Hi all, I don't seem to have seen any follow-up on this, so I'm wondering if 
anybody else has discovered how to access the link for PERIOD (or any of the 
other links on that page):

This is a bit of a case study in why relative links should be used in html 
rather than absolute links.   Somebody uploaded all the content of 
nemesis.lonestar.org/ to 
archives.oldskool.org/pub/drivers/Tandy/nemesis.lonestar.org/ but all the links 
contained within the index.html (or whatever the start page is) are still 
absolute links to paths off the root of nemesis.lonestar.org/ which of course 
no longer works...

I tried visiting several of the pages (including the one for PERIOD) and they 
all worked with a little bit of URL rewriting.  For instance, the broken link 
for further info on PERIOD is 
http://nemesis.lonestar.org/computers/tandy/software/apps/model100/period/index.html
 but if you just append the path from that to the path of the page you're 
already on 
(http://archives.oldskool.org/pub/drivers/Tandy/nemesis.lonestar.org/) you get 
http://archives.oldskool.org/pub/drivers/Tandy/nemesis.lonestar.org/computers/tandy/software/apps/model100/period/index.html
 which works perfectly fine.

Unfortunately, all the links on the PERIOD page (and, presumably, all his other 
pages) are also absolute and each of them requires the same tinkering.  To make 
it easy, in case you don't want to dig around and all you want to do is run 
PERIOD (I did; it's a bit of a hoot), here's the link to the ASCII version of 
the program (load into your Model T or favourite emulator as a .DO file and 
then load it to tokenize (I thought I should be able to use this in conjunction 
with the "Add URL" button in CloudT but met with no success there)): 
http://archives.oldskool.org/pub/drivers/Tandy/nemesis.lonestar.org/computers/tandy/software/apps/model100/period/per17m.bas

He also has an html page with the source code broken down and annotated 
(http://archives.oldskool.org/pub/drivers/Tandy/nemesis.lonestar.org/computers/tandy/software/apps/model100/period/per17m.html)
 which explains how the program works and goes into some detail on the 
struggles he had getting good consistent data on some of the elements to put in 
the program... (this is probably one of the printouts seen on the display table 
at the exhibition)







        jim

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> On 6/26/2024 2:35 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> > Thanks. None of the links on that page work and I can't seem to find
> contact info. I will keep trying.
> 
> Yeah, I mainly linked for the text.  The links do indeed fail. Malcolm
> told me the stories and such were uploaded somewhere, but Google was not
> a huge help.  I'll try to reach out to him on it.
> 
> I hope I find it.  The papers at the table with the story(ies) were very
> fund to read, the author (deceased) had some wit and I think a bit of
> saltiness from Tandy having him make the SW and then not bundling it at
> the end.  He also anticipated people complaining about the scientific
> validity of the some of the lattice structures of the elements (it shows
> those as graphics on the screen) and trying to head some of that off at
> the pass (who knew lattice structures of elements would be a source of
> contention).
> 
> Jim
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