> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Oct 20 15:04:17 2010 > From: Mike Jeays <mike.je...@rogers.com> > To: Bob Hall <rjh...@gmail.com>, > FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:05:34 -0400 > Cc: > Subject: Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD) > > On October 20, 2010 03:46:06 pm Bob Hall wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:07:55PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > > > On 10/20/2010 11:55 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:47:38AM -0700, 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 remember the 11/34 fondly. The whole EE department at Cory > > > > Hall was running one one; then when I interned at Livermore my > > > > job of porting the "Portable F77 Compiler" was done with vi and > > > > the source code that Stu Feldman wrote. I love[d] those bloody > > > > old computers, :-) Dunno why. Maybe because they really > > > > *were* about computing. Not streaming [[whatever]] or having > > > > php running. (Blah^9^9^9) > > > > > > > > :) > > > > > > Heck, when I started out, they didn't even have zeros and ones yet. > > > We had to settle for "o"s and "l"s ... > > > > When I started out, we didn't have read/write heads for the hard disks. > > We had to copy the data from the screen to the disk by hand using > > magnetized sewing needles. In order to read the damn things we had to > > pass a compass over the disk and see where the needle deflected. > > OK, I guess you win! End-of-thread time?
Well, if one is going to get into that kind of bragging, the first *mainframe* I worked on didn't have any disks at all. purely mag-tape based. An early- generation IBM system/360 with a whopping 64k words of _core_ memory. The operating system was "TOS" (the <T>ape <O>perating <S>ystem), predecessor of DOS, which the machine was upgraded to when they got a couple of hard-disks for it. Single user, bare-bones batch processing, punch-card input. late 1960s. _______________________________________________ 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"
