First reference of Smalltalk in usenet

Rick Zaccone zaccone at bucknell.edu
Sun Dec 16 20:03:30 UTC 2001


>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 :-(

You should be able to run this on a new Mac, even one running Mac OS X
using vMac:

<http://www.bannister.org/software/vmac.htm>

Rick




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