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* Re: Which other computing-related newsgroups are still alive?Kerr-Mudd, John
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Re: Which other computing-related newsgroups are still alive?

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From: admin@127.0.0.1 (Kerr-Mudd, John)
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Subject: Re: Which other computing-related newsgroups are still alive?
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 by: Kerr-Mudd, John - Wed, 31 Jan 2024 09:14 UTC

On 31 Jan 2024 02:58:33 -0400
Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:

>
> Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> writes:
>
> > On 11/01/2024 23:18, Anthony Cuozzo wrote:
> <
> >> Which other computing-related newsgroups are still alive?
> >>
> >> I see that comp.lang.c gets a fair bit of daily traffic. I heard that a
> >> few "retrocomputing" groups still have activity, but I can't easily
> >> determine which ones.
>
> comp.os.cpm has a steady trickle of on-topic posts.
>
> (I just look in occasionally to see if anybody else is keen to
> reminisce about the Osborne I. Not many.)
>
> > comp.arch has some traffic. I only found it recently.
>
I shall subscribe at once!
The first 'PC' I used was a NewBrain (I think?) - it ran CPM anyhow.

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 by: Ahem A Rivet's - Wed, 31 Jan 2024 10:23 UTC

On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 09:14:26 +0000
"Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

> I shall subscribe at once!
> The first 'PC' I used was a NewBrain (I think?) - it ran CPM anyhow.

I don't think it was a NewBrain then, running CP/M was a goal but I
don't think it was ever achieved.

The NewBrain was a tiny thing in beige and brown just big enough
for a properly spaced keyboard with tiny keys and a 16 character
alphanumeric (15 segment IIRC) vacuum fluorescent display. The whole thing
about two inches thick. It was designed to be extended with stacking
extension packs - floppies and CP/M were (low) on the todo list when the
project moved from Newbury Labs in Cambridge (where I got involved as a
student) to Grundy.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
For forms of government let fools contest
Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope

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 by: Kerr-Mudd, John - Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:46 UTC

On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 10:23:14 +0000
Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 09:14:26 +0000
> "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>
> > I shall subscribe at once!
> > The first 'PC' I used was a NewBrain (I think?) - it ran CPM anyhow.
>
> I don't think it was a NewBrain then, running CP/M was a goal but I
> don't think it was ever achieved.
>
Sorry, it wasn't that name I was grasping for, the device I had some
access to was a dual floppy monochrome thing. It ran Supercalc,
dBaseII and WordStar.

aha!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbrain

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 by: Ahem A Rivet's - Wed, 31 Jan 2024 13:24 UTC

On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:46:36 +0000
"Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

> Sorry, it wasn't that name I was grasping for, the device I had some

I thought so, the Newbrain seemed unlikely it was fun to work on
but it really missed the direction of the market totally.

> access to was a dual floppy monochrome thing. It ran Supercalc,
> dBaseII and WordStar.
>
> aha!
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbrain

Ah yes that was a much nicer piece of kit.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
For forms of government let fools contest
Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope

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 by: Andy Burns - Fri, 2 Feb 2024 09:13 UTC

Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbrain

I remember the "chong" noise when you simultaneously hit the two red
reset buttons at the corners of the main keyboard and the disc drives
tried to knacker your floppy ...

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