[HECnet] Digital team link & pathworks for MacOS

[Jason Stevens]

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Do you have any information on the OS/2 version?  I just saw Citrix 1.0 show up on some site, and it's OS/2 1.21 text mode based...  Although I guess thatd be great in the name of convolution, rs232 to Citrix, then decnet out...

On November 20, 2016 11:52:30 AM GMT+08:00, Steve Davidson <steve at davidson.net> wrote:
>Pathworks clients exist for Windows NT, Windows for Workgroups, MS-DOS,
>MacOS (Motorola chipsets), and OS/2.
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>-Steve
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>From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On
>Behalf Of Jason Stevens
>Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2016 14:06
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>Subject: Re: [HECnet] Digital team link & pathworks for MacOS
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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.
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>On November 20, 2016 2:03:32 AM GMT+08:00, Sampsa Laine <
>sampsa at mac.com
><mailto:sampsa at mac.com> > wrote:
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> On 19 Nov 2016, at 18:20, John H. Reinhardt < johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com
><mailto:johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com> >
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> On 11/19/2016 10:18 AM, Jason Stevens wrote:
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> I just scored a random lot of Amiga diskettes, and buried in the
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>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
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>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?
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>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
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>want it, it's about 2MB uncompressed.
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> The DEC Pathworks for Mac OS, given the date, was naturally for the
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>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.
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>You can run OS 8 and 9 in SheepShaver and Apple have released System
>7.5. for free download.
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>Also you can probably score an ancient G3 iBook for next to nothing off
>eBay.
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>Archive the disks PLEASE, I might seriously have a go with hooking up a
>Classic Mac and having a play..
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>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.
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>Sampsa
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