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Randal Dean

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Mar 27, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/27/97
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I've got an old Sargon 4 program on my system that I picked up for almost nothing a few years ago. I never heard of this program again. Did they cease to exist? Or are there upgrades? I don't know what the rating is on this version, but it is good enough to beat me, although that's not saying too much.

Fernando Villegas Darroui

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Mar 30, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/30/97
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Else:

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Something else:
Sargon 4 for PC was a complete failure, played horrible at the point the
rights of it were sold by the software producer to another and meaner
house. Sargon 5 was produced precisely as what sargon 4 should be, that
is, a pc adaptation of Fidelity 6800, the first 16 bits program by the
Spracklen and so the very first with hash tables.
sheers

Grinch

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Apr 19, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/19/97
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Fernando Villegas Darroui <fern...@reuna.cl> wrote:

>Sargon 5 was produced precisely as what sargon 4 should be, that
>is, a pc adaptation of Fidelity 6800, the first 16 bits program by the
>Spracklen and so the very first with hash tables.
>sheers

What are the Spracklens doing now?

My first computer program was a paperback text version of the Z-80
assembly code for their original Sargon. "Requires a minimum of 8K
bytes of memory"!


Chris Carson

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May 2, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/2/97
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Grinch wrote:
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<Snip>

> What are the Spracklens doing now?
>
> My first computer program was a paperback text version of the Z-80
> assembly code for their original Sargon. "Requires a minimum of 8K
> bytes of memory"!

This seems to be an unanswered question.

I had (still do) a z-80 that I assembled (my first). I also ran
an early version of Sargon (5.25 floppy) on an IBM PC-jr. I
loaded the whole disk onto to a Ramdisk (512K !) and it seemed to run
very fast. I later went to CM 2K, but did get a later copy of
Sargon 5. I got the z-80 by mail (2K ram !) for some low price
back in the late 70's. I got the PC-jr when IBM anounced they
stopped making them at a low price. My current Pentium 90 will
be joining the other two machines in retirement in a couple of
years (if not sooner depending on price reductions). It is fun
to look back and see how much the technology (both HW and SW)
has changed in the last 20 years. I remember punch cards, boot
swithches (on PDP's) and vacume tubes. I learned drafting and
flow charting in engineering school and still have my Radio
Shack Handheld computer (I was allowed to program in equations
for my physics and EE classes, the thought was that if I could
program the equations correctly then that was worth something).

I was in CE/EE from 79-84. Some new grads nolonger use (or know)
how to flow chart (I had to learn how to use a slide rule on my
own, and really have had no use for it, I just wanted to feel
connected to past engineering technology). A lot has changed.

Best Regards,
Chris Carson

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