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 Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 3:24 pm Post subject: Re: Where is everyone? |
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Hi, Jim, Tim, RickE, Peter and everybody else.
I guess I'm lurking. I check the newsgroup every day, but rarely come
across a thread to which I can respond.
I'm retired on Social Security Disability and scraping by on that
fixed income. About a year ago, after my mother passed away, my
sister and I sold the family house. The house I've lived in on and
off for 55 years.
I moved to a 1 bedroom apartment and brought some of my computer
equipment. "Some" is 25 boxes filled with stuff and 5 computers. I
went a different route than I had previously and bought a new HP using
Windows XP. It's wonderful to be able to use current software and
hardware. Its also good to delegate responsibility to someone else,
even if they are in India or New Delhi. Gotta say, Micro$oft
technical support is better than other companies - Intuit (Quicken),
Novastor (backup software), Zones (where I bought the computer).
Actually, HP is good, also, and their tech support is in Canada. I
replaced the HP optical mouse with inside wheel and USB connector with
a plain black IBM mouse with PS/2 connector. I might replace the
keyboard, too.
I might have room to set up one more computer. I'm leaning towards
the 8580-071 which I could use for text and spreadsheets, but the 9595-
Y, PC 750 and PC300GL are in the running. I guess that leaves the
9577-K (D?)NG. These computers and parts are up for grabs.
I've found a very nice service for giving things away. Its like ePay
but everything has to be free. It helps pack rats like me get rid of
things. Someone is coming here in a few minutes to pick up an excess
cat carrier. I have 6 other ones, and only 3 cats.
As I posted before, I now own a Lotus Elise. It takes driving to a
new level. http://www.lotuscars.com/elise_190.html I spend time with
that newsgroup instead of comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware.
My other toy is a Nikon digital camera. I still have film cameras but
digital is intriguing.
Please note that I have a new e-mail address: kaliuzhkin <at> verizon
<dot> net zh instead of sh, verizon instead of att.
So, I'll be thinking of you as I read the posts. |
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Dan O
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:00 pm Post subject: Re: Where is everyone? |
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On Jul 4, 8:24 am, kaliuzh...@verizon.net wrote:
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Hi, Jim, Tim, RickE, Peter and everybody else.
I guess I'm lurking. I check the newsgroup every day, but rarely come
across a thread to which I can respond.
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<snip>
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I moved to a 1 bedroom apartment and brought some of my computer
equipment. "Some" is 25 boxes filled with stuff and 5 computers. I
went a different route than I had previously and bought a new HP using
Windows XP. It's wonderful to be able to use current software and
hardware. Its also good to delegate responsibility to someone else,
even if they are in India or New Delhi. Gotta say, Micro$oft
technical support is better than other companies - Intuit (Quicken),
Novastor (backup software), Zones (where I bought the computer).
Actually, HP is good, also, and their tech support is in Canada. I
replaced the HP optical mouse with inside wheel and USB connector with
a plain black IBM mouse with PS/2 connector. I might replace the
keyboard, too.
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Um... no comment.
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I might have room to set up one more computer. I'm leaning towards
the 8580-071 which I could use for text and spreadsheets, but the 9595-
Y, PC 750 and PC300GL are in the running. I guess that leaves the
9577-K (D?)NG. These computers and parts are up for grabs.
I've found a very nice service for giving things away. Its like ePay
but everything has to be free. It helps pack rats like me get rid of
things.
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*DON'T* give away the 32MB ECC SIMM's with the 9595!! (Except to
someone who understands their unique value and won't ever let them go
to scrap.)
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Someone is coming here in a few minutes to pick up an excess
cat carrier. I have 6 other ones, and only 3 cats.
As I posted before, I now own a Lotus Elise. It takes driving to a
new level.
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Kinda gives new meaning to the concept of scraping by on a fixed
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:12 pm Post subject: Re: Where is everyone? |
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On Jul 4, 7:00 pm, Dan O <danover...@gmail.com> wrote:
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On Jul 4, 8:24 am, kaliuzh...@verizon.net wrote:
I might have room to set up one more computer. I'm leaning towards
the 8580-071 which I could use for text and spreadsheets, but the 9595-
Y, PC 750 and PC300GL are in the running. I guess that leaves the
9577-K (D?)NG. These computers and parts are up for grabs.
I've found a very nice service for giving things away. Its like ePay
but everything has to be free. It helps pack rats like me get rid of
things.
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Do a search for "Freecycle" if you're interested.
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*DON'T* give away the 32MB ECC SIMM's with the 9595!! (Except to
someone who understands their unique value and won't ever let them go
to scrap.)
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Noted.
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As I posted before, I now own a Lotus Elise. It takes driving to a
new level.
Kinda gives new meaning to the concept of scraping by on a fixed
income
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I won't go into the details of my finances, except to say I could
afford it, and I could "go for it." No qualms or misgivings.
Actually, its somewhat altruistic. People see it and brighten up. Of
course, most of the pleasure is mine, not people who see it. |
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Dan O
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:52 pm Post subject: Re: Where is everyone? |
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On Jul 2, 2:19 pm, Jim Hall <jh...@nycap.rr.com> wrote:
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Vacation?
Moved on to bigger and better things?
Laying low? (Watch out for the black helicopters!)
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I'm still hanging out (heck, I was one of the top five or so posters
last month with a whopping 7 posts or so) - just checking in with a
different perspective these days.
As noted previously, I've sort of lost interest in computers. Getting
into bicycles. I ride 50 miles a day - every weekday - back and forth
to work. I have lost like 40+ pounds since last fall, can eat
anything I want whenever I want, am in the best shape I've been this
millennium, good vital stats, feel absolutely fabulous, etc., etc.
It started innocently enough: I bought a 22 year old road bike and
rode it occasionally. Then last summer the kids started spending more
time riding their bikes - really enjoying it - so I have upgraded some
of their Dept Store bikes with good quality (used) bikes. Now I was
needing some tools and a workstand. I lucked into this guy's shop
where he was purging the bike stuff, and got professional quality
tools and workstand plus tons of parts and stuff. At this point I
have four bikes:
http://www.daisyheadmayzie.net/~dan/bikes.jpeg (~300kB)
(note the usual constraints on daisyheadmayzie.net uptime - typically
goes down ~8 hrs daily)
.... The black Trek on the bottom is my daily driver. It's a 1986
model 400 Elance (Sport/Touring). It's one of the last hand-I love
this machine more and more every day. It is *so* good to me :-)
The black Miyata on top is the 1989 model 914 that I bragged of here
before. I rode it to work about a week ago and was having a blast and
making record time without even trying... when something cut clean
through the ~$50 rear tire on the last mile coming home. I fixed the
hole with a folded up granola bar wrapper to get home.
The beautiful blue mountain bike on top is my 1987 Specialized
Stumpjumper. I got this from the guy with the tools. It's in
practically mint condition - truly a collectors item - fun to ride,
too :-)
The green mountain bike on the bottom is a Nishiki Pueblo (~1991) -
sort of converted into a "City Bike" by the previous owner's local
bike shop. He never rode it, so it's in very good condition. I got
it cheap, although it had a lousy seatpost - which wrecked the seat -
so I spent ~$18 on a seatpost and have a ~$16 saddle coming in the
mail. This is my "ride to the store and lean it against a flower pot"
and "jump on and haul ass to the fire station" bike.
Around the first of each month I look forward to payday when (maybe) I
can place an order with Bike Nashbar http://www.nashbar.com/
Aside from that, I did spend a large part of a couple days on PS/2
stuff a week or so ago (trying to build up a spare 95 to sell on
ebay), and a while back I built a PS/2 8556 OS/2 IBM Wireless LAN <->
ethernet router substantially from scratch. Still got some of the MAD-
PS/2-Skillz.
The lab is still essentially intact, although I have to move a couple
of bikes if I want to get all the way in there.
And I have so many friends here |
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Dan O
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:56 pm Post subject: Re: Where is everyone? |
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On Jul 4, 4:12 pm, kaliuzh...@verizon.net wrote:
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On Jul 4, 7:00 pm, Dan O <danover...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jul 4, 8:24 am, kaliuzh...@verizon.net wrote:
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<snip>
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As I posted before, I now own a Lotus Elise. It takes driving to a
new level.
Kinda gives new meaning to the concept of scraping by on a fixed
income :-)
I won't go into the details of my finances... No qualms or misgivings.
Actually, its somewhat altruistic. People see it and brighten up. Of
course, most of the pleasure is mine, not people who see it.
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Absolutely. I'm right with you, man - all the way. Please don't take
my remarks the wrong way (that happens to me a lot). |
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Dan O
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| Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 12:03 am Post subject: Re: Where is everyone? |
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On Jul 4, 4:52 pm, Dan O <danover...@gmail.com> wrote:
(replying to own post - how pathetic is that - probably make me top
poster this month, tho)
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... The black Trek on the bottom is my daily driver. It's a 1986
model 400 Elance (Sport/Touring). It's one of the last hand...
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Meant to say "one of the last hand-built in the USA Trek frames". |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 5:09 am Post subject: Re: Where is everyone? |
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Hi all
still reading this ng least once a week, after moving to the desert a couple
of years ago now and communting a hundred miles a week to work (as a welder
making oil driiling related equipment at a major supplier) wer'e busy as
hell since the oil price went sky high) not much time to tinker with my ibm
720, 500 or ncr 3434's but they're patiently waiting'
vacation? what's that? i got today off but back at it monday night for more
fun and games, i'm 55 now and work with a 23 year old kid who thinks he
knows everything about welding but if i leave him alone strange things
happen to his parts that he can't explain.
see ya!
Jerry
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Brought to you from a COMPAQ PROLIANT 3000 running WIN2KPRO, check out
www.jerrysmicro.com but don't get too exited!
"Jim Hall" <jhall@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message
news:486bebfa$0$17904$9a6e19ea@news.newshosting.com...
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Vacation?
Moved on to bigger and better things?
Laying low? (Watch out for the black helicopters!)
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Jim Hall
(to respond directly, add the numbers zero zero four between Jhall and at) |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 5:58 am Post subject: Re: Where is everyone? |
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into bicycles. I ride 50 miles a day - every weekday - back and forth
to work.
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Wow... I envy that. I'd like to be able to bike/walk to work but 60
miles is a bit out of my range! ;-) My rider is a Lotus Excelle (27"
frame - it gets looks) I bought new back in '87.
On topic, tho... lurking and lots of it.
About every 6 months or so I do a bit more PS/2-ing, catch up on the
newsgroup.
One of the few groups where little changes yet it's still interesting.
John the Sunburned |
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Jim Hall
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| Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 7:08 am Post subject: Re: Where is everyone? |
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Dan O wrote:
<snip>
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... The black Trek on the bottom is my daily driver. It's a 1986
model 400 Elance (Sport/Touring). It's one of the last hand-I love
this machine more and more every day. It is *so* good to me :-)
The black Miyata on top is the 1989 model 914 that I bragged of here
before. I rode it to work about a week ago and was having a blast and
making record time without even trying... when something cut clean
through the ~$50 rear tire on the last mile coming home. I fixed the
hole with a folded up granola bar wrapper to get home.
The beautiful blue mountain bike on top is my 1987 Specialized
Stumpjumper. I got this from the guy with the tools. It's in
practically mint condition - truly a collectors item - fun to ride,
too :-)
The green mountain bike on the bottom is a Nishiki Pueblo (~1991) -
sort of converted into a "City Bike" by the previous owner's local
bike shop. He never rode it, so it's in very good condition. I got
it cheap, although it had a lousy seatpost - which wrecked the seat -
so I spent ~$18 on a seatpost and have a ~$16 saddle coming in the
mail. This is my "ride to the store and lean it against a flower pot"
and "jump on and haul ass to the fire station" bike.
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Nothing wrong with those older rides...still riding my '81 Peugeot road
bike on the west side of Manhattan (New York) whenever I have time...
Regards, Jim Hall |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 11:00 am Post subject: Re: Where is everyone? |
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Jim Hall schrieb:
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Vacation?
Moved on to bigger and better things?
Laying low? (Watch out for the black helicopters!)
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I'm reading nearly daily.
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Don Hills
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| Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 11:00 am Post subject: Re: Where is everyone? |
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I'm still here. Where else would I go?
I've just been too busy to do much MAD stuff. (Busy at work, I come home
shattered and just want to doze in a chair and read a bit.) The pressure
will ease off in a couple of weeks, we're real close to ship date now.
--
Don Hills (dmhills at attglobaldotnet) Wellington, New Zealand
"New interface closely resembles Presentation Manager,
preparing you for the wonders of OS/2!"
-- Advertisement on the box for Microsoft Windows 2.11 for 286 |
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UZnal
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| Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:44 pm Post subject: Re: Where is everyone? |
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Joining in for the chorus... I have been witnessing the Euro 2008 and still
trying to recover from the drama or trauma, I don't know what to call it
....;) These were truly memorable weeks with a different, instantly better
spirit in this host city. Vienna took part with some 5-6 national teams in
the competition, one team for each large slice of the immigrant or guest
population.
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Started working on a 8595-AKF some time ago for the sake of testing Ünal's
XGA208 driver.
Got it going after the usual trials and trebulations, but it has been
standing here looking rather disheveled with all the panels off for more
than three months now.
Never got round to testing (sorry Ünal..).
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No problem, Jelte. This is absolutely no problem. There will be other
opportunities to test, so I hope. |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:17 am Post subject: Re: Where is everyone? |
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On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:19:10 -0400
Jim wrote:
I have no idea what that word means, is it something edible?
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Moved on to bigger and better things?
Laying low? (Watch out for the black helicopters!)
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Just being too busy to hack at the moment, sitting here and reading the stuff
though. I still have a bunch of stuff here and even a few new ones. The worst
part is that I have absolutely no time for the computers at the moment.
Imagine, things like two neat Japan-only IBM tablets on my desk and they have
been wrapped up for over a year. I bought them from Zeer Rangsit in .th last
July and "smuggled" them to .fi. They are still in the protective cardboard
that I packed them in before the flight...
Don't worry, the bits do not go out of my blood very easily. Lets say they are
hibernating at the moment, all the hacking I have time for is strictly
utilitarian right now but things will change very soon.
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shingouz running at 100% cpu :p |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject: Re: Where is everyone? |
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Hi Dan,
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...I'm still hanging out (heck, I was one of the top five or so
posters last month with a whopping 7 posts or so) - just
checking in with a different perspective these days...
And so far you are the top poster this month too. Last month's |
numbers looked horrible: 126 posts, the lowest month totals since
December 1992! A timeframe of over 15 years!
Certainly I can't throw any stones myself...
Just too many other attention-needing aspects on the home front... |
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Count Floyd
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:13 pm Post subject: Re: Where is everyone? |
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On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 05:16:06 UTC, Jim Shorney <jshorney@inetnebr.com>
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Jim Hall wrote:
Vacation?
What's a "vacation"?
Moved on to bigger and better things?
Busy as Hades with radio stuff. Some my own, some others.
Jim, |
Have you done anything with the old National NC-57? I recently got a
Hammarlund HQ145-XC, recapped it, some new tubes and it is humming
along like a champ!! |
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