On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Doug LaRue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ** Reply to message from "Mark Schoonover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, > 7 May 2008 21:01:30 -0700 > > > > I do remember seeing > > FreeBSD around 1992ish, and going further back, I did get some > > exposure to SunOS around 1990-1991 on a Sparc I. > > all the talk about floppies makes me wonder why you guys didn't have > CDROMs in the mid 90s. Sure I've still got something like 30 floppies
I don't think Slack came on CDs in that time frame, I really don't remember that much about it. Probably remember the floppies the most because of all the time it took to create them, then find out part way through install that one was bad and have to start all over. > of Concensus UNIX from around 1990/1991 but shortly after CDs were it. > I think I still have my Yggdrasil CD from around 92/93 somewhere around > here. Man, those were the days. Hacking a 386/40 by soldering on new > L2 cache chips and running multi-user with rs232 VTs on that bitch'n 32bit > system. I think the most fun I had with a computer was with my Vic20. I did weed abatement for the City of Vacaville, and saved all summer to buy it. My dad was pretty pissed that I spent that much money, but boy I had fun creating games and graphics. Even turned it into a morse code memory keyer, and hooked it up to a 1950s Hallicrafters HT32B tube transmitter. Had to leave the Vic20 running all the time because I couldn't afford the tape player to save my programs... > > Sorry, the magnetic core memory days predate me but I've seen some and > they looked really cool. I had a chance when I was in the Navy to look inside a core machine. I was in morse code school for the Navy and we used it as our trainer. Could support 50 students at a time, up to 35 WPM. Looked like two refrigerators sitting side by side... Those were the days of PDP11s too, circa 1987... > > Doug -- Mark Schoonover, CMDBA http://www.linkedin.com/in/markschoonover http://marksitblog.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
