[vcf-midatlantic] Advice on Xenix VCF exhibit

[Jason Perkins]

Peter / rest of the group,

Do you have a Tandy machine which could run this? The only hardware
I'll have available for the demo is my Lisa 2/10, and a friend who is
bringing an IBM Portable PC (xt).

I think showing Xenix on varied hardware, with email working between
is a nice demo.

-J

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 7:18 AM, Peter Cetinski <pete at pski.net> wrote:
>
> I'm working on planning my exhibit for this year. To keep things not
> identical to last year I was thinking of showing Xenix on my Lisa.
> However I'm worried the exhibit won't be interesting enough to the
> general public (Oh look, it runs. Oh look, it's Unix. Oh look, there's
> a clunky menu interface you can bring up.)
>
>
> How about setting up a Micnet network between all the Xenix machines that
> show up? I've been looking to try it and I have a 100' RS232 cable I've been
> looking for an excuse to use.  Does Lisa Xenix have Micnet?  I believe it
> showed up in System III.  We have it in the last version of Tandy Xenix
> v3.2.
>
> Of course games are always interesting... however as far as I know
> none were made.
>
>
> We have a 7 disk set of Xenix games in the model2archive.  I don't know if
> they are compatible with other Xenix.  It has a pretty good Star Trek
> implementation.
>
> https://github.com/pski/model2archive/tree/master/Software/Xenix/Xenix_Games
>



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