FTGH

[Chris Hanson]

On Oct 11, 2021, at 11:52 AM, John Forecast via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Due to family medical issues I have to downsize and move into a retirement facility at the end of this month.

Oh no! I hope everything will be OK, and that you're not being forced to downsize *too* much as part of this.

> 
> DEC VT180 with 4 floppy drives
> 
> 	Includes HSC Inc’s CO16 8086 coprocessor with 256KB memory
> 	Full hardware documentation for the CO16
> 
> 	Documentation:
> 		Bios User’s Guide
> 		CP/M Operating System Manual
> 		Multiplan Manuals
> 		Microsoft M80/L80 Manua
> 		MBasic VT180 v5.21 Reference manual
> 	
> 	No software available. If/When I find the software I will make it available to whoever
> 	takes this system.

If this is still available, I would pay for someone to pick this up, pack it, and ship it to California. (I'd also send John money for it too, IMO it's only fair if I'm paying someone to retrieve, pack, and ship it.)

> Minix Software
> 
> 	Minix 1.5 for Macintosh (including disks)
> 	Minix for the Atari ST
> 	Minix Binaries and Sources for IBM PC/AT (5¼” floppies)

If this is still available, I would **desperately** like to acquire all of the above. Again, I'm willing to pay someone (and send money to John!) to pick this up, pack it, and send it to me in California.

I have MacMinix 1.5, but a couple of my disks are bad, and I'd really like to have the other Minix bits too. Literally simultaneously with John's sending of this email, I was running the Mac IIfx in my office at Apple, and rebuilding all of MacMinix 1.5.10.7 at -O2... Seriously! (Part of a personal project to port Minix 1.5.10.7 to a 68010 VME board set.)

My first Open Source contribution was to MacMinix. I created a patch that flushed the instruction and data cache on the 68040 when necessary (probably too often, in fact) so it would run nice and fast on the Centris 610 that I upgraded to from a Mac IIci in late 1993.

In any case, if I don't get these myself, I hope they went to good homes, and I'd absolutely love it if whoever got them could make and share disk images of the MacMinix disks since right now the only publicly-surviving artifact is the StuffIt archive of an installed system.

  -- Chris