Smalltalk (was Re: Treasure chest!)

[...] Well, I've been playing with Smalltalk. (I have the "Blue Book" checked out of the library right now.) I've been reading about the history of Smalltalk too. It could be a port. Xerox wanted to commercialize Smalltalk, so they selected four companies -- Apple, Digital, HP, and Tektronix. Each company would help with Xerox' book editing -- writing documentation is always a lot of work :) -- and would be able to port Smalltalk to their respective work- stations or computers. Describe the disks. Do they have a date? Is the label homemade or not? What are the files on them? (I don't think I would RUN those files without making a copy, though.) BTW, someone mentioned that he had a Tektronix Magnolia. This was one of Tek's workstations of the 80's, and Tek's share of the porting effort was to put Smalltalk on the Magnolia. I would definitely like to find out more about THAT machine. Also, a few years ago Apple wrote a research version of Smalltalk called Squeak. They dropped it (as they tend to do) but Disney took it over. It's freely available. It may be a descendant of Apple's experience with Xerox since it seems to include much of the original Xerox code. See http://www.create.ucsb.edu/squeak/ http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak.1 But I'd still love to play with one of the oroginal 80's implementaions! -- Derek