[HECnet] [Off-Topic] CP/M 80 and its machines

[Gregg Levine]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

  These kids today...


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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA


On Feb 28, 2013, at 8:46 AM, Joe Ferraro <jferraro at gmail.com> wrote:

On a side note, I have quite a few 8" VMS floppies sitting right here on my
desk at work...   (on a side, side-note: funny thing I've found, many of our
interns here have never seen a floppy disk... )


On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Dan B <dibi58 at gmail.com> wrote:

make sure you have working 8" floppies
;-)

On 2/27/13, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
wrote:

  Yes :-)

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA


On Feb 28, 2013, at 1:08 AM, Dan B <dibi58 at gmail.com> wrote:

grand s-100 bus

On 2/27/13, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello!
Dave you noted that the repository that one of us has discovered also
contains CP/M 80 materials. Would you be surprised that the Cromemco
which ended its operations in the US sometime ago, does exist as a
European company?

I have an interest in those contraptions, in that when they first
started being made available, they triggered most of my interests in
the technology.

If you're further curious feel free to write off list regarding them
things, and the Space Shuttle.......
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."


Hello!
Indeed.

I have sitting here an S100 box I'm planning on restoring. As to what
it did before, that is the interesting point. What it will do next?
Excellent question.

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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."




Hello!
Makes me think of my issues in my libraries of looking for CDs of
classical music composers, and then realizing that the page-clones
(the failed kind of clones) have no idea of what in the name of the
Force I'm talking about.

Anyway the reason why I bring this up is the blurb earlier that SIMH
will (eventually) support the VAX-RT modules, and naturally back then,
when the space shuttle was flying we had people building GASP
(Get-Away-Special-Payload) modules, the first one to do so was a
school, the kids used a TRS-80 (Gack!) system to build the programs
for it, and they were loaded onto a Cromemco system and did everything
there. How that was done, further, I'm not sure.

Now before Johnny becomes peeved, let us return to our regularly
scheduled arguments and discussions.

Oh and Dave please stop staring at the car, its giving me an urge to
stare back....
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."