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  #31  
Old June 25th 17, 06:02 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 6/24/2017 5:54 PM, XS11E wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:

On 6/23/2017 7:43 PM, XS11E wrote:
wrote:

DO NOT use any of these Operating Systems. They are all
dangerous and attract viruses and other malware.

DO NOT use any of these:

Microsoft Windows (all versions)
Linux (all versions and distros)
Android (all versions)
Unix (all types and versions)
Mac OS (all versions)
BSD (all releases)
OS/2 (all versions)

Oh, my gosh, I don't want to use a dangerous OS and attract
viruses and other malware!

What OS do you recommend, please?


Hands down, The Babbage Engine


Good answer but I need to hear from "lfdgjsacg" as he/she/it has
established him/her/itself as the foremost OS expert in the known
universe and golly gee we need to hear from the BEST, right?



Absolutely, Inquiring minds need to Know. :-)

By the way the Babbage engine needs no "lectricity"


Rene


Well, you know geeks just cannot leave well enough alone.

This mockup has a power strip right next to it. Cheaters!!!

http://www.meccano.us/difference_eng...e_2/index.html

The video is a masterpiece. 233MB. There is no hand on the crank.
I think this one has been overclocked.

http://www.meccano.us/difference_eng...e_2/Movie2.mpg

I wonder when the Windows Defender scan runs on that...

Paul
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  #32  
Old June 25th 17, 12:45 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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In message , Paul
writes:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:

[]
Absolutely, Inquiring minds need to Know. :-)
By the way the Babbage engine needs no "lectricity"
Rene


Well, you know geeks just cannot leave well enough alone.

This mockup has a power strip right next to it. Cheaters!!!


Well, the short video does show someone hand cranking it; I presume
they'd just added a motor so the inventor/constructor didn't get tired
out cranking it all day!

http://www.meccano.us/difference_eng...e_2/index.html

The video is a masterpiece. 233MB. There is no hand on the crank.
I think this one has been overclocked.

http://www.meccano.us/difference_eng...e_2/Movie2.mpg


There is a shorter (23M) video at
http://www.meccano.us/difference_eng...e_2/DSCN43.avi, which was
sufficiently captivating that I'm now going for the big one ...

I wonder when the Windows Defender scan runs on that...


(-:

Paul

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  #33  
Old June 25th 17, 03:56 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Rene Lamontagne
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On 6/25/2017 6:45 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Paul
writes:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:

[]
Absolutely, Inquiring minds need to Know. :-)
By the way the Babbage engine needs no "lectricity"
Rene


Well, you know geeks just cannot leave well enough alone.

This mockup has a power strip right next to it. Cheaters!!!


Well, the short video does show someone hand cranking it; I presume
they'd just added a motor so the inventor/constructor didn't get tired
out cranking it all day!

http://www.meccano.us/difference_eng...e_2/index.html

The video is a masterpiece. 233MB. There is no hand on the crank.
I think this one has been overclocked.

http://www.meccano.us/difference_eng...e_2/Movie2.mpg


There is a shorter (23M) video at
http://www.meccano.us/difference_eng...e_2/DSCN43.avi, which was
sufficiently captivating that I'm now going for the big one ...

I wonder when the Windows Defender scan runs on that...


(-:

Paul

John


Beautiful work, I had A few small Meccano sets when I was young, Spent
many wonderful hours designing and building stuff.

There would be no Lack of UPS power , Should be plenty of UPS type lads
hanging around that project. :-)

Rene


  #34  
Old June 25th 17, 04:14 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Rene Lamontagne
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On 6/25/2017 9:56 AM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 6/25/2017 6:45 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Paul
writes:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:

[]
Absolutely, Inquiring minds need to Know. :-)
By the way the Babbage engine needs no "lectricity"
Rene

Well, you know geeks just cannot leave well enough alone.

This mockup has a power strip right next to it. Cheaters!!!


Well, the short video does show someone hand cranking it; I presume
they'd just added a motor so the inventor/constructor didn't get tired
out cranking it all day!

http://www.meccano.us/difference_eng...e_2/index.html

The video is a masterpiece. 233MB. There is no hand on the crank.
I think this one has been overclocked.

http://www.meccano.us/difference_eng...e_2/Movie2.mpg


There is a shorter (23M) video at
http://www.meccano.us/difference_eng...e_2/DSCN43.avi, which was
sufficiently captivating that I'm now going for the big one ...

I wonder when the Windows Defender scan runs on that...


(-:

Paul

John


Beautiful work, I had A few small Meccano sets when I was young, Spent
many wonderful hours designing and building stuff.

There would be no Lack of UPS power , Should be plenty of UPS type lads
hanging around that project. :-)

Rene



Available for crank turning! :-)

Rene
  #35  
Old June 25th 17, 08:24 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Rene Lamontagne
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On 6/25/2017 1:43 PM, Wolf K wrote:
On 2017-06-25 01:02, Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 6/24/2017 5:54 PM, XS11E wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:

On 6/23/2017 7:43 PM, XS11E wrote:
wrote:

DO NOT use any of these Operating Systems. They are all
dangerous and attract viruses and other malware.

DO NOT use any of these:

Microsoft Windows (all versions)
Linux (all versions and distros)
Android (all versions)
Unix (all types and versions)
Mac OS (all versions)
BSD (all releases)
OS/2 (all versions)

Oh, my gosh, I don't want to use a dangerous OS and attract
viruses and other malware!

What OS do you recommend, please?

Hands down, The Babbage Engine

Good answer but I need to hear from "lfdgjsacg" as he/she/it has
established him/her/itself as the foremost OS expert in the known
universe and golly gee we need to hear from the BEST, right?



Absolutely, Inquiring minds need to Know. :-)

By the way the Babbage engine needs no "lectricity"


Rene


Well, you know geeks just cannot leave well enough alone.

This mockup has a power strip right next to it. Cheaters!!!

http://www.meccano.us/difference_eng...e_2/index.html

The video is a masterpiece. 233MB. There is no hand on the crank.
I think this one has been overclocked.

http://www.meccano.us/difference_eng...e_2/Movie2.mpg

I wonder when the Windows Defender scan runs on that...

Paul


TVO ran a documentary on Ada Lovelace. Babbage's demo model was hand
cranked. He never got to build the full-size one. There's a segment on a
full size model. Available until Thursday, June 29th 2017.
http://tvo.org/video/documentaries/c...s-of-computing


Enjoy!



Thanks Wolf,Very Interesting story, very informative, Amazing how he was
able to invent such a complicated Mechanism and know all the Math to go
with it in that early time period.


Rene

  #36  
Old June 25th 17, 10:58 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mandy Liefbowitz
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On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 14:15:39 +0100, Mike Tomlinson
wrote:

En el artículo , Carl Kaufmann
escribió:

You mean VMS.


Did I? Ooops, yes, probably. It was late o'clock in the morning, it
was hot and I was sloppy.
Sorry.
And thank you.

I wouldn't mind using it again. Unfortunately you can't
even get it from HP anymore, afaik.


Buy a cheap, old "supercomputer". There's bound to be a few running
around.
Then spend Apollo-projecty budgets trying to port the OS from that
onto a modern box when there is exactly zero connection in common, not
even floppies.
It could be fun.


wrong.

http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/p.../download.html


Making it easy is *cheating*.


and it's being ported to Intel:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/1...owly_towards_x
86/


And that is *seriously* cheating.
Interlocking incompatibles is supposed to involve heads down in the
crawl-spaces under the raised flooring, standing on ladders hacking
the wiring while forced air does rude stuff with skirts and languages
that are expressive, short and mainly obsolete.
Lost tools and loud bangs as the data centre goes dark are just added
excitements.

Thank you for the linkys, and the memories. The comments on ElReg's
article are well worth a read if your computer experience started with
Mr Babbage's Engines or earlier.

Is it strange and sad that I understand the comments?
Mand.
  #37  
Old June 25th 17, 11:06 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mandy Liefbowitz
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On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 14:12:09 +0100, Mike Tomlinson
wrote:

En el artículo , Martin Edwards
escribió:

Thanks, that's very helpful.


He didn't mention DOS, so that must be OK.


To be fair, he did mention *all* versions of "Windows". As DOS is
just Windows without the Windows, we really should conclude that DOS
is *almost* as dangerous as Windows but not quite.
Or at least we should until the Universe's greatest expert, the
original poster, comes back to reveal more of his One True Truth.
Assuming DOS is safe could be *dangerous*.
We need his expert knowledge to guide us.

Anyway, one needs to ask: which DOS?
There were a few.
Mand.
  #39  
Old June 26th 17, 05:03 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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[snip]

Anyway, one needs to ask: which DOS?


A version without networking?

There were a few.
Mand.


  #40  
Old June 26th 17, 03:11 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Char Jackson
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On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 09:56:13 -0500, Rene Lamontagne
wrote:

Beautiful work, I had A few small Meccano sets when I was young, Spent
many wonderful hours designing and building stuff.


My first thought: Meccano?? Surely you mean Erector Set?

Then I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meccano

Last thought: Nope, you really do mean Meccano. :-)

When I was a kid, my siblings and I got *two* complete Erector Sets one
Christmas. What a blast! Endless hours of fun. The only problems came
when one kid built something so cool that he wanted to save it, but
another kid needed to tear it down for parts to build the next cool
thing.

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  #41  
Old June 26th 17, 03:47 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Rene Lamontagne
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On 6/26/2017 9:11 AM, Char Jackson wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 09:56:13 -0500, Rene Lamontagne
wrote:

Beautiful work, I had A few small Meccano sets when I was young, Spent
many wonderful hours designing and building stuff.


My first thought: Meccano?? Surely you mean Erector Set?

Then I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meccano

Last thought: Nope, you really do mean Meccano. :-)

When I was a kid, my siblings and I got *two* complete Erector Sets one
Christmas. What a blast! Endless hours of fun. The only problems came
when one kid built something so cool that he wanted to save it, but
another kid needed to tear it down for parts to build the next cool
thing.



Yep they where real learning tools and loved by many.

Rene

  #42  
Old June 26th 17, 04:20 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Char Jackson wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 09:56:13 -0500, Rene Lamontagne
wrote:

Beautiful work, I had A few small Meccano sets when I was young, Spent
many wonderful hours designing and building stuff.


My first thought: Meccano?? Surely you mean Erector Set?


I had samples of both as a kid. They each have their
plusses and minuses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meccano

"[Meccano] is now manufactured in France and China
by Meccano S.N. of France, part of the
Canadian Spin Master toy company."

"After August 2015, the Erector brand was relaunched
under the global brand name Meccano."

Which likely means, the product is unrecognizable to
anyone our age.

Paul
  #43  
Old June 26th 17, 04:33 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ken Blake[_5_]
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 09:11:27 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 09:56:13 -0500, Rene Lamontagne
wrote:

Beautiful work, I had A few small Meccano sets when I was young, Spent
many wonderful hours designing and building stuff.


My first thought: Meccano?? Surely you mean Erector Set?

Then I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meccano

Last thought: Nope, you really do mean Meccano. :-)

When I was a kid, my siblings and I got *two* complete Erector Sets one
Christmas. What a blast! Endless hours of fun. The only problems came
when one kid built something so cool that he wanted to save it, but
another kid needed to tear it down for parts to build the next cool
thing.




When I was a kid, I had a big erector set. I remember liking it a lot.

When my son was a kid, he had a medium-sized Meccano set. I remember
nothing about the details, but I do remember thinking that it was
considerably better than my erector set was.

Or maybe it was my grandson who had the Meccano. I'm not sure.
  #44  
Old June 27th 17, 10:18 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Sam E news:5I%3B.50114$741.17398
@fx29.iad Mon, 26 Jun 2017 04:03:13 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

[snip]

Anyway, one needs to ask: which DOS?


A version without networking?


Er, no. DOS could infact 'network' And, uhh, DOS isn't Windows.



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Old June 28th 17, 02:14 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Wolf K
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 21:27:40 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

On 2017-06-27 17:18, Diesel wrote:
Sam E
news:5I%3B.50114$741.17398 @fx29.iad Mon, 26 Jun 2017 04:03:13
GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:



[snip]

Anyway, one needs to ask: which DOS?

A version without networking?


Er, no. DOS could infact 'network' And, uhh, DOS isn't Windows.


Up to Win 6.x, Windows was just a fancy menu system running on
their DOS, which they called MSDOS. There were several better DOS
than MSDOS.


I liked DrDOS alot myself.. but, it wasn't for everybody. And, I think
you meant win3.x/9x and me, right? [g] Windows was a little more than a
fancy menu system. it invoked time slicing so to a certain extint,
running multiple programs at what you thought was the same time was
possible.



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