On 20.10.2010 09:47, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Matthias Apitz <g...@unixarea.de> wrote: >> El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gary Kline escribi?: >>> PS: I really _was_ current on hardware stuff. Back in the VAX >>> 780 days :-) >> I booted my first UNIX V7 tape on a PDP-11 around 1982, I think. > > Gotcha beat :) UNIX V6, PDP-11/34, RK05 disk cartridge, 1975. > The whole runtime fit on one RK05. The sources took a second one.
I guess I'm just a kid, then, since I wasn't exposed to computers until 6 years later (my excuse was being born in 1975). CP/M-80 and MP/M-80 with intel asm, was where I started my hairpulling... Anybody else got nightmares about 8 inch floppies? ;) //Svein -- --------+-------------------+------------------------------- /"\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli 9 | PGP Key: 0xE5E76831 X |2020 Skedsmokorset | sv...@jernhuset.no / \ |Norway | PGP Key: 0xCE96CE13 | | sv...@stillbilde.net ascii | | PGP Key: 0x58CD33B6 ribbon |System Admin | svein-listm...@stillbilde.net Campaign|stillbilde.net | PGP Key: 0x22D494A4 +-------------------+------------------------------- |msn messenger: | Mobile Phone: +47 907 03 575 |sv...@jernhuset.no | RIPE handle: SS16503-RIPE --------+-------------------+------------------------------- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ------------------------------------------------------------ Picture Gallery: https://gallery.stillbilde.net/v/svein/ ------------------------------------------------------------
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