[Openmcl-devel] “Prehistoric” MCL

[Tim McNerney]

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 <jaj at pobox.com> 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 <mc at media.mit.edu> 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
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