15 Jan
1998
15 Jan
'98
12:59 a.m.
Tim Shoppa <shoppa(a)alph02.triumf.ca> wrote:
I've sold several S-100 based systems with 8"
floppy drives, paper tape readers, etc., to Microsoft employees who
are hoping to make backups of the first ten years of Microsoft
software in the archives there.
I'd love to exchange e-mail with them, if you still have their
addresses. On my web page is the source and Win32 executables
to Claus Giloi's Altair / IMSAI emulators. I think these are
fun because they're GUI re-creations: you even have to click
on the power switch to turn them on. In my Copious Spare Time,
it would be fun to add virtual peripherals and sound effects:
a Lancaster TV typewriter, ASR-33, disk drives, etc.
I'd also like to archive some sample programs that people could
toggle in... anyone out there have some in electronic form?
I don't have real IMSAI/Altair just yet, but I'm working on it.
And Paul Allen just bought a XKL (PDP-10 clone), in
part to recreate their original software development environment - I think!
Actually, that's Allen's company. Wouldn't it be nice to have
nearly unlimited resources in order to fund your daydreams?
Or is it more fun to dumpster-dive to save nifty bits?
I'm not sure. :-)
- John
Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>