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========================================================================= Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 14:42:49 PST
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "Laurence I. Press" <lpress@ISI.EDU>
Subject: Re: CYHIST Digest - 18 Dec 1998 to 19 Dec 1998 (#1998-94)
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 20 Dec 1998 00:56:30 -0400
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Doug Senzig wrote:
>Tarbell made an early floppy disk controller S-100 board based on the Western Digital chip. This board was one of the most popular in the
Don was famous for his audio-tape interface -- did he make a floppy controller too?
The first one I recall seeing with CP/M was from John Torrode of Digital Microsystems. It came with CP/M. (Gary Kildall and John went to grad school together I believe). I would guess this was the first OEM deal that Gary made. I saw it at a Southern California Computer Society meeting in 1975. (Any other SCCS members on this list)?
Digital Microsystems later started selling complete systems -- 2 floppies, a TI printer, terminal and CP/M.
There was at least one earlier S-100 floppy subsystem -- it was from a company called Icom (?). A guy named Art Childs wrote a disk operating system for it, but it was super basic -- for example, you had to preallocate partitions to individual files. It used Micropolis 5-inch drives as I recall.
>The editor in CP/M was obviously from the same heritage as the Intelec paper tape editor, it shared many of the commands including
Gary could have very well been the author as he was an Intel consulatant and professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA in those days.
Larry
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "Laurence I. Press" <lpress@ISI.EDU>
Subject: Re: CYHIST Digest - 18 Dec 1998 to 19 Dec 1998 (#1998-94)
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 20 Dec 1998 00:56:30 -0400
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
Doug Senzig wrote:
>Tarbell made an early floppy disk controller S-100 board based on the Western Digital chip. This board was one of the most popular in the
Don was famous for his audio-tape interface -- did he make a floppy controller too?
The first one I recall seeing with CP/M was from John Torrode of Digital Microsystems. It came with CP/M. (Gary Kildall and John went to grad school together I believe). I would guess this was the first OEM deal that Gary made. I saw it at a Southern California Computer Society meeting in 1975. (Any other SCCS members on this list)?
Digital Microsystems later started selling complete systems -- 2 floppies, a TI printer, terminal and CP/M.
There was at least one earlier S-100 floppy subsystem -- it was from a company called Icom (?). A guy named Art Childs wrote a disk operating system for it, but it was super basic -- for example, you had to preallocate partitions to individual files. It used Micropolis 5-inch drives as I recall.
>The editor in CP/M was obviously from the same heritage as the Intelec paper tape editor, it shared many of the commands including
Gary could have very well been the author as he was an Intel consulatant and professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA in those days.
Larry
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