On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:32:58AM +0200, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote: > 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
Ouch!! My first computer was a CP/M and MP/M (8080-8088) with two 8" floppies and a HUGE 256K of memory. ...Bought in 1981. Finally junked in 1987. (What, me cheap?) Lots of hair pulling and ---nah, you don't want to hear! gary > > -- > --------+-------------------+------------------------------- > /"\ |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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"