't come...
VAX" Tradename reused ! 2831
Steve O'Hara-Smith I would never let a computer sit directly on the floor, carpeted or otherwise. You can get half-size pallets...
VAX" Tradename reused ! 2832
on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 06:42:39 -0500: implies that the VAX vacuum cleaner predates DEC's use of the name. VAXvaksn. 1. from Virtual Address eXtension The most successful minicomputer design in...
Early microcomputer esp i8008 software
hansp The Intel PL-M compiler that generates i8008 code is out there on the net. It used to be on the oak.oakland.edu...
Change in computers as a hobbiest
Hi everyone, Just some random thoughts I thought I'd share. I've been a computer hobbiest for most of my life, and...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2835
Hi Alex, Alex Actually, if I had started in 1988, I likely wouldn't have started at all...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2836
Jukka Aho Well, it was not "built from scratch". I bought a video card kit. This...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2837
How different we can perceive things. I was spoilt by having early access to Tops20...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2838
Morten Reistad You're talking about multi-user operating systems, running on hardware that only companies could afford. That's a very different viewpoint. I can see perfectly well how the 80s was...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2839
UofMich was one of several universities that were convinced to order 360-67 on the promise of tss-360. when tss-360 floundered, many just used the 67 as 360-65 in batch mode with os-360...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2840
Anne & Lynn Wheeler People were dialing into several machines at CMU (then CIT) in the late 60's...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2841
ref: slightly related concerning billing and off-shift dialin i didn't get home terminal until mar70, it was initially a "portable" 2741 ... two...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2842
Please explain. You probably wouldn't have a cheap, powerful personal computer on your desktop now if it hadn't been for the 80s and the lowly...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2843
That shows the difference in views. We wanted real systems at home. The hardware wasn't that far from...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2844
Morten Reistad 80286 was released in 1982, MC68000 (which, IMHO, is a much more advanced product and thus better suited for a "real" operating system) in 1979. I have no idea of their relative...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2845
This may be a tad off-topic, but I'm curious which BBS systems you used and-or liked back then. I was never...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2846
I began calling bulletin boards in 1985. I never called a BBS outside of Sweden, however...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2847
Michael Widerkrantz Interesting. The command-line interface in MBBS and BBBS is based on the same principle. You only need to type enough of the command to differentiate...
Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2848
Well, the author of CygnusEd was a regular at club meetings, so I might have slipped him a...
Change in computers as a hobbiest
Carl Pearson The Norwegian-originated MBBS (from the creators of the GALINK or GLINK terminal...