Atari ST diskettes

2020-12-01 Thread Van Snyder via cctalk
I found a box of 45 Atari ST diskettes in my basement, from my 1980's 520 ST (or maybe my brother's 1040 ST). I don't have a floppy drive, so I can't tell whether they're readable. Some are originals, for example for 1St Word, the word processor, and Regent Base, a re

Re: Atari ST diskettes

2020-12-02 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 22:36, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote: > > I found a box of 45 Atari ST diskettes in my basement, from my 1980's > 520 ST (or maybe my brother's 1040 ST). > > I don't have a floppy drive, so I can't tell whether they're readable. > >

Re: Atari ST diskettes

2020-12-07 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk
On Wed, 2 Dec 2020, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > If you don't get much response here, for many of whom I suspect the ST > is a bit modern, let me know and I can share it on some relevant > groups on FB for you. Anonymised or obscured as you prefer. Well, I guess for some anything that does no

Re: Atari ST diskettes

2020-12-07 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 12:28, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > Well, I guess for some anything that does not require you to toggle in > the boot loader or doesn't have a teletype console terminal is surely too > modern to even consider. :-D One of the things I enjoy about this group is that some of

Re: Atari ST diskettes

2020-12-07 Thread Van Snyder via cctalk
On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 12:42 +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 12:28, Maciej W. Rozycki > wrote: > > Well, I guess for some anything that does not require you to > > toggle inthe boot loader or doesn't have a teletype console > > terminal is surely toomodern to even cons

Re: Atari ST diskettes

2020-12-07 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Dec 7, 2020, at 1:32 PM, Van Snyder via cctalk > wrote: > > On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 12:42 +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: >> On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 12:28, Maciej W. Rozycki >> wrote: >>> Well, I guess for some anything that does not require you to >>> toggle inthe boot loader or doesn

Re: Atari ST diskettes

2020-12-07 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 12/7/20 10:32 AM, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote: > The first computer I was paid to write software for didn't require me > to toggle in a boot loader: The IBM 1401 in 1966. > > All I had to do was push the load key on the card reader, or the tape > load key on the operator console. And it didn'

Re: Atari ST diskettes

2020-12-07 Thread Van Snyder via cctalk
On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 11:21 -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 12/7/20 10:32 AM, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote: > > > The first computer I was paid to write software for didn't require me > > to toggle in a boot loader: The IBM 1401 in 1966. > > > > All I had to do was push the load key on

Re: Atari ST diskettes

2020-12-07 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Dec 7, 2020, at 2:50 PM, Van Snyder via cctalk > wrote: > >> ... > > One of my friends changed the tables in a 1620 to do octal arithmetic, > for telemetry processing. > > Speaking of those tables, do you remember why the 1620 was called > CADET? Not because it was a "beginner's" or "n

Re: Atari ST diskettes

2020-12-07 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 12/7/20 11:50 AM, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote: > One of my friends changed the tables in a 1620 to do octal arithmetic, > for telemetry processing. > > Speaking of those tables, do you remember why the 1620 was called > CADET? Not because it was a "beginner's" or "novice" computer. It was > an

Re: Atari ST diskettes

2020-12-07 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
The first computer I was paid to write software for didn't require me to toggle in a boot loader: The IBM 1401 in 1966. On Mon, 7 Dec 2020, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: The contemporaneous 1620 had it both ways--one could type in the loader on the console typewriter (hit the Release key when

Re: Atari ST diskettes

2020-12-07 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Dec 7, 2020, at 3:17 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: > > On 12/7/20 11:50 AM, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote: > >> One of my friends changed the tables in a 1620 to do octal arithmetic, >> for telemetry processing. >> >> Speaking of those tables, do you remember why the 1620 was calle