[sebhc] Z-100 software

[Barry Watzman]

It may have been that all of the material which you had was already scanned,
honestly I didn't associate the two E-Mails, but what I'd like to see is
"I'm going to trash the following material unless someone wants it:

{item-by-item list}

If you want it contact me at {E-Mail address}

Barry


-----Original Message-----
From: sebhc-bounces at sebhc.org [mailto:sebhc-bounces at sebhc.org] On Behalf Of
Deb and Glenn Roberts
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 8:51 PM
To: sebhc at sebhc.org
Subject: RE: [sebhc] Z-100 software

That was precisely the intent of my posting on 5/10.  yours was the only
response and it said most of the stuff was already scanned. I took that to
mean no interest. Sorry if I misunderstood.  I've still got most of the
actual paper in a box waiting to go to recycle. If there's something in
particular that you're looking for I could try to retrieve it...

- glenn


> -----Original Message-----
> From: sebhc-bounces at sebhc.org [mailto:sebhc-bounces at sebhc.org] On Behalf
> Of Barry Watzman
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 10:26 PM
> To: sebhc at sebhc.org
> Subject: RE: [sebhc] Z-100 software
> 
> I wish you and others would let us know before you do that.  Some of us
> are
> scanning this documentation into PDF files and making it freely available
> online.  I can do that (scan manuals into PDF files) easily, unattended,
> at
> over 200 pages per hour **IF** the manuals are unbound, but I can't scan
> bound manuals without cutting them apart, which I'm generally unwilling to
> do to my own copies of manuals (although I have done it, a few times).
> But
> if I had an "extra" manual .... a manual that I could cut apart, because
> it
> were going to be thrown out anyway ....
> 
> I'll even pay the postage, in at least some cases.
> 
> And you might have thrown out a manual that I don't have, indeed that no
> one
> has.  Right now, on Howard's documentation site, there is a several dozen
> item long list of documents that seem to be "lost forever" and that
> various
> people (including myself in about 5 cases) are desperately looking for.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sebhc-bounces at sebhc.org [mailto:sebhc-bounces at sebhc.org] On Behalf
> Of
> Deb and Glenn Roberts
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 8:59 PM
> To: sebhc at sebhc.org
> Subject: RE: [sebhc] Z-100 software
> 
> Well since I started this thread I thought I'd update by saying I tossed
> out
> most of my manuals this week (actually recycled the paper but threw out
> the
> binders). Must have been 30-40 manuals.  Mostly zDOS/MSdos stuff but a few
> CP/M things that were duplicates. Yeah it hurt. Heath/Zenith was arguably
> "best in class" at documentation in its day ... times change. (I kept the
> disks though!)
> 
> <switching subjects a bit ...>
> 
> Speaking of CP/M if you haven't read Harold Evans' book "They Made
> America"
> I encourage you to look it up at your local library. The book is about
> innovation in America. He devotes a chapter to Gary Kildall, "the true
> founder of the personal computer revolution and the father of PC
> software".
> Fascinating stuff.
> 
> - Glenn
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sebhc-bounces at sebhc.org [mailto:sebhc-bounces at sebhc.org] On Behalf
> > Of Bob And Bettina Groh
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 6:01 PM
> > To: sebhc at sebhc.org
> > Subject: Re: [sebhc] Z-100 software
> >
> > Like the originator of this subject, I am also interested in the answers
> > and discusssions regarding Z-100 software.  I have a 'ton' of it (along
> > with 3 Z-100's in my attic ) (and 1 H-89 in my basement) and really need
> > to figure out what to do with it all. On my 'big' Z-100, I wound up with
> > 4 operating systems on it - each in a small partition on the 10M (wow!)
> > hard disk - CP/M, CPM-86 (lovely little system), Z-DOS and MS-DOS.  One
> > of these days I'll get back to it.
> >
> > Also delighted to hear that Barry has captured a bunch of stuff on
> > CD-ROM. That is comforting.
> >
> > Bits and bytes to all!
> >
> > Bob Groh, Blue Springs, MO.
> >
> > 'Heathkit Engineer from 1977 to 1981'
> >
> >
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