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"And what was wrong with sccs" Short answer, The biggest alpha male code bully (Linus) didn't write it. pages and pages have been written about the history of source control systems and how a user hostile one came to power.

I have several. He hasn't asked to borrow one.

When you replace a tension band, don't leave any slack in the tape, make sure the tape turns freely, and do a drive retension to repack the tape before you try reading it.

Intel was selling boxed systems at least as far back as 1989. http://bitsavers.org/pdf/intel/isa_systems/ Daisy Systems OEMed Intel 386 boxes for the Personal Logician, ca. late 80s http://bitsavers.org/components/intel/_dataBooks/1989_OEM_Boards_and_Systems_Hanbook.pdf lists the 301 and 302 systems

The tape is stuck to the steel pins. You need to bake the tapes, and add something on the pins to keep it from sticking. I use a small strip of thin lint free cloth glued together to form a bearing around the pin. I only do this to a few baseplates, then swap reels when doing multiple tapes.

Perfectly logical thing to do given how many older tech fabs they're bringing up. I'm waiting for one of them to start building 5v tolerant FPGAs again.

Yes, it has been going away for a while now.

wrong https://www.rocelec.com/

TubeTimeUS has been saying for a while now that whole product lines are being slashed by MBA driven companies like TI. Eventually Rochester Electronics will become the most profitable US semiconductor manufacturer. They buy mask rights and old fabs and charge what the market will bear for old...

Tell me about it. You didn't spend years getting Apple to release the Lisa source code, and AFAIK nothing has been done with it. I'm messing with a model 77 right now to host a Crossbow RT/PC card. Still need to find the Ungermann-Bass MC-EN card it requires.

you can find a review of all of the scanners available in 1987 here https://archive.org/details/PCMAG/PC-Mag-1987-10-13/page/185

DEST PC Scan , ca 1987. It was one of the first non-toy ie. "thunderscan" scanners with software for the Mac. Sheet feed letter size monochrome probably based on a fax ccd scanner. There were flatbeds before that, like the Datacopy, which was a spinout from Xerox, but they were expensive...

Nope. They also 'lost' a Burroughs small system

betawiki: Oh yes, we're a private repository and only the leet may apply. bitsavers: It's all there, deliberately rsync-able. Take everything, even give it to the Internet Archive so they can mangle the file names and directory heirarchy. I heard yesterday that Brewster had never heard of...

I had it up with the virus for like two hours and fixed it the fixed version has no password the second manual is OCRing http://bitsavers.org/bits/Microsoft/ddk http://bitsavers.org/pdf/microsoft/windows_3.0/Windows_3.0_DDK_Pre-Release/ -- ah... this didn't come from bitsavers A post was...

thanks! will put them in http://bitsavers.org/Media_From_Books

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/microsoft/windows_3.1 it would be nice to find the disks that went with them

good luck finding the software

and https://web.archive.org/web/20090724051049/http://retrograde.trustno1.org/index2.htm as a necroreply to the retrograde site, which has been dead since 2009

The cluster controller for the KL (CI-20) talks to an HSC-50 with special software to support 576 byte blocks There were no cluster disks on the system, just RP05s Memory is vague, but they may have moved them onto the VAX that replaced it.