Vintage BBS setup for demo

2020-09-18 Thread Richard Cini via cctalk
Is there anyone on-list with experience setting-up a Searchlight (or similar) BBS? I have mine up and running with multiple dial-up nodes (for a hopeful future VCF demonstration) but I’m having problems with setting up the file areas properly. If someone could drop me a note off-list, I’d apprec

RE: Exploring early GUIs

2020-09-18 Thread Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk
Not sure if I missed it but the Atari ST also ran GEM from ROM. I have been using mine recently with a GoTek and Flash Floppy. There are many emulators. I remember when I first used it being fascinated by the fact you could do many tasks without using the keyboard. Mind you I generally used it w

Re: Exploring early GUIs

2020-09-18 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Sep 18, 2020, at 3:48 PM, ED SHARPE via cctalk > wrote: > > > I re mn ember GEm5 as a guide ran under dos . . > Ed# > On Friday, September 18, 2020 Paul Koning via cctalk cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > >> On Sep 17, 2020, at 10:18 PM, Michael Kerpan via cctalk >> wrote: >> >>

Re: Exploring early GUIs

2020-09-18 Thread Richard Pope via cctalk
Hello all, There are emulations of the Amiga out there. GOD Bless and Thanks, rich! On Sep 17, 2020, at 10:18 PM, Michael Kerpan via cctalk wrote: Something in another recent thread about LISP machines got me wondering: how many early graphical systems are well emulated (or emulated at al

Re: Exploring early GUIs

2020-09-18 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
I re mn ember  GEm5 as a guide ran under dos .  . Ed# On Friday, September 18, 2020 Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > On Sep 17, 2020, at 10:18 PM, Michael Kerpan via cctalk > wrote: > > Something in another recent thread about LISP machines got me wondering: > how many early graphical system

Re: Exploring early GUIs

2020-09-18 Thread Ray Jewhurst via cctalk
Also available on MAME is HP VUE on the 9000/360 and 370 and not a super early GUI but quite breathtaking is Irix on the SGI Indy. Directions to set up both are all over the web. Ray On Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 2:23 PM jacob--- via cctalk wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2020, Michael Kerpan via cctalk wrote:

Re: Exploring early GUIs

2020-09-18 Thread jacob--- via cctalk
On Thu, 17 Sep 2020, Michael Kerpan via cctalk wrote: Something in another recent thread about LISP machines got me wondering: how many early graphical systems are well emulated (or emulated at all)? I know that there are more or less functional emulations of Alto, Star, and Lisa out there, but

RE: What I've been doing lately

2020-09-18 Thread Dave Dunfield via cctalk
>Very interesting. By the way I've been reading your comments about your >incident in 2019. I am impressed. All the best for you and your near people. >Kind Regards >Sergio Thanks! It's been an "interesting" year! Btw, for anyone who was interested enough to download my DVM demo... I've made a lo

Re: 9 track tapes and block sizes

2020-09-18 Thread Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
Al Kossow wrote: >> I'm kind of maintaining that. > where? Here: https://github.com/brouhaha/tapeutils > and since your fscking around inside of it, have you added the > Bordynuik extensions in the ToTS tape images? No, but I certainly will if yout tell me what it is.

Re: 9 track tapes and block sizes

2020-09-18 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 9/18/20 8:44 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 9/18/20 8:17 AM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: I'm kind of maintaining that. where? Are you feeding the changes back to Eric or have you come up with your own no one knows about it except you version? the issues will be in the tap library from John

Re: 9 track tapes and block sizes

2020-09-18 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 9/18/20 8:17 AM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: I'm kind of maintaining that. where? Are you feeding the changes back to Eric or have you come up with your own no one knows about it except you version? the issues will be in the tap library from John Wilson

Re: 9 track tapes and block sizes

2020-09-18 Thread Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
Al Kossow wrote: >> I usually use tapeutils: >> https://github.com/brouhaha/tapeutils > > I should bug Eric about this, but the .tap files that library creates > doesn't have the Supnik SIMH extensions In case Eric doesn't have time to make updates, bug me instead. I'm kind of maintaining that.

Re: 9 track tapes and block sizes

2020-09-18 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 9/18/20 5:21 AM, Patrick Finnegan via cctalk wrote: I usually use tapeutils: https://github.com/brouhaha/tapeutils I should bug Eric about this, but the .tap files that library creates doesn't have the Supnik SIMH extensions I use it for all of the SCSI recoveries that I do on Linux machi

Re: Exploring early GUIs

2020-09-18 Thread Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
Michael Kerpan wrote: > Something in another recent thread about LISP machines got me > wondering: how many early graphical systems are well emulated (or > emulated at all)? I know that there are more or less functional > emulations of Alto, Star, and Lisa out there, but what about the > various LI

Re: Computer History

2020-09-18 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Sep 17, 2020, at 9:04 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk > wrote: > >>> fix your links. CC yourself and see if you can click on them. > > On Thu, 17 Sep 2020, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: >> Which links? You mean the "virus-free" thing at the bottom? That's just >> .signature spam. I don't

Re: Exploring early GUIs

2020-09-18 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Sep 17, 2020, at 10:18 PM, Michael Kerpan via cctalk > wrote: > > Something in another recent thread about LISP machines got me wondering: > how many early graphical systems are well emulated (or emulated at all)? I > know that there are more or less functional emulations of Alto, Star,

Re: 9 track tapes and block sizes

2020-09-18 Thread Patrick Finnegan via cctalk
I usually use tapeutils: https://github.com/brouhaha/tapeutils Pat On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 1:40 AM shad via cctalk wrote: > dear all, > thanks for the useful informations! > So now a question comes to mind... > what is the best utility for Linux to be used to read and archive tapes? > > Tha