First reference of Smalltalk in usenet

Dan Ingalls Dan at SqueakLand.org
Sun Dec 16 19:40:58 UTC 2001


Jecel Assumpcao Jr <jecel at merlintec.com>  wrote...

>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.

Jecel -

I'd love a copy of these if you get them put together on line.  I usually throw everything away as soon as it works, and this was no exception.  It could be fun to resurrect.

I wrote that 10-pager together with the other folks in the group at that time.

	- Dan




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