[LMH] hello, anyone there?

[Tim Newsham]

> If anyone has images of disks, I'd love a copy. I'll put them up on 
> http://www.unlambda.com
>
> Several years ago three of us put  a lot of effort into getting two different 
> explorer emulators
> working.  As I recall, we managed to get them both booting to a prompt.  I 
> think one did
> networking also.

There is an explorer emulator that works.. somewhat.
I used it a few years back for a while but found that it would
crash after about 10minutes of use.

I put up some notes on using it on the lispm wiki that dan moniz
put up.  The wiki has since gotten a lot of spam, but there's
probably a clean version somewhere in the history.  Ahh, here we
go:

http://labs.aezenix.com/lispm/index.php?title=Explorer_First_Tour

here's an old spam-free edit of the main page, fwiw:
http://labs.aezenix.com/lispm/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=1529

>
> The other two folks are
>   Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav at lunar-tokyo.net>
>   Alastair Bridgewater <nyef at lisphacker.com>
>
> I was mostly just there for comic relief.  Both Dan and Alastair did  a  ton 
> of work discovering
> the ins and outs of the TI hardware.   I think their are pointers on unlambda 
> to the final code.
>
> In the end I think we ended up going furtherest with Meroko, as it had better 
> i/o support.
>
> I'd love to find an explorer some day.  Or the CAD tapes to the chip itself 
> :-)
>
> -brad
>>> I have a set of MicroExplorer floppies containing the base operating
>>> system.  If you want that, let me know, but it'll take me some time to
>>> dig them out.
>>> 
>>> I'd be interested in any additional MicroExplorer software, too.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Hans
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 04:51, Greg Gilley <ggilley at gerg.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi. I seem to be late to the party. I've been looking for a hobby and I 
>>>> have fond memories of working on the TI Explorer lisp machines. I thought 
>>>> I'd try to write an emulator for them so I could start hacking the 
>>>> machines again. It looks like some of you were working on such a beast in 
>>>> the past.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm wondering if any of you have an Explorer II (or microExplorer), or 
>>>> know someone who has one, you'd be willing to part with. They seem to be 
>>>> hard to come by these days :-)
>>>> 
>>>> Alternatively I'm looking for sources, disk images, etc. for the Explorer 
>>>> II or microExplorer.
>>>> 
>>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>>        Greg
>>>> 
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