Re: Vintage computing spots in Chicago?

2020-01-06 Thread Tom Uban via cctalk
On 1/5/20 5:39 PM, John Herron via cctalk wrote: > I'll be in Chicago for a week soon for a work event. Limited time for > myself but I'll have some time Sunday to maybe Uber around. Any suggestions > or cool spots for a computer collector to hit? > > I see a museum of broadcast communications is c

Re: OpenStep Solaris

2020-01-06 Thread Alan Perry via cctalk
On 1/6/20 3:53 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 00:22, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: I demoed OpenStep Solaris on top of CDE in my last exhibit at VCF PNW. It could be awkward trying to figure out where to look for application's menu. Just to make things extra ugly, I

Re: One of Bay Area's last Fry's Electronics stores closes

2020-01-06 Thread Stan Sieler via cctalk
Re: > Subject: One of Bay Area's last Fry's Electronics stores closes > ... > Palo Alto Fry?s closing < > https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-locations-Frys-Electronics-closed-14939907.php> > . > Wow, how important little words are! The URL for the SFGate article is misleadingly

Motorola app notes

2020-01-06 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
did anyone copy the moto app notes that were once at http://www.shrubbery.net/~heas/willem/PDF/Motorola/apnoteindex.html ?

R: SCO software box last chance

2020-01-06 Thread Mazzini Alessandro via cctalk
What's inside ? -Messaggio originale- Da: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] Per conto di Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk Inviato: lunedì 6 gennaio 2020 15:49 A: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Oggetto: SCO software box last chance …spoken for. have not yet brough

Re: OpenStep Solaris

2020-01-06 Thread Alan Perry via cctalk
> On Jan 6, 2020, at 06:55, Liam Proven via cctech > wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 00:22, Alan Perry via cctalk > wrote: >> >> I demoed OpenStep Solaris on top of CDE in my last exhibit at VCF PNW. >> It could be awkward trying to figure out where to look for application's >> menu. Just

SCO software box last chance

2020-01-06 Thread Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk
…spoken for. have not yet brought myself to throw away this big box of SCO software. Last call, though. - Mark 210-522-6025 office 210-379-4635 cell

Hello All - new member in the UK

2020-01-06 Thread Salik Rafiq via cctalk
Hello all, a new member here. I’m in the UK where I’ve lived for 17 years now. Before that I lived in Canada. I got my computer bug as a kid playing with VIC20, TRS-80, APPLE ][ and a mainframe. Presently I work as a .Net programmer mainly doing ASP.Net. Most of the old hardware I had stop

Re: OpenStep Solaris

2020-01-06 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 00:22, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: > > I demoed OpenStep Solaris on top of CDE in my last exhibit at VCF PNW. > It could be awkward trying to figure out where to look for application's > menu. Just to make things extra ugly, I ran MAE (Macintosh Application > Environment) at

Re: OpenStep Solaris

2020-01-06 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 00:12, Chris Hanson wrote: > > Not quite! Sun was a participant in creating the OpenStep standard (the NS > class prefix stands for “NeXT/Sun”) and *created their own implementation* of > OpenStep for Solaris. (Just as GNUstep is an independent implementation of > the Open