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Help me evaluate the Epson and Tandy computers
by Evan Koblentz 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

VCF has too many Epson microcomputers and possibly too much Tandy hardware also. We need someone to spend a day here (in the next few weeks, but sooner is better) and show me what we should keep vs. what should go out. Volunteers?

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OFF TOPIC: cheap HP Chromebooks available
by William Dudley 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

I'm hooked up with a private school that is "getting rid" of approximately 100 HP Chromebooks. Model is 11-p010nr so you can google the specs, but the short version is: Intel CPU, 32G solid state drive, I assume ChromeOS. We've offered the school $10 each for these. I just want to save them from the landfill. This summer the same school put a bunch of recent laptops in a dumpster, which I didn't find out about until later. I have gotten laptops from them before at similar prices, but never in enough quantity that it was challenging to get rid of them. I will sell them at cost, plus shipping if you're not local to I-195 corridor in NJ. Email me off list if interested. wfdudley(a)gmail.com Bill Dudley (who has donated a few things to the museum over the years)

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Small rescue needed in southern New Hampshire
by Evan Koblentz 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

There's an original Compaq Deskpro 8086 for us in Peterborough, New Hampshire. The owner does not have the experience to pack it (especially the CRT) and I've heard a lot of horror stories about broken monitors in shipping lately. Can anyone pick up the system?

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Someone buy this for us...
by Evan Koblentz 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

There is a nice set of 1968 Army data processing books on eBay, item #302856293921. Can someone buy these for the museum?

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Slightly OT: Eudora 7.1 source code was released!
by Bill Degnan 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

> > At 10/2/2018 01:50 PM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > > I use Eudora 7.1 now on my work PC. I would love to participate in any > beta testing. > > > Alas, there's nothing to test. Someone has to figure out how to restore > the missing pieces and get the build environment working again. > > - Ken > > > With my working version it may help someone, if anyone wants a copy and it's not already available. I have the sentence case, toggle case, upper/lower case toggle, etc. installed. I only use it for work, not things like this mailing list. Bill

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Slightly OT: Eudora 7.1 source code was released!
by Drew Notarnicola 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 4:00 PM Ken via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > if a judgment is made by the developer when implementing a particular > feature within the program, and there exists a reasonable expectation that > a user may differ in that decision, then there should be a setting that > allows the user to change that behavior. > Wow! What a concept! Seriously, why can't all software do this? (Looking at you, Apple.)

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Slightly OT: Eudora 7.1 source code was released!
by Ken 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Slightly OT: Eudora 7.1 source code was released!
by David Riley 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

> On Oct 2, 2018, at 1:41 PM, Ken via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > I suspect I'm not the only person in the group who has big Eudora love. (Am I the only person in the group who still uses it?) Ha! I still actually run Eudora Internet Mail Server on a Mac LC III (there's actually a good reason for that). > Anyway, it's been a great fantasy among us masses of Eudora hold-outs that the source would finally be released and then that somebody would manage to update this never-yet-surpassed email tool that was abandoned 12 years ago. We've seen many replacement projects begun and failed, including one by the original Eudora authors. > > I somehow missed the May 2018 announcement that the Computer History Museum acquired the source code and full rights to the final version of Eudora. The catch is that many of the third-party libraries are excluded, so they'd need to be reimplemented. And another catch is that it used custom-modified MFC extensions, but they did get the source code for that. > > Anyway, here's the announcement (and link to the 458mb of source code), for you to drool over: > http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-eudora-email-client-source-code/ Glad they released the Mac version too, it was such a wonderful, efficient mail client. Nice also to see Grady Booch and Steve Jasik mentioned in the "thanks" section! - Dave

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Slightly OT: Eudora 7.1 source code was released!
by Jeffrey Brace 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

I loved it in college 91-96 and afterwards for a few years. Easy to use. Efficient. Easy to organize emails etc. On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 1:42 PM Ken via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > I suspect I'm not the only person in the group who has big Eudora love. > (Am I the only person in the group who still uses it?) > > Anyway, it's been a great fantasy among us masses of Eudora hold-outs that > the source would finally be released and then that somebody would manage to > update this never-yet-surpassed email tool that was abandoned 12 years > ago. We've seen many replacement projects begun and failed, including one > by the original Eudora authors. > > I somehow missed the May 2018 announcement that the Computer History > Museum acquired the source code and full rights to the final version of > Eudora. The catch is that many of the third-party libraries are excluded, > so they'd need to be reimplemented. And another catch is that it used > custom-modified MFC extensions, but they did get the source code for that. > > Anyway, here's the announcement (and link to the 458mb of source code), > for you to drool over: > http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-eudora-email-client-source-code/ > > Truly one of the greatest pieces of software ever written. > > - Ken > (written on a patched copy of Eudora) > > -- ======================================================= Jeff Brace =======================================================

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Slightly OT: Eudora 7.1 source code was released!
by Evan Koblentz 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

> Truly one of the greatest pieces of software ever written. What's great about it? I used (unknown version) in college but I don't remember much about it.

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