Mac 3.5" floppies for anyone who wants them

2019-10-20 Thread David via cctalk
A collection just came to me. These are the original disks, with whatever labels are on them. As a set. First come first served. If you are in San Diego I’ll arrange a swap with you locally. If remote, we can arrange shipping. 1.44MB unless otherwise noted. Copyright years noted so version

Re: [TUHS] Old Unix books

2019-10-07 Thread David via cctalk
> On Oct 7, 2019, at 10:20 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Oct 2019, Seth J. Morabito via cctalk wrote: > >> >> David writes: >> >>> These went exceptionally fast. >>> >>> Timing of the first response was Jim Capp by about 1 minute. So if Jim >>> will send me his physical address

Re: [TUHS] Old Unix books

2019-10-07 Thread David via cctalk
I’ll leave it to Jim to see about scanning it (?bitsavers?). I don’t have the equipment or the bandwidth to do it. David > On Oct 7, 2019, at 10:17 AM, Seth J. Morabito wrote: > > > David writes: > >> These went exceptionally fast. >> >> Timing of the first response was Jim Capp by

Re: [TUHS] Old Unix books

2019-10-07 Thread David via cctalk
These went exceptionally fast. Timing of the first response was Jim Capp by about 1 minute. So if Jim will send me his physical address off list, I’ll coordinate with him in shipping them. David > On Oct 7, 2019, at 6:05 AM, Jim Capp wrote: > > David, > > I’m interested and will

Old UNIX Books

2019-10-07 Thread David via cctalk
I’ve got a few books I’ve just pulled off the shelf and no longer want/need. I’m hoping someone will give them a good home. UNIX System Labs Inc UNIX(r) System V Release 4 Programmers Guide: System Services and Application Packaging Tools Device Driver Interface/Driver-Kernel

Re: LISP implementations on small machines

2019-10-04 Thread David via cctalk
1976, UCSD. So I was using your Lisp. I got a position on the UCSD Pascal project half way through that year (reunion in just 2 weeks). So I’m very familiar with the p-code and how all that works as well. In 1978 I discovered Unix on a 780 in the 4th(?) floor lab and made the switch from

Re: LISP implementations on small machines

2019-10-03 Thread David via cctalk
Thanks for that bit of historical information. Things always make more sense in context. When I learned lisp on a B6700 it was hard to understand and harder to program. With this bit of context lisp now makes a lot more sense, and looking back if I knew this then I’m sure I would have grasped

Mac SE (HD/FD) and 40GB APS Tech HDD

2019-08-25 Thread David via cctalk
I’ve just come into possession of both of these units. The Mac has a 20MB internal HD and doesn’t startup. There is no happy mac or boot chime. The video is just a single line in the middle of the screen. The HDD spins up and wants to be formatted by any Mac I’ve got that has USB on it. If

Re: OT: the end of Dyn DNS

2019-06-27 Thread David via cctalk
> On Jun 27, 2019, at 7:03 AM, Ali via cctalk wrote: > >> There has not been a free option for seveal years. I switched to the >> paid version. >> >> But now it seems that having been eaten by Oracle, it is now being >> digested. (I have seen this process happen over and over again with >>

Re: One of the deeper dives into RISC vs CISC I've seen

2019-06-12 Thread David via cctalk
I found it most interesting, thanks for sending out the link. David > On Jun 12, 2019, at 8:59 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk > wrote: > > Goes a bit over my head but may be of interest: > > https://userpages.umbc.edu/~vijay/mashey.on.risc.html > > -- > Liam Proven - Profile: