[HECnet] Digital team link & pathworks for MacOS

[Jason Stevens]

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I'll upload the sales thing, but I don't have pathworks for MacOS.  It just mentioned it.  Also it insinuated that OS/2 had one as well, although I'm kind of skeptical.

On November 20, 2016 2:03:32 AM GMT+08:00, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> On 19 Nov 2016, at 18:20, John H. Reinhardt
><johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com>
>wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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?
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> The demo presentation is for MS-DOS, I can send it to anyone if they
>want it, it's about 2MB uncompressed.
>>> 
>> 
>> 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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