[cctalk] Re: Wang bar napkin story [WAS:RE: Re: "Revival" of a dedicated Micropolis webpage on internet]

2022-08-22 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Aug 21, 2022, at 8:35 PM, W2HX via cctalk wrote: > > I always thought it was interesting how 5 1/4 is 3U (rack units). I thought > there might have been some relationship to that. But could have been just > coincidence. For floppies, likely yes. That fact did get used later on, in sto

[cctalk] Re: Wang bar napkin story [WAS:RE: Re: "Revival" of a dedicated Micropolis webpage on internet]

2022-08-22 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Aug 22, 2022, at 11:17 AM, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 7:13 AM Paul Koning via cctalk > wrote: > > > > On Aug 21, 2022, at 8:35 PM, W2HX via cctalk wrote: > > > > I always thought it was interesting how 5 1/4 is 3U (rack units). I thought > > there might ha

[cctalk] Re: Wang bar napkin story [WAS:RE: Re: "Revival" of a dedicated Micropolis webpage on internet]

2022-08-22 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 7:13 AM Paul Koning via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > On Aug 21, 2022, at 8:35 PM, W2HX via cctalk > wrote: > > > > I always thought it was interesting how 5 1/4 is 3U (rack units). I > thought there might have been some relationship to that. But could hav

[cctalk] Does anyone have MP/M II disks/images for the Altos ACS-8000?

2022-08-22 Thread Chris Osborn via cctalk
I just got my Altos ACS-8000 hard disk controller repaired yesterday and was able to connect the Gesswein MFM emulator and format it, run through the read/write tests, and copy some files onto it. Now I'd like to install MP/M II, but it seems there's no archive sites anywhere that have copies of

[cctalk] Re: Wang bar napkin story [WAS:RE: Re: "Revival" of a dedicated Micropolis webpage on internet]

2022-08-22 Thread Tom Gardner via cctalk
That's one of the "features" of the CHM oral history archives, they keep older versions on line on "scholarly" principles. I've suggest they keep only the current version on line and include a change log to no avail Tom -Original Message- From: Fred Cisin [mailto:ci...@xenosoft.com] Sent:

[cctalk] Re: Wang bar napkin story [WAS:RE: Re: "Revival" of a dedicated Micropolis webpage on internet]

2022-08-22 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
OR, keep them all available, but include a mention and link to newest, or at least next, or precede each with a small visible meta-data block with date and links. If it's too cumbersome to edit every one when a new one is put up, having a mention/link to the next one would at least provide a li