Re: Report this spam to: groups-abuse@google.com

Simon Scott wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:


So what is your answer to spam? Do like the guy in Russia and kill
the spammer?

The answer is to ignore it. If the spammers derived $0 in spam related
income then it wouldnt be worth doing.

Unfortunately people are too dumb.

You still have your troubles with the English language, 190 IQ boy.

Wow, a typo. Good call. How are those straws you are grasping by the way?


No, not one "Typo". Your use of the English language throughout the
thread is horrid. You would have never graduated from High School where
I grew up.

I must admit that I dont particular care when Im leaving abusive messages on
usenet. Go figure.


What would qualify anyone about spammers? A head shrinker? Maybe a
bunch of goons to kick the spammer's front door down and smash all of
their computers? If Google gets fed up with all the spam reports they
make it harder to post, or set a limit of posts per IP address, per
day. They won't do anything until it becomes a real thorn in their
side.

A slight understanding that usenet (as well as email) is pretty much
completely unregulated because of its architecture. Again, google is simply
a web based interface to usenet, so google acting on spam means absolutely
nothing.

I was already installing Novel networks before I went to work at

So why do you find it so hard to comprehend that

1) Google groups is simply a node on the usenet network, not the network
itself
2) There is no way to regulate the usenet from a technical perspective
3) Usenet accounts to use for spam are free, easy to get, and infinite

???

Microdyne. As a matter of fact, I still have a 100 user Novel license
disk in my files. I worked with older networking that used RS-232. It
was a joke, but it almost worked. I'm glad that i wasn't the one who
set it up. It was a different division of Microdyne that sold
networking hardware and Novel bundles. Yes, I've spent time studying
networking from the Arcnet days, to the current Ethernet layers. I had

Hey, while we're off the topic - back in my DOS days, i picked up some
arcnet cards but didnt have a clue what they were. We were trying to use
them to network some machines for Doom :) Ended up posting on usenet (from
memory) about them and some guy came back and told us they were arcnet
cards and how to set them up. The guy was in fact the engineer who designed
arcnet :)

That was back in the early 90s, when usenet wasnt completely worthless.


I had a set of IBM network cards that used 75 ohm TV coax and
splitters to connect to a RF based router. I've never found any data on
them, but a guy I knew that work for the state of Ohio told me he
installed them at Ohio State University, and they used the existing CATV
system to network the campus. They were a low bandwidth version of a
cable modem.


Do you ever write in machine language? Not assembler, but true
machine code? I used to for the 6502 and 6510 processors. I wrote a

Heh. As it happens one of my hobbies is 6502 assembler (I like the way
you say 6502 AND 6510, when the 6510 is little more than a 6502 with
ports hardwired into locations $00 and $01, and is simply the minor 6502
derivative used in the commodore 64). Machine code? Sure, if you like,
although why bother when ca65 etc are available? If you like I could
convert the hexidecimal opcodes into binary in my head and enter it in on
a set of switches?

6502 (and 6510! :)), 6800, z80, 68000, 8086...... Which would you like?
Im particular adept at 6510 (!) and the c64. In fact my left arm is
resting on a complete C128 setup on the desk next to me, and the machine
Im on (a linux box) has vice and ca65 installed on it, and one of my
servers has subversion running with my 6502 source.........


I almost forgot the two Metrodata computers I used at a CATV headend
in Cincinnati, Ohio. They were based on the Motorola 6800 processor and
used the Motorola Exorciser buss. Each had six video boards and 32 or
48 K ow DRAM. One had a SMS 8" floppy storage system, to keep all the
TV programming information, along with the community bulletin board and
similar, pages.


I have a couple working 128D computers, about a half dozen C-128s and
a pile of 4023 printers and IEEE-488 floppy drives and other parts for
the early PET series. I repaired hundreds of Commodore computers them
in the '80s and '90s.

ooooh, IEEE. Nice. I have a couple of SFD1001s here, which are extremely
rare in Australia. One even works. My collection runs to many, many c64s,
1541s, 1571s, c128s, an old PET....etc


I have about 25 1541 drives, plus a few 1571 and 1581 drives. I saw
the C128 at the dayton hamfest nine months before it shipped. I had a
set of dealer handouts for the C128, the 1571, and the never released
1572 dual, double sided drive.

The prize in my Commodore Computer collection is several working SX64
computers, with all the cables and accessories. I used a SX 64 with an
external modulator for a TV color bar, gray scale, and cross hatch
generator.


Have you replaced the 4416 16K*4 video RAM in a 128 with the 4464
64K*4 RAM? You can either use it to store multiple screens, or access

Not yet, but the 4464s are sitting on the bench. Im deciding whether to
simply replace the chips in my c128s (I have a couple), or whether to
design a piggyback PCB (like the ones made in the late 80s). If I do that,
maybe 4464s arent the best thing to use.

Decisions decisions.


The VDC only addresses 64 K of RAM, so its the logical choice. BTW,
the VCC and GND pins are soldered to heavy traces so the easy way to get
them out is heat the pin from both sides, the bottom side with a vacuum
desoldering iron. i think i converted about a dozen. The C128D came
from the factory with the 4464 chips.



Then again, Risen From Oblivion runs without it.

it as more memory. Also, did you know that the 128D uses a different
Video chip than the 128? I installed a 3.5 inch drive in one of the

Different, as in a different model number? Im sure its still a VIC-II tho.
Or are you talking about the VDC variations? I seem to recall there being 2
different VDCs. Its 7am here, my brain is mush.

The chips have different pinouts, and are not interchangeable.


128D computers. I was designing a modification to the circuit board to
eliminate the card from the 1581 drive. The disassembler that I wrote
was for the 1581 drive. It not only took the code apart, it wrote the
files to the drive it was running on. There is still dead code in the
1581 ROM from early Commodore disk drives.

Welcome to commodore. Im surprised that there isnt a dead ferret and an
antique chair in there somewhere too.

My days are far from empty. I just can't schedule the times that I'm
available to work because of a lot of medical problems. I am busy at
one project or another all of my waking hours. I never planned to
retire, but I have been forced to slow down by needing a cane and not
being able to stand for very long. It hasn't done anything to my mind,
but I am losing my eyesight. In fact, I am looking into getting a grant
to set up a repair business for electric power chairs and other
electronic aids for the disabled. BTW, I am fixing a damaged one that
was given to me and it will have a wireless networked computer built in
when I'm done.


Dude, it simply looks like we got off on the wrong foot. You sound like a
stand-up guy with extraordinary taste in computers :) Anyone who uses a PET
gets my stamp of approval.


I had almost the entire PET line when I got sick and lost my job at
Microdyne, and ended up losing the rental warehouse where they were
stored. I also lost my KIM-1 development board and a dozen 4004
processors with the support chips on working PC boards from early
inventory control terminals. The remaining Commodore stuff is most C64
and C128, plus the old metal cased dual floppy drives. I had a dead Lt
kernal 20 Mb hard drive, with a bad EPROM that I think was in the
warehouse. It used the Seagate 8-bit IDE controller and a cheap hard
drive. I wanted to open a small computer museum, so i had at least one
working unit of every model in my collection. I also had all the
Commodore service manuals, and lost them, as well.



Did you ever use the original version of Disk Doctor for the
Commodore computers? It is a neat little sector editor that can be used
to do all kinds of things to Commodore floppies. It was released for
the 1541 and older drives, then abandoned. I used it to modify a second
copy of Disk Doctor to work with the 1571 and 1581 drives.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
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