Linda - did you have call waiting? If you forgot to disable it before "hooking up" that little click/beep indicator of an incoming call would throw me offline (Apple ][+)
Chris Hoelscher Technology Architect, Database Infrastructure Services Technology Solution Services : humana.com 123 East Main Street Louisville, KY 40202 Humana.com (502) 714-8615, (502) 476-2538 > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Linda > Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2016 12:53 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Ancient History (OS's) - was : IBM Destination z - > What the Heck Is JCL and Why Does It Look So Funny? > > I had an Apple ][ with an acoustic coupler. It auto dialed over a regular > telco > dial tone line using a program loaded from a cassette player, or if one could > afford it, from an early floppy drive. The college I went to had a Univac > 90/70d. The were 4 student dialup numbers. I could get into one of those > much like the scene from War Games. It was fun. > > Linda > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Feb 5, 2016, at 11:19 AM, John McKown > <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Lester, Bob <bles...@ofiglobal.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi John, > >> > >> Commodore 64 anyone? :-) > >> > >> Do you know what OS it ran? > > > > Some variant of Microsoft BASIC, in ROM. > > > > > > > >> > >> Was the HW an x86? Motorola? Apple? > > > > Motorola 8 bit 6510 CPU. > > > > Apple ][ was the 6502(?). And don't forget the Atari 800 (and lesser > > 400), which was 6502 based. Or, the one that I had: Tandy / Radio > > Shack's TRS-80 (affectionately known as the "trash-80") which was > > Zilog Z-80 (superset of Intel 8080) based. Oh, and the grandfather of > > them all (immortalized in "War Games" - how did they get an acoustic > > coupled modem to autodial?????) was the Imsai 8080. Not to mention > > many other CP/M-80 machines, such as Comemco and Altair 8800. These > > latter two had the "feature" of being able to toggle individual bytes > > into memory via switches on the box. Damn, I'm old. > > > > > > > >> > >> I had a buddy (years ago, of course), that did strange and > >> wonderful (at the time) things with several of them connected > >> together. No cases, wires everywhere, but pretty cool anyhow for the > time. > >> > >> TGIF, else I'd be in trouble. :-) > >> > >> BobL > > > > -- > > Werner Heisenberg is driving down the autobahn. A police officer pulls > > him over. The officer says, "Excuse me, sir, do you know how fast you > > were going?" > > "No," replies Dr. Heisenberg, "but I know where I am." > > > > Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new > > wing to a building as being maintenance -- Jim Horning > > > > Schrodinger's backup: The condition of any backup is unknown until a > > restore is attempted. > > > > He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. > > > > Maranatha! <>< > > John McKown > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain CONFIDENTIAL material. If you receive this material/information in error, please contact the sender and delete or destroy the material/information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
