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


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