That notebook hard disk fared so well in my tests, I made it the standard hard disk in just about all of my notebooks and desktop machines.

Starting with a green-screen 40-column Commodore PET in 1980 at my high school in Toronto Canada, I purchased my own Atari 400 in 1981 at age 15.

Since then Ive owned numerous Atari ST, VIC-20, Commodore 64, Apple II, Apple Macintosh and Windows computers.

Ive made a full-time living from computers since age 18; starting with my first paid computer magazine article in 1985 (see G.U.P.

The Great in Antic below).

That was followed by paid articles in other computer magazines, starting my own company at age 22 (what is now emulators.com ), creating the first Atari ST emulator ( Gemulator ) and the first Apple Macintosh emulator for Windows ( SoftMac ).

I moved to Seattle Washington in 1990 for a day job at Microsoft where I participated in the development of Windows XP and Vista, Office 95 and Office 97, Mac Office 98, Xbox 360, multiple releases of Visual Studio, and contributed to several papers including this one on Time Travel Debugging, a technology that I helped develop at Microsoft Research.

More recently I have been funding my own research on the many interesting facets of virtual machines for the era of 64-bit multi-core CPUs.

I presented the Virtualization Without Direct Execution paper and slides at the AMAS-BT workshop at ISCA 2008 in Beijing, proposing portable methods of implementing emulation-based virtualization for mainstream PCs.

In late 2008, I joined a new microprocessor group at Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, California, where I worked until the summer of 2010.

The first of the new wave of version 10.0 releases of our Atari and Macintosh emulators for Windows 10 (x86, x64, and ARM64 devices) is almost ready for beta testing.

Classic Update To Last

Stay tuned Last chance (really) to own the universal classic Mac OS release - System 7.5 OCTOBER 9 2010 To update to last weeks posting (below): I opened up one more box, this one containing 30 of the Macintosh System 7.5 packages containing CD-ROM editions.

So both Mac OS 7.5 floppy disk editions and CD-ROM editions are available.

When sending in your Starbucks gift card or a self-address stamped mailer, please therefore specify if you are interested in: Macintosh System 7.5 package with floppy disk (boot disk and setup disks), Macintosh System 7.5 package with CD-ROM (bootsetup CD), or, Mac OS 8.1 package with CD-ROM.

Please folks, take these 150 or so never used never opened mint condition Mac OS packages off my hands OCTOBER 2 2010 Talk about taking a long time to open a package.

What I thought were some old boxes of Macintosh computer parts that I had put away in storage back in 2001 after returning from the Macworld New York show, well, turned out have a shipment of Mac OS packages I had forgotten about.

Classic Software To Use

Which means that System 7.5 is the most compatible system software to use with all of the old Macintosh emulators - SoftMac, Gemulator, vMac, Fusion, Basilisk II, etc.

Mac models and ROMs.

And since these packages contain floppies (not CD-ROMs as in the packages i liquidated in 2004) they can be used to boot many of those older Mac models that you still may have laying around.

Pretty much any Mac models prior to the appearance of the iMac in the late 1990s when floppy drives were no longer included.

System 7.5 is the one universal Mac OS for use on classic Macs.

So, if you are interested in getting over of these never used, never opened (heck, never exposed to sunlight) packages of Mac OS 7.5 System 7.5 floppy disk based system disks, now is your chance.

As before, I am giving these away to anyone that either sends me a suitably sized self-addressed stamped mailer large enough as you see to hold a typically sized Mac OS package, or sends me a Starbucks gift card of at least 10 to cover a coffee and the cost of shipping you the package.

Use the Starbucks option if you live outside of the United States, and you can order Starbucks gift cards online at Starbucks.com of course to save yourself even going to a store.

Send pre-paid pre-stamped envelopes or the Starbucks gift cards to my usual address: Darek Mihocka, co Emulators 14150 N.E.

Street, Suite 302 Bellevue, WA 98007-3700 United States Of America Please specify specifically whether you are requesting the floppy disk package of Mac System 7.5 or the CD-ROM package of Mac OS 8.1.

Besides the almost hundred of the 7.5 floppy disk package I have maybe ten packages of the 8.1 CD-ROM.

With each Mac OS package I will also include another of the liquidation items I never quite got rid of, the Emulators shareware CD-ROM containing over 600 megabytes of old Macintosh shareware suitable for running on classic Macintosh systems.

ITS HERE The Seagate Momentus XT JULY 16 2010 The Momentus XT has arrived Announced back in May, the new generation of hybrid notebook hard disk from Seagate finally made its appearance in stores this week.

I spotted one in the wild and captured it (well, ordered online), bringing it into my lab for testing.

For the past year, Seagates leading notebook hard disk has been their 500-gigabyte Momentus 7200.4 ST9500420AS, a 7200-rpm SATA hard disk with 16 megabytes of disk cache.

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