northstart stuff

Jay West wrote: Contact Allison Parent -- I'm certain she has every North* disk imaginable and will be happy to share. Unfortunately, she is no longer monitoring this list. She originally unsubscribed during the Great Flame War which resulted in the cctalk/cctech split -- along with quite a few other highly knowledgable long-timers who had better things to do than wade through a bunch of rants. After two years, she decided to sign up again, but bailed because of the (IMHO, and evidently hers too) *outrageous* "hand over the code" opinions which were voiced regarding Dave Dunfield's ImageDisk project. Among other things, Allison is a top-notch expert and repository of knowledge concerning DEC equipment, CP/M, and the 765, and she is always willing to share information and help those in need. As far as I can tell from my email exchanges with her, she just couldn't stomach the belligerent and disrespectful *crap* posted by those list-members -- and they know who they are -- who persisted in denigrating Mr. Dunfield and his contributions to classic computing, even going so far as to state that he was "harming the hobby." Again, we have lost the contributions of an expert member of this list due to the actions of a few self-righteous bullies, and personally, I think it is a crying f*cking shame. Glen Goodwin 0/0