[cctalk] WTB: Keyboard for IBM 3290-1 terminal.

2024-01-24 Thread Andrew Back via cctalk
Hello, I'm looking for a keyboard to use with an IBM 3290-1 terminal (DB25 connector). IBM part number 6016730 or similar. Regards, Andrew

[cctalk] Re: Can anyone (pref in USA) recover data from an old RK05 disk pack?

2024-01-24 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Tue, 23 Jan 2024, Graham Toal wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 3:05?PM Wayne S wrote: Can?t the pack be read and copied on the system it?s currently on? It's not been near a computer since 1979. It's currently in Fred van Kempen's storage. And why send it to the US instead of finding

[cctalk] Re: The MAC at 40

2024-01-24 Thread Jonathan Stone via cctalk
On Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 02:16:44 PM PST, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: [...] > But basically, Jobs never stole anything.  He was pretty much invited to > take a look, and then entered into some sort of exclusivity deal (I may be > wrong about this detail) to use Xerox tech. 

[cctalk] Re: WTB: Keyboard for IBM 3290-1 terminal.

2024-01-24 Thread David Schmidt via cctalk
Sorry I don't have a lead on a keyboard for you, but man, I can still hear the beautiful music of those tiger screens updating... - David

[cctalk] Re: IBM 38 on Facebook Marketplace

2024-01-24 Thread r.stricklin via cctalk
> On Jan 24, 2024, at 12:33 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk > wrote: > > I think that this is an AS/400e 9406 Model 170 Server, from about 1998. I concur with this identification. ok bear.

[cctalk] Re: The MAC at 40

2024-01-24 Thread David Arnold via cctalk
> On 25 Jan 2024, at 08:21, Tony Jones via cctalk wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 12:53 PM Murray McCullough via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> The Apple Mac, 40 years old, came from Xerox PARC’s GUI and Apple’s LISA. >> Not sure that it really changed computing though!

[cctalk] Re: The MAC at 40

2024-01-24 Thread Tony Jones via cctalk
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 2:04 PM Andrew Diller wrote: > I think now anyone that wants to look a bit more closely > Hardly a unique situation. Often the story that persists in the mainstream isn't the most accurate.

[cctalk] Re: The MAC at 40

2024-01-24 Thread Sellam Abraham via cctalk
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 2:04 PM Andrew Diller via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I think now anyone that wants to look a bit more closely has a much better > idea and context about what caused the Birth of the Mac. That story of > "stolen from PARC" IMHO is just weak writing back when

[cctalk] IBM 38 on Facebook Marketplace

2024-01-24 Thread Anders Nelson via cctalk
I know nothing of what they're referring to, but just in case someone is interested: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1033559851065048 -- Anders Nelson www.andersknelson.com

[cctalk] Re: The MAC at 40

2024-01-24 Thread Tony Jones via cctalk
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 2:16 PM Sellam Abraham via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > But basically, Jobs never stole anything. He was pretty much invited to > take a look, and then entered into some sort of exclusivity deal (I may be > wrong about this detail) to use Xerox tech. Xerox

[cctalk] The MAC at 40

2024-01-24 Thread Murray McCullough via cctalk
The Apple Mac, 40 years old, came from Xerox PARC’s GUI and Apple’s LISA. Not sure that it really changed computing though! Financially it didn't help Apple until after 1997 and Gate's investment. Happy computing! Murray 

[cctalk] Re: IBM 38 on Facebook Marketplace

2024-01-24 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
Really the only thing I can identify in those photographs is some version of an IBM 3776 terminal. It’s in Morristown, NJ. The computer itself is probably an AS/400 that was originally purchased to replace a System/38 (at least that’s the only way I see “IBM 38” making any sense). I think

[cctalk] Re: The MAC at 40

2024-01-24 Thread Tony Jones via cctalk
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 12:53 PM Murray McCullough via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > The Apple Mac, 40 years old, came from Xerox PARC’s GUI and Apple’s LISA. > Not sure that it really changed computing though! Financially it didn't > help Apple until after 1997 and Gate's investment.

[cctalk] Re: The MAC at 40

2024-01-24 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Wed, 24 Jan 2024, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote: The Apple Mac, 40 years old, came from Xerox PARC’s GUI and Apple’s LISA. Not sure that it really changed computing though! Financially it didn't help Apple until after 1997 and Gate's investment. Although they still needed help, the Mac

[cctalk] Re: The MAC at 40

2024-01-24 Thread Andrew Diller via cctalk
I think now anyone that wants to look a bit more closely has a much better idea and context about what caused the Birth of the Mac. That story of "stolen from PARC" IMHO is just weak writing back when the Internet didn't have the info it has today which gives full context over what was going

[cctalk] Re: The Mac at 40

2024-01-24 Thread Chris Hanson via cctalk
Apple didn't "steal" anything because Xerox received a tranche of pre-IPO Apple shares in exchange for allowing SJ and his folks to visit PARC for a bunch of demos and do whatever they wanted with what they saw. Nowadays you can also try out systems like Smalltalk-78, Xerox ViewPoint, etc. as

[cctalk] Re: The MAC at 40

2024-01-24 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
You all should check out David Greelish's new documentary on the Mac. It just came out today or it just about to be released. We should all support our fellow vintage computer historians, I know he put a lot of time into it. David has been writing about the Mac's significance before Wikipedia

[cctalk] Re: The Mac at 40

2024-01-24 Thread Tony Jones via cctalk
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 5:29 PM Chris Hanson via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Apple didn't "steal" anything because > . > I can't believe people still don't have a solid grasp of these things after > 40 years of both journalism and academia covering them in rather exhaustive >

[cctalk] Re: The Mac at 40

2024-01-24 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
David Greelish's upcoming documentary has interviews of the people involved with the original project, and the subject of Xerox and all that is pretty well covered. I got a preview of the documentary, wait for it to come out.my Lisa is at 1hr13 mins in...This is an important documentary

[cctalk] Re: The MAC at 40

2024-01-24 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
LoL oops. Strike my comment! On Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 7:09 PM Tony Jones via cctalk wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 3:58 PM Bill Degnan via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > You all should check out David Greelish's new documentary on the Mac. > > > > Sounds good except it's not

[cctalk] Re: The MAC at 40

2024-01-24 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
Well, if you compare a complete Mac, with a complete PC, including comparable hardware and software, they actually came out close to even! BUT, if you compare a complete Mac with an absolutley bare 5150PC, and shop for reasonable prices on RAM, drives, monitor, etc., with shareware software

[cctalk] Re: The MAC at 40

2024-01-24 Thread Tony Jones via cctalk
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 3:58 PM Bill Degnan via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > You all should check out David Greelish's new documentary on the Mac. > Sounds good except it's not about the Mac. It's called "Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa documentary" It just happens to be (finally)

[cctalk] Re: The MAC at 40

2024-01-24 Thread Murray McCullough via cctalk
I know a great deal of writings by techno-historians, computer-industry experts and technology enthusiasts concerning the Apple Mac, and now 40 years old, have covered this topic both on and off the net. Unlike originally stated I now feel that the MAC was an important change agent in regards to

[cctalk] Re: The Mac at 40

2024-01-24 Thread Tony Jones via cctalk
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 6:27 PM Bill Degnan via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: and we can all stop copy and pastin from wikipedia to act like we know what > we're talking about. > You keep saying this. Why? It's rather childish. Most of my knowledge comes from personal interest (I

[cctalk] Re: The Mac at 40

2024-01-24 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
and, of course, with anything that people caan get too close to, you will get "blind men and the elephant" discrepancies between any two accounts of the event. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com

[cctalk] Re: The Mac at 40

2024-01-24 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
and we can all stop copy and pastin from wikipedia to act like we know what we're talking about. On Wed, 24 Jan 2024, Tony Jones via cctalk wrote: You keep saying this. Why? It's rather childish. Most of my knowledge comes from personal interest (I wrote a Smalltalk VM in the late 80's),

[cctalk] Re: Looking for (WTB:) 1970s OAK keyboard switches...

2024-01-24 Thread John Robertson via cctalk
On 2024/01/24 12:52 p.m., John Robertson via cctalk wrote: I've been hunting for a while now for OAK PCB mount keyboard switches that I can't find a part number for. I've attached a product listing for the switch that shows it pretty well. DPST-NO preferred. Only $0.40 in the early '70s! Any

[cctalk] Looking for 1970s OAK keyboard switches...

2024-01-24 Thread John Robertson via cctalk
I've been hunting for a while now for OAK PCB mount keyboard switches that I can't find a part number for. I've attached a product listing for the switch that shows it pretty well. DPST-NO preferred. Only $0.40 in the early '70s! Any quantity considered... Thanks! John :-#)# --

[cctalk] Re: The MAC at 40

2024-01-24 Thread Paul Hagstrom via cctalk
> On Jan 24, 2024, at 7:12 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk > wrote: > > LoL oops. Strike my comment! Maybe leave unstruck this part though! > We should all support > our fellow vintage computer historians, I know he put a lot of time into > it. I've seen parts of the documentary already, and