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by allisonp＠world.std.com

< old Altair hackers, so.... How hard would it be (for a software guy) to < replace the ROM with something else, say, a parallel cable from a PC that < fed data through the ROM socket? not easy at all. You really need to make or buy an eprom emulator that can do 6830 (an oddball pinout). < The clock is already very slow, 500KHz, I think, but I could slow it to < 1HZ if it would help. Could I software decode the address, do whatever < handshaking I need to do from the TTL-levels on LPT1, and emulate a ROM < without buying a ROM emulator? Not possible, there is a minimum clock spec as the internal registers are dynamic and would forget. Allison

27 years, 11 months

Amiga 2000

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

That's correct. Now, the interesting thing is that according to pinout charts, the keyboard cables are the same (clock, data, not used, ground, +5). However, the keyboards are not compatible. Does anyone know what the difference is? >I don't know much about Amigas, but I beleive the mouse is a >quadrature-output mouse - what the PC crowd call a Bus mouse (and not a >serial mouse or PS/2 mouse). These mice are pretty generic apart from the >connector wiring. If you're prepared to change the connector (and trace >out the connections) then you can move these mice between systems. > >In the UK you can get replacement quadrature mice from Maplin - either 2 >button for the Amiga or 3 button for the Atari ST. I've modified these to >work on a Mac+, an old Amstrad that used a bus mouse, a Whitechapel MG1, >an Acorn Archimedes, etc. They're not cheap (about 3 times the price of a >PC serial mouse :-(), but they are available. > >-tony > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

27 years, 11 months

Apple and Commodore Computers

by foxnhare＠goldrush.com

> I'd like to do some assembly language programming on my Apple //+. What > program was generally used to do AL programming? Did you typically use the > built-in Monitor, or was there an "Apple Assembler" program? > As for assemblers for the 64 if you want to do on-the-fly assembly Supermon is cool, there is a version of it in just about all the popular super utility cartridges (i.e. Super Snapshot, Final Cartridge, etc.) As far as more quality (disk based) assemblers I would go with Lew Lasher's Editor Assembler (circa 1985, hard to find, freeware, and nice) or Merlin (especially Merlin 128 for the Commodore 128). Both are good ones to learn with. There are other like Buddy, PAL, Bettwe Working, etc. but those use the BASIC interpreter to code (line numbers and all.) > Second, has anyone heard of a Commodore C64k?? I found a news post where > a guy had two of these available, but I don't recognize the "k" suffix. I think the person added it himself. There are four flavors of the Commodore 64. Commodore 64 - The original unit, roundy brownish-grey case dk. brown keyboard, a good machine. Commodore 64c - The updated (low-profile lt.cream case, white keys) cost reduced model unlike other reponses no voices were removed. The story is Commodore did a 'bug fix' on the sound chip that affected games that utilized a perceived flaw on the sound chip that made digitized sound playback easy, on the 64c you can barely hear the digitized segments. Commodore SX-64 - the Commodore 64 in a luggable all-in-one unit included 64, 5" color display, built-in 1541 disk drive and audio speaker. Pretty cool, used original C64 chips though Commodore altered the ROMs to better support the built in drive at the sacrifice of cassette support (and compatibility with some programs and hardware that required it.) Commodore-128 - One of the facets of the Commodore 128 is the C64 mode, the chips reflect the older 64 and is 99.94% perfect in emulation except for one memory location which can bump the computer into 2mgz mode thereby messing up the display provided by the 1mghz 40 column display chip. :/ Some earlier games inadvertanly activate this mode. If I wanted to do only 64 stuff the original grey 64 is the one to get. -- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Larry Anderson - Sysop of Silicon Realms BBS (300-2400bd) (209) 754-1363 Visit my Commodore 8-Bit web page at: http://www.goldrush.com/~foxnhare/commodore.html -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-

27 years, 11 months

PET 2001

by foxnhare＠goldrush.com

Sam Ismail wrote: >Could someone please describe the features of a PET 2001 for me? Thanks. > > Depends on the PET 2001, the earlier ones had a smallish calculator type keyboard with an integeral datasette unit. Newer models had a full sized keyboard and no built-in datasette. All of the 2001 series had 9"display, earlier ones displaying whitish-blue the rest gool 'ol green phosphor. The original BASIC (Powers up with *** COMMODORE BASIC ***) has neumerous bugs and lacked disk support the upgrade BASIC (### COMMODORE BASIC ###) had many bug fixes and is very close to 64 BASIC in operation and syntax. There are two motherboards associated with the 2001 the 8k static ram motherboard (only in original PETs) which was limited to 8k ram and used MOS RAMs (Which they soon stopped producing, they just weren't good at memory chips) and the later Dynamic RAM boards which were expandible to 32k. If you need more info there are a couple links: The PET FAQ geared for the recent or general owner of a Classic PET: http://www.goldrush.com/~foxnhare/petfaq.html and The PET Index for the Technical sort of person who wants to know what makes em tick! http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fachat/8bit/petindex/petindex.html -- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Larry Anderson - Sysop of Silicon Realms BBS (300-2400bd) (209) 754-1363 Visit my Commodore 8-Bit web page at: http://www.goldrush.com/~foxnhare/commodore.html -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-

27 years, 11 months

Terminals

by rhblake＠bbtel.com

as you might guess, the VT220 w/o keyboard is spoken for. The others still need homes though. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Russ Blakeman RB Custom Services / Rt. 1 Box 62E / Harned, KY USA 40144 Phone: (502) 756-1749 Data/Fax:(502) 756-6991 Email: rhblake(a)bbtel.com or rhblake(a)bigfoot.com Website: http://members.tripod.com/~RHBLAKE/ ICQ UIN #1714857 AOL Instant Messenger "RHBLAKEMAN" * Parts/Service/Upgrades and more for MOST Computers* --------------------------------------------------------------------

27 years, 11 months

Apricots, etc

by lwalker＠mail.interlog.com

OK,for any of you blokes over in blighty I saw this post on Obsolete Computer Helpline. PLEASE DIRECT QUERIES TO THE POSTER BELOW ciao larry >Trig <TrigyUk(a)hitch-hikers.demon.co.uk> >Salisbury, Wilts U.K. - Sunday, July 05, 1998 at 17:15:08 > I have a small collection of 10 - 15yr old apricots, xen, xi and >various other related bits. > Can anyone help me find a home for these cute computers? lwalker(a)interlog.com

27 years, 11 months

Amiga 2000

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

What is the pinout of the 23-pin port? >If your multisync syncs down to 15khz, there is no requirement for >special hardware. The NEC Multisyncs up through the 3D all sync >down to 15Khz as do many others. > >> >> >Also, are the keyboard and mouse PC-compatible? >> >> Alas, no. The keyboard will run you about $60, and the mouse about $15. >> Your best bet is to try and find someone local to you that has abandoned >> the Amiga to join the mindless masses. I recently got a rather nice setup >> that way very cheap. >> >> You didn't mention what kind of processor you've got in the system or what >> kind of boards it has. The stock is 68000, but it might have a 68020 or >> 68030 on an accelerator board. Do you have a Hard Drive controller? >> >> The ultimate A2000 would have a dual 68060/PPC acclerator, UW SCSI Hard >> Drive, about 128Mb RAM, Ethernet, either a Video Toaster or a Picasso IV >> graphics card and be running Amiga OS 3.1, of course you don't want to know >> the price of all of that. >> >> One of my main systems is a fairly beefy A3000 that I just got done putting >> in a Tower case this weekend (metal working skills required). The Amiga OS >> beats anything MS has ever put out, and beats MacOS on certain points. >> >> I think the best way to sum up Amiga's is that they are just plain fun! It >> would be well worth your time to either fix up that one, or find a working >> one. >> >> Zane >> | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | >> | healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | >> | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | >> +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ >> | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | >> | and Zane's Computer Museum. | >> | http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/ | >> > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

27 years, 11 months

termnals to get rid of...

by rhblake＠bbtel.com

Ok the 10th is right around the corner so I'll post this one last time before It goes with the scrap. Visual 102 terminal with keyboard - complete and working, good shape DEC VT 100 without keyboard - working as far as I can tell and good shape DEC VT 220 without keyboard - working again as far as I can tell, good shape. These are free except shipping. I need a firm answer for a home by Firday and then a money order for the estimated shipping by the 20th or they go to terminal heaven. hate to do this as I'm sure someone can use them. I still have the last of the working HP 700/44's with keybaord and lookig like brand new for $15 plus shippping too, but I have the room to put it back for a while and maybe even use it later. Direct emai please - RHBLAKE(a)BBTEL.COM or RHBLAKE(a)BIGFOOT.COM -------------------------------------------------------------------- Russ Blakeman RB Custom Services / Rt. 1 Box 62E / Harned, KY USA 40144 Phone: (502) 756-1749 Data/Fax:(502) 756-6991 Email: rhblake(a)bbtel.com or rhblake(a)bigfoot.com Website: http://members.tripod.com/~RHBLAKE/ ICQ UIN #1714857 AOL Instant Messenger "RHBLAKEMAN" * Parts/Service/Upgrades and more for MOST Computers* --------------------------------------------------------------------

27 years, 11 months

FW: Houston area VAX for free!

by cfandt＠servtech.com

While hunting in DejaNews for VAX 11/730 info I found this to pass on. Msg a bit old it seems but may be worth checking to see if yet available. Of course, make sure you contact snowcrash(a)elitemicro.com directly :) >Subject: VAX for free! >From: snowcrash(a)elitemicro.com (Snowcrash) >Date: 1998/06/08 >Message-ID: <001801bd931c$18c716f0$7b7b7b7b@ironmaiden> >Newsgroups: muc.lists.netbsd.port.vax >[More Headers] >[Subscribe to muc.lists.netbsd.port.vax] > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >------=_NextPart_000_0015_01BD92F2.2F4565A0 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > OK guys, since all I have is an old 11/730, which can't support = >NetBSD, and basically I have no clue how to set any of it up, I'm gonna = >give it away. It is in the Houston, TX area. You pick it up or arrange = >the transportation if you are intrested. Here's what I know about it. > > >Vax 11/730 >(1) RA81 >(2) RA80 >(1) TU80 >(1) RL02 >Some other stuff I can't identify. >Also about 30 assorted terminals. > > Daniel Daley, CNE > snowcrash(a)elitemicro.com > > -- -- Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian Jamestown, NY USA Member of Antique Wireless Association URL: http://www.ggw.org/freenet/a/awa/

27 years, 11 months

Amiga 2000

by jfoust＠threedee.com

I intended a very gentle guiding message for Max, and in no way said anything about censorship except self-restraint in the form of editing recommendations (endlessly requoted messages with one-liner replies drive me up a wall). I gave general advice to search the net before posting, as opposed to treating the mailing list as a magic oracle that answers all your questions. Save the list for the truly obscure questions, not the stuff that's on hundreds of web pages. - John

27 years, 11 months

PET 2001

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jul 7, 6:29, Doug Spence wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Olminkhof wrote: > > 8" screen > > Or is it 9"? I can't check mine because they are both locked in my > father's bedroom at this hour. 9". All the ones I've seen were 9". > Supposedly the 2001N and 2001B came with 12" screens, but I've never seen > one. > > I'm looking at an old copy (don't have a recent one on file) of Jim > Brain's "Canonical List of Commodore Products" and notice that one of my > PETs doesn't match any model on the list. From this list: > > PET 2001-4K 4kB, Chiclet Keys, Built-In Cassette, Black Trim. > PET 2001-8K 8kB, Chiclet Keys, Built-In Cassette, Blue Trim, 9" screen > PET 2001-16K 16kB, Chiclet Keys, Built-In Cassette, Blue Trim, 9" screen > PET 2001-32K 32kB, Chiclet Keys, Built-In Cassette, Blue Trim, 9" screen > PET 2001B-8 8kB, Business Style, no Graphics on Keys, 12" screen > PET 2001B-16 16kB, Business Style, no Graphics on Keys, 12" screen > PET 2001B-32 32kB, Business Style, no Graphics on Keys, 12" screen > PET 2001N-8 8kB, Home Computer, Graphics on Keys, 12" screen, Num. Keys > PET 2001N-16 16kB, Home Computer, Graphics on Keys, 12" screen, Num. Keys > PET 2001N-32 32kB, Home Computer, Graphics on Keys, BASIC 4.0, Num. Keys. > PET 2001NT Teacher's PET. Same as 2001N, just rebadged > Mine is just labeled "PET 2001-8K" I think, with no 'N' or 'B' anywhere, > but mine has a 9" screen and a full-size keyboard with graphics symbols. I don't think Jim's list is quite correct. For a start, there were lots of 2001 PETs with 9" screen and the graphics keyboard, without the cassette-beside-the-keyboard. I've got one here. And the /B and /N series were called 3000's not 2001 everywhere except the USA. The 12" versions didn't appear in the UK until later. According to my (USA) manual, the 2001/B (aka 3000 here) was a 9" screen too. IIRC, the 4000 was the first with a 12" screen, at least in the UK (USA might easily be different, of course), and that's borne out by my manuals. The 12" screen version was eventually called the 8000 series here, and had different firmware (and up to 96K RAM I think, bank-switched). One of the differences between the business and home versions (apart from graphics symbols on the keytops) was whether the machine powered up in upper- or lower-case. > Note that at least the early PET 2001 machines came with a white display. > I think some of the 'newer' ones came with green phosphor instead.(?) My 2001-8K is white phosphor. The full-size-keyboard ones were green. > > tape drive built in, to the left of the keyboard > > Keyboard dependent. > > But there's a lot more to 'features' than outward appearance. The machine > uses a 1.0MHz 6502. It has an 80-pin memory expansion port on the right > side (the 40 pins on the top side are all ground). There's an external > cassette interface at the back, for TAPE #2. On the later models, that's TAPE#1 and the TAPE#2 is an internal connector. > There's an IEEE-488 > interface on the back that was used for printers, disk drives, modems, and > probably other stuff. There's a user port on the back which is similar to > the user port on the VIC-20/C64. > > The original ROMs don't have a monitor or support a disk drive, but ugrade > ROMs (which I think came out in 1979?) fix both of those things. Well, they do, sort-of, but a bug in the IEEE routines prevents it from working with anything other than a printer. There were a few other bugs as well, and the upgrade ROMs themselves were replaced later. > (As an aside, original ROM machines start up with the message: > *** COMMODORE BASIC *** > > whereas upgrade ROM machines start up with > ### COMMODORE BASIC ### > > I don't have a machine with BASIC 4.0, so I don't know how that starts > up. Upgrade ROM machines also have a Microsoft easter egg in them > whcih is missing from the original ROMs.) There was a very-short-lived BASIC-2, and BASIC-3 (more-or-less the upgrade ROM set) was around for a while before 4. 4 has extra commands for the disk, instead of having to use the generic IEEE channel commands, but otherwise it's almost the same as 3. Only the original ROMs start up with ***; all of the later ones used ###. > It might also be important to mention that the PET has a timer that > operates in real time. And it has the same character set(s) as the VIC-20 > and C64, but you can't switch between the upper/lower-case text character > set and the upper-case/graphics set without issuing a POKE command. (Was > it 49512,12 and 49512,14? My memory is rusty.) All those POKEs are ROM-version-dependent. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York

27 years, 11 months

My appologies

by buck_c＠polygon.com

The reply-to got me. My previous post to John was intended to go directly to him, not to the list. I failed to notice the automatic reply-to that sent it to the list as a whole. "Sorry - my bad" -- J. Buck Caldwell Engineer - Technical Support - Webmaster Polygon, Inc. email:buck_c@polygon.com phone: (314) 432-4142 PO Box 8470 http://www.polygon.com/ fax: (314) 997-9696 St. Louis, MO 63132 ftp://ftp.polygon.com/ bbs: (314) 997-9682

27 years, 11 months

Hey, English blokes...what's an Apricot?

by franke＠sbs.de

> [8089] >>> (very fancy DMA chip). >> Thats like naming the Newton a fancy post it thing. The >> 8089 was a full featured CPU, just with an special >> command set suited for I/O operations. Anything from > True. I've got the 8089 data sheet, and a 3rd party '8089 I/O processor > handbook', and it is indeed a coprocessor. However, it's normally used > (and it's used in the Apricot) as a DMA controller, so it's best to think > of it that way, for all it can do a lot more. > It's a lot nicer than the 8237 used in the IBM PC. For one thing it > correctly handles the 20 bit address bus, so there's no problem with > crossing 64K boundaries. For another, it can monitor a Data Ready flag on > one port, and transfew data when the peripheral is ready. No need to have > DMA channels in the PC sense. >> serial I/O via disk I/O up to code translations could >> done in a very smooth and genuine way. > Howver the Apricot has a normal serial chip and disk controller, and only > uses the 8089 for DMA. Maybe I used the wrong words - poor english language skill - Of course a regular Serial I/O chip is still needed, the 8089 has no serial (or what ever) I/O of its own. But instead of the main CPU, the 8089 will respond to all requests for data transfer - shure, you could use two DMA chanals for input/output data, but in difference to an ordinary DMA the 8089 could also handle the status lines and drive a non hardware protocoll - from xon/xoff up to HDLC. Same for any other kind of I/O hardware, not only serial, since the logic is software not hardware. Gruss H. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

27 years, 11 months

Amiga 2000

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

I just pulled an Amiga 2000 (I don't think it's >10 yet) from the trash. It didn't come with anything else, just the system unit. I looked it up, and I pretty much came up with the specifications. COuld someone tell me a little more about it? What kind of video can I use with this? All it has is a composite RF jack. Also, are the keyboard and mouse PC-compatible? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

27 years, 11 months

PET 2001

by MPritchard＠EnsembleStudios.com

>The case is made of bent sheet metal so you don't want a PET 2001 dropping >on your head. I had a CBM 8032, which when a shelving unit collapesed in my garage, fell from a height of 7 feet onto the hood of my car. The hood was torn up, and the 8032 had hardly a scratch, not even the tube.. and still worked fine. -Matt Pritchard Graphics Engine and Optimization Specialist MS Age of Empires & Age of Empires ][

27 years, 11 months

PET 2001

by jolminkh＠nsw.bigpond.net.au

Sam Ismail wrote: >Could someone please describe the features of a PET 2001 for me? Thanks. > > What is this, some sort of trick question? 8" screen chicklet keyboard tape drive built in, to the left of the keyboard Hans

27 years, 11 months

Stuff for trade in UK

by mark_k＠iname.com

Hi, I have some junk which I would like to trade for other junk... - Two Wangtek tape streamers. One is 5125EN, the other 5099EN24. These are not- quite-SCSI devices; they require the correct PC interface cards -- PC-36 for the 5099EN24, and probably the 5125EN too. I don't have the interface card. I believe they work; before I figured out that they are not SCSI, connecting them to a SCSI controller allowed me to rewind tapes, at least - Commodore PET 8050 disk drive, in bits. I took this apart years ago to clean, and forgot how to put it back together again. Never had the right cable to test it out anyway. Could be useful for spares if you already have one of these drives. I would like to get hold of a Wangtek 5150ES or 5525ES tape streamer. Or make a suggestion. I live in Wiltshire, England. Bye, -- Mark

27 years, 11 months

Amiga 2000

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

No, this is just a 68K, no boards of any kind, just the floppy drive >You didn't mention what kind of processor you've got in the system or what >kind of boards it has. The stock is 68000, but it might have a 68020 or >68030 on an accelerator board. Do you have a Hard Drive controller? > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

27 years, 11 months

Overhyped Innovations (was Re: OS's In ROM's (was: Re: Mac Classic prob (was Macintoshes..

by sinasohn＠ricochet.net

Sorry to reply to such an old message, but... At 11:28 AM 6/27/98 +0300, you wrote: >>BTW, I enjoy collecting over-hyped innovations that never quite caught on >>in the way they were supposed to: Bubbles. Pen-based computers. Touch >>screens. Wireless networks. Bob. MSX. Robots. AI. Home automation. >>The Z8000. The iAPX432. Parallel processing. Voice recognition. Two things I have to debate here... First, pen-based computers haven't yet caught on at the consumer level (corporate/specialized use is another story -- ask your UPS guy) but the technology is about to: The Cross Pad. (Put your pad of paper on this clipboard-type thingie and take notes. Go home and upload them to the computer.) I described it to a CPA and his eyes lit up like a kid at christmas. Voice-recognition isn't commonplace yet (again, in the consumer world) but it will be. --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/

27 years, 11 months

Paper tape anyone?

by jfoust＠threedee.com

At 01:25 AM 7/7/98 -0700, Sam Ismail wrote: > >Anyone know where I can get a supply of ASR-33 punch tape? I've got a dozen-plus antique rolls that I got from someone on the Greenkeys RTTY mailing list, if you just need a pair. If you search the net for "paper tape", you'll find several suppliers to the computer-controlled machining market, with options for paper tape, mylar tape, oiled, etc. I've said it before, the Greenkeys list needs to meet the classic-comp list. Who doesn't want an ASR-33? :-) Sure, the RTTY people deal with both Baudot and ASCII-based machines, but they're dumping stuff left and right, due to these greybeards cleaning house to move into a condo or a Winnebago. - John

27 years, 11 months

S-100 computers & peripherals available - interested? (fwd)

by kevan＠heydon.org

I said I would forward this on to interested people... Contact Art directly if you are interested. Note the contact before date of 7-10-98 so you will have to act quickly. -- Kevan Old Computer Collector: http://www.heydon.org/kevan/collection/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 18:44:42 EDT From: JARTART(a)aol.com To: collector(a)heydon.org Subject: S-100 computers & peripherals available - interested? I have to part with Vector Graphics System B computers, working with documentation and top of the line Malibu printers and Morrow Design harddrive (25MB) add-ons. All circa 1978+. Are you interested? Please contact me before 7-10-98. Art Jensen (800)666-JART e-mail = JARTART(a)aol.com

27 years, 11 months

Apple & Commodore questions

by sinasohn＠ricochet.net

At 09:29 AM 7/6/98 -0400, you wrote: > I'm picking up an original Mac Portable this week on my way to get more >PDP11 stuff at Temple University (in Philly). The Portable is missing a hard >drive. Which drive goes into this unit? I seem to remember a 40mb unit. It's a 40mb conner (cp-3044 or cp-3045) that uses a funky connector. To build a funky-to-SCSI cable, check out the Mac Portable FAQ at <http://www.bford.demon.co.uk/mac/portablefaq.txt>. Check out <http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/3959/index.html> as well. If you don't want to build your own cable, $35 will get you an adapter from <http://www.micromac.com/> which is MicroMac Technology (Also has specs). --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/

27 years, 11 months

AOL History (was: QuantumLink AOL lore...)

by sinasohn＠ricochet.net

Some of you (locals) may know I publish a weekly listing of free stuff happening in the City (plug, plug... see <http://www.sinasohn.com/freelist/>)... One of the upcoming events (at Stacey's Bookstore in downtown San Francisco) is this: Kara Swisher - Friday, July 17 @ 12:30 "AOL.COM: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed The Netheads, And Made Millions In The War For The Web" As a reporter for The Washington Post, Kara Swisher had the opportunity to go inside one of the most watched companies in the world, America Online. In her new book, AOL.COM, she captures the secrets of how AOL became the world's biggest online company. Revealing all the major moments in AOL's frenzied history; from its origins in the dreams of the eccentric entrepreneur, Bill Von Meister, to its triumph under the vision of the young marketing executive, Steve Case. For anyone interested in the Internet, technology, or modern business, AOL.COM is a must-read. --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/

27 years, 11 months

SF Bay Area Get-together

by fmc＠reanimators.org

A while back, I wrote: >(c) So...fine, here's a time and place for all us Bay Areans to > argue over: Second Thursday, 09 July 1998, 7:00 PM, El Paso Cafe, > 1407 W El Camino Real, Mountain View. Y'all can flame me about > this in public or private, and I'm still open to change, but I want > to announce the real time and place on 30 June. Well, I got busy, then there was some argument, and as near as I can tell all that came out of that argument was that it would probably be a good idea to move the meeting around the Bay Area to give more folks an opportunity to attend. Sounds like a good idea to me, but for now.... When: 09 July 1998, 7:00 PM Where: El Paso Cafe, 1407 W El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA What: random discussion over dinner How to get there:

27 years, 11 months

Programming the 6502 (Zaks)

by adept＠Mcs.Net

I recall someone was looking for this a while back and since I already have a copy, I won't bid on this one: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=20139047 8 may seem steep as a starting bid but this is a great book and it's hard to find nowadays. On the other hand the original cover price was 14.95... Cheers, Dan

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