My primary specialty is disk formats. I guess that my secondary specialty will have to be the absurd. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/eword.html?pg=9 Berkeley Systems "After Dark" Delrina (Opus and Bill) Does ANYBODY here have it??? A friend has it. Won't part with it, but I can borrow. He might trade it for my Microsoft Flight Simulator World Trade Center Edition. There is an Opus and Bill Screen Saver on eBay http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2000965977 I don't know if it's the right one. Jefferson Airplane "Thirty Seconds Over Winterland" Berkeley Systems claimed to have never seen the album. In Berkeley?!? (and had never heard of Jefferson Airplane??) http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1510715671 On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Hans Franke wrote: I can NOT come to Munich in April. I'd love to, but time off from teaching in mid-semester isn't easy. But if I can get hold of the pieces, I could try to assemble them for next fall's VCF. But I should try to use that to get rid of a few more cubic yards of stuff. Sellam, How about a category for absurd stuff at VCF? I could re-assemble my Pentium based toaster, ... -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com

Also: Omicron (Berkeley): 8" drive mod and CP/M (and mods) for TRS-80 Model 1 I sold my model 1 with those mods at VCF, and it was one of the pictures in the magazine story. Parasitic Engineering (Berkeley): 8" drive and CP/M for TRS-80 Model 1 I think that Eric got mine. There was a mention in a prestigious magazine (ACM?) that third party peripheral suppliers (for DEC?) were parasites. That prompted Howard Fullmer to name his company. Howard was the chief engineer of Morrow, and responsible for most of their designs, S-100 "standardization", etc. (paper presented at Second West Coast Computer Faire in San Jose) ("Standards are great; everyone should have a unique one of their own" - George Morrow) [BTW: Does ANYBODY have a copy of "Quotations of Chairman Morrow"???] I recall seeing an obituary for Howard in MicroTimes? about 12 years ago. Nobody else seems to remember seeing that, or even remembers that he existed. Paperback Software: Another Adam Osborne venture. Sued out of existence by Lotus in a landmark "look and smell" user interface copyright suit. Elcompco: insignificant small company. software, peripherals, and drives for TRS-80 in a case with a smoked plexiglass cover. One sold at VCF a few years ago; I have the prototype. Introduced BMC-80 (complete machine in Halliburton attache case). Adam Osborne admired it for a while, but a few hours LATER introduced the Osborne 1, and claimed that IT was the "FIRST AND ONLY" all in one machine. Their booth had $10K of chrome and black plexiglass; but WE had cold beer. Elcompco is now in SF doing elevator computers (which was the original intent of the name) GPA: small company. serial printer interface for TRS-80 (without E.I.) Overshadowed by, but compatible with, TRS-232 Computer Currents (Emeryville): Stan Politi's computer newspaper, originally named "Computer Classifieds". Swallowed by IDG; regurgitated; merged recently with "Computer User". Microtimes (Oakland): Computer newspaper, same publisher as BAM (music) A few years ago, they fired Mary Eisentern as editor. Now they're gone. How complete and coprehensive a list do you want? -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote: Ack! I've been vilified! Ok, ok. You've convinced me this is indeed a cool exhibit worthy of my museum. But I'm assigning you as the researcher and architect for this particular exhibit. Now get to work! (ha ha ;) Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, John Foust wrote: Dude, that was made somewhere in the midwest, like Nebraska or something. A long run from Oakland, California. Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

I think NewTek was based in Kansas. g. On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:

At 01:32 PM 2/8/2002 -0800, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote: Nope. I think I have two around here, but they need an A2000, not an A1000. One is in an A2000/040, one in a A4000/030, one I think I loaned to a friend, or maybe it's in a bin somewhere. - John

The company also gave away ties with the flying toasters to members of the press. Wish I had one. --Mike Michael Nadeau Editor/Publisher Classic Tech, the Vintage Computing Resource www.classictechpub.com 603-893-2379 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Veeneman" <dan(a)ekoan.com> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 3:03 PM Subject: Screen savers; was RE: East Bay companies (was: What's your specialty?

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote: I think I may have that on the original disk. Double-sided floppy, says After Dark The Ultimate Screen Saver Collection The disk is copyrighted 1990. I always figured it was common as dirt, right? Should I quit installing it from the original diskette? ;) Doc, who just gave away Question #1