They were also vulnerable to a bad master tape during manufacturing. The only pre-recorded cassette tape I bought back in the day had a dropout in the music. I took it back and exchanged it for another copy. The replacement had a dropout in the same place. (And yes, it was a different tape, I know they didn't just hand the same tape back to me.)
I ended up getting about a dozen LPs back in the early '80s (two or three of them Wierd Al), then stopped because CD would obviously take over.
Add this to your xorg.conf in the appropriate section:
Funny, that doesn't work very well in OS X. (Hint: I wasn't asking how, I was merely pointing out what and why. Please pay attention to what you are replying to.)
I stopped using the right shift key when typing because my first year in college, they were still using old IBM terminals, and instead of the right shift they had the ENTER key which sent data back to the mainframe. This was from just one year of these stupid things, or maybe one semester. I type a capital 'A' by moving my left hand one key left, and using my ring finger on the 'A' key.
You might want to look into something called a "Catweasel" board. It's basically a disc controller which reads the spacing of the magnetic transitions without trying to interpret them. But there's a good chance that the disc is in some variant of FM/MFM format, which is a bit more reliable to copy on a Catweasel than a raw bit copy. The main thing left that you would have to worry about is whether you need a 40 track drive or an 80 track drive to write the copy.
the difference between the 8088 and 8086 is that one was 8 bit bus and the other 16 bit bus. BOTH had the same instruction set and BOTH used 32 bit addresses and they did it in the same way.
Actually the 8086 and 8088 had 20-bit addresses, for a maximum of 1 megabyte. This is where the infamous "640k limit" came from. The segment number was shifted left 4 bits and added to the offset. So you had 4096 ways that you could access the same byte of memory.
If you wanted to access a linear block of more than 64k bytes of memory, you had to do segment arithmetic, which worked fine until the 80286's "protected mode" changed things so that the segment became a sort of ID number that had no relation to any actual memory address. The best part was that to leave protected mode, you had to reset the CPU. So in order to use more than that first megabyte of address space, the BIOS startup code had to check a bit in CMOS that said that the computer was just coming out of protected mode, and not to cold start anything.
The 80286 was also the cause of the "A20 Gate", which even made it into the original XBox chipset, but if you don't know what that is already, you can just google it.
"iMac G5"? Do you even know which model you are talking about? Floppy drives had been long dead since the time of the original iMac (the CRT model), and USB MFM floppy drives were already available at the time of the first iMac. If there was any mistake, it was in Apple not producing a USB floppy drive capable of reading GCR-formatted 400K/800K disks.
As for Packard Hell, I ended up playing with a few of those that I got cheap at thrift stores, eventually realizing that they intentionally made their equipment physically incompatible with standard AT/ATX boards and cases.
Which Mac "when the Mac came out" had the power button next to the floppy drive? Certainly not the original 128K model, which had a rocker switch on the back panel. The Mac II generation had a power switch in back, plus an extra key on the keyboard so you wouldn't have to reach in back.
The 68000's real problem was Motorola. The marketing people at Motorola wanted the 68000 to be a low-volume high-margin chip for use in Unix workstations and other $10k+ computers. It took too long for them to get out of that mentality. Read DTACK Grounded for more on this. (Yes, I know that's a lot to read.)
Also it took Intel what, 15 years to get VM technology working right? (VT) Motorola got that working right on their second try (the 68010). Plus, they had designed the architecture from the start for 32-bit operation, rather than throwing more sidecars on the old 8-bit 8080/8085 architecture.
What other processor should have been used? Anything without those damn segment registers. The 8088's 64k segments were the legacy that set back the industry for so long. The 80286 was no help, either, since it still had that basic 64k limitation. It just added a couple more years to the setback.
The problem isn't the presence of the Caps Lock key, it's the overly-convenient placement of it. IMHO, it belongs over on the other side by Num Lock and Scroll Lock. Typewriters had it above the shift key for mechanical reasons... and of course the lack of a keypad on the side.
As a collector of old home video game systems, I find it ironic that the wired power brick is probably the only thing keeping the brick from getting lost.
Its main problem was being a Z-80 toy computer with 2K of RAM in 1983, that's after the introduction of the C-64 and IBM PC. Also, the Z-80 meant that they could have put 16K DRAM into the unit*, but if the 4416 DRAM chip wasn't available at that time, they would have needed 8 chips, adding to the expense.
The Aquarius eventually became a white elephant promo prize for stuff like timeshare sales, where prizes like "sport speedboat" (rubber dinghy with trolling motor) and "35mm camera" (bare-bones five dollar camera) were common.
* Another stupid Classic Design Mistake was Zilog only making the Z-80's R register 7 bits wide, thus meaning that extra circuitry was required to use 64K DRAM chips. I really have to wonder why they thought the extra flip-flop wasn't worth the cost.
One local station here is still running the converter box video in analog, and a translator for another local station is still in analog.
Another local station did a flash cut, for real. I had both channels showing on two different screens, and they both went out at the same time. It took me a minuter or so to convince my cable box to tune into the other channel without doing a rescan, but I'm sure it was quick. And a PBS station in an adjacent market that I've been wanting to receive also did a flash-cut. It's a bit intermittent, but I should be able to get it reliable if I work on it, possibly a pre-amp will help.
And Saturday morning I picked up a station from 350 miles away for an hour or so.
I've been getting them all for over five years now. All except channel 7, which had an 800 watt (as in eight light bulbs) transmitter which you couldn't receive unless you were south of 51st street or so. So I didn't watch Fox for the first few months (no analog in my digital tuner), and I didn't miss it at all.
I have a rooftop antenna, and because I'm close enough to the tower farm (I'm near 620/183), I have to turn it to the proper angle to get all the stations. This is because I have an older full HD tuner, and multipath (aka "ghosting") interference is worse that close. A couple of the stations used to be real picky (especially 42), but haven't been for at least a year. I used to have to go re-aim the antenna every few months when wind turned it a bit. I can even sometimes get channel 25 from Waco, but it's more reliable with rabbit ears from another room. (I don't care because all it adds is Telemundo.) I think both the trouble stations may have been partly due to being on the adjacent channel to their analog. After the shutdown tomorrow it's possible that 25 will come in better.
Of course the best part of digital TV here is RTN. Well, except for Knight Rider being on at 9pm. That show is just too formula.
Strange thing, though: I was just now tuning in some analog to see what was still on the air, and there's some low-power broadcast on 18, and it's a PBS feed. And it has a crawl saying it'll be digital after tomorrow. WTH? This is why the fake channel numbers thing is stupid after tomorrow. A full-power station broadcasting on 22, but claiming to be 18, and a low-power station using it's old frequency. So when I want to watch channel 18, what happens?
I just wish that be truth, right now i'm using some "connection db class" in c# made by someone else, which expects the sql commands to be executed be concatenated strings
And I presume you don't have the source code to that? RMS would like to have a few words with you.
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They were also vulnerable to a bad master tape during manufacturing. The only pre-recorded cassette tape I bought back in the day had a dropout in the music. I took it back and exchanged it for another copy. The replacement had a dropout in the same place. (And yes, it was a different tape, I know they didn't just hand the same tape back to me.)
I ended up getting about a dozen LPs back in the early '80s (two or three of them Wierd Al), then stopped because CD would obviously take over.
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It's probably in pan-n-scan too.
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Add this to your xorg.conf in the appropriate section:
Funny, that doesn't work very well in OS X. (Hint: I wasn't asking how, I was merely pointing out what and why. Please pay attention to what you are replying to.)
This wasn't automatically picked up by slashdot's "related story" thingy:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/06/2032216
If you're going to post links to isc.sans.org, can you please post links to the specific article, and not just the main page?
Here is the link to the specific article: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6601
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I stopped using the right shift key when typing because my first year in college, they were still using old IBM terminals, and instead of the right shift they had the ENTER key which sent data back to the mainframe. This was from just one year of these stupid things, or maybe one semester. I type a capital 'A' by moving my left hand one key left, and using my ring finger on the 'A' key.
You might want to look into something called a "Catweasel" board. It's basically a disc controller which reads the spacing of the magnetic transitions without trying to interpret them. But there's a good chance that the disc is in some variant of FM/MFM format, which is a bit more reliable to copy on a Catweasel than a raw bit copy. The main thing left that you would have to worry about is whether you need a 40 track drive or an 80 track drive to write the copy.
the difference between the 8088 and 8086 is that one was 8 bit bus and the other 16 bit bus. BOTH had the same instruction set and BOTH used 32 bit addresses and they did it in the same way.
Actually the 8086 and 8088 had 20-bit addresses, for a maximum of 1 megabyte. This is where the infamous "640k limit" came from. The segment number was shifted left 4 bits and added to the offset. So you had 4096 ways that you could access the same byte of memory.
If you wanted to access a linear block of more than 64k bytes of memory, you had to do segment arithmetic, which worked fine until the 80286's "protected mode" changed things so that the segment became a sort of ID number that had no relation to any actual memory address. The best part was that to leave protected mode, you had to reset the CPU. So in order to use more than that first megabyte of address space, the BIOS startup code had to check a bit in CMOS that said that the computer was just coming out of protected mode, and not to cold start anything.
The 80286 was also the cause of the "A20 Gate", which even made it into the original XBox chipset, but if you don't know what that is already, you can just google it.
"iMac G5"? Do you even know which model you are talking about? Floppy drives had been long dead since the time of the original iMac (the CRT model), and USB MFM floppy drives were already available at the time of the first iMac. If there was any mistake, it was in Apple not producing a USB floppy drive capable of reading GCR-formatted 400K/800K disks.
As for Packard Hell, I ended up playing with a few of those that I got cheap at thrift stores, eventually realizing that they intentionally made their equipment physically incompatible with standard AT/ATX boards and cases.
Which Mac "when the Mac came out" had the power button next to the floppy drive? Certainly not the original 128K model, which had a rocker switch on the back panel. The Mac II generation had a power switch in back, plus an extra key on the keyboard so you wouldn't have to reach in back.
The 68000's real problem was Motorola. The marketing people at Motorola wanted the 68000 to be a low-volume high-margin chip for use in Unix workstations and other $10k+ computers. It took too long for them to get out of that mentality. Read DTACK Grounded for more on this. (Yes, I know that's a lot to read.)
Also it took Intel what, 15 years to get VM technology working right? (VT) Motorola got that working right on their second try (the 68010). Plus, they had designed the architecture from the start for 32-bit operation, rather than throwing more sidecars on the old 8-bit 8080/8085 architecture.
What other processor should have been used? Anything without those damn segment registers. The 8088's 64k segments were the legacy that set back the industry for so long. The 80286 was no help, either, since it still had that basic 64k limitation. It just added a couple more years to the setback.
You should have your Cold Drink - Refreshment Operations Module checked. The eject button is supposed to eject the cup onto your keyboard or lap.
The problem isn't the presence of the Caps Lock key, it's the overly-convenient placement of it. IMHO, it belongs over on the other side by Num Lock and Scroll Lock. Typewriters had it above the shift key for mechanical reasons... and of course the lack of a keypad on the side.
As a collector of old home video game systems, I find it ironic that the wired power brick is probably the only thing keeping the brick from getting lost.
Its main problem was being a Z-80 toy computer with 2K of RAM in 1983, that's after the introduction of the C-64 and IBM PC. Also, the Z-80 meant that they could have put 16K DRAM into the unit*, but if the 4416 DRAM chip wasn't available at that time, they would have needed 8 chips, adding to the expense.
The Aquarius eventually became a white elephant promo prize for stuff like timeshare sales, where prizes like "sport speedboat" (rubber dinghy with trolling motor) and "35mm camera" (bare-bones five dollar camera) were common.
* Another stupid Classic Design Mistake was Zilog only making the Z-80's R register 7 bits wide, thus meaning that extra circuitry was required to use 64K DRAM chips. I really have to wonder why they thought the extra flip-flop wasn't worth the cost.
One local station here is still running the converter box video in analog, and a translator for another local station is still in analog.
Another local station did a flash cut, for real. I had both channels showing on two different screens, and they both went out at the same time. It took me a minuter or so to convince my cable box to tune into the other channel without doing a rescan, but I'm sure it was quick. And a PBS station in an adjacent market that I've been wanting to receive also did a flash-cut. It's a bit intermittent, but I should be able to get it reliable if I work on it, possibly a pre-amp will help.
And Saturday morning I picked up a station from 350 miles away for an hour or so.
Especially if they could get Eddie Money to do the vocals.
I've been getting them all for over five years now. All except channel 7, which had an 800 watt (as in eight light bulbs) transmitter which you couldn't receive unless you were south of 51st street or so. So I didn't watch Fox for the first few months (no analog in my digital tuner), and I didn't miss it at all.
I have a rooftop antenna, and because I'm close enough to the tower farm (I'm near 620/183), I have to turn it to the proper angle to get all the stations. This is because I have an older full HD tuner, and multipath (aka "ghosting") interference is worse that close. A couple of the stations used to be real picky (especially 42), but haven't been for at least a year. I used to have to go re-aim the antenna every few months when wind turned it a bit. I can even sometimes get channel 25 from Waco, but it's more reliable with rabbit ears from another room. (I don't care because all it adds is Telemundo.) I think both the trouble stations may have been partly due to being on the adjacent channel to their analog. After the shutdown tomorrow it's possible that 25 will come in better.
Of course the best part of digital TV here is RTN. Well, except for Knight Rider being on at 9pm. That show is just too formula.
Strange thing, though: I was just now tuning in some analog to see what was still on the air, and there's some low-power broadcast on 18, and it's a PBS feed. And it has a crawl saying it'll be digital after tomorrow. WTH? This is why the fake channel numbers thing is stupid after tomorrow. A full-power station broadcasting on 22, but claiming to be 18, and a low-power station using it's old frequency. So when I want to watch channel 18, what happens?
The Redundant mods are going to be flying all over this thread today.
I just wish that be truth, right now i'm using some "connection db class" in c# made by someone else, which expects the sql commands to be executed be concatenated strings
And I presume you don't have the source code to that? RMS would like to have a few words with you.