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The CP/M Talk Went Well

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 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...