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  • Looking for an INMOS IMS B017 PS/2 MCA board.

    From Andrew Back@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 22 04:26:32 2021
    As per the title, on the off chance that anyone has one and is looking to part with it.

    Cheers,

    Andrew

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  • From Mike B.@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 23 02:38:15 2021
    Hi Andrew!

    Never seen a B017 during the last ~15 years. Only one AVM ISDN Controller B1-MCA (@61C7.ADF) which is now running under OS2 in an PS/2 Model 9585-0XA.

    -Mike

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  • From B419@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 23 04:31:26 2021
    Ugh!
    I have one, but...
    ...due to the lack of any MCAs I did some modifikations on it.
    I don't know if it still works as expected.

    Some Pics:
    https://gitlab.com/tinkercnc/INMOS-Link-Driver/-/wikis/B017

    BTW and OT:
    Hi fellows, what do you think about using a different board/group/BB?
    IMHO this google groups are realy uncomfortable.

    Cheers

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  • From Chris Hanson@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 17 16:34:04 2022
    On 12/23/21 4:31 AM, B419 wrote:
    BTW and OT:
    Hi fellows, what do you think about using a different board/group/BB?
    IMHO this google groups are realy uncomfortable.

    This is not a "Google group," it's a Usenet newsgroup. That means it's a
    fully distributed bulletin board, and Google Groups is just one way to
    access it.

    For example, I use Thunderbird as my client and eternal-september.org as
    my NNTP server; there are lots of other clients, including GNUS in
    emacs, and lots of other NNTP servers carrying the various groups.

    The worst thing to do to a community is to migrate it to a "web forum"
    or "web chat" without an email or news gateway, because then only people
    who like visiting that type of forum in a web browser would participate.
    Usenet clients generally provide a far superior experience, and Usenet's distributed nature ensures that what people say actually gets archived properly.

    -- Chris

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  • From Matsche@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 18 15:58:55 2022
    Am Mon, 17 Jan 2022 16:34:04 -0800
    schrieb Chris Hanson <[email protected]>:

    On 12/23/21 4:31 AM, B419 wrote:
    BTW and OT:
    Hi fellows, what do you think about using a different board/group/BB?
    IMHO this google groups are realy uncomfortable.

    This is not a "Google group," it's a Usenet newsgroup. That means it's a fully distributed bulletin board, and Google Groups is just one way to
    access it.


    Yes I knew this, but I have not found a working newsserver.

    For example, I use Thunderbird as my client and eternal-september.org as
    my NNTP server; there are lots of other clients, including GNUS in
    emacs, and lots of other NNTP servers carrying the various groups.


    So, thanks for this info.
    As you can see now I post through this server.

    The worst thing to do to a community is to migrate it to a "web forum"
    or "web chat" without an email or news gateway, because then only people
    who like visiting that type of forum in a web browser would participate. Usenet clients generally provide a far superior experience, and Usenet's distributed nature ensures that what people say actually gets archived properly.

    This was not my intention.


    -- Chris



    Thanks again for the hint.

    Matsche

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  • From Luca Saiu@21:1/5 to Matsche on Tue Jan 18 22:20:10 2022
    On 2022-01-18 at 15:58 +0100, Matsche wrote:

    Yes I knew this, but I have not found a working newsserver.

    eternal-september.org seems very stable to me, and I have used it for
    years.

    https://www.eternal-september.org

    (I have no personal interest and no affiliation, other than a normal
    free account.)

    --
    Luca Saiu -- http://ageinghacker.net
    I support everyone's freedom of mocking any opinion or belief, no
    matter how deeply held, with open disrespect and the same unrelented
    enthusiasm of a toddler who has just learned the word "poo".

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  • From Tom Ivar Helbekkmo@21:1/5 to Luca Saiu on Wed Jan 19 07:05:37 2022
    Luca Saiu <[email protected]> writes:

    eternal-september.org seems very stable to me, and I have used it for
    years.

    I've been very happy with news.individual.net for many years (see https://news.individual.net/). It's offered by the Free University of
    Berlin as a paid service at EUR 10 per year.

    -tih
    --
    Most people who graduate with CS degrees don't understand the significance
    of Lisp. Lisp is the most important idea in computer science. --Alan Kay

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Jan 26 02:05:56 2022
    [email protected] schrieb am Mittwoch, 22. Dezember 2021 um 13:26:33 UTC+1:
    As per the title, on the off chance that anyone has one and is looking to part with it.

    Cheers,

    Andrew

    There's one on ePay right now...
    https://www.ebay.de/itm/203804184498

    Cheers, Axel

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