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Rediscovering Principia, The Disk
Sometimes you stumble across an item that triggers lots of old memories.
I was doing some cleaning in my home office today, tossing out useless
CDs of Linux distributions and such. I stumbled across a floppy
disk that caught me by surprise:
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This is a floppy of Principia 1.5, the commercial application server we sold back when we were called Digital Creations. The software that is the antecedent of Zope. To find the date, I did a Google search and found the CVS attic for the
change log, which shows this floppy to be approximately 6 years and 7 months old. May, 1998. The change log makes for some interesting reading...
Holidays are obviously a time of reflection and excessive sentimentality. It's fun to think back on where our office was then, the people that were there, and the absolute, utter lack of realization for what was to happen in the next few years.
I don't even have a floppy drive, so I can't tell exactly what's on it. It's crazy to think, though, that someone could make an application server that would fit in 1.44 Mb. With an object database.
(Larger view.)
This is a floppy of Principia 1.5, the commercial application server we sold back when we were called Digital Creations. The software that is the antecedent of Zope. To find the date, I did a Google search and found the CVS attic for the
change log, which shows this floppy to be approximately 6 years and 7 months old. May, 1998. The change log makes for some interesting reading...
Holidays are obviously a time of reflection and excessive sentimentality. It's fun to think back on where our office was then, the people that were there, and the absolute, utter lack of realization for what was to happen in the next few years.
I don't even have a floppy drive, so I can't tell exactly what's on it. It's crazy to think, though, that someone could make an application server that would fit in 1.44 Mb. With an object database.
