4 Jan
2013
4 Jan
'13
7:57 p.m.
What country/nationality are those names? I'm jealous. They sound straight out of a
Tolkien novel.
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Subject: RE: Early CD-ROMs was: NASA computers circa 1969
Dave McGuire wrote:
You didn't work for a flaming asshole of epic
proportions
who went by the name of "Murf", did you?
No, not that I remember. Are you talking about someone at
Meridian? I didn't work there, I worked for AIRS (Automated
Information Retrieval Systems) back then. The guy I worked
for was named Eldon. I collaborated with (over the phone) a
a guy named Wink at Meridian. What was his last name? Like
the chipmunk guy I think... Seville? We were one of Meridian's
first customers on the East Coast. Wink wrote their custom
drivers. Before mscdex, before Yellow Book, back in the dark
days.
Bill S.
4 Jan
4 Jan
8:16 p.m.
barythrin at gmail.com wrote:
What country/nationality are those names? I'm
jealous. They sound
straight out of a Tolkien novel.
Wink Seville? Italian, I guess. Sounded plain old "American" over
the phone. I never met him face to face. I think Eldon's parents
were German. My heritage is German and I vaguely recall having
a conversation with him about that. I have no idea about Murf...
you'll have to wait for Dave.
Bill S.
9:40 p.m.
On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, barythrin at gmail.com wrote:
No, not that I remember. Are you talking about
someone at
Meridian? I didn't work there, I worked for AIRS (Automated
Information Retrieval Systems) back then. The guy I worked
for was named Eldon. I collaborated with (over the phone) a
a guy named Wink at Meridian. What was his last name? Like
the chipmunk guy I think... Seville? We were one of Meridian's
first customers on the East Coast. Wink wrote their custom
drivers. Before mscdex, before Yellow Book, back in the dark
days.
Wink Saville - yes.
There's a name I remember from the early days. Before Meridian, Wink and
his partner Ray Klein were responsible for the PCPI Appli-card, arguably
the best engineered co-processor board ever made for Apple 2 systems. In
particular, the OEM development support package was terrific. The API was
elegantly designed and made device driver development a joy. I spent many
hours hacking with mine and still hear from folks using drivers I penned
back in the day.
I was quite new to the field of microcomputers at the time (~1983), but
Wink was invariably patient with my naivety and willing to answer
questions. I learned tons about computer organization, communication with
hardware devices and assembly language in the process. He was truly
instrumental in launching me into my career as a software developer and
gets my nomination for being one of the All-Around Good Guys!
Steve
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