17 Jun
2004
17 Jun
'04
8:03 a.m.
At 07:32 PM 6/16/04 -0400, you wrote:
Joe R. wrote:
<snip>
Well make that people that don't use ALL of their machines! Honestly I
have a lot more computers than I do time!
Well Said! Too many members of this list simply collect old computers
and don't bother with the related docs, manuals or application programs. I
have an old original 64k IBM PC and it's been very intersting collecting
original software and peripherals for it. Things like DOS 1.0, CPM-86, uSCD
Pascal, Professional Fortran, PolyForth, IBM GPIB software, early versions
of MS Word and MultiPlan, EasyWriter (written by none other than Capt'n
Crunch!), etc etc. And that's just the software, it doesn't include all the
various Tech Refs and all the fasinating 3rd party cards and peripherals.
I don't like the current over-bloated version-of-the-day MicroSoft products
either but it doesn't mean that the early PCs are uninteresting and not
worth collecting.
Joe
Careful Joe!
Some members bother to write O/S's and programming languages for vintage
machines, and even
build boot device emulators and ship them to other list members who have
collections of machines
they are doing anything with.
And the other list members don't even boot the their machines, and post
to the list about people
who don't use their old machines. (insert stuipid smiley face icon
here, using a number 2 pencil
and your ASR-33 system console.)
By the way, I need to send you a new EPROM, the build you have has a
~nasty~ bug thats been
fixed with the latest build (which now has limited 7900 and IDE disk
support).
Speaking of that. I almost snagged another HP1000 at KSC last week along
with a 7900 DD, a D to A converter, a HP180D scope and more all mounted in
a nice HP rack. I say almost because I didn't have a way to haul it so it
went to the gold scrappers. I called eveyone that I knew that had a truck
but couldn't get one.
Joe