Semi-OT: MacOS 8.5-8.6 and Sherlock

This is mainly off topic, but deals with some interesting ways to find info on the Internet. Plus I've got some cool classic computer related links. After sitting at MacOS 8.1 on my PowerMac for around a year, thanks to 8.5 causeing some problems for me when I tried to upgrade when it came out (these problems haven't been an issue since December), I went ahead and went straight to MacOS 8.6 last night. I've been hearing about this great new search tool that was introduced in MacOS 8.5 and has been updated in 8.6. Last night briefly I gave it a try and was impressed, so this morning while working on my morning pot of coffee, I've been playing with it. I used PDP-11/44 as the seed, and have dug up some really cool classic computer related stuff. If you get a chance to try it out, I'd recommend running a few searches on computers that you're interested in. Here are a couple interesting links. http://www.tec.puv.fi/~s99137/index1.html An interesting page of old computers, including a PDP-11/44. This page led me to the next link. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/retro/ is "The Retrocomputing Museum", at first I thought it was one of the listmembers pages, and then I found out it's maintained by Eric S. Raymond (yes, of Open Source fame), and someone else. http://www.vaxarchive.org/compmus/kees/garage.html http://www.vaxarchive.org/hw/index.html Nice page of links about VAX Hardware http://www.telnet.hu/hamster/dr/ Akos Varga has been busy it looks like! http://www.telnet.hu/hamster/dr/ka630.html Didn't someone recently want info on the KA630 this page looks worth a look! Or for the KA650 http://www.telnet.hu/hamster/dr/ka650.html OK, I'm done wasting everyones time, please forgive my enthusiasm for something new and cool from Apple that is a cool way to find Classic Computer stuff. Oh, and yes, I realize there is probably some web site out there that will give you simular capabilities. Zane | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |