Today Tim Olmstead passed away from a battle with cancer.
A great loss.
For those less familiar with his efforts for the classic computer
community the _Unofficial CP/M Web_ site is his effort.
For me I lost a friend and someone that shared the love of a system
he could totally understand to the very hardware and bits that made
it run.
Allison
In a message dated 9/11/01 10:19:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
edick(a)idcomm.com writes:
> Yes ... Dubya must have REALLY pissed someone off! Reports are that these
> were
> specific attacks, and that there was also an apparently intentional crash
on
> a
> helipad near the Pentagon ... <sigh> You'd think they'd get closer than
> that
> ...
>
> Dick
For those of you with friends and loved ones in these areas my heart and
prayers are with you. At 10:40am here on the east coast there have been 4
attacks so far. The world trade center twice, the pentagon, and the state
dept bldg in washington.
-Linc Fessenden
In The Beginning there was nothing, which exploded - Yeah right...
Calculating in binary code is as easy as 01,10,11.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jay West [mailto:west@tseinc.com]
I sincerely agree as to the tragedy of recent US events. My heart goes out
to all affected.
HOWEVER, this is a classic computer mailing list. The discussion on the WTC
stuff is very interesting, but it belongs on all the myraid of other lists
present on the net for this purpose.
What on EARTH posessed people to think we needed blow by blow updates on
this list about current world events? Think - if you have to put "OT" in the
subject of your message, it probably doesn't belong here.
Regards,
Jay West
Jay ---
Thank you for your sympathy...
What possesed us to post updates here? Since I was the first to mention
it (IIRC, I might be wrong), I'll answer...
Simple. Many people here were stuck at work, without any source of news,
to find out what was happening. Major news websites were useless, since they
were all swamped yesterday. I know of a couple people, who didn't know a
thing about it, until I sent a message. They were then able to take care of
necessary business in due time. If I upset someone by posting an OT message
to one of my mailing lists, and helping someone in the process, I say too
bad. Suck it up.
There are a few times when an OT post is accepted. Yesterday was one of
them.
But, yes, now is the time to kill this thread from the list, now that
everything has calmed down some... It's time to help your neighbors. Call
your local Red Cross, and make an app't to donate blood.
--- David A Woyciesjes
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--- Yale University Press
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Since somebody brought up the issue of CP/M, I have a question for the old
CP/M hands out there in classiccmp-land.
Short version:
If you were stuck on an island with a solar-powered CP/M machine and only
one floppy disk in CP/M 2.2 format, which programs and utilities would you
want on that disk?
Longer version:
I've been (slowly) adding support for emulating a double-density (dual
density, actually) northstar disk controller in my Sol emulator, Solace.
When I release this version of the emulator, I was wondering what disk
images to present with it. I know full well that I might be the only
person who will really use this, and a few dozen people may fire it up,
mess with it a bit, and that's all. Still, having spent so much time
developing it, I'd like to present a polished package.
There is, fortunately, a wealth of CP/M files still out there on the net,
but my goal isn't to collect them all and put them on my site. What I want
is to have some essential/useful general CP/M programs, then collect just
those that are specific to the Sol version of CP/M (or another S-100
machine using a VDM).
Any opinions of what I should distribute with the emulator? Here is what I
am planning on so far:
STAT
PIP
ASM
MAC
DDT
ED
DUMP
LOAD
SUBMIT
XSUB
This list was chosen simply because these are the standard
programs/utilities that D.R. shipped with CP/M 2.2 and are described in
their user's manual.
Unfortunately, I don't have FORMAT, MOVCPM, PUTSYS, GETSYS, or SYSGEN since
all this has been bootstrapped up off of the single floppy that was in my
machine when I got it, and that disk didn't include much of anything other
than the boot tracks. I could recreate them, but it would take some time
and it is time I'd rather spend in other ways. It probably doesn't matter
anyway since there is no good reason to SYSGEN as the emulator has only one
memory size.
Although there are lots of replacement programs for those listed above that
are undoubtedly better than the stock CP/M 2.2 programs, I am going to use
the originals from D.R. and leave it up to any user who cares enough to
customize it as they see fit.
I plan on adding one disk utility to allow making a sector-by-sector copy
of virtual disks so that new boot disks can be created. NSCOPY is the one
I use on my real Sol, so it is probably the one I will distribute with Solace.
As a reminder, the Sol uses an 8080, so I can't use a lot of the fancy
Z80-ified programs that are out there.
Thanks for any opinions you can share.
-----
Jim Battle == frustum(a)pacbell.net
I got a couple more pictures of the World Trade Towers...
http://pages.cthome.net/squeege/wtrade/updates.html
--- David A Woyciesjes
--- C & IS Support Specialist
--- Yale University Press
--- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu
--- (203) 432-0953
--- ICQ # - 905818
From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh(a)aracnet.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: ENOUGH ALREADY
>volume lists than this one! I for one would like to read something
about
>classic computers, as I'm feeling the need for a refuge from the
madness!
Please, radio, TV and whatnot is saturated with the news. I need a
break
>from it. Right now I need something else even if off topic just not that
one.
Allison
Just unpacked a truely rare and valuable item....
A CE alignment disc cartridge for an HP 7900A disc drive! woohoo! (also
about five 7900A disc cartridges)
Also just obtained three 7906D disc drives, three 13037 disc controller
subsystems, three 13037 disc interface cards, about ten 7906 disc
cartridges, and all associated cables!
Of course, I am truely not worthy to own such gear, since I seem to think
FOUR is 101 *GRIN*
Jay West
I couldn't agree more! I'm down to three mailing lists anymore, and this
list is the only one I activelly read. I'm also noticing that it has more
posts about this than the other two put together, and they're BOTH higher
volume lists than this one! I for one would like to read something about
classic computers, as I'm feeling the need for a refuge from the madness!
Zane
> Well, I'll second Jay's opinion. I hope others who feel likewise will
> do the same.
>
> I understand your need to discuss these events. I suggest you do so
> with your family, friends, and co-workers.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> John
>
> Jeffrey Ingber wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the HTML.
> >
> > Right now, it would seem that you are in the minority - as most people
> > seem to have more pressing issues than Classic Computers.
> >
> > Jeffrey H. Ingber (jhingber _at_ ix.netcom.com)
> >
> > On Wed, 2001-09-12 at 16:21, Jay West wrote:
> > > I sincerely agree as to the tragedy of recent US events. My heart goes out to all affected.
> > >
> > > HOWEVER, this is a classic computer mailing list. The discussion on the WTC stuff is very interesting, but it belongs on all the myraid of other lists present on the net for this purpose.
> > >
> > > What on EARTH posessed people to think we needed blow by blow updates on this list about current world events? Think - if you have to put "OT" in the subject of your message, it probably doesn't belong here.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Jay West
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
>
Hey all,
If anyone can help this guy out, it'd be greatly appreciated... if you can
help, please contact him directly. It sounds like they're willing to pay for
the help too.
Thanks...
----- Forwarded message from "Gulovsen, Grant" <gulovsen(a)law.uiuc.edu> -----
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:20:04 -0500
Reply-To: "Gulovsen, Grant" <gulovsen(a)law.uiuc.edu>
From: "Gulovsen, Grant" <gulovsen(a)law.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Wang disk conversion referral
To: CCSP(a)LISTSERV.UIUC.EDU
X-Loop: dtwright(a)uiuc.edu
Despite asking all College of Law faculty members to convert their
WANG-based documents to WordPerfect/Word many (many, many) years ago, we
have a faculty member who now needs to pull an old article off of two 8"
WANG disks (ugh). Does anyone out there know anyone who is capable of
performing this onerous task? Obviously we would prefer to find something
reasonably priced on campus, but he is willing to pay for a commercial
service.
Thanks (and he promises to convert all of his old WANG disks as part of this
process).
Sincerely,
Grant Robert Gulovsen
Director of Information Services
University of Illinois College of Law
203A Law Building, MC-594
504 East Pennsylvania Avenue
Champaign, IL 61820
phone: 217.244.0157
fax: 217.244.1478
email: gulovsen(a)law.uiuc.edu
url: http://www.law.uiuc.edu
----- End forwarded message -----
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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