Re: “Prehistoric” MCL
Tim McNerney <[email protected]>
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Great to hear from you Jeremy! I too would like to see Coral’s early products preserved. I started a bit of a web museum myself at 4004.com. Fitting Hunchentoot into a 4MB Mac Classic does sound intriguing. Though we would need to be careful not to get slashdotted, and the temptation to solve this problem with a 68000-based load balancer joyfully reminds me of There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. Thanks for the pointer to the greater Mac emulator community. (I bet a client-side 68000 VM could be made to run at speed in WebAssembly.) Please do share your interesting papers. Thanks! --Tim > On Mar 4, 2022, at 08:49, Jeremy Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Tim! > > Congrats on getting the classic Mac. I've been thinking about ancient MCL too. I sure wish I saved stuff, especially hardcopies of sources. > > If anyone does have the old floppies, one could use this approach to make disk images: > > https://www.chzsoft.de/site/hardware/preserving-a-floppy-disk-with-a-logic-analyzer/ > > There are also emulators: > https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/news > > Anyone else interested in MCL archeology? We could start an online MCL museum with old disk images, repls via browser, etc.? > > Anyone have any MCL CDs? Chime in if you want to contribute anything or help with a website. I have some papers that might be of interest. How about a website written in Object Lisp served from Tim's Mac Classic? > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2022, 12:27 AM Tim McNerney <[email protected]> wrote: >> Motivated by my recent purchase of a refurbished Mac Classic (*), >> I am searching for a couple of types of “prehistoric” software. >> 1) 68000 MCL that runs in 4MB of RAM and a tiny B/W screen. (**) >> 2) examples of early Mac apps written in MCL with decent UIs. >> >> (*) With a BlueSCSI SSD instead of a fragile HDD. >> >> Is the rumor true that Coral Software delivered a complete Common Lisp >> compressed onto a single 9cm floppy? (3 1/2”) >> >> (**) I’m not looking for one of these physical floppies. >> 9cm floppies were notorious, even brand new, of not being archival. >> Some sort of disk image would be better. >> >> --Tim >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmcl-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.clozure.com/mailman/listinfo/openmcl-devel _______________________________________________ Openmcl-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.clozure.com/mailman/listinfo/openmcl-devel