Re: The precarious state of classic software and hardware preservation

2021-11-22 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 11/22/21 2:59 PM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote: > In my case it's stuff that *I* didn't save and just tossed it because > "Why would I ever want this anymore?".  I *really* regret tossing all of > the source for stuff I wrote while I was at IBM. It was after all IBM's > property (since I

Re: The precarious state of classic software and hardware preservation

2021-11-22 Thread Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
In my case it's stuff that *I* didn't save and just tossed it because "Why would I ever want this anymore?".  I *really* regret tossing all of the source for stuff I wrote while I was at IBM. It was after all IBM's property (since I wrote it all as an IBM employee) and I doubt any of it

Re: The precarious state of classic software and hardware preservation

2021-11-22 Thread s shumaker via cctalk
and yet, after it's over and there's *nothing* left from 30+ years of collecting, there are occasional reflections on what you left behind... just saying... Steve On 11/22/2021 11:50 AM, John Ames via cctalk wrote: On 2021-11-21 9:45 a.m., Adam Thornton via cctalk wrote: On 11/19/21 9:33

Re: The precarious state of classic software and hardware preservation

2021-11-22 Thread John Ames via cctalk
> On 2021-11-21 9:45 a.m., Adam Thornton via cctalk wrote: >> On 11/19/21 9:33 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote: >> >> And what happens when you wake up one morning to find archive.org is >> gone, too? >> >> > Fundamentally, eventually we're all going to be indistinguishable > mass-components

Passing of Jay Last

2021-11-22 Thread Murray McCullough via cctalk
I read with sadness an obituary in the New York Times of the passing of *Jay Last*, he being one of the “traitorous eight” infamy, if you wish to look at it that way. We in CCTalk owe him and others a great deal as they helped create the Silicon Valley from which early small computers evolved.

Re: The precarious state of classic software and hardware preservation

2021-11-22 Thread Tor Arntsen via cctalk
On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 at 03:34, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote: > Whenever some new vintage computing page appears I go to archive.org and > submit the > URL to them for the wayback machine. Often they've crawled it already, but > not always > so I think it does help. When you submit a URL to

Siemens RM200 little endian firmware

2021-11-22 Thread Plamen Mihaylov via cctalk
Hello, Does anyone have a copy of Siemens RM200 ARC firmware? It has been used to switch from SINIX(big endian) to Linux or Windows (little endian). Best regards, Plamen