> I know that the Amiga and Atari ST's had their versions, but
> there was a fairly major format change at some point that could cause
> a problem for older versions of the software on non-PC clones. If I
> recall correctly, PKZIP/UNZIP was actually an outgrowth of PKware's
> earlier PKARC/PKXARC programs and it changed names when Sea
> Associates complained about the closeness of the name to their
> products (ARC & UNARC), whcih they were compatible with. This was in
> late '87 or early '88 and BBS's started boycotting the use of
> ARC/UNARC and switched to ZIP as the defacto compression standard.
They didn't just change the name, they changed the format as well.
I'd been a big ARC user, having switched from SQ/USQ/LU/LDIR etc.
PKARC and PKXARC were so much faster, I switched immediately.
You know the rest of the story.
I kept DOS (for sure, and maybe CP/M) executables of them
so if anyone needs them, let me know. However, they don't
appear to run properly under CMD.EXE (maybe CONFIG.NT needs
a tweak).
Regards,
-doug q
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Jason T wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
>> Whilst digging through the detritus of the last 20+ years, I realized that I
>> had copies of Dave McGlone's Z-Letter, issues 1-40 (which is pretty close,
>> IIRC to the lot).
>>
>> Does anyone scan and archive these things for public access? If so, I'll
>> gladly send them along for such treatment.
>
> If no one has stepped up yet, I can take on this job. I found only
> the first five issues scanned here:
>
> http://www.retroarchive.org/docs/magazines/z-letter/
>
Chuck is sending the Z-Letter and TCJ issues to me and I'll get them
online - both on retroarchive.org and archive.org.
g.
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Nice. I like that.
On 14 March 2013 17:24, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Jonathan Katz wrote:
>
>> On Mar 14, 2013, at 1:05 PM, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Please take a peek at http://www.geneb.org/glasstty and let me know what
>>> you think. If your browser supports alternate style sheets (In FireFox,
>>> it's View->Page Style), you can change the color to green. :)
>>
>>
>> That's awesome!
>>
> Thanks. I've been wanting to try that ever since the font was relased, but
> my css-fu wasn't up to the task. :)
>
>
> g.
>
> --
> Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
> http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
> http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
> Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies.
>
> ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
> A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
> http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_!
--
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On 2/24/2015 6:50 AM, geneb wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Jason T wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
>>> Whilst digging through the detritus of the last 20+ years, I
>>> realized that I
>>> had copies of Dave McGlone's Z-Letter, issues 1-40 (which is pretty
>>> close,
>>> IIRC to the lot).
>>>
>>> Does anyone scan and archive these things for public access? If so,
>>> I'll
>>> gladly send them along for such treatment.
>>
>> If no one has stepped up yet, I can take on this job. I found only
>> the first five issues scanned here:
>>
>> http://www.retroarchive.org/docs/magazines/z-letter/
>>
> Chuck is sending the Z-Letter and TCJ issues to me and I'll get them
> online - both on retroarchive.org and archive.org.
>
> g.
>
Interesting newsletter. Wonder if the person @ 711 Chatsworth Place in
San Jose knows their address will be all over this, and if that is still
the Editor's house (or Joe Wrights?).
The index PDF link is bad on the web page, FWIW, may be a work in
progress, I realize.
thanks
Jim
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> Gee, I didn't know you collected old CD archives.
>
> I've got some WC CDs here:
>
> "Internet USENET source code." CDs 1,2,3
>
> C/C++ Users Group Library August 1997
>
> "Toolkit for Linus"-2 CD set.
> -------------------
> Developer Source Vols. 4-10 (1995-1998); archives of source code
> published in magazine form, as well as a few books. Put out by I-Mode,
> Inc. Some of the later ones are still in shrink wrap--I just got too
> overloaded with the information. I may have volumes 1-3, but I'm not sure.
>
> Let me know and I'll some or all of them in your book box (they qualify
> as "media mail", right?
>
That's my understanding, yes.
> I probably have a ton of other goodies, since I just started tossing CDs
> in a big box.
That works for me, thanks!
g.
--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies.
ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!
Gene,
I've never seen these before. I'm not a Kaypro user (none in the collection) but I've owned a couple in the past.
I grabbed the first issue. This looks like it will be a fun read.
Thanks for uploading them.
Rob
On Oct 16, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Gene Buckle wrote:
> I recently started receiving the contents of a closed CP/M user group. The collection is mostly Kaypro oriented - the first scans I've completed are for ProFiles magazine.
>
> I've scanned 19 issues spanning volumes 1 thru 6, with Vol5 being completed. 25 remain in the collection yet to be scanned - I'll get to those in the coming week or two.
>
> I've taken this as an opportunity to reorganize the documentation section of the retroarchive.org site a bit - It's now split between hardware & software docs instead of being mixed together.
>
> http://www.retroarchive.org
>
> tnx.
>
> g.
>
>
> --
> Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
> http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
> http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project
>
> ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
> A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
> http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_!
Robert Borsuk
rborsuk at colourfull.com
Colourfull Creations
http://www.colourfull.com
On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:53:18PM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Al Kossow wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote:
>>>
>>>> Here's the Walnut Creek collection: https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom
>>>
>>> It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of metadata instead of
>>> a bunch of pretty pictures
>>>
>>> THAT is where IA is a colossal FAIL
>> You realize that you can click a button and get a text list of those
>> "pretty pictures", right? Click the "Show Details" checkbox and
>> you'll get a block of text that describes each one.
>>
>
> It's very time consuming to browse through that though.
>
> It would be nice if you could make the service more
> accessible. A csv export of a table including metadata for
> each entry shouldn't be so hard. It would probably save you
> some bandwith as well.
Take it up with the Internet Archive. Not my circus, not my monkey.
g.
--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies.
ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Anthony Clifton - Retrocomputing.com wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce that, very soon, I'll be taking over the
> retroarchive.org web site from Gene Buckle. The site includes
> around 600 megs of files, primarily for CP/M, but increasingly
> for other OS's and platforms as well.
>
> In addition, I'm going to place the files on the regional hub so
> that they can be retrieved via UUCP...to make it easier to get
> them directly onto vintage machines without having to use
> conversion software.
>
> To do this, however, I may need to use another common archive
> format. My concern is that alot of vintage machines may not be
> able to handle zip files. Suggestions for a format?
Well, ideally it'd probably be nice to have everything archived in some
format which is most appropriate for whatever system on which the files
are intended to be read. I don't know how practical that is.
One line of thinking would be that if you have lots of disk space in the
archive, then just keep multiple copies of everything in a handful of
the most popular file archive formats.
Another line of thinking would be that if you have lots of computer cycles
to spare, then keep everything in some standard format and convert it to
the desired format requested by the end user. I think this would be a
great way to handle it assuming the conversions can be run, but it results
in a lot of work for the archive syste.
My thoughts would be to maintain a central repository of compactly
compressed files, then leverage UUCP's distributed nature to dilute the
computation intensive conversion problem. So let's say the central
archive server has the name "archive". You'd then setup other translation
hosts around the archive server to get the file to you in the format you
wanted. For example, if you wanted the .zip version of the archive, you'd
access the archive through the "transzip" host in the path
archive!transzip!foo!bar!myhost
If you wanted the .lzh version of the file, you'd use the path
archive!translzh!foo!bar!myhost
etc...
I don't know how you'd actually go about implementing this so that the
transzip and translzh hosts would automatically take the central archive
copy and convert it to the appropriate translated copy. But I think it
would be neat if it's possible. And of course I'd imagine it such that
anyone who wanted to setup a translation host of one type or another would
be able to do so. It's not like there'd be only one host for each archive
type. Maybe I'd have my own host named "brizip".
archive!foo!bar!brizip!myhost
You'd just have to drag the file through some system which would know how
to translate archives. Again, I've no idea how this would actually work,
but I think it's got a sort of intuitive feel to it.
-brian.
I have an original set of Epson QX-10 boot disks (plus
original owners manual) - although I was intending to
scan the manual, I haven't had an opportunity to do
so.
I also do not have a QX-10 or any suitable equipment
to make copies of the disks available through archives
such as http://www.retroarchive.org.
If there is anybody with the time, and inclination to
preserve and make the disks and available to
enthusiasts online ... please contact me.
Best regards,
Roger
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--- xtguy(a)mindspring.com wrote: > I was told that Don
Maslin can help me with boot
> disks for some old CP/M
> computers. I need boot disks for the following:
>
> Morrow Micro Decision MD 1
> Epson QX-10
> several different Kaypro models
>
> I tried to make a boot disk for the Morrow using
> 22disk and the 'STDCPM22'
> file at 'www.retroarchive.org'. 22disk did not have
> a file format for the
> Morrow MD 1, so I used the format for the Morrow MD
> 2. (As far as I have
> been able to find out, the MD1 had full height
> floppy disk drives and the
> MD2 had half-height drives, but they were the same
> capacity). When I tried
> to use the floppy to boot the computer, it would
> spin for about 15 seconds,
> then the computer would reboot.
>
> I was making the boot disk on a computer which had a
> 360K floppy drive.
>
> Thanks!
>
> xtguy
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