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.
g.
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>I think a version of UNZIP was written for just about every old computer
>at some point or another (I know an Apple ][ version was eventually
>written in the late 80s).
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.
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> Even a full list of what CDs Jason has there w/o indexing would be helpful.
> Trying to figure out what is there is a nightmare.
> For a while, I had about 400gb of cd images on bitsavers until we ran out of disk space.
> I probably have a few hundred more gb I've read since then. I've slowly been trying to
> find a full set of physical disks from Walnut Creek for CHM's archive.
I was recently talking to friends about making a Pi project with the Pi
camera above a CD-ROM drawer, and a pushbutton to trigger picture of CD +
ISO image automagically.
I have some AIX CDs, Oracle CDs, and old FreeBSD/Linux CDs to archive.
Years ago I had a robotic CD changer that could cycle through about 200
discs hands off. Seems like it would be ideal now :-)
Are you short on disk space?
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 06:11:14AM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote:
>> First up is the addition of Crescent Software's entire product line.
>> The company produced a number of good library suites in the late 80s
>> and early 90's. Note these are all DOS products - the Windows
>> product line was sold in the early 90's.
> [...]
>
> Wow. So many goodies.
There's more coming too. Pics of original install media, some corporate
"swag", and a short historical write-up by Ethan Winer and maybe some
others.
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On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Fred Cisin wrote:
>>>>> The differences between the Bondwell models 12 and 14 seem to be 128KB
>>>>> RAM in the 14 (as opposed to 64KB in the 12) and double-sided drives in
>>>>> the 14 (versus single-sided in the 12). You could try the Bondwell 14
>>>>> disk images on your Retroarchive site. :-)
>>>>> http://www.retroarchive.org/hardware/bondwell/bw14dsks.zip
>>> ...or put a double-sided drive in it.
>
> On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Gene Buckle wrote:
>> For me it's just not worth the effort unless I have the right media for
>> it. I don't even know what the thrift shop wants for the machine. I may
>> be up to my neck in Kaypro hardware soon anyway... :)
>
> Howzbout:
> cable up a double sided drive TEMPORARILY, with the existing single sided
> drive as B:
> boot, test, enjoy
> format a single sided disk (good luck finding the right FORMAT command
> line options, if it doesn't automagically switch)
> SYSGEN
> PIP
> put the single sided drive back into A: position
>
Might be worth a shot of nothing else pans out.
> There probably are numerous people on this list who would like to purchase
> a CP/M laptop.
>
This is only a laptop if you're 8 feet tall. It's Kaypro sized, just with
a plastic case. :)
g.
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Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical
minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which
holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd
by the clean end.
Gene Buckle wrote:
> I just posted both PDF and TIF scans (600dpi) of my Kaypro Technical
> Manual to the retroarchive site (http://www.retroarchive.org). I've
> never seen this available before so I figured there would be some need
> for it.
Not to discourage you, the world could use more people willing to scan
and archive what they have, but
http://www.classiccmp.org/bitsavers/pdf/kaypro/
has a timestamp of "09-Dec-1999 15:10".
> I've now got access to a duplexing sheet fed scanner that can only be
> described as the Cat's Ass. :) In the coming days I'll be scanning some
> CP/M 68k docs as well as all my Ampro Littleboard docs.
I scanned my ampro littleboard docs, but then I removed them when I
found they were already online. Howard Harte has some stuff here:
http://www.hartetechnologies.com/manuals/Ampro/
Check and scan what he doesn't already have. Of course, if you are so
inclined, scan everything you have. But if you are going to triage,
scan things that aren't online.
> From there
> I'll progress into my complete (I think) set of the Staunch 8/89'er and
> the Heatkit ROM listings. From there I'll scan anything I can fit into
> the hopper. *grin*
H89 ROM listings are already online, but they are behind a password at
http://www.sebhc.org/. Having copies freely available would benefit
more people.
I have used a nice high speed copier/scanner at work that can spit out
tif files or ready-to-go pdf files. There is a word of caution though.
The machine is set up to have a very high quality dithering algorithm
in order to get the visually most appealing results. This is different
than the simple threshold quantifier that you get from most scanners
when you ask for B&W scans. When you zoom in close to the text, the
edges will have a feathered appearance as the copier is trying to
approximate partial pixel coverage. It looks good, but hurts
compression and doesn't do anything helpful for OCR.
I have a file called November 1994 Walnut Creek CPM cdrom.iso
is this it? ~635 Mb - 46860 files.
Bill
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:52 PM Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
>
>
> On 10/29/18 6:11 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote:
>
> > This is going to be a long term project that will end when I've either
> exhausted the available CD-ROMs on the IA, or I
> > die, whichever comes first. ;)
>
> Even a full list of what CDs Jason has there w/o indexing would be helpful.
> Trying to figure out what is there is a nightmare.
>
> For a while, I had about 400gb of cd images on bitsavers until we ran out
> of disk space.
> I probably have a few hundred more gb I've read since then. I've slowly
> been trying to
> find a full set of physical disks from Walnut Creek for CHM's archive.
>
>
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.
/P
>
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Anthony Clifton - Retrocomputing.com wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Very cool.
>
> > 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?
>
> I think a version of UNZIP was written for just about every old computer
> at some point or another (I know an Apple ][ version was eventually
> written in the late 80s).
ARC might be another good choice, I know it exists for Commodore 64.
>
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On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Anthony Clifton - Retrocomputing.com wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Very cool.
>
> > 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?
>
> I think a version of UNZIP was written for just about every old computer
> at some point or another (I know an Apple ][ version was eventually
> written in the late 80s).
I think you may be right, Sellam, but IIRC the version for CP/M is only
capable of handling v1.10 compression and not the more current v2.04.
- don
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