Looking for old Smalltalks for DOS

Steve Burbeck sburbeck at mindspring.com
Sat Feb 24 18:43:00 UTC 2007


Yes, I do have a Methods distribution from 1985 complete with manual, 
two floppies and the license.  It is an interesting historical note that 
Digitalk license protected the binary interpreter but gave essentially 
unlimited rights to the Smalltalk Source Code including rights to 
distribute, sell, license, lease or loan them as you wish!  So, anyone 
who wishes to reimplement the interpreter is home free.  I would guess 
that it wouldn't be a huge task to repurpose the Squeak interpreter to 
run Methods.  But with Squeak available, who would bother?

Whether the 5.25"  floppies are readable is another matter.  Needless to 
say, I don't even have a floppy drive to find out.

Regards,
Steve Burbeck

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Sam Adams wrote:

>It was Methods.
>I think Steve Burbeck still has a copy.
>Steve?
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>As for other DOS versions, I have the old ParcPlace ST80 for DOS.  It
>struggles to run in a dos box, but on an old DOS install it should run
>fine.
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>Sam S. Adams, IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM Research
>Robinson, tie 444-1497, outside 919-254-1497
>ssadams at us.ibm.com
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>On Feb 23, 2007, at 3:49 AM, Franz Josef Konrad wrote:
>Smalltalk V286 is running in a full graphical
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>>environment. Have a look here: http://squeak.sava-systeme.de/
>>smt-286.jpg
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>good
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>>shape ;-).
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>help.
>Smalltalk/V- I just can't remember for sure what that other version
>of Smalltalk is. I purchased it used when I made frequent trips to a
>local computer store scouting for any used software that had to do
>with programming/IDEs, etc. Speaking of which, that is certainly
>something you don't see anymore- computer stores that sell used
>software.  But, unlike my Smalltalk/V disks, I can't find the disks
>of this mysterious other Smalltalk I once purchased.
>Methods sounds familiar, that may have been it.
>with screenshots of various smalltalk
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>>images anywhere? A couriosity perhaps would be this one: http://
>>squeak.sava-systeme.de/jigsaw.jpg
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>with VisualSmaltallk Enterprise
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>>but as you know it never got into production.
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>don't know of any site like that, but it
>would be fun to work on compiling one! Especially if we could get
>access to some of the software and create new screenshots, direct
>comparison shots. Something like a GUIdebook entry for Smalltalks
>over the years ( GUIdebook =  http://www.guidebookgallery.org/
>screenshots ).
>with OS/
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>>2 3 running I would be interested. I have some old VSE OS/2 images
>>I would like to run again.
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>very fond memories of OS/
>2 2.1, though I never had Warp 3 or 4.
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