Nice! With a machine of that type I started my "career" as software developer, consultant and trainer. A student then, now reached age 70 last month. I still have the printed listings of a major application I wrote in BASIC for that machine in the early 1980s. Don't know whether my 80" Floppies are still readable too. Maybe worth a try?
I do not want to sound malicious, but I do not understand why the muse create such things only for internal use? Isn't it better to share knowledge and spread it? After all, it's nice that such things are created. Do you have deeper knowledge about the PALM processor itself and its architecture? Has anyone managed to debug the full content of ROSow?
I think this program was written sometimes in the 70s by IBM engineers/programmers. It was never intended for end users to program the processor in machine language, nor to have a too deep insight in the processor. But don't worry, I will release the disassembled and commented source after I cleaned it up. And yes, I do have knowledge of the PALM and the 5110. I also have disassembled the ROS. I can say that I'm *the* one who understands how to program the machine and what it does. :-)
@@cm_stuttgart I wrote a number of "business applications" for that machine between 1979 and 1984. I still remember once a floppy disk with a lot of BASIC code on became unreadable. (Or maybe I accidentally had freshly formatted it but not further used.) As I had no recent backup, it would have been a big loss, though mainly a loss of time, since I kept "mostly recent" printouts of everything as "long term backup" for all my work. Luckily I got in touch with a (German) expert for that machine who could explain how to "edit the raw floppy content". Which in that case required just to flip a bit or two ... and - voilà - all the stuff once on it readable again. Maybe I have the "step to step instructions" still somewhere.
Nice!
With a machine of that type I started my "career" as software developer, consultant and trainer.
A student then, now reached age 70 last month.
I still have the printed listings of a major application I wrote in BASIC for that machine in the early 1980s.
Don't know whether my 80" Floppies are still readable too.
Maybe worth a try?
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I do not want to sound malicious, but I do not understand why the muse create such things only for internal use? Isn't it better to share knowledge and spread it? After all, it's nice that such things are created. Do you have deeper knowledge about the PALM processor itself and its architecture? Has anyone managed to debug the full content of ROSow?
I think this program was written sometimes in the 70s by IBM engineers/programmers. It was never intended for end users to program the processor in machine language, nor to have a too deep insight in the processor. But don't worry, I will release the disassembled and commented source after I cleaned it up.
And yes, I do have knowledge of the PALM and the 5110. I also have disassembled the ROS. I can say that I'm *the* one who understands how to program the machine and what it does. :-)
@@cm_stuttgart I wrote a number of "business applications" for that machine between 1979 and 1984. I still remember once a floppy disk with a lot of BASIC code on became unreadable. (Or maybe I accidentally had freshly formatted it but not further used.) As I had no recent backup, it would have been a big loss, though mainly a loss of time, since I kept "mostly recent" printouts of everything as "long term backup" for all my work.
Luckily I got in touch with a (German) expert for that machine who could explain how to "edit the raw floppy content". Which in that case required just to flip a bit or two ... and - voilà - all the stuff once on it readable again. Maybe I have the "step to step instructions" still somewhere.