3 Jan
1999
3 Jan
'99
10:27 a.m.
I read a little bit about the concepts of the Dynabook, mouse, and other
stuff in Steven Levy's macintosh book Insanely Great. However, I would like
to know more. I have heard on this list that the research at PARC, and
their products, are related to this and that Smalltalk was an attempt at
the sort of operating system/programming language necessary for a true
Dynabook. I also looked on the net and I didn't find a whole lot.
But was the Alto the only such attempt ever made? I am discounting all of
the cheap GUIs based on it like MacOS and GEM. Were there any _real_ ones?
It seems the Apple Newton is somehow related, and I could see why, but I
discount it from coming close because it is an extremely inflexible system,
just like MacOS.
Are there any ongoing projects?
I would appreciate any insight
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Max Eskin | kurtkilgor(a)bigfoot.com | AOL: kurtkilgor
3 Jan
3 Jan
11:28 a.m.
On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Max Eskin wrote:
Are there any ongoing projects?
Squeak:
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak
-- Doug
1:29 p.m.
New subject: NeXT
I picked up a NeXT slab (later version N1100) this weekend, but I have no
monitor cable or docs. Anybody with spares? Monitor connector pinouts?
Thanks,
Doug
1:42 p.m.
New subject: NeXT
On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Doug Yowza wrote:
I picked up a NeXT slab (later version N1100) this
weekend, but I have no
monitor cable or docs. Anybody with spares? Monitor connector pinouts?
You pretty much need the NeXT monitor as it has half the audio circuitry
and the keyboard interface.
If you just need the cable, it's a straight through 19 pin D-sub, although
it does cary power (~70V IIRC) to the monitor and is suitably heavy-gauge.
The stock one is only a foot or so in length.
Try Spherical Solutions (www.orb.com) or Black Hole, Inc.
(www.blackholeinc.com). Both are highly reputable NeXT vendors.
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2:03 p.m.
New subject: NeXT
On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, R. Stricklin (kjaeros) wrote:
If you just need the cable, it's a straight
through 19 pin D-sub, although
it does cary power (~70V IIRC) to the monitor and is suitably heavy-gauge.
The stock one is only a foot or so in length.
Try Spherical Solutions (www.orb.com) or Black Hole, Inc.
(www.blackholeinc.com). Both are highly reputable NeXT vendors.
Both those places want $20 for the cable (which is $5 more than I paid for
the rest of the system). Is there any reason to believe that a
straight-through 25-pin cable suitably munged wouldn't do the trick?
-- Doug
2:12 p.m.
New subject: NeXT
On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Doug Yowza wrote:
Both those places want $20 for the cable (which is $5
more than I paid for
the rest of the system). Is there any reason to believe that a
straight-through 25-pin cable suitably munged wouldn't do the trick?
Aside from data cables being unsuitable for carrying monitor power, no.
Spend the $20 on the proper cable.
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4 Jan
4 Jan
7:27 a.m.
New subject: NeXT
You can also try www.deepspacetech.com
George
On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Doug Yowza wrote:
Both those places want $20 for the cable (which
is $5 more than I paid
for the rest of the system). Is there any reason to believe that a
straight-through 25-pin cable suitably munged wouldn't do the trick?
Aside from data cables being unsuitable for carrying monitor power, no.
Spend the $20 on the proper cable.
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ok
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