Around 1984, I worked for a Unix workstation manufacturer named Callan Data Systems [1]. Our workstations were 68k based and ran System V.<p>Except for one that was sitting in a corner of the main office, which I noticed was running CP/M-68K.<p>I asked around and found out that this was for the accounting people. It wasn't because they needed some accounting software that wasn't available for Unix. Everything they were interested in could easily be done on Unix.<p>So why did accounting choose CP/M-68K?<p>Because they assumed (correctly, it turned out) that in a company where all the engineers were Unix kernel hackers, running CP/M would keep all the engineers from messing with accounting's computer.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callan_Data_Systems" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callan_Data_Systems</a> (BTW, Wikipedia says Callan was founded by Dave Callan. That's only partially correct. There were actually three equal founders. They could not agree on a name for the company, and it got to the point where the only thing stopping them from starting was having a name to put on the paperwork. One weekend the other two founders went away on a hunting trip, and when they came back Callan told them he'd picked a temporary name and filed the paperwork, and they could change it to the real name later when they came up with one. They never did agree on a "real" name, and so the company retained Callan's "temporary" name, Callan Data Systems).
Is anyone using this, a quick howto would be most appreciated. I went to CP/M sites and mainly found ARK files for the main software. Do I need to uncompress this into a directory and pretend it's a floppy drive? The github just talks about dragging and dropping of individual files.
I stumbled across his YouTube channel a few days back where he demonstrates this and lots of other retrocomputing gubbins. Worth a watch: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/80Thom80" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/user/80Thom80</a>
Anyone know how to run this on Big Sur? I've built the project and it runs but there's no terminal window and the New menu item is dim. I looked at all the forks but most are very old. I guess I need a CP/M disk image?
Did a little searching but did not see a specific version of the old ASCII Star Trek game for CP/M. I see BASIC for CP/M so I presume you could enter Star Trek that way....
OK, but can it run Turbo Pascal [1]?<p>[1] <a href="https://winworldpc.com/product/turbo-pascal/3x" rel="nofollow">https://winworldpc.com/product/turbo-pascal/3x</a>