Re: Exploring early GUIs

2020-09-20 Thread Frank McConnell via cctalk
On Sep 17, 2020, at 19:18, 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

RE: Exploring early GUIs

2020-09-20 Thread Mike Begley via cctalk
There's also the windowing system used on the AT&T 3B1 (AKA Unix PC, AK PC7300), which I think was called MGR. It may have also been ported to other systems as well. When I had one of these machines it was adequate, although terribly slow on a 512K system. There's a writeup, with images, here

Interface Technology RS-432 manual

2020-09-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
I don't remember if this was discussed here recently here or on the VCF site, I found one message here about it. Found the manual going through some test equipment manual boxes http://bitsavers.org/test_equipment/interfaceTechnology/Interface_Technology_RS-432_Microprocessor_Controlled_Data_and_

Re: Exploring early GUIs

2020-09-20 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Lars Brinkhoff > it was AI rather than MC. As I'm sure you know, AI had the Rubin 10-11 > interface Really? (I expect you're correct, mind.) I just remember one day MC wasn't running as normal, and I was told it was because CHEOPS was in some tournament, and MC had been taken

Looking for Logicraft Omni-Ware

2020-09-20 Thread Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctalk
I’m looking for a piece of software called Omni-Ware for VMS or UNIX , by a Nashua company called Logicraft. I’ve just received the pieces to build a Logicraft PC (286 motherboard with custom BIOS and a special network card that emulates the keyboard, mouse, CGA video card and hard disk). I