On Thursday 17 December 2009, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >On 17.12.2009 23:10, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> On 16.12.2009 18:15, Benny Pedersen wrote: >>> On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote >>> >>>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: >>>>> Marc Perkel wrote: >>>>>> http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml >>>>> >>>>> There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house. >>>> >>>> For your amusement: >>>> >>>> I still have my old Commodore 64 and 1541 drive sitting in the >>>> basement. >>> >>> my commodore 128 have basic 7.0 copyrighted from microsoft, i bet bill >>> gates have seen one of them with a reu 1750 and sayed the final words of >>> 640k ram ougth to be enough for anyone :) >>> >>> i still have 8bit computers that works, and also cpm where i have >>> pascal, fortran, autocad wordstar, you name it, best of all it works ! >> >> I still have my Nokia MikroMikko I with 64 kilos RAM and Intel 8085 >> processor (8-bit). CP/M 2.2 with Cobol, Fortran, Pascal, C, MS-Basic >> (both compiler and interpreter), WordStar and Multiplan and the Basic >> game "Keke" (a Rosberg formula one "simulation" ;)) >> >> Still works. If it had a NIC and TCP/IP I would use it. Now it's >> useless. If it worked, I'd port Firefox for it ;) > >I wrote my 'BAG' compression software for CP/M with it, using the >LZH-algorithm, ported LZH uncompression named 'UnYoshi', and ported >UNZIP, those from MS/DOS. It was not easy, as the BDS-C compiler did not >have 'overlay' -technogy, had to implement my own. > >Also wrote a VT-100 emulator, but that did not succeed, no matter how >much assembly I added to it, it was sluggish. Nokia's own VT-52 terminal >was super fast, and I never could get there. There was no VT-100 for >MikroMikko available :( The BBS-systems on MS-DOS era needed one, though. > I took the os-9 version of VT-100 and with relatively little added code, made it into a VT-220 that the CBS programmed devices I was programming with it couldn't tell that it wasn't a real VT-220. But it was a coco3 on the end of the cable. I ran our network satellite system that way for several years.
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