This is mainly off topic, but deals with some interesting ways to find info
on the Internet. Plus I've got some cool classic computer related links.
After sitting at MacOS 8.1 on my PowerMac for around a year, thanks to 8.5
causeing some problems for me when I tried to upgrade when it came out
(these problems haven't been an issue since December), I went ahead and
went straight to MacOS 8.6 last night.
I've been hearing about this great new search tool that was introduced in
MacOS 8.5 and has been updated in 8.6. Last night briefly I gave it a try
and was impressed, so this morning while working on my morning pot of
coffee, I've been playing with it. I used PDP-11/44 as the seed, and have
dug up some really cool classic computer related stuff. If you get a
chance to try it out, I'd recommend running a few searches on computers
that you're interested in.
Here are a couple interesting links.
http://www.tec.puv.fi/~s99137/index1.html An interesting page of old
computers, including a PDP-11/44. This page led me to the next link.
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/retro/ is "The Retrocomputing Museum", at first
I thought it was one of the listmembers pages, and then I found out it's
maintained by Eric S. Raymond (yes, of Open Source fame), and someone else.
http://www.vaxarchive.org/compmus/kees/garage.html
http://www.vaxarchive.org/hw/index.html Nice page of links about VAX Hardware
http://www.telnet.hu/hamster/dr/ Akos Varga has been busy it looks like!
http://www.telnet.hu/hamster/dr/ka630.html Didn't someone recently want
info on the KA630 this page looks worth a look! Or for the KA650
http://www.telnet.hu/hamster/dr/ka650.html
OK, I'm done wasting everyones time, please forgive my enthusiasm for
something new and cool from Apple that is a cool way to find Classic
Computer stuff. Oh, and yes, I realize there is probably some web site out
there that will give you simular capabilities.
Zane
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Received on Sat May 15 1999 - 12:31:07 BST