{"id":142,"date":"2015-08-30T01:13:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T06:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2015-08-30T01:16:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T06:16:30","slug":"a-unique-donation-from-robert-kaunitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/a-unique-donation-from-robert-kaunitz\/","title":{"rendered":"A unique donation from Robert Kaunitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_143\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMAG0230.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-143\" title=\"RCA Spectra 70 reference cards\" src=\"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMAG0230-e1440915170523-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMAG0230-e1440915170523-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMAG0230-e1440915170523-761x1024.jpg 761w, https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMAG0230-e1440915170523.jpg 1518w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCA Spectra 70 reference cards<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We recently received a donation from retired computer programmer Robert Kaunitz of Maryland, including manuals and a special IBM PC XT.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s so special about the XT? The computer&#8217;s hard drive contains\u00a0a user interface program that Mr. Kaunitz developed called MARA (Machine Assistant Ready and Able). We look forward to trying it out as soon as some hardware repairs are complete &#8212; the hard drive controller is bad, Mr. Kaunitz told us.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, we&#8217;d like to thank Mr. Kaunitz for the following items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Autonetics Recomp III Programming Manual and Fortran manual<\/li>\n<li>IBM PC DOS 2.02 and manuals<\/li>\n<li>MDBS KnowledgeMan database software and manuals<\/li>\n<li>Ferrite cores<\/li>\n<li>RCA Spectra 70 reference cards<\/li>\n<li>IBM System\/370 reference cards<\/li>\n<li>Data General Eclipse reference card<\/li>\n<li>IBM flowcharting template<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently received a donation from retired computer programmer Robert Kaunitz of Maryland, including manuals and a special IBM PC XT. What&#8217;s so special about the XT? The computer&#8217;s hard drive contains\u00a0a user interface program that Mr. Kaunitz developed called MARA (Machine Assistant Ready and Able). We look forward to trying it out as soon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compmuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}