First reference of Smalltalk in usenet

Jecel Assumpcao Jr jecel at merlintec.com
Sat Dec 15 21:18:15 UTC 2001


On Friday 14 December 2001 21:26,  "Justin Walsh" wrote:
> I don't know how usefull this info is to you, but I do have the
> original boxed product ie manuals (without software) purchased from a
> flea market a few years ago.

Are you talking about the Lisa/Mac Smalltalk by Apple? The one that 
would host Squeak so many years later?

I have a set of 7 400KB floppies with what is version 0.7 (I think - it 
is copyright 1985 by Apple) of that Smalltalk. It actually did run on a 
512KB Mac, but barely. I have just tested and it seems that all seven 
disks are still readable (not much from back then is). They are:

  1) 1.Smalltalk-80.sources
  2) 2.Smalltalk-80.sources
  3) 3.Smalltalk-80.sources
  4) 1.Level1.image
  5) 4.Smalltalk-80.sources, 2.Level1.image, Level1.changes, Sample 
Files
  6) (bootable) Level0.changes, Smalltalk, DivJoin, System Folder
  7) Level0.image

There was no box or manuals, however, which is why I asked above if we 
are talking about the same thing. There was only a short (ten pages or 
so) text obviously printed out in an early LaserWriter.

Too bad my old Mac clone doesn't have a network connection and newer 
Macs have no floppy drives, so I can't copy these somewhere safer 
before they go bad :-(

-- Jecel




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