Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 15:17:51 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Darwin...was, Re: Better than politics!

> dicconf at radix.net 6/11/2005 2:41:20 AM >>>
>
>On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Barry L. Newton wrote:
>
>> Of course, enlightened computer users knew that when you bought
>an IBM PC,
>> the thing to do was discard the trashy PC-DOS operating system
>that came
>> free with the machine and spend another $50 or whatever to get
>CPM-386, the
>> far more sophisticated CPM derivative.  The marketplace never
>really bought
>> into this notion, and CPM is rather hard to find now.
>
>I've got CPM on a Kaypro IV (another relic of the past!)

Shall we all do a chorus of "Memories" ? ? ?

> down in the
>cellar.  Once tried to see if Freecycle would find a good home for it
--
>it's perfectly good for nondemanding tasks -- but they wouldn't touch

>it.

There's always Ebay... right now "Kaypro" gets 9 hits, and 5 items have
bids.

There's even a "Vintage Computing Products" section of Ebay... with
2249 items currently listed.  Talk about memories...

HP 2100S Microprogrammable Systems Computer
IBM DOS 1.00
MITS ALTAIR 8800 Computer Vintage 1975
IMSAI 8080 Computer, Disk Drives, Manuals, Software

mjw

>-- Dick Eney