> Speaking of decades, after the year 2000 bug totally obliterates all known
> forms of biological life on the planet, What will we call the first decade?
> I know I can type it as: "You know, the 00's really suck!" But how the heck
> are we supposed to pronounce it?
The noughties, obviously.
Roger Ivie
ivie(a)cc.usu.edu
Oh yea Ward,
One other thing.
I just re-read your message and remember the comment
about Laconia.
If you're coming to NH you can pick these up.
That's where we're located, in Manchester.
Jon
<From: "Hotze" <photze(a)batelco.com.bh>
<Hi. Now, I don't want to start a flamewar, but still, Microsoft HAS play
<an important part in personal computing, for better or for worse. From 1
<or so onwards, they were a industry dominator.
First off your dates are grossly in error. MS in the persona of Gates
was involved in putting basic on the altair via MITS. When CP/M was
gaining ground as the dominent 8080/z80 OS microsoft was the dominent
language supplier. The majik system was a z80 running cp/m and MSbasic
compiler, MAC and L80, and maybe Multiplan.
<for say... the Apple II? PDP's? UN*X boxes (once again, omitting curren
<ports of IE 4.0)?
Apple: Apple softcard combind package of CP/M and MS languges and a z80.
TRS80: Disk basic.
PDP-11: Didn't MS do a unix varient?
UNix... they did have a hand in a PC unix and apps for it.
Allison
I just acquired an XT with a grey case bearing the logo "Industrial
Computer". Seems normal inside. Anyone ever heard of one?
I also got
2 Compaq XT luggables.
Some 286 RAMPAGE cards
Tons of XT and AT parts
e-mail me privately if you're looking for something.
manney(a)lrbcg.com
At 06:46 PM 6/15/98 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
>Another microsoft product which I've not seen mentioned here yet was, of
>course, the Microsoft mouse for PCs (and later those Microsoft keyboards)
Those bus mice? I worked on a friend's machine that had one: A Xerox XT
class running Windows 1.0. 640x400x2 mode I believe. Oh yeah, they were
called Inport Bus mice, ran off their own 8-bit card. Not a bad mouse for
it's time.
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I gues these are the equivalent of prototypes in the publishing industry.
Francois
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, June 13, 1998 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: Unusual find
>At 07:19 PM 6/13/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>I just found a book Titled Odyssey Pepsi to Apple by John Sculley. It is
the
>>advance copy from uncorrected manuscript.
>>How often do anyone of you run into that kind of print?
>
> I rarely see this kind of thing, but I do have a book titled "Marching
>Thru Georgia" that was published in the 1800s that has *three* hard covers
>on it and all three are a different style, color and material! Inside the
>book it mentions that the books are available with three different covers
>so I guess this one was a "demo" to show the different cover styles. Also
>some of the pages are missing. But they weren't removed since the binding
>is intact and even pages that should be on the same sheet of paper are
>missing. For example, page 99 will be on the RH page and when you turn the
>page page 100 should be on the left but it will be missing and page 101
>will be there instead! Very strange! I've never seen or heard of a book
>like it before.
>
> Joe
>
I've located a TK-25 (w/ tape ) at a surplus house.
Was there anyone on this list looking for one?
If so, please respond via private e-mail.
Jeff
jeff.kaneko(a)ifrsys.com
I have an NCR System 3130, which is a 386-based system with 8mb of
memory and a 20mb hard disk. It also has some sort of PROM system
disk (as device d:). I currently have no way of transferring info
to and from the machine and would love to find the external floppy
adapter for it...
Might someone on this list have one laying around, or be able to
provide a pointer to someone who has one?
Also, does anyone have any technical documents for this machine?
When I upgraded the memory and installed a modem, the system would
no longer cleanly boot up from the C drive... it gets stuck somewhere
in the process while it is still using D:...
Thanks in advance for any info...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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At 02:34 PM 6/15/98 -0500, Doug Yowza wrote:
>No, no. Tube machines were a gas in the 50's. PDP-1's were groovy in the
>60's. Pong was ultra-bitchen in the 70's. The Amiga was gnarly in the
>80's. And, well, the 90's ... :-( dOOd.
Is it just me or do the 90's seem like the 70's and 80's combined with all
the really cool stuff left out?
Speaking of decades, after the year 2000 bug totally obliterates all known
forms of biological life on the planet, What will we call the first decade?
I know I can type it as: "You know, the 00's really suck!" But how the heck
are we supposed to pronounce it? I think I have stumbled upon an even
bigger problem than the Y2k problem was ever forseen as!
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- john higginbotham ____________________________
- webmaster www.pntprinting.com -
- limbo limbo.netpath.net -
>>Absolutely. Applesoft BASIC (in every II+ and later, and installed as
>>an option in most II's) was written by Microsoft. Microsoft also sold
>>several well-known Apple II games (ADVENTURE is the most well-known).
>
>They wrote that? DUDE!!!! (I recently aquired a Applesoft BASIC manual
>(C) 1979, in near mint condition.)
They didn't write the original... that was Crowther and Woods (if memory
serves). They may have written *a* version... but history doesn't start
with PCs and MicroSoft.
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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| Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry(a)zk3.dec.com |
| Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg(a)world.std.com |
| Digital Equipment Corporation | |
| 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ |
| Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler |
| (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg |
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