Connecting to an AirTalk doesn't have to be a Mac. You can connect it to a LocalTalk enabled printer! Here I've connected it to my ImageWriter II with LocalTalk card installed. I can print to it from Mini VMac!
@peter Love it! I had a 1670 modem on my Commodore VIC-20 back in the 80's (it replaced my venerable VICModem1600) and I ran my BBS off of it. Great times!
The second in a short series of blog posts describing my attempt to implement a 'big integer' library in Turbo Pascal 3.01A for CP/M 2.2 - this time covering the addition, subtraction and comparison functions.
The third in a short series of blog posts describing my attempt to implement a 'big integer' library in Turbo Pascal 3.01A for CP/M 2.2 - this time covering the division, modulo and square root functions.
This means there is enough of a library completed to have a look at a Sieve of Eratosthenes benchmark in part 4. I bet you can all hardly wait for that ... :D
The fourth in a short series of blog posts describing my attempt to implement a 'big integer' library in Turbo Pascal 3.01A for CP/M 2.2 - Benchmarking with a Sieve of Eratosthenes.
no hard drive, i think i have a period appropriate replacement that may even work
it looks like a scrapper rather violently removed all the cables except power, dislodging the expansion riser in the process
so i have to replace all those, dunno if i still have a stash of them somewhere
has a 12-10-92 date stamp on the case cover, chips on the board have date stamps as late as 40th week 1992, so looks like this thing was built in Oct 1992
perhaps this was someones Christmas '92 present 🎄🎁
CDROM has a manufacture date of Jan 1993, so it was upgraded quickly or perhaps it sold later as a post-christmas clearance deal 🙃
this probably came with Windows 3.1, and would have been a fairly high end machine at the time
well gave OS/2 a chance, installing the soundblaster CDROM drivers is a 100% manual process, and needs OS/2 2.1 to actually work anyway
the text editor is weird, the file manager is awful, managing windows is painful, i figured the pre-load would have ET4000 drivers but no it just seems to be stuck with plain 16 color VGA...
don't think i'm going to stick with OS/2 on this machine 🙃
let me know if there's anything you really want to see
Did you write code for #Psion machines in the #80s and #90s?
We're calling for you to open source your code!
I'm working with a group of enthusiasts, building a library of information about the SIBO/EPOC16 platform. Your old code could give valuable insight, as well as encourage people to write new code.
We're especially interested in old C and #x86#assembly.
Upload it to your public repository of choice, and set it free!
Two years ago on "Computer Chronicles Revisited," I covered a December 1983 episode on word processors. Among the highlights was a demonstration of "The Word Plus," a standalone spell checker, as most word processing programs of the day did not include one. This episode also marked the first appearance of Paul Schindler.
"Coming from the hobbyist community, Wozniak was used to designing computer hardware for expandability and modification. With the Apple II, purchasing a product off the shelf wasn’t conceived as an end point but as the start of a user’s process of customizing her own machine"
➥ @NewYorker
Had to figure out how to parse the Atari ST's system fonts, but tonight I finally succeeded in adding text support to my web-based IGS art editor thingy.
Two years ago on 'Computer Chronicles Revisited,' I looked at a late 1983 episode on computer simulations. We're not talking SimCity so much as as simulators for military and industrial use. One of the surprising things I learned in researching this post was that one of the biggest military sim companies at the time was a division of Singer, the sewing machine manufacturer.
THIS WEEK IN 1987: In its quarterly filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) disclosed that it had filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Intel Corporation over an alleged breach of contract. Intel and AMD had a cross-licensing agreement for AMD to act as a "second source" for Intel's 8086, 80186, and 80286 CPUs. But Intel refused to share the designs for its newer, more profitable 80386 CPU.
An arbitrator would eventually rule that Intel violated the agreement and granted AMD a license to use any necessary Intel 80386 IP in its own cloned chip, the Am386. Intel would try to get the arbitrator's decision reversed, but it was upheld by the California Supreme Court in 1994.