[HECnet] Digital team link & pathworks for MacOS

[Sampsa Laine]

> On 19 Nov 2016, at 18:20, John H. Reinhardt <johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> On 11/19/2016 10:18 AM, Jason Stevens wrote:
>> I just scored a random lot of Amiga diskettes, and buried in the stacks was a demo sales presentation for Team computing, team links, all in one and all kinds of 1992 awesome graphics on this demo disk.
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>> In the middle it does mention pathworks for MacOS.  Does anyone know if it was a separate product like pathworks for MS-DOS or later Windows NT was?
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>> And the team link software, I suspect it was a big deal to roll out?  I get the impression it ran on the MIPS based hardware, and maybe the VAX?  Anyone ever use it?  It looks like it may have been an enterprise contender, well until the rise of NT.
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>> The demo presentation is for MS-DOS, I can send it to anyone if they want it, it's about 2MB uncompressed.
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> The DEC Pathworks for Mac OS, given the date, was naturally for the Pre OS X versions. I ran it on Mac OS 8 and 9 when I worked at Wright Labs in Dayton.  I don't know if it would work in the Classic environment available in OS X 10.1-10.4, I suspect not.  I believe it was a separate product but I don't have any documentation left to prove it.

You can run OS 8 and 9 in SheepShaver and Apple have released System 7.5. for free download.

Also you can probably score an ancient G3 iBook for next to nothing off eBay.

Archive the disks PLEASE, I might seriously have a go with hooking up a Classic Mac and having a play..

RE: Amigas, I believe there’s a product called TSSnet, I was given disks to it but the second was faulty and the registration key is calculated on the basis of your DECNET address so it didn’t work out.

Sampsa
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