12 Jul
2000
12 Jul
'00
11:53 p.m.
I am glad that Jim has released his Sol emulator (if
you didn't see his
message look at http://www.thebattles.net/sol20/solace.html) He has done
a
fantastic job - Sol owners and Sol-wanna-be owners owe
him a tremendous
debt
of gratitude for making the Sol live again. His web
site already has a
very
good collection of both usable software and
documentation (much of
generously shared by many list members).
I was quite blown away by what I found. Sounds like what you've mentioned
below, when added to it, will improve it another step, and I suppose I'll
have to match your hand and fill in the remaining gaps with my moldy old
stuff.
I propose to make it even better. I have begun
OCR'ing and pdf'ing the
paper documentation I have. And I have just compiled a tape to send Jim
(including such goodies as Microsoft BASIC for the Sol, MSA BASIC, 8080
Checkers, Computer Mart of NJ Dynamic Debugging System, Electric Pencil,
and
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Ooo, I remember wanting to get that, I guess it'll be easier now!
With Jim's approval I am willing to act as a
clearinghouse for any and all
donations of programs and documentation to be made available on Jim's
website. I would prefer originals (with the understanding that I will
VERY
carefully copy and return them) or good, clean copies
of any ProcTech Sol
programs and documentation which are not already available on his site. I
will catalog, research, annotate, OCR, PDF, convert, etc. whatever I can
and
transfer same to Jim for inclusion on his site. I
will try to track down
copyright holders and even make this stuff legit (if necessary).
Either this weekend, or one two weeks hence, I'll see if I can find my tapes
and dust off the SOL and get copies made of each and get them to you. Bob,
did you add the zero-crossing fix to your casette interface?
Do you have the SOL manual scanned and converted to PDF? I'll be making
five photocopies of the one I'll be selling on E-Bay in a few days, and
I can scan any pages I might have that you might not have, and forward
them to you.
Wow, I wish there was this much interest in Primes!
-doug q