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Arpa address 3490
ref: what the heck ... here is another aup Interim 3 July 1990 NSFNET Acceptable Use Policy The purpose of NSFNET is to support research and education in and among...
READ BEFORE USING PAYPAL MAGIC
This is not a scam i have done it myself Can you really make money so easily? I am and this helps whilst developing my own online business! I thought...
Manuals vs. user guides
I'm unsure what direction the GNU and documentation efforts have taken, but when I was at AT&T, they had a nice hierarchy for Unix documentation. "man pages" described that particular command in isolation: didn't...
Jesus, Myth of history or Son of God
My name is Lorenzo Crescini. I am a Captain of the merchant Navy now on retirement. When I was a secular missionary in an African leprosary, I wrote some Flashes on the Holy Gospels...
Hey! Keep Your Hands Out Of My Abstraction Layer
they were suppose to be independent business units ... and they were funded to be lean and mean. however, they frequently conserved costs by being co-located at...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3495
Yes, it does! I witnessed this happen one time which resulted in an supervisor earning a little unpaid vacation time. Old multiplex equipment buttociated with Types J, K and L carrier systems used by...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3496
We'd toss them around like toys...tubes were tubes, nothing more. I felt the same way when I unloaded a...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3497
It was *nothing* to do radio equipment routines (on non-WECo designed radios) and replace 2-300 tubes in one day. Of course *most* of...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3498
I was USAF, but not for telcom. Lenkurt actually built some good, although quirky, stuff back in the day before GTE gutted them. Lenkert 75A and 775A MW radios were as reliable as...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3499
Davidson) Total nightmare. Hams that like old Collins gear wouldn't be Collins fans much longer if they only saw what Collins built for commercial...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3500
Michael A. Terrell old posts about T3 collins digital radio from san jose main plant site to STL and LSG Corner, Virginia) still have a meaning? Call? times? Data communications...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3501
Davidson) More. The 416C, the last version, went for a nice $460 apiece. The 416s were the...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3502
Davidson) SS7 was already in deployment in major toll centers by '90. I was involved in that regarding international trunking of Pacific Rim countries from...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3503
Sure, but "in major toll centers" is *very* limiting, because the advantages of SS7 were...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3504
The Labs did indeed cook up a harebrained scheme to retrofit #5-XBAR translators for SS7, which, of course, was ludicrous and was...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3505
The first 4ESS was installed in Baltimore, MD in 1964. At the same time, Long Lines was installing underground "hardened" 4Es across the country as part of the AUTOVON military network. That predates SS6...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3506
Davidson) Correct, which is why they had such a short life span. What the 1A did was allow various buttociated companies with depreciation schedules favoring retaining fully amortized equipment to finally...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3507
It would be correct to say that computerized common control stored program *analog* switches had a short life time, simply because the time lag between development of computers capable of controlling...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3508
Davidson) Well, considering that GTE was still running SXS in the majority of their offices in California, that would be true...for them. By the '80s, the RBOCs were already phasing out 1A-ESS...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3509
Phasing out" is not the same as "phased out". It wasn't anywhere near completed by 1990. Granted that...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3510
Davidson) The TELSAM scores told the tale...the "indies" sucked. Some of the worst came from various GTE properties, with United a close...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3511
Davidson) Just going by what they said at the time! Hmmmm...well, I can only go by what people from Pac Bell were reporting in their engineering...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3512
well well, Floyd, you're buddy buddy relationship with DeserTBob sure has changed since upthread, hasn't it ? it'll get worse- soon DB will be emailing your server and Google...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3513
The only thing that was wrong after five years was the politics! "Oops, we should be closer...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3514
You aren't gaining much credibility. That was mid to late 1970's technology (using California Microwave Inc's analog earth station equipment), and it also happened to be one of the few things they ever...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3515
Davidson) In your "sprinty" frame of reference, perhaps so. I remember when SP started Southern Pacific INTernal...
5963 computer grade dual triode production dates 3516
As I've noted, exaggeration isn't going to win points. The *fact* is that Sprint implemented SS7 before AT&T did. That is no reason to...
introduction dates of common transistors and diodes
Eric Smith That's a good question. In principle all the 1N-2N part numbers were registered with JEDEC and they ought to have a way of...
Sending CONSOLESYSLOG To OffMainframe Server
Tom Schmidt we were periodically constantly fighting with the communications group. the communications group had set up sna as communication control of large number of terminals ... but the included "network" in their...
Can anythink kill x8664
they sold IBM PCs in lieu of mainframe terminals (at about the same price) ... as part of this, the communication group acquired a...
How to implement Lpars within Linux
ref: yes, well, originally they claimed that only application code needed to be unbundled and charged for ... and...
PDP1 3521
Well...usually. After my PPOE ordered a 2361 LCS memory box, it was discovered that the freight elevator in the building (1940s? construction) was fractionally too small for...
PDP1 3522
Provided the elevators were reasonably large. A lot larger than normal person-elevators. A famous early story was that of the installation of the first 360 in Norway; it...
PDP1 3523
Seems likely. A fellow I worked with a while back talked about how they got some big IBM into and out of a basement location at the school he went to. The "in" part...
PDP1 3524
Firearms might do a more complete job, but it fouling up the hardware due to debug frustration didn't...
PDP1 3525
Yup. Also a TOPS-10 software developer type. He was a nice guy, pretty bright. But...
PDP1 3526
of as a book. Yup. That's what I have called user thruput. I've found that very few people who design systems consider this as a number one goal...
guards was: PDP1 3527
Eugene Miya As damn well they should. If the place is important enough to justify military clbutt security, it needs to be real, not a charade. At the time I was horrified to hear that...
guards was: PDP1 3528
Lars Poulsen (impulse news) That was my impression on hearing the story. If you need that level of security, you don't reprimand the guard for doing what he...
guards was: PDP1 3529
Larry Elmore) writes: Unfortunately, to your typical PHB the purpose of "security measures" is to give them the warm fuzzies, not to provide...
history and terminology: PDP8 was PDP1
I think Bruce Damer at the Digibarn still has one running. I think of all...
PDP1 3531
Nah... A TU78 was fairly quick, reliable and maintainable. The TU77 wasn't too bad. The TU45 was the demon tape drive spawn from hell from Pertec. They had...
PDP1 3532
Many people have said that I'm too much of a pack rat for my own good. Here's an entry from...
PDP1 3533
snip Only *an* entry? Well, thank goodness. I have 2270 entries in my collection. That is 2270 and a few more sigs. I do not have a whole entry on explosives as you do...
PDP1 3534
When the dotted lines break each page up in thirds, it's pretty difficult to get check-sized images to never overlap one...
PDP1 3535
over I'll buy that. When I used to do plastic modeling, there were some applications where you'd finish the joining...
PDP1 3536
The Xerox 8700 and 9700 lasers were sheet-feeders, but certainly they were mechanical marvels. Had an LSI-11-23 running RT...
battles of the cultures was: old battle of the lovees was: PDP1 3537
It is a consideration during peace time circumstances. During a hot war, national security of the physical nature has...
battles of the cultures was: old battle of the lovees was: PDP1 3538
I think this may be a little arrogant. The logistics need to be told to those who do the labor. Otherwise, they have no way to make a good decision...
battles of the cultures was: old battle of the lovees was: PDP1 3539
Not my quote or original observation. Known for many decades. Businesses can afford partial markets or customer bases. Countries have 100% requirements-goals, problems. Wars now are faster...
battles of the cultures was: old battle of the lovees was: PDP1 3540
NO, it is not; not if all your wealth is from real estate which is your personal residence...
battles of the cultures was: old battle of the lovees was: PDP1 3541
But you are dead and the estate has to pay the estimated rest taxes, in cash, within two months of the date of...
battles of the cultures was: old battle of the lovees was: PDP1 3544
We have a `free' education system here, Ireland. All one has to do is get good marks at an exam, and get a semi-free university course. Over the last few years, there...
battles of the cultures was: old battle of the lovees was: PDP1 3545
Your problem is that "free" part. If people don't feel they "own" the thing, they trash it and waste resources. He was...
battles of the cultures was: old battle of the lovees was: PDP1 3546
That is just the brick and mortar pieces. How do you make those who disrupt the learning...
battles of the cultures was: old battle of the lovees was: PDP1 3547
There was a report on the news this morning that profs are starting to ban laptops...
battles of the cultures was: old battle of the lovees was: PDP1 3548
I don't really have it yet; this is just the pre-A in finance's ABCs. I decided I didn't like this analogy because it implies an automatic physical process. A better...