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Emily<p>Future project... IBM 5160 I recently got. Has a CGA, floppy, hard disk and lpt boards. Faulty power supply I need to resolve first.</p><p>This was my first PC growing up, so a lot of nostalgia fixing one up.</p><p><a href="https://hackaday.social/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> #8088 <a href="https://hackaday.social/tags/Retrocomp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Retrocomp</span></a> <a href="https://hackaday.social/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://hackaday.social/tags/640k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>640k</span></a></p>
GEM is truly truly outrageous<p>speaking of Apple Lisa source...</p><p>source code for the GEMDOS prototype for the Apple Lisa was found among the Digital Research source code that was released under the GPL by Caldera a while back </p><p>now that's how you publicly license historical source code</p><p>and people have gotten it to run!</p><p>with a full GEM desktop!</p><p>it even runs well behaving Atari ST apps!</p><p><a href="https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=45&amp;t=20964" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopi</span><span class="invisible">c.php?f=45&amp;t=20964</span></a></p><p><a href="http://www.alternative-system.com/en/revive-gemdos-for-lisa/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">alternative-system.com/en/revi</span><span class="invisible">ve-gemdos-for-lisa/</span></a></p><p><a href="http://compu85.homeip.net/stuff/Lisa/Software/GemDos/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">compu85.homeip.net/stuff/Lisa/</span><span class="invisible">Software/GemDos/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomp</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/AtariST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtariST</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Lisa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lisa</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/GEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GEM</span></a></p>
GEM is truly truly outrageous<p>you can see you can see the early "DAS BOOT" disk loading TOS boot screen, printed really big pasted up on the whiteboard for some reason</p><p>probably using that Apple Imagewriter</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomp</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/AtariST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtariST</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/SLmC5jWXTP8?t=637" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/SLmC5jWXTP8?t=637</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
GEM is truly truly outrageous<p>someone pointed out there is an Apple Lisa with Atari asset tags owned by a collector in Germany? </p><p>and may still have the TOS dev system on its hard drive</p><p><a href="http://homecomputer.de/pages/f_info.html?Apple_Lisa2_5_Atari.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">homecomputer.de/pages/f_info.h</span><span class="invisible">tml?Apple_Lisa2_5_Atari.html</span></a></p><p>could be the same one on the far right in the photo!</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomp</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/AtariST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtariST</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Lisa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lisa</span></a></p>
GEM is truly truly outrageous<p>as it is the 40th anniversary of the Apple Lisa i am once again obsessing about this photo of Atari developers Dave Staugas, Jim Eisenstein and Jerome Domurat sitting in front of a few Apple Lisas and Macintoshes in March of 1985</p><p>the Apple Lisa was used to prototype the Atari ST's TOS operating system before the hardware was ready</p><p>the photo is from this Antic Podcast interview with Jerome:</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/JeromeDomuratInterview/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/JeromeDomu</span><span class="invisible">ratInterview/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomp</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/AtariST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtariST</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Lisa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lisa</span></a></p>
GEM is truly truly outrageous<p>working floppy drive found</p><p>CURDLEST ON REAL HARDWARE LET'S GOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!</p><p>now that's the sound it's supposed to make</p><p>(i guess if i let the birdsite mangle the video first, it keeps me under the 40mb limit 🙃​)</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/wordle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wordle</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/curdle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>curdle</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/CurdleST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CurdleST</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomp</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/AtariST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtariST</span></a></p>
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