<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Great to hear from you Jeremy!<div>I too<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> would like to see Coral’s early products preserved. </span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I started a bit of a web museum myself at 4004.com. <br></span></font><div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Fitting Hunchentoot into a 4MB Mac Classic <i>does</i> sound intriguing. </span></font></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Though we <i>would</i> need to be careful not to get slashdotted, and</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">the temptation to solve <i>this</i> problem with a 68000-based load balancer</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">joyfully reminds me of </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i>There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><br></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Thanks for the pointer to the greater Mac emulator community. </span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(I bet a </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">client-side </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">68000 VM could be made to run </span><u style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">at speed</u><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> in WebAssembly.)</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please do share your interesting papers. Thanks!</span></div><div><div><br><div dir="ltr">--Tim</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 4, 2022, at 08:49, Jeremy Jones <jaj@pobox.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"></div>Hi Tim!<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Congrats on getting the classic Mac. I've been thinking about ancient MCL too. I sure wish I saved stuff, especially hardcopies of sources.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If anyone does have the old floppies, one could use this approach to make disk images:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.chzsoft.de/site/hardware/preserving-a-floppy-disk-with-a-logic-analyzer/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.chzsoft.de/site/hardware/preserving-a-floppy-disk-with-a-logic-analyzer/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There are also emulators: </div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/news">https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/news</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Anyone else interested in MCL archeology? We could start an online MCL museum with old disk images, repls via browser, etc.?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 4, 2022, 12:27 AM Tim McNerney <<a href="mailto:mc@media.mit.edu" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">mc@media.mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Motivated by my recent purchase of a refurbished Mac Classic (*),</span><div>I am searching for a couple of types of “prehistoric” software. <div><div>1) 68000 MCL that runs in 4MB of RAM and a tiny B/W screen. (**)</div><div>2) examples of early Mac apps written in MCL with decent UIs.</div><div><br></div><div>(*) With a BlueSCSI SSD instead of a fragile HDD.</div><div><br></div><div>Is the rumor true that Coral Software delivered a complete Common Lisp </div><div>compressed onto a single 9cm floppy? (3 1/2”)</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">(**) I’m not looking for one of these physical floppies. </span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span>9cm floppies were notorious, even brand new, of not being archival. </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span>Some sort of disk image would be better. <br></span></font><br><div dir="ltr">--Tim</div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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