HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Disk and Drive incompatible....
Keywords: Disk 3.5 5.25 Formatting
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:39:39 GMT
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Apr8.143407.4778@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jlb31348@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim Brain) writes:
>Does anyone have a source for the discussion about the following topic:
> 
>	I run a University Site and many users bring High Density Disks in to
>use on low density drives.  Their disks work fine for a while and then will
>start giving errors.  I told my supervisor that high density disks can only be
>used in high density drives as a rule, and vice versa for LD disks.  She still
>believes in the old line of thinking from 5.25 inch days where you could buy 
>better disks to make sure your data would not be lost due to media failure (well
>, that is what people thought!).  Anyway, she will not believe me, a mere 
>student, so would anyone with some wisdom please email me to forward to her?
>
>Jim Brain
>brain@cs.uiuc.edu
> 
>
>-- 
>Nothing is better than Eternal Happiness.             jlb31348@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
>A ham sandwich is better than nothing.                                Jim Brain
>Therefore, a ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness.

Your post is slightly inadequate so I will make a few rash assumptions:

You are either talking about using 5.25" HD media in DD-type drives (known in
the PC world as 1.2 Meg and 360K nominal respectively) or 3.5" HD media in 
DD-type drives (known as 1.44 Meg and 720K nominal respectively).

In the 5.25" case, the use of HD media for DD drives is problematic because
the older design heads saturate the media.  If you attempt this, you should be
finding a fair share of less-than-error-free diskettes even at format time.

In the 3.5" case, there is no actual difference, because all of the heads are
the same thin-film design, just that 1.44 Meg type can go at 500 KHz, not
250 KHz.  The actual manufacture of most of the media is identical.  There are
people who sell third-party hole-punchers to "upgrade" diskettes to 1.44 Meg
capability.

On some drives, you have to cover the hole to prevent "confusion" about the
HD-ness, but it should otherwise work.  Most 720K-only drives ignore the
hole anyway, so the problems come when the media is brought to an HD-type
drive anyway.  That's where you have to cover the hole of it's a problem.

So, if the machines are LD-only, you are either wasting your money, or worse,
spending more for unreliably less :-).

cjl (media maven)
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 02:49:37 -0400 
From: "Joseph M. Newcomer" <jn11+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: fancy code comments

Some many years ago, Roy Levin (now with DEC, formerly with PARC), built
a set of RSX-11M macros, which had the property that by clever use of
comments and listing controls would declare the complex data structures
for the Hydra Operating System I/O, and the listings would contain the
pictures of the data structures, with boxes and arrows.  To make this
work, he had to have modifications to the MAC11 cross-assemblers, because
these assemblers would issue diagnostics for illegal source code characters,
even in commments, and any character not in the RAD50 set (including 
vertical bar, braces, and lowercase if I recall correctly) was treated
as an obviously erroneous character.  This was possibly the most creative
use of "comments" I ever saw.
                                    joe

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: spam@iastate.edu (Michael L Begley)
Subject: Re: You know you've been in hack mode too long when...
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 01:50:30 GMT

In article <3!4Hz0$n6@cs.psu.edu> dsbarr@cs.psu.edu writes:
>In article <4jtj67k@lynx.unm.edu> evilted@vesta.unm.edu writes:
>>...you're looking for your hilighter and you think:
>>find . -pen HiLiter -print
>>
>>additions?
>
>	When doing laundry, thinking 'touch *' to make them all new 
>and clean again.   :-)

I've always wanted to:
cat clothes | wash | dry | putaway

this is nice because it works on dishes, too.



Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: codrus@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Ian McCloghrie)
Subject: Re: Computer-related (well, not really) auto license tags
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 19:17:08 GMT

In <wdvEJbq00Vsa0=5V1y@andrew.cmu.edu> "Joseph M. Newcomer" <jn11+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>Ivan Sutherland owned a schoolbus-yellow original Volkswagen with black
>front fenders.  The license plate was DE BUG.  His other car, whose
>type I forget, had a plate that said F-MA but he had added another line 
>so it said F=MA.  I've seen both of these vehicles and their plates.

	Well, we've kind of drifted a way, but my chem teacher senior year
of high school had "PV NRT" as a license plate.  he'd added an "="
with yellow tape.  (it was one of the yellow-on-blue California tags).
Said he'd only been pulled over for it twice in the years he'd had
it...

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: dsbarr@modula.cs.psu.edu (Dave Barr)
Subject: Re: Why is a byte called a byte?
Reply-To: dsbarr@cs.psu.edu
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 02:13:31 GMT

In article <c9037544.703124438@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au> c9037544@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (David M Williams) writes:
>In <1303900001@igc.org> pic@igc.org wrote:
>> Can anyone out there tell me why a byte is called a byte?  Who
>> came up with the term?  When was it first used?
>
>A bit is called so as it is short for 'binary digit'. Byte is the plural form
>of bit in Latin. 

What the hell?  Have you taken latin?

from Webster:
byte \'b[0xF5]^-t\ n
[perh. alter. of 2bite]
(ca. 1962)
:a group of adjacent binary digits often shorter than a word that a
     computer processes as a unit <an 8bit byte> 

>A nybble is just plain silly.

Oh, no, not this thread again.  (tayste, etc...)

--Dave
-- 
Dave Barr         |  It takes a big man to cry,
dsbarr@cs.psu.edu |  but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: You know you've been in hack mode too long when...
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 07:54:06 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.011122.8887@samba.oit.unc.edu> Jyri.Virkki@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Jyri Virkki) writes:
>>
>>Or, in a similar situation after programming a Mac, using mental pull-down 
>                                                ^^^
>>menus to control one's responses to said randy female (or whatever)...
>
>Sorry... programming Macs does not fall under hacking. And a hacker would
>never have images (well, maybe of repulsion!) of pull-down menus.

I assume you mean revulsion.  Or, I guess you could repel the pull-down menu
so it would pop-up again :-).

I have never hacked enough to have problems with randy females.  I might
point out that you hardly have to even be awake in a suitable situation :-).
I guess it's true that programming Macs may be hazardous to your health, as
well as not falling under hacking.  (What about smoking Macs ?)

cjl (The computer surgeon general has determined that smoking Macs are
hazardous to your health.  If you find smoke coming out or your Mac, leave
the area immediately :-).)
From: lcs@icad.com (Larry Stone)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Computer-related auto license tags
Date: 13 Apr 92 21:23:48 GMT
Organization: ICAD Inc., Cambridge, MA

Sometime in the early 80's, I rember seeing a gray, nondescript,
domestic sedan on the Mass Pike with the license plate:

	V A X - 1 1

There *should* be a vanity plate reading:

	R T F M
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.computers:6468 talk.bizarre:11252
From: frank@rover.uchicago.edu (Frank - Hardware Hacker - Borger)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Help me upgrade my computer
Date: 15 Apr 92 22:07:00 GMT
Reply-To: frank@rover.uchicago.edu
Organization: Joint Center for Radiation Therapy
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

>In article <1992Apr15.174806.21127@cci632.cci.com>, adw@cci632.cci.com (Allen Williams (co-op)) writes...
> So to save face, I have decided that I need to change the 286 from its
>boring off-white office camaflauge look to something garish and shocking.

Considering the number  of mistakes IBM made, (both hardware and software,) when
they decided to legitimize the PC, and the number of cluges and patches that
have been added on since then, and the number of mega-person hours of work this
has caused and will cause...

Just paint a picture of Alfred E. Neuman on it and forget the rest!!!

+---_      Frank R. Borger - Physicist     Internet:  Frank@rover.uchicago.edu
|__|_)  Michael Reese  - Univ. of Chicago  Phone : 312-791-8075 fax : 567-7455
|  | \ _  Center for Radiation Therapy
|     |_)   2929 South Ellis Avenue        Bachelor; A man who never made the
      |_)   Chicago, Illinois 60616        same mistake once!
From: eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Mel: Fact or Fiction?
Date: 11 Apr 92 11:28:16 GMT

In <1992Apr11.003258.19395@SSD.intel.com> Paul Pierce wrote:
> 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?)

Yes, it was Royal-McBee.  Mel's computer rejoiced in the name `RCP-4000',
doubtless RCP stood for Royal ComPuter.

I have a dim memory of someone (perhaps Ed Nather) telling me of a connection
between Royal-McBee and Litton Industries.  It may be that the Litton 1230
is the same machine with a different faceplate, or a close relative.
-- 
      Eric S. Raymond = eric@snark.thyrsus.com  (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: chapman@cs.cornell.edu (Richard Chapman)
Subject: Computers for Apollo project
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:33:22 GMT

Last night on the PBS series "The Machine that changed the world," it
was claimed that one of the driving forces for large-scale development
of integrated circuits was the fact that during the Apollo project,
the space ship had to enter and leave lunar orbit while the moon
blocked radio communication with earth, hence necessitating an onboard
computer.  Anyone able to elaborate? I'm no astronomer, but I once
read that all the orbital calculations had been done in advance on
mainframes -- what did this machine onboard actually have to do? What
were its specs?

Ob. General Whine: I wish the PBS series weren't quite so dumbed-down,
maybe more after the pattern of the show "The Secret Life of Machines"
which shows in the USA on the Discovery channel. Maybe I'm just wishing 
the show were 50 hours long instead of five. 


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From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
Subject: Re: WAR GAMES II, or How I Learned To Start Worrying And Hate The Bomb
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 02:26:09 GMT

In article <1193@alderan.sdata.de> chris@alderan.sdata.de (Christoph Splittgerber) writes:
> 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 !
> -- 
> ******************  And you know, something's happenin' ********************
> ******** but you don't know what it is  ... do you Mr. Jones *** B. Dylan **
> Replies-To:  chris@alderan.sdata.de    UUCP: uunet!mcsun!unido!alderan!chris 
> Phone:       +49 711 344375            Fax:  +49 711 3460684

Anyone remember the movie/musical "1776"?  Doesn't Mr. Foulk remind you
of the John Adams character.

	"I say vote 'Yes!'  Vote 'Yes!'"
	"Sit down, John, sit down, John, for God's sake, John, sit down!"

	OR
	
	"If I'm the one to do it, they'll run their quill pens through it.
	 I'm obnoxious and disliked, did you know that?"
	"I hadn't heard"
	
Sorry - I was just watching the video the other night, and this popped into
my head.


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AT&T Bell Laboratories      | ...!att!mtgzfs3!dwex  |   She said her name was
200 Laurel Ave - 4B-421     |                       |      'Maybe'
Middletown, NJ  07748       | (908) 957-5871        | --Damn Yankees
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Sinclair Lore Query
From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
Date: 17 Apr 92 00:15:19 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Wolery

dagbrown@descartes.waterloo.edu (Dave Brown) writes:
> "color and sound."  The ZX80 had about 1K of RAM, and the ZX81 had a tiny
> amount more and a calculator keyboard (not just a flat
> piece of plastic...).  At any rate, I encountered a Spectrum

No.  The ZX81 only had 1K, expandable to 16K.  (The US Timex-Sinclair put
a 2Kx8 SRAM in place of the 1Kx8 SRAM, which would have made a world of
difference -- that 1K had to hold system variables, screen mapping etc as
well as your program & data.)

The keyboard of the 81 was identical to that of the 80, except for the
extra keywords etc.  The BASIC language suported the machine better, and
the included *software* to make the screen visible while the machine was
working, rather than just when waiting for input as on the ZX80.  (This
burned a lot of cycles, so could be turned off for a near 3x increase in
speed.  With the screen turned off, the ZX81 was no slug; the clock ran
at about 3-1/4 MHz, compared to 2MHz for a lot of other Z80 based
machines.  There were a few flaring performance problems, eg the binary to
decimal conversion used by PRINT & STR$() took over half a second to do.)


> Also, every code in its ASCII table was something...like a BASIC
> command, so you could put machine code programs in REM statements
> at the beginning of a BASIC program and actually have it printable
> so you could, say, put a program listing in a magazine with
> machine code in it.  Didn't they run off Z80s?  Terrible
> machines, though....

Not sure about the speccy, but the ZX81 didn't map the entire character
set; you had to POKE some codes in.  I used to key programs into REM
statements, calculate the addresses of codes which wouldn't map and POKE
them in.  (I'd reserve space with some other character.)  

Writing codes into screen memory that weren't mapped onto characters could
have some, uh, interesting effects -- ever seen italics on a ZX81 display?

--
Don Stokes, ZL2TNM (DS555)                        don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (home)
Network Manager, Computing Services Centre            don@vuw.ac.nz (work)
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand              +64-4-495-5052
From: pic@igc.org
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:09 PDT
Subject: Why is a byte called a byte?
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1303900001:000:111
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!pic    Apr 10 17:09:00 1992


Can anyone out there tell me why a byte is called a byte?  Who
came up with the term?  When was it first used?
From: ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Real Origins Of C And Unix!
Date: 13 Apr 92 15:58:49 GMT
Organization: /home/theory/ignatios/.organization

In article <4068@sumax.seattleu.edu> khamer@sumax.seattleu.edu (Little
Kenny Hamer) writes:

		 T h e   V O G O N   N e w s   S e r v i c e 
    VNS TECHNOLOGY WATCH:                 [Mike Taylor, VNS Correspondent]
    ====================                 [Littleton, MA, USA            ] 
    COMPUTERWORLD 1 April 
			CREATORS ADMIT UNIX, C HOAX 
     In an announcement that has stunned the computer industry, Ken Thompson,

NO, NO, NOT AGAIN!
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From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Subject: Re: Flyback Follies - a challenge!
Organization: Inland Sea
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 13:56:46 GMT

wargopl@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Peter L. Wargo) writes:

>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 ??

You can get reasonably priced ($125?) replacements from:

	Pinnacle Data Systems, Inc.
	1350 W. Fifth Ave
	Columbus, OH 43212
	614-487-1150

That phone number may be old...
-- 
When Dexter's on the Internet, can Hell be far behind?
From: grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Wanted: Unix license plate
Date: 9 Apr 92 09:37:41 GMT
Organization: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany

In article <1992Apr7.194229.3952@cobber.cord.edu> overby@cobber.cord.edu (Glen Overby) writes:

>I'm the proud(?) owner of the ND plates "UNIX V7".  ND's plate motto is "The
>Peace Garden State" (how ironical).  I'll sell photocopies :-) Sorry, no hot
>babe.
>
>Blayne "chiphead" Puklich <puklich@plains.nodak.edu> beat me to "UNIX" by
>2-3 months (he got it in about Feb '91) so his white Chevy Blazer sports
>that plate.
>
>Last summer I spotted the Minnesota UNIX plate in the Cray Research
>parkinglot one day, but was unable to identify it's owner.

Rick Tett of Tandem Computers in Austin, TX, had the license tags
"UNIX TM".
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From: smith@sctc.com (Rick Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Mel: Fact or Fiction?
Date: 9 Apr 92 13:04:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: sctc.1992Apr9.130415.7448
Organization: SCTC

kevind@pogo.wv.tek.com (Kevin Draz) writes:

>Maybe the dead/dying phrase is deadly accurate.  I've never heard of Litton
>making a computer before or since.  And who is/was Freiden?

Maybe Litton was OEM'ing someone else's machine. On the other hand, by
the late '60s it probably didn't take much technology to build a drum
machine, even out of discrete transistors. Performance could be a
problem, but as you pointed out, it should have been good enough for
car dealerships and such.

Frieiden (Friden? Freiden?) was a calculator manufacturer.

Rick.
smith@sctc.com           arden hills, minnesota.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: dagbrown@descartes.waterloo.edu (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: Slashed o's (o's, not zeros)?
Followup-To: alt.rock-n-roll.metal
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 01:55:54 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.175858.9354@pollux.lu.se> magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson) writes:
>In article <jcmorris.703169125@mwunix> jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes:
>>Another possible reason for slashing the letter was the use of the
>>slash-oh glyph in Scandanavian languages.
>
>No, that's a reason for *not* slashing the letter! The
>Danish/Norwegian slashed-o (which isn't just a "glyph", but just as
>much a letter as the o without the slash) is a different letter from o
>and is pronounced totally different. If a Danish programmer would
>slash his/her o's, the result would likely be total confusion.
>
>It's funny, but many English-speaking people seem to think that those
>funny little dots, slashes and rings used by Germans and Scandinavians
>are there just for decoration, and can be added or removed at will.
>Nothing could be further from the truth. The horror examples are heavy
>metal groups like Motorhead and Motley Crue, who've added some
>German-looking dots - I suppose for the visual effect. They would be
>less than pleased if they knew how ridiculous it sounds if you
>actually *pronounce* those dots... :-)
>
Hmmmmm...Meuhtley Crueh?   Meuhterhead?   What's the problem?  :-)

				Dave Brown
				dagbrown@descartes.waterloo.edu
From: arensb@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Andrew Arensburger - RMS)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: You kyou've been in hack mode too long ...
Keywords: VMS sleep logicals
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:10:57 GMT
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center

dagbrown@napier.waterloo.edu (Dave Brown) writes:
>I remember one time I was trying to get to sleep and I couldn't
>because I didn't know the right VMS logical--I

	I usually try counting sheep in hex (either in French or Spanish,
depending on my mood).

--
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arensb@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov     | enough to freeze water, yes, but not carbon
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: nondestructive core
From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
Date: 17 Apr 92 05:29:34 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Wolery

jn11+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joseph M. Newcomer) writes:
> The only implementation I saw used two-hole cores. The write pulse went
> thru the normal X-Y addressing in one hole, the read pulse went thru the
> X-Y addressing in the other hole.  Because the second circle could not
> write the first, but could be affected by its magnetic field, the sense wire
> could pick up the state of the permanent core.

Hooray!  Someone's answered! 8-)  

Presumably, this worked by there being a residual field in the "write"
part of the core after the "read" part had been saturated, since
saturating the core is how you go about getting it to induce a current
into the sense wire?

So, does the write phase produce a stronger field in the core than the
read?  And am I right in assuming that the number of times you can read
the core without saturating it again on the "write" X-Y pair again is
finite?

--
Don Stokes, ZL2TNM (DS555)                        don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (home)
Network Manager, Computing Services Centre            don@vuw.ac.nz (work)
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand              +64-4-495-5052
From: mollers.pad@sni.de (Josef Moellers)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Computers
Date: 10 Apr 92 08:35:05 GMT
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Info.Sys. AG, Paderborn, Germany

In <1992Apr6.054544.20318@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s923647@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Finn Thain) writes:

>witczak@romeo.egr.msu.edu (Mark Witczak) writes:

>>	He finished the speech by saying that in the future NASA will be 
>>using off the shelf components. I seriously doubt that you'll see a 386 
>>or a 68000 on it anytime soon.  I would be willing to bet my career that 
>>the shuttle will never say INTEL INSIDE.

> Actually, I remember seeing a photo in a Mac magazine of a Mac plus on a
> shuttle. (Not freestanding on a desk, of course, but fixed in a wall.)
> I dont recall what the article said they used it for.        

Playing SPACE INVADERS?

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