9 Sep
2021
9 Sep
'21
8:47 p.m.
You can check the Computer History Museum's holdings on line. If they don't
have the documents already, they would probably like them.
The Living Computer Museum in Seattle had a working blit on display. If
they don't already have the manual, I'm sure they would love to have one.
Alas, their website says they've "suspended all operations for now", a
result of the double whammy of Covid and the death of their principal
angel, Paul Allen.
9 Sep
9 Sep
8:50 p.m.
New subject: desiderata
thanks, doug
i’ve been collecting answers; i’m leaning towards scanning + computer museum.
On Sep 9, 2021, at 10:47 AM, Douglas McIlroy
<douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu> wrote:
You can check the Computer History Museum's holdings on line. If they don't
have the documents already, they would probably like them.
The Living Computer Museum in Seattle had a working blit on display. If they don't
already have the manual, I'm sure they would love to have one. Alas, their website
says they've "suspended all operations for now", a result of the double
whammy of Covid and the death of their principal angel, Paul Allen.
9:34 p.m.
New subject: desiderata
Mention of the Blit reminds me of the old Scion SuperScreen.
Not sure if there were any production versions sold, but I
found a price and some minimal specs on an archived page:
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/scion/Scion_Price_List_Sep…
640k! Now where have I seen that number before... :-)
The SS was indeed 68k-based; I watched one of Chuck Reiger's grad
students (Richard something, cannot recall his last name) work on
some assembly code for doing some of the windows on it.
Chris
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