Next they'll want silver oxygen free plated plumbing and sewage pipes in their homes. Silver plated toilet seats?
Walls insulated with Palladium coated corn silk threads?
Seems the subject has really gone astray?.... Lions, Tigers and Bears oh my! 😲)
Don Resor
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From: Sellam Abraham via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
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Subject: [cctalk] Re: FWIW CD & DVD demagnitizitation [was: Double Density 3.5" Floppy Disks]
Why stop there? A truly dedicated audiophile would run new pure silver electrical wire through the walls directly to the breaker box.
Then you gotta upgrade to the breaker box that was disinfected from transient spirits through an exorcism, and then special 24K solid gold-contact breakers in inert nylon housings.
Sellam
OK
This seems to be the one that the list choked on
(possibly due to special quote characters?
On Thu, May 9, 2024, 2:07 AM david barto via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
> At Ken Bowles retirement from UCSD (Ken was the lead of the UCSD Pascal
> Project) he related a story that IBM came to UCSD after being "rejected"
> by DR to see if the Regents of the University would license UCSD Pascal (the
> OS and the language) to IBM for release on the new hardware IBM was
> developing. The UC Regents said "no"
> He was quite sad that history took the very different course.
well, it wasn't quite a "rejected by DR". But, the culture clash certainly did
strengthen IBM's desire for CP/M alternatives. And, they DID cut a deal with
Softech/UCSD-Regents to have UCSD P-system as one of the original operating
systems for the 5150.
The "very different course" of the market going with CP/M and MS-DOS, rather
than P-System, was due to many factors.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
UCSD P-system could only allocate contiguous disk space. So a disk that had
become "checkerboarded" by writing and deletng files had to be defragmented,
using a spplied utility called "Crunch".
Was that adequately protected against catastrophes caused by interruption?
Softech and UCSD Regents filed trademark registration for "XenoFile", and
listed it as a product, but as near as I can tell, NEVER sent out any copies.
(February 1987, I went to the Patent and Trademark Office outside of
Washington, Dc, and researched some trademarks, in preparation for my trademark
registration)
They also announced a "universal disk format" for ALL machines, but never had a
clue about how to do anything compatible with FM, MFM, and GCR.
At NCC - Anaheim, I bought John Draper lunch (I never exercised with him) for a
quick consultation about P-system directory structure. I added some P-system
formats into XenoCopy a week later.
Turbo-Pascal was quite popular. At the annnouncement of it (West Coast
Computer Faire), Phillipe Kahn (Borland) was so inundated with "yeah, but what
about C?" questions, that by the end of the first day, "Turbo C is coming soon"
> The SAGE II that had native Pascal (68000) was
> not a popular machine. Waterloo Pascal on the SuperPet....Pascal never
> really made it on the microcomputer platform did it?
Bob Wallace (Microsoft's tenth employee) wrote the Micorsoft MS-DOS Pascal
compiler. He told me not to use the runtime library, which was also then
included with Microsoft Fortran, etc. Later, he left Microsoft when an
appointment became necessary to talk to billg, and formed "Quicksoft", selling
PC-Write (a significant player in "shareware")
Did not make it to the list, so I am breaking it up and re-sending it in
pieces
> Without doing the research before asking, there was the UCSD p-System
> Pascal for IBM PC which came out very early in the history of the IBM PC.
> It was not very popular.
In the original 5150 launch (August 1981), the operating systems announced were
availability of PC-DOS and/or UCSD P-System, and CP/M-86 was "coming soon".
The Vintage Computer Federation is looking for a new bumper to add to the
front and back of all their new videos.
There are 7 different versions. Vote on the one that you like best!
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> Pascal never really made it on the microcomputer platform did it?
> I can be convinced otherwise but it seems like microcomputing Pascal
> was more of a staging environment for then upload into a production
> mainframe/mini
Pascal was the language of choice over at Apple in the original MacOS
days, and as Mike has noted Turbo Pascal was popular enough on the PC;
it was more, I think, that the UCSD-style language-environment-as-OS
paradigm never caught on in the microcomputer world. Early consumer
micros of course had ROM BASIC, but once you got past that to a
reasonably full-featured operating system, there was no compelling
reason for it to be tightly coupled to one particular language/compiler
when it could just as easily treat compilers as Yet Another Program and
support arbitrarily many.
Based on what I have read, along with a few discussions I have had with
people involved in the early S-100 "scene" around now is the 50th birthday
(or conception day) of the Altair 8800. Certainly, next year could properly
be called its 50th birthday. Anyway, I'm thinking about "painting the show
blue" with Altairs and IMSAIs for the next few vintage computer festivals.
Anyone else interested?
Bill S.
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