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  • rbanffy 7 days ago | parent | on: Data General History by Foster
    This is a great book, and totally worth reading. It's a shame not all books about the history of computing are that engaging.
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    • bmonkey325 7 days ago
      _Revolution in the Valley_ by Andy Hertzfeld is another one I enjoyed.

      Got anything to recommend ? hopefully in audio book form, I need something for when I power walk off the coming holiday cookies that I will accumulate.

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  • rbanffy 35 days ago | parent | on: TheA1200 Announcement
    I will want one just to run Amiga Unix. Does it have a network port?
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    • bmonkey325 35 days ago
      I think you need a beefier Amiga like an A3000 to do that. But I could be pleasantly surprised....
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  • rbanffy 55 days ago | parent | on: Wanted: CIT-102 keyboard
    The connector and number make it sound like it's compatible with a DEC VT-100 (or, better, 102) terminal. You might have better luck with DEC parts.
  • rbanffy 55 days ago | parent | on: Wanted: CIT-102 keyboard
    Not sure we are allowed, but, if we do, I've been looking for a graphics-capable VT-200 (or later, compatible, etc) for quite some time.
  • rbanffy 133 days ago | parent | on: The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Next Issue 3
    Quite frankly, I'd love it more if it were just a USB keyboard. I could use it for my day-to-day work and, occasionally, enjoy games on an emulator.
    • zxm 133 days ago
      same, i'd love one but just don't have the space for another computer in a tiny space. will just have to stick with speccy emulators. but as soon as i have the space i'll get one in a heartbeat.
  • rbanffy 145 days ago | parent | on: 10 Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn’t Make It
    I miss Publish It from that list. It was impossibly good on the Apple //e
    • ohjeez 143 days ago
      It leaves out Framemaker, which was... a thing.
      • bmonkey325 141 days ago
        FrameMaker never went away. It was just subsumed by a sea of Microsoft Word being used inappropriately. Where I work I think we last updated during the pandemic.

        https://www.adobe.com/ca/products/framemaker.html

    • bmonkey325 144 days ago
      Yes. Newsroom by springboard was popular in Toronto as I was heading to university in mid 80s.
  • rbanffy 180 days ago | parent | on: The Manx catalog website knows about 22,060 comput...
    Is there an easy way to mirror it?
    • viler 179 days ago
      I suppose it can be crawled like any other website, since it's a collection of links - manx-docs doesn't host any of the manuals.

      As such it can be bitten by the usual link rot problem, but at least it has multiple links for each entry, which should minimize that. Where no digitized copies are known to exist, the entry is listed without links - but that's still a good thing to have, for those with the means to do something about it.

  • rbanffy 191 days ago | parent | on: The Golden Age of computer user groups
    > piracy

    Off-site backups, please.

  • rbanffy 289 days ago | parent | on: Whatever Happened to Unix Workstations?
    Technically, nothing. Apple still makes them. And they sell quite well.
  • rbanffy 419 days ago | parent | on: Welcome to the terminals wiki!
    Who manages the website and how can someone contribute to it?
    • bmonkey325 418 days ago
      I found this page to request an account

      http://user.xmission.com/~legalize/wiki-account.html

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