Re: OT: nifty equipment sighting

Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Sep 29, 2007, at 8:43 PM, woodelf wrote:
>>>   I'm no chemist, but I assume they're some
oxide of tungsten.  
>>> That's what happens when an incandescent light
bulb blows out due to 
>>> loss of vacuum.  Pretty amazing stuff, if you
ask me.
>>
>> Looks organic like some thing was realy growing.
> 
>   Yup.  I was amazed...I scanned around that filament
for many, many 
> hours.  It was like exploring a jungle.
> 
>> PS. Nice PDP 11.
> 
>   Thanks!  But...which one?
The 11/70 in the album. I'll get back to it now that
found 'home' on your web site and I eat supper. Drools --
wishing there was a
for sale section.

>          -Dave
> 

I just got a bunch of diskettes in that were written about
1982/3 
with a Columbia MS-DOS system (DOS 1.26).  I know the 1600
was pretty 
common back then as PC clones go, so no surprises there.

The diskettes are all 320K DSDD and contain a bunch of
Perfect Writer 
files, but one contains the actual Perfect Writer
executables--and 
they're not the x86 version, but the x80.  All were written
before 
1986.

Here's my question.  Did CDP ever include a program with
their DOS 
boxes to read files from the older 964 Z-80 CP/M systems?  

I'm trying to put some chronology together on this. 
Curiously, the 
guy who owns the diskettes never used PW on his x86 box.  He
can't 
remember what came from where or how (Some folks are blessed
that 
way).

Thanks,
Chuck