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by sirmorris
Sun Jan 05, 2020 8:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Scrapings
Replies: 9
Views: 10936

Re: Scrapings

Yeah, it scrapes all the files. It wasn't a guess ;) I have 2gb sitting here. Nowhere to go ... total 0 drwxr-xr-x 187 charlie staff 6358 4 Jan 15:27 disks drwxr-xr-x 84 charlie staff 2856 4 Jan 15:41 mags drwxr-xr-x 32 charlie staff 1088 4 Jan 15:26 manuals scraped/disks: total 29640 -rw-r--r-- 1 c...
by sirmorris
Thu Jan 02, 2020 2:42 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Scrapings
Replies: 9
Views: 10936

Re: Scrapings

Mac/Linux types could run this. #!/bin/bash rooturl=http://tatungeinstein.co.uk function doScrape { basepage=$1 mkdir -p scraped/$targetdir curl -s www.tatungeinstein.co.uk/front/$basepage.htm | grep file=/$sourcedir/ | cut -d\' -f 4 | cut -d/ -f $cutpos > files.txt while read p; do url=$rooturl/$so...
by sirmorris
Tue Dec 24, 2019 11:03 am
Forum: General
Topic: Scrapings
Replies: 9
Views: 10936

Scrapings

If http://www.tatungeinstein.co.uk/ went offline it would be an absolute disaster. The amount of documentation there is unparallellellelleled and most of it is unavailable elsewhere. I think many of us tattie fans have tried contacting Mario without success. It's only a matter of time until he chang...
by sirmorris
Tue Dec 24, 2019 10:52 am
Forum: General
Topic: Happy Christmas!
Replies: 3
Views: 4811

Re: Happy Christmas!

Merry christmas everyone :D
by sirmorris
Mon Dec 09, 2019 2:27 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: RAM Troubles
Replies: 11
Views: 11340

Re: RAM Troubles

That's where I'm going wrong then - I usually use strawberry jelly. :roll: :lol:
by sirmorris
Mon Dec 09, 2019 8:57 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: RAM Troubles
Replies: 11
Views: 11340

Re: RAM Troubles

Don't worry about that. It's just where solder has flowed into the via from the wave soldering process. It's not electrically significant. Congratulations on the job - looks very neat! Did you have any trouble with lifting tracks? More to the point - DOES IT WORK??!!! * I'm guessing you're still awa...
by sirmorris
Wed Nov 20, 2019 2:56 pm
Forum: Marketplace
Topic: einSDein now available
Replies: 10
Views: 14282

Re: einSDein now available

Check PMs
by sirmorris
Sat Nov 16, 2019 5:50 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: The Floppy Drive Thread
Replies: 33
Views: 28315

Re: The Floppy Drive Thread

Some success!! That's great news, I'm pleased for you :D
by sirmorris
Sat Nov 16, 2019 5:45 pm
Forum: Marketplace
Topic: Einstein 256
Replies: 1
Views: 3413

Einstein 256

Demonstrably working, but unused. Virtually NOS. Boxed computer, manual and system disk. Selling reluctantly because of downsizing. I'd happily keep things but my marriage is more valuable than a house full of retro computers :lol: Or is it :? Offers near current ebay prices welcome. They're stupid....
by sirmorris
Mon Nov 11, 2019 10:50 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: The Floppy Drive Thread
Replies: 33
Views: 28315

Re: The Floppy Drive Thread

I can't say for sure but I think the osbourne adapter won't work. The first one should. Unlike the osbourne adapter all pins are connected straight through.