17 Apr
2007
17 Apr
'07
4:44 a.m.
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:43:58 +0100 (BST)
From: ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
Subject: Re: Linux question
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Message-ID: <m1HdZvW-000J1GC at p850ug1>
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And that's my point. This is a Classic Computer list, yet no one on the
list is able to respond to this guy's Kaypro 10 question. Perhaps the
question was obscure, but this is truly the playground of obscurity. I
would venture that 10 years ago Dodd's post would have received at least
a few responses, as there were a lot of CP/Mers then on the list. They
seem to have mostly moved on, and the composition of the list has
changed. That's not necessarily a good or bad thing - but it is change.
At one point in time I would have ventured that 70-90% of the list had
some sort of CP/M machine, but I bet that number is now well south of
50%.
"Disinterested" probably comes off as a bit too negative. People aren't
really distinterested per se, the current composition of the list just
isn't focused on these types of machines. Perhaps it would have been
better to say "bewildered silence".
-W
Ask a question about Linux, everyone falls over
themselves
to help -
and that's certainly nice.
But ask a question about a classic system like the Kaypro 10 - like
poor Ralph Dodd did on April 12th - and the response is
disinterested
silence.
I disagree with the last comment. I am not 'disinterested'.
I didn't actualy provide the answer to the linux question
because others
had got there before me and I had nothing to add. But I
easily could have
given the answere. Darn it, I've got cat running on this machine
(obviosuly), I can do a 'man cat' to see if there's anything
useful, and
so on.
No, going back to that Keypro 10. I don't have one. I don't
have a technical or service manual (or a schemaitc) for it.
Coming from a TRS-80 background I have little experience of
CP/M machines (I always felt LDOS was a superior OS), I don't
have a single CP/M luggable. I have no experience at all of
the 3rd party ROMs that I believe were mentioned in the
original question. I can't help the OP. It doesn't mean I'm
not interested -- I am. But the only contribution I could
make would be
'Sorry, I don't know' and that would be a total waste of bandwidth.