Re: Who is responsible for http://beagle.applearchives.com/?

[Bill Buckels <bbuckels@escape.ca>]

On Mar 31, 9:14 am, "N.N. Thayer" <nntha...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Both sides of Minipix Disk #1 are on Asimov, in Unclassified.zip in /
> unsorted.  They're also at Bill Garber's FTP site (garberstreet.com),
> in /Zips/N_N_Thayer.  They were part of a set I uploaded last March:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2/browse_frm/thread/b642...- Hide quoted text -
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Thank you VERY Much. We used Minipix for Graphics in our Educational
programs for the IBM-PC, and Apple II, used in the Canadian Schools in
the '80's and ending in the early '90's. MCALC (Manitoba Computer
Assisted Learning Consortium) out of the U of M (Manitoba) had Class
Software and Instructural Designers working with Programmers. Later
the Director a friend of mine, tried to make a go of it, and bought
Class Software from the U. Finally he closed Class Software going back
to teaching, and I wrote several programs for them throughout the end
of that whole period of history. He gave me the 3 minipix disks and I
aquired a //e and a IIc and I had a II plus or two already, and by the
time I got finished with them around 92 or so I had a Mac IICI with
Think C and Prograph but the Apple //e and the Minipix were still
being used by me.

But I had far more IBM's and a Commodore or two as well in my lab in
those years and a BBS and all that too. I would rarely sleep and then
go to work and work on my programming there (IBM-PC's) and then come
home and bang away on my Apple or MS-DOS stuff. Linux was .92 and not
fully released when I first put it up around that time too I think or
maybe it was minux on floppies and Linux came after playing with
Unixware when Novell bought it.

I was never really much of an Apple II programmer compared to the many
years I did and still do in MS-DOS, Windows, and various Unises
including Linux, and was less a C64 programmer than all that, but do
apreciate these, and I do still write Apple IIe and C64 programs as
well as CP/M 80 and 86 programs just so you know I am nuttily
appreciative of these Minipix.

In fact I also used them in lots of Shareware and still do.

BTW Asimov was down as usual and I used the other site. Asimov deleted
my programs that I wrote myself and sent to them. I am not pleased
with them and putup my own website for them but perhaps this other
site would give them a home as well.

And if anyone else has 2 and 3 of Minipix please let me know.

Bill

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