Attention outside: The messages below sent yesterday contained Trojans (scanned by Trend Micro) ... ****************** Virus Warning Message Found virus...
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dave@...
Jul 1, 2001 6:08 pm
Hi to all RARE VINTAGE AMELIA SCIENTIFIC LED CALCULATOR 20001 and others for Auction at eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1251843322...
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Nicholas Bodley
nbodley@...
Jul 2, 2001 2:29 am
... What's worse, Norton SystemWorks 2000 can neither delete nor quarantine it; the message is in the e-mail part of Opera 5.12. Nicholas Bodley |@| Waltham,...
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Nicholas Bodley
nbodley@...
Jul 2, 2001 2:58 am
I thought I'd finally deleted the message, but it seemed to come back! Norton was OK for detection, pathetic for deletion. I did save the full header and the...
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Laura & Michael's desk
scctv@...
Jul 2, 2001 8:05 am
Calculator Fans, We opened an e-mail attachment from fellow a calclist member and inadvertently passed on this worm, so sorry! (This worm sends out e-mails ...
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Julian Burke
julianb@...
Jul 2, 2001 6:39 pm
Go to www.symantec.com they have a good free Virus Scan online and if you have a virus it leads you through the steps to delete the virus. J...
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Nicholas Bodley
nbodley@...
Jul 2, 2001 10:57 pm
For people running Microsoft Windows, I'd definitely recommend installing ZoneAlarm, from Zone Labs. This will prevent your computer from being used --...
Hi Dave, Hope you will get a good bid in this item - Looks very interesting. I posted a picture in the ALBUM section of my web site. Regards, James James...
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Nicholas Bodley
nbodley@...
Jul 10, 2001 5:31 am
My apologies for a much-delayed reply. Mr. Joerg Woerner posted a fine and detailed explanation of the battery and power designs in T.I. calculators. on...
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James Redin
james@...
Jul 30, 2001 8:09 pm
Dear friends, I hope that somebody may help with this request. Thanks! James Redin The X-Number World http://www.dotpoint.com/xnumber mailto:james@......
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Frank Russo
russo@...
Jul 31, 2001 5:06 pm
take a look at this old Underwood that I am selling on Ebay. Thanks, Frank http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1259916793...
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JAY RESPLER
jrespler@...
Aug 1, 2001 4:04 am
... When you need repairs, ribbons, paper, instruction book, etc., you can get it all from me. -- Jay Respler -- JRespler@... SKY VIEWS:...
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Bob Patton
patton@...
Aug 4, 2001 11:49 pm
A common flaw with used calculators is missing battery doors. I've found an inexpensive way to make them. It doesn't give you museum quality, but it covers...
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Bob Patton
patton@...
Aug 24, 2001 1:13 am
Calculator Quirks #001 The Canon Palmtronics LD-8M2 and LD-8Ms have identical footprint sizes and keyboards. The 8Ms is about half as thick and uses two AAA...
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Hans Olminkhof
hanso@...
Aug 24, 2001 9:18 am
Maybe the LD-8Ms is a later improved version. Is there a timeline of these on the web anywhere? Hans ... __________________________________________________ Do...
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Bob Patton
patton@...
Aug 25, 2001 6:08 pm
The only reference I know of is the Ball/Flamm book and it doesn't have dates for these particular calculators. It sounds like a good guess that a somewhat...
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Nicholas Bodley
nbodley@...
Aug 25, 2001 11:45 pm
8/25/01 14:09:18, "Bob Patton" <patton@...> wrote: [...] ... I've been in electronics all my life, and while I don't know a lot, that seems quite...
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Bob Patton
patton@...
Aug 30, 2001 12:41 am
Calculator Quirks #002 The Casio-Mini Memory has two = keys and a three position power switch (Off, On, T). With power in the 'T' position the white = is...
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Nicholas Bodley
nbodley@...
Aug 31, 2001 2:24 am
... Probably neither. The Marchant Cogito electronic desktop machine (ca. 1964) also had half-size zeros. I'm not really sure why, but back then, the 7-segment...
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Bob Patton
patton@...
Aug 31, 2001 1:32 pm
Thanks to Nicholas for supporting what I suspected, that the half-sized zeroes were a design decision. (But they do look strange.) I am hoping someone has this...
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Bob Patton
patton@...
Sep 4, 2001 3:40 pm
The Radofin 8P uses a 9 volt battery but it doesn't have a snap connector. The battery fits in its compartment snugly and presses against two flat contacts. ...
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TwoHeaded Software
adavie@...
Sep 4, 2001 4:05 pm
Yes, check out some odd-bods on my Museum of Soviet Calculators http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/soviet.html The display technology, in particular, is quite...
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Nicholas Bodley
nbodley@...
Sep 5, 2001 5:31 am
... I agree it's in the quirk category. Sometimes the engineering types (I'm one, somewhat) aren't quite matched to the way most of the rest of us think. Best,...
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Nicholas Bodley
nbodley@...
Sep 5, 2001 5:33 am
9/4/01 11:28:23, "Bob Patton" <patton@...> wrote: [...] ... The Friden EC-130 might have showed all digits at once, zeros or not. However, I don't...
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Bob Patton
patton@...
Sep 7, 2001 1:15 am
Thanks to Andrew Davie and Joerg Woerner (earlier) for their educational web sites. I regret that my slow dial-up modem (and maybe my low-cost ISP) keeps me...
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Ernie Jorgenson
ejorgens@...
Sep 9, 2001 4:43 am
We have started writing the History of the Marchant Calculating Machine Co., If you have any items of interest you would like to add, please let us know....
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Nicholas Bodley
nbodley@...
Sep 9, 2001 5:30 pm
Ernie, Great!! I hope you include a good photo of Harold T. Avery. Please remind me to have another look at the German-language site (hope I can find it!)...
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Ernie Jorgenson
ejorgens@...
Sep 13, 2001 1:31 am
Hi Nicholas.. Thanks for the reply. The fact is you should be doing this work not me, I don't know anyone who knows more about calculators than you. I have a...
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dave@...
Sep 27, 2001 3:33 pm
Hi Hewlett Packard 71B Pocket Computer, HP Wand and Power Supply plus a loop cable for connecting between the input and output ports and a miscellaneous EPROM...
