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Re: Intro; Docs or source wanted for Prime DIPLOT

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On Friday, May 13, 2022 at 9:43:00 PM UTC-7, Daiyu Hurst wrote:
> On Thursday, January 6, 2022 at 10:47:04 AM UTC-5, Dennis Boone wrote: 
> > > Thanks for the citation. Looks like the PULSE distribution you have 
> > > postdates the DIPLOT release by many years. It's likely that this 
> > > software, first released for DOS/VM on the P300, faded into oblivion 
> > > sometime after 1980. The filenames you posted are unfamiliar to me—and 
> > > longer than 6 characters(!), a constraint at the time. 
> > Jim, 
> > 
> > Ah. Wasn't sure what era was relevant. Sadly, the oldest runnable 
> > software in captivity is a very bare Rev18, and that's not really 
> > useful. The oldest code around is a partial set of source for Rev16. 
> > (Well, I suppose some of the stuff in that PULSE distribution is older, 
> > but it's not operating system stuff.) There are some docs from the mid 
> > 70s. 
> > 
> > I would dearly love to find older stuff. 
> > 
> > De
> I didn't have the pockets to get the entire PULSE library at the time I got what we have. But I got it from Randy Styka 
> at COMPUTRONICS. He had it all, at least, he did 20 years ago. His company supported other minis as well. 
> 
> +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ 
> | Computronics Randy Styka, randy (at) computron (dot) com | 
> | 4N165 Wood Dale Road Phone: 630/941-7767 | 
> | Addison, Illinois 60101 USA Fax: 630/941-7714 | 
> +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ 
> 
> Looks like at least the website still exists: 
> 
> http://www.computronics.com/ 
> 
> It couldn't hurt to contact him. 
> 
> -Dai

Thanks for the pointer, Dai.

One of my compadrés reversed-engineered the file format and reproduced the imagery using current-day tech. So, that problem is solved.

Interesting, though, to read through Randy's website. I wonder how much of the Prime software goods he actually has in his possession. I'll ask.

Cheers,
Jim

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Intro; Docs or source wanted for Prime DIPLOT Jim Ward <james.roger.ward@gmail.com> - 2022-01-04 17:44 -0800
  Re: Intro; Docs or source wanted for Prime DIPLOT drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2022-01-05 13:04 -0600
    Re: Intro; Docs or source wanted for Prime DIPLOT Jim Ward <james.roger.ward@gmail.com> - 2022-01-06 04:54 -0800
      Re: Intro; Docs or source wanted for Prime DIPLOT drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2022-01-06 09:46 -0600
        Re: Intro; Docs or source wanted for Prime DIPLOT Daiyu Hurst <daiyu.hurst@gmail.com> - 2022-05-13 21:42 -0700
          Re: Intro; Docs or source wanted for Prime DIPLOT Jim Ward <jrw1221@gmail.com> - 2022-05-14 10:13 -0700
            Re: Intro; Docs or source wanted for Prime DIPLOT drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2022-05-14 14:34 -0500
              Re: Intro; Docs or source wanted for Prime DIPLOT Daiyu Hurst <daiyu.hurst@gmail.com> - 2022-05-29 10:25 -0700
                Re: Intro; Docs or source wanted for Prime DIPLOT drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2022-05-29 21:44 -0500
                Re: Intro; Docs or source wanted for Prime DIPLOT Daiyu Hurst <daiyu.hurst@gmail.com> - 2022-07-22 10:32 -0700

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