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Ah Antoni,

Great scanning job. As a fellow scanner I can appreciate how much work this was.

Plus it almost brought a tear to my eyes. In those days ...

Microsoft could spell UNIX and even quite liked it

SCO made a living by porting software and not suing everybody.

marcus ;)
 
amouse said:
Ah Antoni,

Great scanning job. As a fellow scanner I can appreciate how much work this was.
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Agreed - NICE work, and thanks!

amouse said:
Plus it almost brought a tear to my eyes. In those days ...

Microsoft could spell UNIX and even quite liked it

SCO made a living by porting software and not suing everybody.

marcus ;)
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Well, SCO IS suing everybody, but i wouldn't call it making a living ;)
They are about as broke as can be.

T
 
Heh - looks like SCO already filed for Chapter 11, but I don't really see what there is to re-organize!

First hearing set for 6/17/2008:

SCO Chapter 11 filing

Sad - SCO was, before the present regime, quite an outfit.
They even had a hobbyist program for their products, and all.


T
 
amouse said:
Ah Antoni,

Great scanning job. As a fellow scanner I can appreciate how much work this was.

Plus it almost brought a tear to my eyes. In those days ...

Microsoft could spell UNIX and even quite liked it

SCO made a living by porting software and not suing everybody.

marcus ;)
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It wasn't too bad. I just remove it from the binder and push "start" button. Then wait few minutes and receive it in email.

You can also do it for free through: http://www.scribd.com/paper

I'd even say Microsoft was world biggest Unix vendor and distributor for quite considerable time. Not much people want to remember it now though.

Best regards,
A
 
Sharkonwheels said:
Heh - looks like SCO already filed for Chapter 11, but I don't really see what there is to re-organize!

First hearing set for 6/17/2008:

SCO Chapter 11 filing

Sad - SCO was, before the present regime, quite an outfit.
They even had a hobbyist program for their products, and all.


T
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Yes, quite interestingly there was a time period of few weeks or so where one could register a full private (hobbyist) license for UnixWare or OpenServer. I have managed to get them, but shortly after the "service" was gone.

A
 
amouse said:
Ah Antoni,

Great scanning job. As a fellow scanner I can appreciate how much work this was.

Plus it almost brought a tear to my eyes. In those days ...

Microsoft could spell UNIX and even quite liked it

SCO made a living by porting software and not suing everybody.

marcus ;)
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Man, what an impressive collection on your home page! Hope you won't be too angry if I download some of it ;)
 
I had to read some of these way back when. Went totally over my head back then.
I would like to find a Xenix 1.3 manual though. I was working for Radio Shack at the time (in the computer service center) and my boss had me readi t. I thought it was a fun read.. it was the one with the cartoons and sayings in it. (smoke em' if you got em boys.. during system installation I think) and (shut're down Scotty, she's sucking mud again.. with the suc mud error) (its been a long time but I think that was the gist of it)
 
Hi Antoni,

Your scans have been very helpful! Thank you! The information has been invaluable.

I have a Tandy 6000 up and running. I have a 70meg HD and I'm having lots of fun with it. I just wish I could find more software.

Without Kelly's disk images and assistance I would be nowhere. Thank you Kelly!

Kevin
 
The ability to crash and to frustrate administrators.
Out of the box, not very much, but you could get Scripsit, filepro, Informix and Unify. Quant made a statistics package. VI, MICNET, UUCP and CC were add ons (part of the development system). Sound Ideas had a BBS that ran under Tandy Xenix. Tandy also had the VIS system that would set up a hypertext (but not html) dial in system. There was no ethernet support.

Unmodified, but with hardware upgrades, it supported up to 1meg RAM, 8 external serial terminal, and one parallel printer. With an external hd system, it could address up to 280 meg of MFM hard drive space and 20 meg of bernoulli drives.
 
kb2syd said:
The ability to crash and to frustrate administrators.
Out of the box, not very much, but you could get Scripsit, filepro, Informix and Unify. Quant made a statistics package. VI, MICNET, UUCP and CC were add ons (part of the development system). Sound Ideas had a BBS that ran under Tandy Xenix. Tandy also had the VIS system that would set up a hypertext (but not html) dial in system. There was no ethernet support.

Unmodified, but with hardware upgrades, it supported up to 1meg RAM, 8 external serial terminal, and one parallel printer. With an external hd system, it could address up to 280 meg of MFM hard drive space and 20 meg of bernoulli drives.
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Funny... I dont remember it ever crashing on the 16b I worked with...
That is, except for when the Pascal II program(s) I wrote werent 'quite right'. :rolleyes:
Even then, it usually just core-dumped and carried on! :)

Thank you VERRRRRY MUCH for these! I dont have a 16b/6000 right now but I want one someday (that I have the space!), and I will already have the 'memory units' to remind me what I knew! :D
 
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