In message <1072886050.2245.28.camel_at_linux.local>
Paul Berger <sanepsycho_at_globaldialog.com> wrote:
> I contacted some people at CoreComm and found somebody there and they
> said that the system was shutdown indefinitely and there were no plans
> reviving it seeing there was trouble keeping it running.
:(
> I just about gave up but decided to thow a an e-mail at Curt Shambeau's
> old execpc.com e-mail address. I was supprised to receive a reply by
> Curt, one of the orginals from ExecPC, and received a reply that he is
> in the process of relocating the BBS in his basement and plans on having
> it back up in January. Apparently he's too fond of the 20yr old BBS to
> let it die.
Sounds great!
> He may be crazy keeping it running, but he's my sort of crazy.
Mine too. "Damn those new fangled uber-servers! This 20-year-old PC/386
cluster will do just fine!"
> From my memory there were 30-40GB of files & messages on it.
Now where did I put that 80GB Maxtor "Performance Series" D740X drive...
> I did get
> ahold of some knowlegable people at Core and they said most the files
> were transferred to filepile.com, but that filepile no-longer exists.
Sounds about right.
> I would like to get ahold of the creator of XFS NFS client for DOS to
> see if he would like to make it public domain or better yet release the
> source under some sort of Open Source Licence (BSD, GPL, whatever).
In addition, there was a program called "ARBLogic" - Arbitrary Logic IIRC. It
either took a PROM image and produced a series of equations. ISTR it was
written some time in 1996 - there was a copy of it on RSteveW's FTP site
(ftp.armory.com/~rstevew/PLD or /EPROM iirc). I'd like to get in touch with
the author for the same reasons - get him to PD it or release the code.
To top it all off, I'm trying to track down the creator of the !ClearView
hypertext system - it ran on RISC OS (yes, Acorn RISC OS, on an ARM CPU) and
displayed documents in a similar way to a web browser, but much faster. It
was written by one of Minerva Software's former programmers - Merlyn Kline.
He's got a website at www.binary.co.uk but FWICT he doesn't respond to
emails. I quite liked it - I'd like to see him release it as freeware or
open-source. A 32-bit-clean version (for the Iyonix) would be nice, too.
Failing that, I've got just about enough spare time to maintain the code. It
seems to have been written with Acorn C, probably Release 4. With a few
tweaks, I bet the code would compile using the new 32-bit development tools.
Later.
--
Phil. | Acorn Risc PC600 Mk3, SA202, 64MB, 6GB,
philpem_at_dsl.pipex.com | ViewFinder, 10BaseT Ethernet, 2-slice,
http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/ | 48xCD, ARCINv6c IDE, SCSI
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Received on Wed Dec 31 2003 - 10:19:24 GMT