The CP/M Talk Went Well
I gave the talk at BoatFest 2025. The crew there did a Twitch Live Stream of it. Here is the VOD stream. In the process of preparing for the talk,
I put together a GitHub repository that has all my notes, resources, references, slides, and the actual paper that went into the talk.
I also had a table at the show. I had six display stations set up:
- A PiDP-11 with a monitor so the visitors can interact with the system
- A PiDP-8 with a monitor so the visitors can interact with the system
- An Altair-Duino which is an Altar-8800 emulator with a keyboard and monitor.
- The SC-131 attached to a laptop putty session to demo all the hello world test programs
- A Linux laptop running all the CP/M Emulators in separate windows so the visitors could compare the operation of each emulator.
- An old IBM ThinkPad R31 running Windows XP, just because I thought it was cool. This laptop is the reason I am in West Virginia in the first place.
I also had a collection of vintage books I used as reference.
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PiDP-11, PiDP-8, Altair-Duino, also parts to Imsai-8080 emulator |
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SC-131, Emulators, ThinkPad R31 |
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The BOoks |
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