[cctalk] Re: Altair BASIC Source Code released

Altair BASIC would probably be easier to get working on an Altair 8800 simulated on simh. > On Apr 3, 2025, at 1:40 PM, Michael Thompson via cctalk > wrote: > > I wonder if the source, not just the listing is available. It would be > interesting to build it on TOPS-10 running on a KA-10 simula

[cctalk] Re: Selling Off My Q-Bus Collection

You may want to contact Dave. I believe he is doing things with this stuff. Ex-Microsoft software engineer. On X he is Dave W Plummer ⁦‪@davepl1968‬⁩

[cctalk] Re: FD-55B head loose

> I don't have any spares for these drives. As I said earlier you need > to know the complete model number to get the right drive to take parts > from. It does have to be a -B (double head, 48tpi). The -A is > single-head, the -E (very rare!) and -F are the single and double head > 96tpi versions,

[cctalk] Re: FD-55B head loose

On Sun, 23 Mar 2025, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote: A = 40 cylinder single head B = 40 cylinder double head E = 80 cylinder single head F = 80 cylnder double head. Very few machines used an 80 cylinder single head drive, and I suspect the -F wasn't much more expensive anyway. So the -E model is no

[cctalk] Re: FD-55B head loose

On 3/24/25 13:58, Gregory Beat via cctalk wrote: > TEAC FD-55F floppy drives > https://retrocmp.de/fdd/teac/fd55f.htm > > The TEAC FD-55F never appeared in the world of IBM compatible computers. Why > is that? Because it was simply superfluous in the DOS world. > > The TEAC FD-55F is a double-si

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[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

I did some programming on the TRS-80 Model 4 back in the 80's so it has been a long time. I did add some functionality using machine code. I had a screen that displayed options to the user but took a long time to print it. So the first time it printed it dump the screen to memory. The every oth

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

I'm not worried about AI taking over the world. What worries me is politicians and commercial management believing the hype and turning the world over to AI before it works properly. On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM Cameron Kaiser via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > I have a book abo

[cctalk] Re: Altair BASIC Source Code released

Hi, (First post, so go easy on me.) Perhaps what we have is not so much the release of the 8080 instructions, but the comments and, for what it's worth, the variable and storage names. This surely gives an insight that a disassembly, even an annotated one, just can't give? Cheers, Brian.

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

I have a book about writing AI code on a Tandy computer from 1981 On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > So, I am working on another fun project on my trusty old TRS-80's. > I need the ability to do multi-line functions which TRS-80 BASIC >

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

On 4/5/25 07:03, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > I never thought of Fortran of being portable by design. It may > be fairly portable just because of the simplicity of the language. > I'll let you know, I am about to try moving a program that ran on > TOPS-10 and IBM MTS to Microsoft Fortran-80

[cctalk] Re: FD-55B head loose

On 3/23/25 12:07, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > Were all of the FG (and even the G) dual speed, or did some rely on a > controller supporting a 300K bps transfer? AFAIK, all 55FGs at a minimum had pads or zero-ohm resistors that could be manipulated to provide a 300 RPM spindle speed. Even the

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

On 4/1/25 18:32, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > One shortcoming, that has come up before, is that it is taught to NOT > say, "I don't know" Apparently, some think that within 10 years, AI will replace doctors and teachers: https://people.com/bill-gates-ai-will-replace-doctors-teachers-in-next-10-

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

On 4/4/2025 11:15 PM, ben via cctalk wrote: On 2025-04-04 8:37 p.m., Michael Huff via cctalk wrote: I've played with using ChatGPT to write code for older things (quickbasic, 1990's C++, stuff like that). In my experience it gets confused and gives you snippets that has features from later,

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

a friend asked me whether ChatGPT designed and planned DOGE ?

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

On 4/5/2025 8:23 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: In those days, FORTRAN IV was handy as a "portable" language just because it was the one language (other than COBOL) available *everywhere*.  It could be used as a sort of "high level assembler" too. "FORTRAN --"the infantile disorder"--, by

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

In those days, FORTRAN IV was handy as a "portable" language just because it was the one language (other than COBOL) available *everywhere*. It could be used as a sort of "high level assembler" too. "FORTRAN --"the infantile disorder"--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate fo

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

In those days, FORTRAN IV was handy as a "portable" language just because it was the one language (other than COBOL) available *everywhere*. It could be used as a sort of "high level assembler" too. My first job out of college was working on a large database system. It was written using a pr

[cctalk] Re: AI taking over the world!

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