[vcf-midatlantic] Advice on Xenix VCF exhibit

[Jim Scheef]

The museum has two AT&T 3B-2s that should include micnet.






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From: Matt Patoray via vcf-midatlantic
Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎February‎ ‎10‎, ‎2017 ‎6‎:‎49‎ ‎PM
To: Jason Perkins
Cc: Peter Cetinski, Matt Patoray via vcf-midatlantic





We plan on having a Tandy 6000 in the TRS-80 exhibit which will run Micnet.  I'll bring my long RS-232 cable.

Pete

> On Feb 10, 2017, at 3:50 PM, Jason Perkins <perkins.jason at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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