Date   : Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:03:29 +0000
From   : Fragula <fragula@...>
Subject: PANOS/ACW

Hi Dave!

 > http://www.acornpreservation.org/jules/ReleaseNotice_No10-01_150_jpg.zip

Thanks, Grabbed 'em. They will be highly handy! The ones I have (not
scanned as yet) are just the ones for the FORTRAN, LISP and PASCAL
languages. I'll be looking to get those scanned in the next few months.

>> When I have time, I'll incorporate them into the main ap.org site
"properly".

Very cool btw. Another Acorn site I hand't come across before.

>> Regarding the system discs, is there any chance you'd be able to dump
them (as
>> I only have two of them)?

The system disks (ANY system disks!) are the ones I don't have, and am
looking for. I'm more than happy to Omnidisk the 3 language floppies up
if anyone is interested.

No guarantee as to the contents, but the packages look near mint, the
books untouched, so I'm hopefull. My ACW has a borked PANOS install
(bits missing) so i've not been able to use it for much more than the
BBC/6502 bits and hard disk.

>> If you need some pointers towards BBC>PC file transfer software, just
mail me off-list.

One day I'm gonna write a book on the subject. ;->

Over 400, possibly over 500 disk formats, including the whacky GCRNRZ
(Apple II, CBM PET/64 and - on a good day -Victor/Sirius) over 3", 3.5",
5.25"@48(read
only) and 96tpi 5.25"@100tpi and 8".

20 odd tape formats based on QIC(02/40/80 and variants).
Travan(1,2,3+extended formats) TAR, TAPE-11 or Seagate/Connor
proprietary compressed formats. or even TK-50 (must get some tapes to
exercise the drive though, not used for a couple of years now) and all
sorts of other bizarre and wonderfull stuff like Sinclair and CBM tapes
supported on a built-for-purpose and truly enormouse machine (babelfish)
here - curently buried behind what appears to be another 10 boxes of
computer bits awaiting triage. (Keep, Find home for, Ebay, skip) (oh.
thats quatrage?)

But Omniflop taught me some new tricks over the weekend though! Well
impressive, cos i never thought I'd see this sort of stuff work under
Windows.

Cheers!

M.


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