Re: Exploring early GUIs

2020-09-19 Thread Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
Noel Chiappa wrote: > I'm not sure CONS ever ran as a stand-alone system; I suspect (but > don't recall for sure; RG, TK or Moon or someone could confirm one way > or the other) that it ran as a loosely-coupled co-processor to MC, the > way the Chess Machine did. I believe you are entirely

Re: Exploring early GUIs

2020-09-19 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Lars Brinkhoff > There are emulators for the CADR Lisp machine ... There's no emulators > for the CONS, but I claim it would be interesting to attempt one. I'm not sure CONS ever ran as a stand-alone system; I suspect (but don't recall for sure; RG, TK or Moon or someone

Tektronix 440x photos

2020-09-19 Thread Michael Engel via cctalk
I managed to take some pictures of our Tektronix Smalltalk machines today: https://multicores.org/pictures/Tektronix_440x/ Both 4404s are identical, including the firmware versions in the EPROMs. The 4406 is a bit harder to disassemble, this will take some more time. All of the photos inside