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This seems to be the one that the list choked on
(possibly due to special quote characters?
On Thu, May 9, 2024, 2:07 AM david barto via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
> At Ken Bowles retirement from UCSD (Ken was the lead of the UCSD Pascal
> Project) he related a story that IBM came to UCSD after being "rejected"
> by DR to see if the Regents of the University would license UCSD Pascal (the
> OS and the language) to IBM for release on the new hardware IBM was
> developing. The UC Regents said "no"
> He was quite sad that history took the very different course.
well, it wasn't quite a "rejected by DR". But, the culture clash certainly did
strengthen IBM's desire for CP/M alternatives. And, they DID cut a deal with
Softech/UCSD-Regents to have UCSD P-system as one of the original operating
systems for the 5150.
The "very different course" of the market going with CP/M and MS-DOS, rather
than P-System, was due to many factors.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
Next they'll want silver oxygen free plated plumbing and sewage pipes in their homes. Silver plated toilet seats?
Walls insulated with Palladium coated corn silk threads?
Seems the subject has really gone astray?.... Lions, Tigers and Bears oh my! 😲)
Don Resor
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From: Sellam Abraham via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2024 7:01 PM
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Cc: Sellam Abraham <sellam.ismail(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: FWIW CD & DVD demagnitizitation [was: Double Density 3.5" Floppy Disks]
Why stop there? A truly dedicated audiophile would run new pure silver electrical wire through the walls directly to the breaker box.
Then you gotta upgrade to the breaker box that was disinfected from transient spirits through an exorcism, and then special 24K solid gold-contact breakers in inert nylon housings.
Sellam
UCSD P-system could only allocate contiguous disk space. So a disk that had
become "checkerboarded" by writing and deletng files had to be defragmented,
using a spplied utility called "Crunch".
Was that adequately protected against catastrophes caused by interruption?
Softech and UCSD Regents filed trademark registration for "XenoFile", and
listed it as a product, but as near as I can tell, NEVER sent out any copies.
(February 1987, I went to the Patent and Trademark Office outside of
Washington, Dc, and researched some trademarks, in preparation for my trademark
registration)
They also announced a "universal disk format" for ALL machines, but never had a
clue about how to do anything compatible with FM, MFM, and GCR.
> The SAGE II that had native Pascal (68000) was
> not a popular machine. Waterloo Pascal on the SuperPet....Pascal never
> really made it on the microcomputer platform did it?
Bob Wallace (Microsoft's tenth employee) wrote the Micorsoft MS-DOS Pascal
compiler. He told me not to use the runtime library, which was also then
included with Microsoft Fortran, etc. Later, he left Microsoft when an
appointment became necessary to talk to billg, and formed "Quicksoft", selling
PC-Write (a significant player in "shareware")
Did not make it to the list, so I am breaking it up and re-sending it in
pieces
> Without doing the research before asking, there was the UCSD p-System
> Pascal for IBM PC which came out very early in the history of the IBM PC.
> It was not very popular.
In the original 5150 launch (August 1981), the operating systems announced were
availability of PC-DOS and/or UCSD P-System, and CP/M-86 was "coming soon".
Based on what I have read, along with a few discussions I have had with
people involved in the early S-100 "scene" around now is the 50th birthday
(or conception day) of the Altair 8800. Certainly, next year could properly
be called its 50th birthday. Anyway, I'm thinking about "painting the show
blue" with Altairs and IMSAIs for the next few vintage computer festivals.
Anyone else interested?
Bill S.
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Hello all,
I have a Recordak Magnaprint microfiche printer/reader. It appears to be in
decent cosmetic condition but I am not sure if it works or if it is
complete. This thing used photosensitized paper and some kind of developer
to make positive copies of microfiche reels or sheets.
https://archive.org/details/TNM_Recordak_Magnaprint_Reader_microfilm_reader…
I don't have space to keep this thing, but I would like to save it from
being scrapped if possible. Free for pickup near Buffalo, NY. Contact me if
interested!
Don
Just reaching out to anyone who has exhibited at a vintage computing
festival before. After years of only being able to watch others attend the
ones that happen in the US, we are finally getting one in BC here. Super
excited. I was invited both to speak and to exhibit, and they even got me
two tables which is awesome.
Like, how do you prepare for these things? What things that you didn't
think of going into your first show do you wish you had?
I have a pretty eclectic collection, and some really rare stuff (like my
Mark-8s) that I'd love to bring but am hesitant about due to the risks of
transportation damage and theft (from the car mostly, not the convention
itself). Just trying to decide what to bring and how focused to be in terms
of theme.
Brad
