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Received: from gsfc.nasa.gov (gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.115.38]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA14627 for <Executor@nacm.com>; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 13:48:19 -0700 Received: from leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov by gsfc.nasa.gov (5.65/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA16133; Wed, 12 Apr 95 16:47:44 -0400 Received: by leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (NX5.67d/NX3.0S)id AA02955; Wed, 12 Apr 95 16:47:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Apr 95 16:47:41 -0400 From: My Account <me@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> Message-Id: <9504122047.AA02955@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.100) Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.100) To: Executor@nacm.com Subject: Dave Small, et al. Sender: owner-executor@nacm.com Precedence: bulk Al Hartman -Computer Expressions- writes: > ... there is a product called the SPECTRE-128 that emulates a Mac > Plus/SE on the Atari-ST. The guy who makes this, David Small, is a > Mac Guru of the top flight and has 100% Mac compatibility on the > Atari... I have used this product since its first birth as the Magic Sac, along with the associated box he made that beats up on the Atari drives enough to make them read and write (etc) the 800 kbyte Mac format. For several years, I ran such non-toy programs as Mathematica, Maple, and SimWorld on this combination --- all the programs I needed to run worked fine. As did telecommunication programs (ie, Dave made the Atari serial port work with the Mac software). I have met Dave Small at several cons, and read his columns in "Current Notes" and respect and admire him --- I suppose that few know more about the guts and glories of the collections of codes that make up the Mac OS, and the daftness necessary to make this code-colony live in the "68000 plus halo of support chips". Surely a modern version of one of the rings of Dante's Inferno. I have no other connection with him or his company (ies?). I have lost touch in the last two years since my NeXT is more serviceable than the Atari/Small combination, good as it is. Is Dave still in business? ARDI is doing something different than Dave did. My regard is best measured by noting that I purchased a copy of executor years ago, and have recommended it to all others that have asked me. Henning Leidecker