28 Oct
2005
28 Oct
'05
10:50 p.m.
In September of 1981 while in England I happened upon a computer show. I
said I was with the Northwest Computer News and got a press pass. Our local
computer club newsletter was a 12 page tabloid size newspaper. I interviewed
many vendors and took notes. After a trip to England I talked with the
editor and she wrote this story for the October 1981 issue.
http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/MySystem/LondonComputerFaire.htm
The Brits on this list can tell me if I got the story right.
There will be an Homebrew Computer Club 30th Anniversary Retrospective at
VCF 8.0. Here is my web page on my time at the Homebrew Computer Club.
http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/Homebrew/Homebrew.htm
Vintage Computer Festival 8.0
http://www.vintage.org/2005/main/
Michael Holley
www.swtpc.com/mholley
29 Oct
29 Oct
5:56 a.m.
Hi,
Michael Holley said:
In September of 1981 while in England I happened upon
a computer show. I
said I was with the Northwest Computer News and got a press pass. Our local
computer club newsletter was a 12 page tabloid size newspaper. I interviewed
many vendors and took notes. After a trip to England I talked with the
editor and she wrote this story for the October 1981 issue.
http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/MySystem/LondonComputerFaire.htm
I was there...
The Brits on this list can tell me if I got the story
right.
Pretty much. The database writing program was, I presume, the much hyped
"The Last One" which eventually died. I recall a similar system for the
TRS-80 and later the IBM PC called IIRC "Creator", I think I've got a
copy somewhere.
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb at dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
3:04 p.m.
In message <000501c5dc33$84091e00$0300a8c0 at downstairs2>
"Michael Holley" <swtpc6800 at comcast.net> wrote:
http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/MySystem/LondonComputerFaire.htm
The Brits on this list can tell me if I got the story right.
"One company doing well is Acorn which markets a product called Adam". Um,
no, COLECO made the Adam. Acorn made the Atom. There was also the Proton
(codename for the BBC Micro) and Electron (cutdown BBC Micro).
Also, the British currency symbol is a prefix, not a suffix - "?200" is
correct, "200?" is not.
Just me nitpicking as usual :)
Later.
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philpem at philpem.me.uk | Athlon64 3200+ A8VDeluxe R2 512MB+100GB
http://www.philpem.me.uk/ | Panasonic CF-25 Mk.2 Toughbook
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7:24 p.m.
New subject: SIMH on PPC/Mac OS X ~ Gentoo Portage
After successfully compiling and running SIMH under Mac OS X using gentoo's
portage system for Mac OS X, I've filed a bug report for it, and it's now
listed as "~ppc-macos" in portage.
That pretty much means it's now listed under the mac os x package set, is
known to compile on ppc, but there's only a few reports so it's marked
unstable :)
Just thought I'd throw this out here, in case anyone really did care!
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