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Re:Heathkit H8 by A+Commentor · 2017-04-15 17:48 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer?

I had a Heathkit H89 - basically compatible with the H8, but had the terminal built-in. I have a web site dedicated to Heath Computers - http://heathkit.garlanger.com/ Information, photos, even a javascript emulator for the H89.

Heathkits wanted... by A+Commentor · 2013-10-03 04:39 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Finding a Tech Museum For Your Beloved Retired Computer(s)

If anyone has any old non-PC compatible Heathkit / Zenith Data Systems computers, software, manuals, etc.. Things like the H8, H11, H89.... HDOS & CP/M operating systems and related software... H10 Paper Tape... etc... I'm always looking for more. You can find more info on my site: http://heathkit.garlanger.com/

Re:Z-19 FTW indeed by idontgno · 2011-09-08 10:39 · Score: 1 · on Heathkit DIY Kits Are Coming Back

I played around with a friend's H89 back in the day. (I sort-of had access to another friend's H8/H9 combo, but he was a bit less laid back; he really didn't like it when I opened the case of the H8. So I stopped bothering him.)

The H89 was a fairly schweet machine; a standard Z19/H19 terminal complete with its own Z-80, and then a second single-board computer embedded in it with a second Z-80. Booted CPM/80 off the internal floppy. Very cool.

Actually, after I made my big decision in life at the age of 15 ("programming or electronics?"*), I lusted after a H-11. The idea of my very own teensy tiny PDP-11 was intriguing. It was technically a Heathkit, but the "kit" part was mostly gross assembly (if I recall), not so much soldering and stuffing sockets. But it could run most PDP software, which was becoming my speciality. (DECSystem-10, anyone?)

*I chose software. The choice came down to "$600 for a pre-assembled TRS-80 that I can immediately begin programming, or $1000 for an IMSAI 8080 kit that I can toggle switches and make lights blink." I was cheap and impatient. I still kind of am.)

English Version is Available. by A+Commentor · 2002-05-08 02:15 · Score: 3, Informative · on Review of New Sony Clie PEG-NR70

I received a new NR70(English Version) on Monday. I had pre-ordered it, but according to Sony's Site, the NR70 (no camera) is available now, if you want the NR70V (with camera) it should be available 'On or before 5/18/2002'

Shameless plug... If you plan to buy it (or any other Sony products), you could got to my awesome site to buy stuff and click on the Sony banner they buy it ;-)

Re:Blatant advertisement!!! by A+Commentor · 2002-01-14 16:51 · Score: 2 · on Tron Special Edition On Sale January 15th

Buy.com has it for $2 cheaper... and if you like, you can click on my page before clicking through to buy.com... (yes a shameless plug)...

You all can suck my left nut -- WRONG by Big_Ass_Spork · 2001-11-14 08:28 · Score: -1 · on (Mostly) Confirmed: New Mersenne Prime Found

This is the discussion you were looking for.

The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way. a shout out to my homies (Score:-1, Troll)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14, @03:37PM (#2565475) i'd like to ask who the fuck cares? i certainly don't.
[ Reply to This | Parent ] Zaurus (Score:0, Flamebait)
by Russ Nelson on Wednesday November 14, @03:38PM (#2565483)
(User #33911 Info | http://russnelson.com/) Who cares about the Yopy? Sharp is shipping the Zaurus to developers (at least some of us anyway).
-russ
It's a crime [quaker.org], not a war. If you want a reply, log in. [ Reply to This | Parent Re:Zaurus (Score:2)
by A Commentor on Wednesday November 14, @03:45PM (#2565534)
(User #459578 Info | http://www.garlanger.com/) Yopy had shipped many Developer versions already... Back in Jan. 2001 they sold the developer version, it was expensive (~$700 or $800) but it was available(sold-out now). I seen quote a bit of discussions from people that had purchased them. They just seem REALLY late in getting the final consumer version out.

Just-in New Buy.com Coupons [garlanger.com] .

[ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Zaurus (Score:-1, Troll)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14, @03:46PM (#2565542) Go Russ! [geocities.com]
[ Reply to This | Parent ] It will be a success (Score:0, Flamebait)
by jmerelo on Wednesday November 14, @03:38PM (#2565485)
(User #216716 Info | Last Journal: Thursday September 06, @02:05AM) If people does not have to care whether it's got Linux, PalmOS or symbian, that is, if it works well enough that people take it for whatever it is, disregarding the OS it's running.
[ Reply to This | Parent Re:It will be a success (Score:1)
by wheel on Wednesday November 14, @04:00PM (#2565624)
(User #204735 Info) if it works well enough that people take it for whatever it is, disregarding the OS it's running.

This poster has a really good point -- usability is what really counts to the consumer. Does your mom really care what processor her cell phone uses? Does she care it can run Java? No. She cares that she can afford it, and it does what she requires. Therefore it is a successful product.

Now, please mod the parent as insightful or something.

Please type "Yes I understand that this is a very bad idea" to continue. -- apt

[ Reply to This | Parent ] FP (Score:-1, Offtopic)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14, @03:40PM (#2565505) FP [goatse.cx]
[ Reply to This | Parent ] Attention (Score:-1, Offtopic)
by SlaveTroll on Wednesday November 14, @03:40PM (#2565506)
(User #535702 Info | http://purplesplash.com/cdpb) This is not a first post.
[ Reply to This | Parent Attention -- WRONG (Score:-1)
by Big_Ass_Spork on Wednesday November 14, @04:03PM (#2565649)
(User #446856 Info | http://www.goatse.cx) This is a first post.

I am claiming it. You may have posted first, but I am posting best. Quality over rapidity.

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All your Sporks are belong to Big_Ass_Spork! What you say?! All your Sporks are belo... forget it... [ Reply to This | Parent ] Too bad Taco can't afford one! (Score:-1)
by tt2k1 on Wednesday November 14, @03:40PM (#2565507)
(User #532907 Info | http://www.geocities.com/trolltuesday2k1/) Unfortunately, buying a YOPY requires MONEY. The Slashdork crew is unfortunately "low" on money, due to the fact that they are untalented wannabes eeking by on modest banner-advertisement revenue. The stock options which they once thought would be their tickets to success are now worthless -- and rightfully so; it is preposterous that such lazy losers should make money without doing any actual work.

Rob Malda, the wannabe hacker and latecomer otaku, will soon be out on the streets, begging for spare change by the traffic light. He will spend his nights in a local shopping center, rubbing his ass against the shopping carts for kicks.

Jeff Bates, the wannabe scientist, will be forced to pimp out his little wifey -- amusing, because she's been an amateur whore for so many years already. Bates's primary customer will be Malda, whose Quarter Cartel shall make him one of the most prosperous bums in shopping center.

Gay Nik, although never really part of the Slashdork crew, will join this merry gang of homeless beggers, too, because what questionable BSD "skills" he many have are worthless in this day and age, a day and age in which *BSD is dying. (OpenBSD will never lose any users, though, because the only users it ever had were Theo "The Rat" De Raadt and his canine lover, Farmer.)

Jon Katz, a man who couldn't write an interesting article to save his life but whose knowledge of Microsoft Word's "spell check" facilities makes him a twerp among lamers at the Geek Compound, will make his living by designing the Slashdork crew's "Homeless, five children, please help, godbless" signage. Interestingly enough, the signs prove more of a challenge to Katz than any of the meaningless drivel that he ever spewed while leeching off of Slashdot.

CowboyNeal would be able to subsist on his own fat stores for approximately fifty years, if he weren't destined to be harpooned and eaten by a gang of minority squirrels.

Timothy Gaybone, Michael "Censorship NAZI" Himmler, Jamie "Gay Nights Online" McCarthy, Emmett "Stupid" Galacticon, and Krow the Wannabe DBA will also reside in the shopping center, and provide blowjobs on demand to the local "nerdcore" [geocities.com] fetish group.

Fuck you.

Troll Tuesday 2001. [geocities.com]

--The Messenger

[ Reply to This | Parent Re:Too bad Taco can't afford one! (Score:-1, Offtopic)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14, @03:54PM (#2565592) lol.
[ Reply to This | Parent ]

FUCKING AC -- Wrong!! (Score:-1)
by Big_Ass_Spork on Wednesday November 14, @04:01PM (#2565634)
(User #446856 Info | http://www.goatse.cx) lol lol lol lol lol lol lol ROFL lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol hehe ROTFLMFAO lol lol lol

Shut the fuck up, bitch!

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All your Sporks are belong to Big_Ass_Spork! What you say?! All your Sporks are belo... forget it... [ Reply to This | Parent ]

I hope it does... (Score:0, Flamebait)
by Phaze3 on Wednesday November 14, @03:41PM (#2565513)
(User #197763 Info | http://www.higheriq.com/) I am so sick of my palm. Looking foward to a Linux powered hand held that is actually worth something. A keyboard would be a nice edition and a lot easier than toting around my happy hacking keyboard
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FearLinux.com [fearlinux.com]
[ Reply to This | Parent I am so sick of my palm -- WRONG! (Score:-1)
by Big_Ass_Spork on Wednesday November 14, @03:59PM (#2565620)
(User #446856 Info | http://www.goatse.cx) I am so sick of my palm. Looking foward to a Linux powered hand held that is actually worth something. A keyboard would be a nice edition and a lot easier than toting around my happy hacking keyboard

get a ppk, beeaaattcchhh!!

Anyways, fess up, you know damn well you will never get tired of your palm. Ease of use can't be BEAT (heh, get it?). Just lube and go (TM). Errr, I have to be alone now, BRB...

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All your Sporks are belong to Big_Ass_Spork! What you say?! All your Sporks are belo... forget it... [ Reply to This | Parent ] Linux ? (Score:0, Flamebait)
by GdoL (pedro_pi@aeiou.nospam,please.pt) on Wednesday November 14, @03:42PM (#2565514)
(User #460833 Info | http://www.gazetadolinux.com) They use what of Linux?
[ Reply to This | Parent ] slick (Score:2, Insightful)
by nate1138 (nathanm@NOSPAMprogressive-sys.com) on Wednesday November 14, @03:42PM (#2565518)
(User #325593 Info) That's one slick looking unit. Much better than the I-paq. Has anyone had any experience porting KDE apps to a portable like this (one that uses QT-embedded I assume)? The article didn't mention a JVM (at least not that I saw), but that could be a big way to drive application development for PDA's in general. If you could write one simple little app in java, and have it run on PocketPC 2002 (Via the Geode JVM), on the Yopy, and on the new unit from sharp. That's really the only stumbling block I see to Linux PDA's doing great things is applications. Nice pretty user-friendly applications, and lots of them.
insert clever comment here [ Reply to This | Parent Re:slick (Score:-1, Offtopic)
by nate1138 (nathanm@NOSPAMprogressive-sys.com) on Wednesday November 14, @03:48PM (#2565551)
(User #325593 Info) Flamebait??? You fuckwad moderators, how the hell is that flamebait?? Fuckers.
insert clever comment here [ Reply to This | Parent ]

Nate, come to the dark side... (Score:-1)
by Big_Ass_Spork on Wednesday November 14, @04:05PM (#2565661)
(User #446856 Info | http://www.goatse.cx) You know you want to.

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All your Sporks are belong to Big_Ass_Spork! What you say?! All your Sporks are belo... forget it... [ Reply to This | Parent ]

Can it run Mozilla? (Score:0)
by SolidCore on Wednesday November 14, @03:43PM (#2565522)
(User #250574 Info | http://www.fearlinux.com/) Can it run Mozilla [tuxia.org] there is an intersestin article on about that project at Linuxdevices.com [linuxdevices.com]
FearLinux.com [fearlinux.com] [ Reply to This | Parent ] The Geek PDA (Score:2)
by connorbd on Wednesday November 14, @03:43PM (#2565525)
(User #151811 Info | http://www.geocities...riangle/Station/2266) Simple idea: make me a PDA that includes the following:

-A BIOS that handles power management and screen taps, as well as a fairly safe routine for handling flash functions
-Easily swapped OS
-Versatility of an iPaq, batteries of a Palm (rechargeable is best
-USB cradle

Put that out as an OEM device. You can even ship it with WinCE if you like (PalmOS 5/ARM would probably be a better choice of course), but make sure the world knows you can hack it.

/Brian
[ Reply to This | Parent ] cool keyboard (Score:3, Funny)
by shibut on Wednesday November 14, @03:43PM (#2565526)
(User #208631 Info) especially if you have toothpicks for fingers. Maybe it's just me...
[ Reply to This | Parent Re:cool keyboard (Score:2)
by ichimunki (x@ichimunki.com) on Wednesday November 14, @03:56PM (#2565603)
(User #194887 Info | http://www.ichimunki.com/) Presumably you will be holding the stylus in your hand, so yes, you have something with a sufficiently narrow, yet blunt end to poke the keys with. Considering it's not a QWERTY layout, your traditional touch typing skills are wasted anyway. Too bad they didn't license the Fitaly layout, though. That's more efficient, I think than a straight ABCDEFG... layout.
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"...you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." -L. Flynt [ Reply to This | Parent ] Tech specs (Score:3, Informative)
by mszeto on Wednesday November 14, @03:45PM (#2565537)
(User #133525 Info) Some technical specs and more pictures are here [pdabuzz.com].

Does that *really* say 206MHz ? Gah.
[ Reply to This | Parent Re:Tech specs (Score:3, Interesting)
by beme (bemeateberhardtdotnet) on Wednesday November 14, @03:56PM (#2565604)
(User #85862 Info) That info is kinda stale.

http://www.gmate.com/english/overview.htm

-beme
1971 [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Tech specs (Score:1)
by KingKire64 on Wednesday November 14, @03:56PM (#2565609)
(User #321470 Info) From the looks of this site The parent eluded to the final design and specs are far off from this (2000 show) specs
[ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Tech specs (Score:1)
by SirLeNerd on Wednesday November 14, @03:57PM (#2565611)
(User #21841 Info | http://www.netcolony.com/members/sirlenerd) Those are the original Yopy pics ...
[ Reply to This | Parent ] Boil that dustspeck... (OT) (Score:1)
by don_carnage on Wednesday November 14, @03:46PM (#2565546)
(User #145494 Info | http://spookyworld.dnsalias.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday October 31, @03:45PM)

I couldn't purchase anything with a name like "Yopy". It reminds me of the Doctor Seuss book, "Horton Hears a Who."

YOP! YOP! Yop! yop! ...

spookyworld.dnsalias.com [dnsalias.com]

[ Reply to This | Parent ] non qwerty (Score:1)
by sehryan on Wednesday November 14, @03:46PM (#2565547)
(User #412731 Info | http://www.ncircles.com/) thats a dealbreaker right there. why go with a "calculator-style ABCDEFG" layout? odds are, anyone using a PDA is going to be familiar with normal sized computers, and normal sized computers usually have qwerty keyboards. i know personally that anything non-qwerty slows me down. sure, i could get used to it, but i am already used to qwerty, so why up the learning curve of the thing with something like that? just doesn't make sense
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sean
www.ncircles.com [ Reply to This | Parent Re:non qwerty (Score:1)
by Blymie on Wednesday November 14, @03:54PM (#2565588)
(User #231220 Info | http://L8R.net) You've hit the nail on the head there. My purchasing plans for PDAs used to be "no keyboard, no sale". I never envisioned that someone would be so moronic as to go with something other than querty, so I guess I'll have to amend that.

YOPY designers, listen to me. NO QUERTY, NO SALE!
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