HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Greg_Goss@mindlink.bc.ca (Greg Goss)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Slashed o's (o's, not zeros)?
Date: 15 Apr 92 21:33:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: mindlink.11440
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

My Radio Shack Pocket Computer (I guess it would be a PC-1 by analogy to later
pc-2's) used an open zero, but decorated the upper right corner of the oh

 ### #
##  ## ## # ##
##   ##
 #####

 or something like that.  A) it's been a long time, and B) I was never an
artist.  Are there any other systems that tried to represent the loop in the
upper right of the script version of the capital oh?

.../greg

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From: azog@thoth.rent.com (Billy D'Augustine)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: "Open Systems"
Date: 14 Apr 92 02:46:44 GMT
Organization: Cranial Construction Corp

madd@world.std.com (Bob Nagle) writes:

>>to the best of my knowledge, IBM still sells dos.  dos/vse was the
>>last version I used.  this is the only operating system on a mainframe
>>computer that makes ms-dos look fancy.  

>IBM does still sell it.  I'm not sure I'd call it the only mainframe
>OS that makes MS-DOS look fancy -- MS-DOS has better filesystem
>support than most mainframe OS's.

I kinda like DOS/VSE, as much as one can actually like the brain
dead OSs of IBM dinosaurs (yes, I even consider our 6 month old
ES/9121 a dinosaur).

I has a nifty file naming system:

library.sublibrary.(sublibrary)

(Im not too sure about that last element)

heres a relitivly straight forward example:

tctrans.delete 

You may not consider that straight forward, but like everything else,
file name conventions are site specific. In this case, this is the
JCL (arrgh!) to delete the Tax Collection Transaction file. 

>Happy hacking,

>jim frost
>madd@world.std.com
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From: marc@vieta.math.uni-sb.de (Marc Conrad)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Why is a byte called a byte?
Date: 13 Apr 92 09:42:35 GMT

rhc52134@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard) writes:

>pic@igc.org writes:


>>Can anyone out there tell me why a byte is called a byte?  Who
>>came up with the term?  When was it first used?

>No, a byte is not called a byte. It is called an etyb.

>Have fun!

>Why is Richard called Richard?

Perhaps because your parents liked this name ????

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From: jn11+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joseph M. Newcomer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: me vs. vi
Date: 16 Apr 92 05:14:04 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

(I don't have a decent mail system; it is hard to extract messages....)

Someone wrote "in the last week I've used EMACS twice a day and vi once".

In the last week, I have put in 80+ hours of hacking, having spent almost all
of them in an EMACS-class editor (Epsilon), except for the time I spent in
the debugger.  By my estimation, I have used EMACS once in the last week:
all the time.  And with respect to starting up the editor...I start up an
editor on a workstation once, and once only, when I log in.  I stay logged
in until the machine crashes, usually within a month or two.  The editor
stays up the entire time.  As does the mail system.  Startup time is not
especially interesting.  Only editors like 'vi' need to be started up often.
On the PC, I was driven crazy watching someone use Epsilon: he used it like
'vi', invoking the editor to edit a file, exiting it to compile.  When I
showed him concurrent shells, subshells, and error message capture he thought
this was too complex.  (This is an editor in which I've often had 100+
files open; and usually my entire source system for smaller projects).

One advantage of PC technology is that I can put 16Mb on with pocket change
and own enough power that I don't have to share it with anyone.  Those with
workstations shared thru VT100s have not yet figured out that it is 
substantially cheaper to equip these people with PCs...they get more cycles
per second and more cycles per day.  (I write more code per week on my PC
than I did per year on a Unix box...but of course on the PC all the tools
actually *work*).
                            joe
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From: chris@alderan.sdata.de (Christoph Splittgerber)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,rec.arts.sf.written,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: WAR GAMES II, or How I Learned To Start Worrying And Hate The Bomb
Date: 11 Apr 92 21:07:58 GMT
Organization: C. Splittgerber Datentechnik, Denkendorf, Germany

In article <1g3rDF#1Tk59P5SwGKn69bsC67T054D=eric@snark.thyrsus.com> eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>In <1992Apr9.011820.6826@pegasus.com> Richard Foulk wrote:

>> Nice job!
>
>Thanks.  To *all* of you.  The volume of fan mail has been remarkable; I'm
>gratified that so many enjoyed this mini-epic.

Ohh not again Richard, please !
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: ADM5
Keywords: adm5
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 04:02:29 GMT

In article <xeno.703243578@pv34ad.vincent.iastate.edu> xeno@iastate.edu (Gary L Snethen) writes:
>   First of all, whenever the terminal receives a ^G (beep), instead of
>sounding the bell as I (and my TERMCAP) expect it to, it enters some
>strange double space mode and dumps the last few lines of its buffer to
>the screen.  Can anyone explain this?  and/or tell me how I can rectify
>the situation?

One of the pins on the RS232 connector is for "test mode". It enables a
"^G does a screen dump" facility. Disconnect all the pins except the ones
you need for flow control.

>   Also, I am interested in learning about all of the control/escape
>sequences for the adm5 including those (if any) that affect the
>extension port.

Well, I could help you but my ADM5 is on loan. Let me see if I can get
it back. Start with the termcap entry for the ADM3A...
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From: bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum)
Subject: Re: Slashed o's (o's, not zeros)?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 02:25:49 GMT

I can't seem to find my Epson printer manual right now, but I believe there
is a dipswitch on Epson printers that tells the printer whether or not to
slash the zeroes.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Mel: Fact or Fiction?
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 08:13:49 GMT

In article <neeri.703435371@iis> neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher) writes:
>lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>cjl (never had a drum memory machine (sob...) :-))
>
>There's still hope. You might get reincarnated as a write head.
>
>Matthias
>
>-----
>Matthias Neeracher                                   neeri@iis.ethz.ch
>        "I came to the conclusion that sex is a sublimation
>         of the work instinct" -- David Lodge, _Small World_

And you might get reincarnated as an F-key on someone's keyboard (probably
F-12 or higher).

cjl
From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: too involved...
Date: 14 Apr 92 11:01:40 GMT
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway

In <1992Apr13.014714.25822@news.iastate.edu> spam@iastate.edu (Michael L Begley) writes:

    Don't you hate when you get too involved in your hacking (in this case
    cajoling gopher to run) that you forget that you started cooking
    spaghetti 3 hours ago?

How about finding a dirty plate in the middle of the heap of
printouts, manuals, and scratch-paper.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.wanted,misc.wanted
From: wargopl@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Peter L. Wargo)
Subject: Flyback Follies - a challenge!
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:56:37 GMT

In one of my other lives, I moderate the Sun section of the GEnie UNIX 
RoundTable.

Recently, I was approached with a monitor question that has me stumped -

- If you can solve it, E-mail me and I will be forever grateful.

-Pete
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Topic 3         Mon Jan 13, 1992
PSYCLOPS                     at 10:05 EST
Sub: Old Sun Hardware (Sun1, Sun2, and Sun3)
 
Stop by if you have an older Sun box.  Maybe you can find some help, parts, or
companionship...
1 new messages.
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Category 19,  Topic 3
Message 25        Fri Apr 10, 1992
B.ZAWALSKI1 [BOB Z]          at 08:42 EDT
 
Pete-
 
I'll look into an OS upgrade sometime this year.  In the mean-time, I've got
to find a flyback transformer to replace the one that that sparkled & smoked
out on me.
 
I've called the local SUN office which informs me that they'll exchange my
monitor for another for a $1040.00 (or $1140??) service fee.  The service
representative agreed that this was a terrible price for a flyback transformer
replacement, but explained that he could not help this.
 
I've contacted several computer (and TV) service shops willing to replace the
flyback transformer for very reasonable fees (<$100 + parts) if they could
identify and obtain the appropriate part.
 
Who should I contact to identify the model of flyback transformer that belongs
in my 19 inch, color, SUN2 MON, P#:540-1094-01, 2-apr-86, S#: 613d0395 ??
 
The SUN service representative speculated that it is a Hitachi product but
could not be sure.
 
Inside the chassis, a mfg tag on the shield-plate contains the following info:
SG-2W71A; R028517-28; 1985; SR NO 1343.
 
The charred transformer is part # MHF 052-30 (SY05) with name which ends with
" ...uRata". The first few letters have burned away.
 
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
 
-Bob
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From: wargopl@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Peter L. Wargo)
Subject: Re: Sinclair Lore Query
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 03:30:10 GMT

From article <1992Apr13.094328.1@mdcbbs.com>, by rivero@mdcbbs.com:
> 
>   Found a working Sinclair with memory expansion and some tape programs 
> for $5 at a yard sale over the weekend. Anyone have interesting stories about
> this little machine?
> 
> 
> 
Sure do.  Was the first computer I *owned*, and I still have it. 
(As well as most of the others...) old junk | /dev/packrat

Anyhow, I remember having to solder the 16K RAM expansion on to
keep from getting "memory glitches"

'Course, A friend of mine even has a *printer* for the damn 
thing...

-Pete "Remember when 16K was a godsend?" Wargo
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From: smith@sctc.com (Rick Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: "The Machine That Changed the World" on PBS
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:20:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: sctc.1992Apr8.202044.24012
Organization: SCTC

RE: omissions.

I was expecting them to talk more about other first generation
machines.  The only "really built" machines they talked about (except
for ENIAC) were the Manchester Mark 1 and the EDSAC. I hope/expect
they'll touch on some others in later shows.

It would make sense to spread the first generation over several shows
since contributions of individual machines are probably best presented
in terms of their descendents (Whirlwind begat "scientific" computers and
PDPs and realtime; SE/WAC and Univac begat commercial machines, etc).

If they get to Anastasoff, they'll probably do it when they cover
The Lawsuit, if they ever do.

Rick.
smith@sctc.com          arden hills, minnesota
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 01:38:31 -0400 
From: "Joseph M. Newcomer" <jn11+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: HD disks

HD disks have a different coercivity than 360K disks.  This means they must
be written with a different write current, and the LD disks also write
bigger bits (wider and longer).  If you buy disks in real boxes (instead
of the $.25 bulk disks I buy) they used to have the coercivity specified.
Be it known, from an expert (I Was There at the transition from 360K disks
to 1.2M disks) that 1.2M HD disks cannot be reliably used in a 360K drive.
A 360K disk cannot be reliably formatted or written at 1.2M.  The disks
are physically different at the oxide level, even though they are of a
same form factor.  Similar arguments apply to Type I, Type II, Type III
and Type IV audio tapes.  They all have the Phillips form factor, but need
different bias and precomp.
                                        joe

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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,rec.arts.sf.written,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: WAR GAMES II, or How I Learned To Start Worrying And Hate The Bomb
Date: 9 Apr 92 01:18:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: pegasus.1992Apr9.011820.6826
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu

In article <1fvZZn#0vVp124GDCGk6Ky4jX0pyhQB=eric@snark.thyrsus.com> eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>
>			WAR GAMES II
>			    or
>	How I Learned To Start Worrying and Hate The Bomb
>
>
[...]

>   The Book: if you don't know it already, I edited a lexicon called
>_The_New_Hacker's_Dictionary_  (MIT Press, 1991, ISBN 0-262-68069-6).  It's
>all about hacker language and folklore.  Sold 14,000 copies in its first
>seven months, got rave reviews everywhere, good stuff like that.  [...]

What a great way to promote your book on the net without getting flamed.

Nice job!


-- 
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From: Jay.Ashworth@f160.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jay Ashworth)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Wanted: Unix license plate
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 11:52:00 EDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3603/160 - Hacker's Haven, Clearwater FL

In a msg of <Friday April 10 1992>, Kenneth R Crudup wrote to All:

 KRC> In the parking lot next to OSF HQ at 11 Cambridge Center, in Cambridge,
 KRC> MA, I see a blue Volkswagen Jetta (?) with the plate "UNIX V". Dunno
 KRC> who it belongs to.

Steve Austin.

Cheers,
-- jra

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From: kds@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Kevin Strietzel)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: CP-6?
Date: 14 Apr 92 06:48:14 GMT
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ

In article <wcsjc.703199828@cunews> wcsjc@alfred.carleton.ca (John Coughlin) writes:
>In <9671@bnr-rsc.UUCP> christo@bcarh803.BNR.CA (Mark Christopher) writes:
>
>>I don't recall much about the on-line help.  What I do remember is that
>>the text for the various errors the system spewed out were looked up in
>>a file.  A friend of mine told me that one April 1st, the error messages
>>magically became some strange combination of pig-latin and rhyming slang...
>
>God!  Another computer Urban Legend!

[pulling out Honeywell _CP-6 Pocket Guide_....]

I used to use a DPS-8 running CP-6, back when I was an undergrad at
NAU.  Where else would FOX, DOG, OWL, and LEMUR be commands?  I seem to
remember the email system was composed of BEAM, SUCK, and SCOTTY.
Wasn't the boot program GOOSE, and the boot script the GOOSE_EGG, or
some such?

I *liked* the line editing, which was identical in the editor and the
"shell".

When the FORTRAN compiler got confused, it said something like, "I just
can't bring myself to compile this code." And, if a program had "GOTO
JAIL" as a statement, the compiler said, "Go directly to jail, do not
pass go, do not collect $200."

The Pascal compiler was pretty bad, but asking for help, subject "SAM",
delivered a copy of _The Cremation of Sam McGee_, by Robert Service.
I probably still have this one hanging around somewhere.

Kevin
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: prp@SSD.intel.com (Paul Pierce)
Subject: Re: Mel: Fact or Fiction?
Reply-To: prp@SSD.intel.com (Paul Pierce)
Organization: Intel Scientific Computers
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 00:32:58 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.204225.29833@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
|> In article <1992Apr6.131911.15962@sctc.com> smith@sctc.com (Rick Smith) writes:
|> >>Eric Raymond writes:
|> >
|> >>>... I've spoken with him.  Mel was a real person.  I think Ed
|> >>>told me that the story too place in 1964, but I'm not sure of that.
|> >
|> >And lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
|> >
|> >>1964 doesn't seem real to date the drum-memory machines.  Perhaps the story
|> >>starts in 1964 and flashs back for most of its time-line.  Any company making
|> >>non-core memory machines by then was already dead or dying.
|>
|> In any case, can someone date the year that core-memory machines made
|> NEW computers based on drum memory be passe?
|> 
|> cjl

I have a Litton 1230. It is drum-based but the CPU logic is implemented with
TTL, which dates it no earlier than late 60's. I have no idea why there was a
market for this machine.

Evidence such as the binders on some of the manuals links it to Royal-McBee.
I think that is the company Mel worked for. (Anyone know? Eric?)

It has a slot machine program, which is the last thing I ran before the
console printer broke. I don't think I have a tape for blackjack.
Its interesting to watch - even on such a simple program, the lights show a
great deal of activity and there are significant pauses here and there as
it figures out what to type next.

-- 
Paul Pierce			prp@ssd.intel.com
Intel
From: jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (JohnC)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Why Grey? Are computer unhappy objects?
Date: 10 Apr 92 22:14:51 GMT
Reply-To: jcav@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: The Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things

In article <12594@pogo.wv.tek.com> kevind@pogo.wv.tek.com (Kevin Draz) writes:
>>>Hm. My Mac IIcx is white. (Well, was when it was new..). Anyhaow it is not
>GREY like the old Macs.  
>
>Apple officially calls it "platinum".  I used to work for an Apple add-on
>monitor company, and we made our cabinets the same color.
>
>>You're confused.  It's the newer Macs that are grey.  All Macs before the
>>II were yellow.
>
>The Mac SE was actually the first machine to adopt the new color.  The Mac
>Plus was the last of the beige/brown/whatever color.

Don't forget that there were Mac Pluses manufactured up until very recently.
The ones after 1986 were platinum.

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From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Subject: Re: Cray paint job
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 18:13:45 GMT

In article <1992Apr3.200755.20819@ukw.uucp> lupe@ukw.uucp
(Lupe Christoph) writes:
>I believe the standard color for a Cray is Ferrari red, at least
>most of the Cray's I've seen are in this color. Probably to suggest speed.

No standard color.  When you buy a machine, you specify the color.
"You certainly should when you pay that much for a machine."
The Bell Labs machine had an IC layout wall paper rather than colors,
some of our machines have shades of Blue, another Y has Black white and gray,
and so forth.  Many have clear panels to expose the insides.  Only
important to the bureacucrats showing machines area 8^).

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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This is the Usenet: do you expect anything other than gross generalizations?
Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
From: kdarling@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: WAR GAMES II, or How I Learned To Start Worrying And Hate The Bo
Date: 16 Apr 92 11:31:31 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University

tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
>eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>>Thanks.  To *all* of you.  The volume of fan mail has been remarkable;
>>I'm gratified that so many enjoyed this mini-epic.
>
>I was embarrassed at it, to tell the truth.  If the lady under the
>mountain is allowed to send in reader response cards bearing her real
>work address, then by definition it shouldn't be too awe-inspiring to

Yah, if she'd worked for NSA, they'd never have admitted she existed :)
I thought it was an amusing story because most people with military
experience would've known what "J-2" stands for, and wouldn't be so
easily awed at finding someone who works in Intel... after all, zillions
of us have been in that line of work.
 
>I also bet that if the book ad warned prospective respondents that
>their names and addresses would be selected at random and rebroadcast
>worldwide over Usenet, there'd be a lot fewer cards received.
 
I agree.  There's quite a bit of difference between being put on a mailing
list vs. having your name and what you ordered plastered all over the place.
It could be professionally embarrassing, at the least.

kevin <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>
From: bellman@lysator.liu.se (Thomas Bellman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Assembler Formats (was: CS Hackers?)
Date: 10 Apr 92 20:50:46 GMT
Organization: Lysator Computer Club, Linkoping University, Sweden

smith@sctc.com (Rick Smith) writes:
>                           The statement label, if any, started in
> column one. If you didn't have a label the opcode still had to have
> at least one blank before it.

At the dept of EE at this university, they have developed a small
68008-based computer to use in some courses.  Among others, it is
used to let us get acquainted with the concept of assembly
language.  They also developed a small assembler.  It's quite
primitive.  It doesn't support labels.  But you still have to put
at least one space before the opcode, so it will know that you
aren't writing a label.  Sigh...


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