21 Jun
2005
21 Jun
'05
3:13 p.m.
Hi Rich
There is a separate mail group called sebhc that
is specifically early Heathkit. It has a ftp that
we have collected various images of HDOS and HUG disk
as well as some documentation. I'm sure it would be
great to have it sent there. There has been some
recent discussion with some of the other authors
of HDOS that also participate on that group that
none of them have saved any of the source code.
I am forwarding your message to that group as well.
Dwight
From: "Richard Beaudry" <richard.beaudry
at gmail.com>
Hello all,
I recently acquired a 4-volume set of Heathkit HDOS source listings.
They are in assembly langage, printed out on May 16th, 1980. They
have nicely printed cover pages from Heathkit, and the rest appear to
be photocopies of greenbar paper listings. I haven't examined them
completely, but they appear to be intact, readable, and complete. The
command processor and BASIC interpreter are definitely there, and
there is a lot more as well...
I'll post more details if anyone is interested. Also, I don't know if
these are archived anywhere. If not, is there interest in getting
these scanned and posted? If so, I'll move it to the top of the list.
Bear in mind it's at least a 6" high stack, double-side printed, so
"top of the stack" may still take a while to do... :-)
I found some comments by a "J.G. Letwin". Perchance the same Letwin
of OS/2 fame?
Thanks,
Rich B.