Interlisp-D (Medley) "display font" disks for the 1186?
Eric Christopherson
echristopherson at gmail.com
Sun Sep 6 02:51:02 CDT 2015
On Sat, Sep 05, 2015, Josh Dersch wrote:
> Hi all --
>
> I've been working on getting a Xerox 1186 workstation up and running again,
> using the floppy images on Bitsavers. I have the "Medley" Interlisp-D
> software installed (after writing out and installing from ~25 floppies) and
> running and I'm attempting to load in the related libraries and software
> (another 10-20 floppies or so). Some of these libraries have dependencies
> on various font files, which I do not seem to have and haven't been able to
> track down. I see vague references in the documentation to a floppy disk
> set labeled "Display Fonts" but these do not appear to be on Bitsavers.
>
> From writing out a few floppies and looking at their contents on the 1186, I
> do not believe that these have any relationship to the Viewpoint Font disks
> (though if anyone knows differently, do let me know).
>
> Anyone out there have any experience with this? Anyone happen to have these
> floppies and/or images of them?
I wonder if the poster of this message --
http://www.sunhelp.org/pipermail/rescue/2012-January/132294.html --
would have them. It's a bit of an old post, but maybe he still uses that
email and has them.
>
> Thanks as always,
> Josh
--
Eric Christopherson
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