Hi Chris, No call waiting. My Apple had its own phone. I spent lots of time logged in to the Univac at school coding and reading listings, first at 110 baud, later at 300 baud.
Linda Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 6, 2016, at 7:49 AM, Chris Hoelscher <choelsc...@humana.com> wrote: > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
