test-drb June 2001

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by jhellige＠earthlink.net

>Well, since the Mac Quadra 700 is of 91 vintage, it looks like I can ask >questions about it... >I found this on teamexcess.com - > ST15150N Seagate 3.5" 4.3GB 1.6" Half Height SCSI H-ST-15150N > Narrow 50-pin >Assuming the jumpers are set correctly, should this work internally in a >Quadra 700? Assuming that the listing is correct and that it is a 50pin narrow SCSI drive, it should work fine on the Quadra. Jeff

23 years, 1 month

Call for Resources for CDC 6000/Cyber 70 Series Emulator

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> > Hmmm.. Don't remember that, but I do remember Empire, > > and some other Star Trek game... as well as the coolest > > LISP and Pascal interpreter environments I ever used. > > Please elaborate! > > -- Derek (hoping for watchpoints or formatted display of > the source code -- i.e., with italics or proportional spacing) It *did* auto-format the code... but as these were the earliest examples of what I think was incremental compiler technology, you'd be typing the source text, and when you committed a syntax error, the offending element was highlighted by a dashed-lined circle, and further entry stopped until you corrected your mistake. I only got to spend a couple of months on PLATO. But a team at Northwestern University liked PLATO enough but was bummed about the cost of the special terminals that the developed a CDC subsystem called MultiTutor, which ran the Tutor IV language (and thus you could port PLATO programs to it), but worked not only with the PLATO terminals, but with any kind of terminal that offerred at least cursor control codes. MultiTutor's coolest feature was the first example of what we'd now call a chat room. Instead of a scrolling display with lines of user-typed text prefixed by a username, you got a display segmented into channels, each of which was occupied by a user. What that user typed appeared in that channel on the screen. It was thus limited in the number of users it could support, but it was easier (IMHO) to follow a multiperson conversation. When I came to UN*Xen finally, I tried NTalk and YTalk for a while, but IRC has just never worked for me... I always want to go back to that MultiTutor chat room... Regards, -dq

23 years, 1 month

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test-drb June 2001