I do have a lead on some tape images, but the person who has them has lots of other demands on his time. If I get them, and he's willing, I plan to make WAVs available.
Apple ][ Plus
Apple//c
Apple//c+
Apple IIgs
Atari 400
Atari 800
Atari 600XL
Atari 800XL
Atari 1200XL
Atari 130XE
Atari XEGS
Atari 1040ST
Commodore PET 4016
Commodore SuperPet SP9000
Commodore VIC-20
Commodore 64
Commodore 16
Commodore Plus-4
Commodore Amiga 500
DEC Micro PDP 11/23
DEC VT-220
Heathkit H19 terminal
IBM PC XT 5160
Interact Model One (can anyone help with software?)
Mattel Aquarius
Ohio Scientific Challenger 1P
Ohio Scientific Challenger 4P
Timex-Sinclair 1000
TRS-80 Color Computer
TRS-80 Color Computer 2
TRS-80 Color Computer 3
TRS-80 Model 4
TRS-80 Model 4P
TI 99/4A
Visual Commuter
Wang PC compatible (BIOS level) unknown model
My sentiments exactly--I don't collect old computers as an investment, but because they stir memories and interest for me. I admit, though, I did go on quite a buying spree when the prices started getting run up and I thought I might not have another chance.
BTW--I have a C4P! Perhaps we each have some software the other doesn't. Do you have disk drives?
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With strong DRM, there'd be no money to be made from protection rackets^W^W software audits and assessments of extortion money^W^W non-compliance fines.
In fact, if a workable DRM scheme were possible, the raison d'être of the BSA, SPA, and similar criminal enterprises is completely kaput, vanished, gone, history . . . you get the idea. Additionally, their members would lose the mind share they currently gain from unlicensed use of their products.
is about to double. I know I'll drive it to the bitter end rather than have some "flight data recorder" accessible to my insurance company, opposing counsel, nosy cops, and Bob-knows-who else.
And, think the US has economic problems now? Wait another year. If the tech market doesn't start picking up, a lot (more) of us will end up declaring bankruptcy.
The current administration will be passing bankruptcy reform in the middle of the night by voice vote in anticipation of this.
Surely, a disaffected ex-employee (or ex-contractor) will be anonymously posting the magic incantations and/or passwords for administering the routers shortly. Assuming there's actually anything to administer.
What's the problem? Enemy missiles will be much easier to shoot down provided they are transmitting their GPS coordinates in realtime. The fact that that "test" wasn't a scandal that drove the resignations of everyone from the President down to those working on the "test" assures me that Americans as a group are either terribly apathetic, horridly stupid, or both.
Were that only true--but their customers are interested in downloading, not uploading. Now if the cable companies single-handedly behead P2P networks, there might be something to that. But I imagine cable customers would be content to leech files from.edu and DSL users.
I've noticed lately that the cable commercials here refer to "Road Runner High Speed Online." Note the absence of the term "Internet access." Perhaps they are already anticipating this objection. Or maybe they figure their target market won't know what "Internet access" is.
Then the ISP's will change their TOS, and just cut off anyone using a significant amount of upstream bandwidth. The only way to win is to find another ISP--and if they all go this route, to establish networks outside the Internet.
The concerns you mention could be handled the same way they are for alcohol--punish people when their actions are reckless and/or cause actual harm to others. I think decriminilization is a good first step, but doesn't entirely remove the incentives of contraband.
Unwinnable perhaps, but definately worth it. I'd rather see us fight an unwinnable war against drugs if it means there are fewer crack dealers on the street, even if it isn't possible to eliminate them entirely.
But the reason that there are crack dealers on the street (and other ills associated with drug dealing) is the scarcity created by drugs being contraband. If they were legalized and taxed, there'd be no crack dealers on the streets, because there'd be no money in dealing crack on the street--everyone who wanted to could get it legally, and the taxes collected could be used to fund things other than putting citizens in prison for abusing their own bodies.
But if predictive dialler your answering machine picked up, then it will try again. If it thinks your number's out of service, it won't. Hence the SITs.
Thanks--I figured I couldn't be the first one to come up with the idea. I used it at a client site that was worried about security while using a dialup--just made the internal network NetBEUI.
Of course, a truly 1337 h@x0r could construct an IP packet, and put it on the wire as raw Ethernet frames--but this would require some low-level programming goodness, and would still be caught by a real (not running on the same machine) firewall (and wouldn't be caught by something like ZoneAlarm if done on the Internet connected machine). I don't know what a program trying to do that would use as a source address on a non-Internet connected machine, though..
PC's are cheap now--run two, one with an Internet connection, and one without. Network internally with IPX/SPX or NetBEUI. Download your entertainment on the Internet connected PC. Play the downloaded content on the disconnected PC. Voila`--the media players, etc. can't call home. For added security, don't do anything sensitive on the Internet connected machine.
This setup isn't airtight, but it's a damn sight better than giving RealMedia, Microsoft, and every other spyware purveyor on the face of the earth unfettered access to the same machine that contains your financial information or files which indicate certain, um, proclivities.
If they were only monitoring a we few people I would be nervous, but when the amount of data being collected we are people just numbers in a statisitc somewhere.
This is true so long as you're not an outlier. Consider some examples of things that could make you an outlier:
I'm sure with minimal effort, others can come up with even more chilling examples. When the government of our corporate republic can legally trawl everything looking for outliers, safety in numbers doesn't make me so comfortable.
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AFAIK, the Interact isn't emulated.
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Apple
Apple
Apple IIgs
Atari 400
Atari 800
Atari 600XL
Atari 800XL
Atari 1200XL
Atari 130XE
Atari XEGS
Atari 1040ST
Commodore PET 4016
Commodore SuperPet SP9000
Commodore VIC-20
Commodore 64
Commodore 16
Commodore Plus-4
Commodore Amiga 500
DEC Micro PDP 11/23
DEC VT-220
Heathkit H19 terminal
IBM PC XT 5160
Interact Model One (can anyone help with software?)
Mattel Aquarius
Ohio Scientific Challenger 1P
Ohio Scientific Challenger 4P
Timex-Sinclair 1000
TRS-80 Color Computer
TRS-80 Color Computer 2
TRS-80 Color Computer 3
TRS-80 Model 4
TRS-80 Model 4P
TI 99/4A
Visual Commuter
Wang PC compatible (BIOS level) unknown model
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I remember seeing that machine at the home of an acquaintance back when I was lusting after an Apple ][ or a Commodore PET.
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BTW--I have a C4P! Perhaps we each have some software the other doesn't. Do you have disk drives?
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In fact, if a workable DRM scheme were possible, the raison d'être of the BSA, SPA, and similar criminal enterprises is completely kaput, vanished, gone, history . . . you get the idea. Additionally, their members would lose the mind share they currently gain from unlicensed use of their products.
Flamebait, indeed. The Mac bigots can't handle the truth, it seems.
is about to double. I know I'll drive it to the bitter end rather than have some "flight data recorder" accessible to my insurance company, opposing counsel, nosy cops, and Bob-knows-who else.
Thanks for the laugh!
At least your parents hoped you said duck!
The current administration will be passing bankruptcy reform in the middle of the night by voice vote in anticipation of this.
And shop somewhere else.
Surely, a disaffected ex-employee (or ex-contractor) will be anonymously posting the magic incantations and/or passwords for administering the routers shortly. Assuming there's actually anything to administer.
Thanks--getting it now!
What's the problem? Enemy missiles will be much easier to shoot down provided they are transmitting their GPS coordinates in realtime. The fact that that "test" wasn't a scandal that drove the resignations of everyone from the President down to those working on the "test" assures me that Americans as a group are either terribly apathetic, horridly stupid, or both.
Neither did VMware last time I tried it. Ah well.
Then the ISP's will change their TOS, and just cut off anyone using a significant amount of upstream bandwidth. The only way to win is to find another ISP--and if they all go this route, to establish networks outside the Internet.
The concerns you mention could be handled the same way they are for alcohol--punish people when their actions are reckless and/or cause actual harm to others. I think decriminilization is a good first step, but doesn't entirely remove the incentives of contraband.
But the reason that there are crack dealers on the street (and other ills associated with drug dealing) is the scarcity created by drugs being contraband. If they were legalized and taxed, there'd be no crack dealers on the streets, because there'd be no money in dealing crack on the street--everyone who wanted to could get it legally, and the taxes collected could be used to fund things other than putting citizens in prison for abusing their own bodies.
But if predictive dialler your answering machine picked up, then it will try again. If it thinks your number's out of service, it won't. Hence the SITs.
Of course, a truly 1337 h@x0r could construct an IP packet, and put it on the wire as raw Ethernet frames--but this would require some low-level programming goodness, and would still be caught by a real (not running on the same machine) firewall (and wouldn't be caught by something like ZoneAlarm if done on the Internet connected machine). I don't know what a program trying to do that would use as a source address on a non-Internet connected machine, though..
PC's are cheap now--run two, one with an Internet connection, and one without. Network internally with IPX/SPX or NetBEUI. Download your entertainment on the Internet connected PC. Play the downloaded content on the disconnected PC. Voila`--the media players, etc. can't call home. For added security, don't do anything sensitive on the Internet connected machine.
This setup isn't airtight, but it's a damn sight better than giving RealMedia, Microsoft, and every other spyware purveyor on the face of the earth unfettered access to the same machine that contains your financial information or files which indicate certain, um, proclivities.
This is true so long as you're not an outlier. Consider some examples of things that could make you an outlier:
I'm sure with minimal effort, others can come up with even more chilling examples. When the government of our corporate republic can legally trawl everything looking for outliers, safety in numbers doesn't make me so comfortable.