User talk:Swtpc6800

Copyright Permission
I often take material from my web site and use it here on Wikipedia. http://www.swtpc.com/mholley

Here is the permission section from my web site.

I want this information to be available to all and you can make copies of any of the files for personal use. If you want to use a few images or pages for commercial use you may do so without additional permission. If you want to publish any of my original photos or material and need a written release, I can provide that.

SWTPC6800 00:50, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

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TIME magazine covers
Hi there. I'd like to thank you for documenting the details of the TIME public domain issues (due to failure to renew copyright). You did this here. I was wondering if it would be a good idea to actually do a separate template and category for this. I noticed one of the covers is manually in Category:Fair use TIME magazine covers. Maybe a new category structure of TIME magazine covers, split into the fair use and PD (non-renewed) ones would help? Do you have a list of all the cover images around? Carcharoth (talk) 15:02, 12 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I think it would be a great idea to have a "magazine cover in public domain, not renewed" tag. This would be for all magazines, not just for Time. There would be a link to a central page that has evidence of the failure to renew. My Time magazine details would go there. (I think Newsweek has missed even more issues.) From correspondence with the current copyright holder, I have found the Ziff-Davis Publishing and Gernsback Publications did not renew copyrights as a mater of choice. Too much bother. I also found that a side effect the leveraged buyouts of the 1980s were the new owners forgot to renew out of print magazines. See Talk:Electronics Illustrated


 * You can find a list of Time magazine images I have tagged at the bottom of this page. User:Swtpc6800/Sandbox

-- SWTPC6800 (talk) 20:01, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I don't have time to follow through now, and may not remember this in a few days. Could you remind me if I forget? Carcharoth (talk) 01:52, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Amazing FAC
I think we're ready to go; I left a note at the article talk page. Anything else you think we should do before we nominate? Mike Christie (talk) 13:42, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Ready to go?
Hi -- just wanted to see if you there was anything else you think we should fix before nominating Amazing at FAC. Last time I asked you found some improvements that were needed, so I don't want to nominate without checking in. Let me know and I'll do the nom. Mike Christie (talk) 10:23, 21 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Ready -- SWTPC6800 (talk) 02:23, 22 October 2008 (UTC)


 * OK, I'll go ahead and nominate. Mike Christie (talk) 02:34, 22 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Done. This is the page to watchlist.  I will be working about 8-6 most weekdays EST, but will have this Friday largely free and will be otherwise available to respond to any points that come up.  I think you said you hadn't done a FAC nom before -- please jump in and fix anything you see raised as an issue, but also feel free to ask me about the FA criteria if you're not sure an objection is accurate.  I'm not infallible but I've done it a few times so I have a reasonably good feel for what works at FAC.  Later -- Mike Christie (talk) 02:50, 22 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Space Science Fiction Magazine was too short for FAC because it was only 922 words. You won't have that problem with Amazing Stories; the word count is 9754 words with over 100 citations. Someone will complain it is too long. -- SWTPC6800 (talk) 03:28, 22 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, readable prose size is 43Kb, per Dr pda's script (a very handy tool, if you don't already have it). This recent article says the article is big, but nowhere near the top end.  So if someone complains I think they'd have to do it on the grounds of excessive detail, not because it exceeds an FA limit. Mike Christie (talk) 11:51, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the Barnstar :)
It makes a nice surprise to login and get a Barnstar. :) Fnagaton 01:07, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Another note on the Experimenter bankruptcy
I just found a note in Erik Leif Davin's Pioneers of Wonder that you might be interested in. Davin cites Moskowitz, "Amazing Encounter", part II, in Fantasy Review 89 for his information, but makes no reference to the 1978 AMZ article critiquing Moskowitz. Then he says Gernsback's creditors "received $1.08 for every dollar they were owed" and in a footnote adds "Actually, this represents the ratio of assets to disbursements at the time of the bankruptcy. Because of administration fees, creditors would have received slightly less, about 95 percent of their claims, according to an estimate published in the New York Times, April 3, 1929." I wonder if Davin has a separate source for the "ratio of assets to disbursements", or if this is also taken from Moskowitz. Mike Christie (talk) 23:46, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

MOSNUM talk – DA and linking
Hi, I just wanted to say that I'm most impressed with your commentary there, in which your professional expertise is clear. Thanks. Tony  (talk)  11:05, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Image:Copyleft
Can you convert your according to  Wikipedia recommandations for image upload? I tried converting the image to monochrome and the size dropped from 52KB to less than 7KB without any further optimizations as recommended in the instructions. 24.83.176.171 (talk) 09:16, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

April Fool's DYK for Radio Hat
Thank you for your contribution to April Fool's Day 2009!  Royal broil  22:22, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Audio, the magazine
Thanks again for your scan of the cover. Do you have any idea who was the original editor and publisher? The early history of the magazine is not well represented on the page. I don't know anything about it and I didn't take time to hunt down the necessary sources. Binksternet (talk) 03:48, 23 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I only have the one issue. I added the table of contents page. File:Audio Oct 1963 pg01.jpg In the next week or two, I will looks for more on-line sources. Feel free to edit my changes. If you Google the newspaper story titles you can get the on-line edition -- SWTPC6800 (talk) 04:49, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Unicom 141P
Thanks for the pictures I added one to the Busicom article. Would you happen to have some pictures of the inside of the machine (like the CPU board ?) Thanks again. (Ezrdr (talk) 23:52, 4 December 2009 (UTC))

Great photo
and great license. Thanks. emijrp (talk) 22:54, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

IBM 1401
So while I was spending far too much time on Binary prefixes and far too little on paying work, I was thinking about computers that use decimal addressing, and I went to the IBM 1401 article. Hmm, I thought, that's a nice pic of the 1401's front panel.

Looking at the full sized picture, and the picture credits... a working 1401 front panel, taken with a modern digital camera in 2007. And it's credited to you!

Are you on the team that's restoring that IBM 1401 in the Si valley? If so, my hat (if I had one) is off to you, sir. The 1401 at my first college was my first assembly language machine. We had Autocoder (of course) and Fortran IV running from disk - we had three 1311's and the usual 1402 and 1403... no tape drives. What a grand design, and so accessible to teach to beginners. I wish I'd kept some of the work I'd done on it. (But if I had kept everything I've wished later I'd kept I'd need a storage unit larger than my living quarters. Sadly I did not predict that I'd one day be able to store millions of full boxes of punch cards on a hard drive that cost less than a week's groceries.) Jeh (talk) 09:28, 31 January 2010 (UTC)


 * I only took a tour of the 1401 at the Computer History Museum and took a few photos. The oldest computer I have used was an IBM 360 for a FORTRAN class in 1975. We had to submit our programs on punch cards. -- SWTPC6800 (talk) 05:42, 1 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Ah... great picture anyway, even the glows of all the lamps came through well. Thanks again. Jeh (talk) 09:22, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Write a book :)
I read with interest the "The IEC note was added to JESD100B by Fred Mann..." paragraph. Please, just write a book containing all your gems like this and get it published. It seems like you have a large historical database stored in your brain. :) Fnagaton 09:41, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Ed Roberts
The grammar problems in the Ed Roberts (computer engineer) article were rather minor, more in the nature of typos; I've seen far worse in Wikipedia. Some passages I've encountered were virtually unintelligible, requiring complete rewrites or outright deletion. Since you obviously checked my user page, you saw that I speak three languages. Grammar and syntax are different in all of them. Perhaps that has made me more mindful of grammar and helped hone my skills in this area.&mdash;QuicksilverT @ 19:32, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Number of Views
Could You please tell me how to find out the number of views any given Wikipedia site has? Thanks. Kdammers (talk) 02:04, 11 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Go to the desired page then select the history tab. At the top of the page you will see an External tools line. Press Page view statistics -- SWTPC6800 (talk) 02:19, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

External tools: Revision history statistics · Revision history search · Number of watchers · Page view statistics

Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems
I've given this a B rating from the Computing project, and I suggest you put it forward for GA review, it looks good from my brief look. The only weakness is that the lead could do with being 3 paragraphs. -- Eraserhead1 &lt;talk&gt; 19:08, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

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Swtpc6800
Hi Swtpc6800, your username came up due to an edit you did to an article on my watchlist and "Swtpc6800" looked familiar, but I couldn't remember why, so I looked you up (on your user page). Having done so, I know the answer: the South West Technical Products Co 6800!! I used one at work (but did not built it myself) possibly as far back as 1979 (or there abouts), soon upgraded with a pair of Shugart (? spelling) 8" floppy drives; and later found use as an "interface" between an HP-IB instrument and a teletype (110 baud serial interface I/O terminal). It was eventually replaced with a Hewlett Packard HP-85 which had a built in HP-IB interface and used Basic language. Thanks for bringing back some happy memories. Pyrotec (talk) 21:06, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

FPC
FYI: Featured picture candidates/Five and One Hundred Dollar Confederate notes. Very nice scan.  Jujutacular  talk 17:50, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Non-free rationale for File:Hands On Electronics Cover Nov 1988.jpg
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POTD notification
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Old McDonald interface on SS-30 bus
I miss those days! Hand assembling thousands of lines of 6800 and 6809 code. One I thought you might be interested in. I built an interface card for the SS-30 bus following the Electronic Industrial Engineer's design ideas as a high-speed bi-directional interface. After some design problems and a few wiring errors I had it working. Ready for it?
 * An E.I.E. I/O card! ;-)

Just wanted to say "Hi". All the best! 174.118.142.187 (talk) 04:36, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

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"a grand unification theory for all symboldom"
Very well put. EEng (talk) 16:19, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

The old fashioned email kind...
Maury Markowitz (talk) 22:11, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Indian Space Shuttle Programme
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RfC: Religion in infoboxes of nations
There is an RfC that you may be interested in at Template talk:Infobox country. Please join us and help us to determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 14:27, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Undue weight?
You recently mentioned something about undue weight of something related to the JEDEC standards in an article? Where is it? It sounds like it needs fixing. Fnagaton 23:01, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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RfC announce: Religion in infoboxes
There is an RfC at Template talk:Infobox concerning what should be allowed in the religion entry in infoboxes. Please join the discussion and help us to arrive at a consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 22:09, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

This is to inform you that an attempt is being made to overturn an RfC that you voted on
This is to inform you that an attempt is being made to overturn an RfC that you voted on (2 RfCs, actually, one less than six months ago and another a year ago). The new RfC is at:

Village pump (policy)

Specifically, it asks that "religion = none" be allowed in the infobox.

The first RfC that this new RfC is trying to overturn is:


 * 15 June 2015 RfC: RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion.

The result of that RfC was "unambiguously in favour of omitting the parameter altogether for 'none' " and despite the RfC title, additionally found that "There's no obvious reason why this would not apply to historical or fictional characters, institutions etc.", and that nonreligions listed in the religion entry should be removed when found "in any article".

The second RfC that this new RfC is trying to overturn is:


 * 31 December 2015 RfC: RfC: Religion in infoboxes.

The result of that RfC was that the "in all Wikipedia articles, without exception, nonreligions should not be listed in the Religion= parameter of the infobox.".

Note: I am informing everyone who commented on the above RfCs, whether they supported or opposed the final consensus. --Guy Macon (talk) 03:17, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Amazing Stories scheduled for TFA
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Nascom computer photo
Hello Michael, thanks for uploading your 1981 photo of a Nascom computer.

You describe this as a Nascom 2, please have a read of the Nascom history: https://nascom.wordpress.com/history/ In early 1981 Nascom company collapsed and Lucas Nascom was formed in August. The computer in your photo has a Lucas badge, and was later called the Nascom 3. Please can you update your description of the photo if you agree?

Also in the photo the sign on top of the computer says 'Produit agree' - this is French for 'Approved Product', so are you sure the photo was taken in London? John a s (talk) 12:33, 15 February 2022 (UTC)