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Memories from when the majority of my programming information/influences (I was bbs/modem-less) in the early 90s came from this CD-ROM disc that I had purchased
by lysace 2y ago
Memories from when the majority of my programming information/influences (I was bbs/modem-less) in the early 90s came from this CD-ROM disc that I had purchased. It was from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simtel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simtel
The CD-ROM had this whole SNOBOL directory iirc. This CD-ROM was my entire world for like two years (until I got Internet access in 1995). I miss having oodles of time with zero pressure to do something that pays the bills.
It was like having this gigantic curated dump of collected, sometimes quite old information from a connected world I had no access to. It felt so weird. Like discovering ancient alien civilizations, with no information on how to decipher it all.
I think so many of us were so starved for information back then.
- mindcrime 2y agoOne really awesome thing.. a lot (most?) of that stuff is still available online today! https://discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/10852/Simtel20_Sept92.cdr/msdos https://discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/10852/Simtel20_Sept9... I was always partial to the CMU AI archive back in the day, and that stuff is still out there too: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/ https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/
- lysace 2y agoCool :) Directory MSDOS/SNOBOL4/ Filename Type Length Date Description ============================================== AISNOBOL.ARC B 286049 871217 SNOBOL language for MSDOS AISNOBOL.TXT A 5750 871217 Description of files in AISNOBOL.ARC VSNBL220.ZIP B 250971 920312 Vanilla SNOBOL4, PD vers. 2.20 of the language VSNOBOL4.ARC B 258956 871217 Vanilla SNOBOL4, PD version of the language VSNOBOL4.TXT A 5984 871217 Description of VSNOBOL4.ARC - Vanilla SNOBOL4
- anthk 2y agoClose to having a complete distro in CD's in early 2000's or 3 DVD in early mid 2000's. Debian used to ship tons of geeky lore, fun manuals, serious manuals, oddities here and there, weird languages, compilers and manuals...
- sedatk 2y agoI had my own utility distributed in Simtel CDs. It was an offline mail reader for FidoNet called Wolverine. I think the filename was w230.zip :)
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