27 May
1997
27 May
'97
3:10 p.m.
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Glenn Roberts wrote:
unfortunately UCSD Pascal was wiped out along with CP/M and a lot of other
good stuff when DOS swept the world.
Hey, DOS *is* CP/M as far as I'm concerned (look how long it took to
kick that 8.3 filename habit! :-)
I used to run UCSD Pascal on a system called a "Terak" - anyone ever see
one of these? they were pretty cool (wish i had one now). It was LSI-11
based and could run DEC real time OSes as well (can't remember which ones).
I used to have 8" floppies for this with all the source code for UCSD
pascal and tools (it was all originally in the public domain I think since
it was university based). unfortunately i didn't have the foresight to
transfer to a more modern media and I have no idea where this all is now.
I remember using a Terak in undergrad school, around 1984 or so. There's
a page out on the web dedicated to preserving these beasts; you might
try typing in "Terak" to one of the searchengines. . .