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from: John B. Matthews
date: 2008-06-30 15:39:22
subject: Re: Looking for Dr. John Matthews - Referance to Ohio Kache Systems Mul

In article ,
 Steven Hirsch  wrote:

> John B. Matthews wrote:
> > In article ,
> >  Steven Hirsch  wrote:
> > 
> >> John B. Matthews wrote:
> >>> Henry: I wrote the Pascal driver and collaborated on the
ProDOS and DOS 
> >>> drivers for the original OKS Kache Card, but I wasn't
there for the 
> >>> Multi-Kache Card. Sorry.
> >> John,
> >>
> >> My apologies, then.  I told Henry that you might be able to
help.  Didn't 
> >> realize you were out of the picture at that point.
> >>
> >> Do you have any leads on where Andy Finkenstadt, Andrew Vogan or Terry 
> >> (can't 
> >> recall his last name.. began with a "C") are?
> >>
> >> I assume that Mr. Valentine consigned everything to the landfill, but 
> >> maybe 
> >> one or more of these folks saved some technical data.  One can always 
> >> hope!
> > 
> > No problem. I wish I had more than nostalgia to offer! I don't know 
> > about Jim Valentine. I wonder if Terry ever finished his magnum opus, 
> > WordHammer. I think Andy is here http://www.panix.com/~genie/>.
> > He and I collaborated on device drivers on the 6502 side. Joel Hendricks 
> > did the Z-80 code. Tom Hime, sales and a long-time Apple-Dayton 
> > contributor, is no longer with us, but I can still see his wry smile 
> > when a new Eamon adventure came along:-)
> 
> Yes, it's Terry Chlebek, isn't it?  Don't know if you recall, but I actually 
> did the basic work on the Z80 / CP/M Applicard driver for the OKS KacheCard. 
> My wife and I had Joel Hinrichs as a guest for a few days while he and I 
> integrated and debugged it.

Steve: I apologize! I'd forgotten. I do recall an attractive young lady 
working with Joel on dataflow diagrams. Was that she? You'll forgive me 
if I remember her better than you? ;-)

All: Steve's Z-80 code did the hard work of coordinating disk I/O, cache 
access and DMA. In contrast, Andy's and my 6502 drivers only had to set 
up a parameter block and tap an address line. Well, and juggle four 
operating systems!

> Sorry to hear about Tom.  I remember meeting him at one of the Boston 
> AppleFest shows.  Nice fellow!

Agreed.

-- 
John B. Matthews
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