[Coco] Looking for MM/1

[John Baer]

On Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 05:27  PM, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 10/25/03 9:54:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> sleepy99 at bellatlantic.net writes:
>
>> I remember now... Al Huffman and Terry Todd of Sub-Etha Software wrote
>>  a GUI
>>  for the MM/1 using kwindows. I got a copy from one of the Atlanta 
>> Fest
>>  in the 80's. It was neat.
>
>>  AFAIK they sold it only though Sub-Etha....
>
> Do you recall how much they charged you for it?

I'm fuzzy on that Mike.. I think the fest price $50.00 at the time.
>
> I wonder if these are the guys (Allen and Terry were pretty 
> well-known) who
> wrote a thing called K-Less, which is the "less/more" text viewer of 
> Unix/Linux
> souped up, and given a REALLY fine GUI.  In fact, the GUI was overkill 
> for
> this simple utility, but showed off the icons and graphics.  It looked 
> as good
> as anything *can* look on a 640x400 color screen.  (Not sure if they 
> used the
> flickery 400-line vertical, or just the 200).
>
> I still have KLess on my MM/1, will try to remember to fire it up next 
> time I
> boot that box.  --Mike K.

This is the first I've heard of KLess. Sounds good thou...

John B ---