On Mar 4, 2009, at 08:53 , Larry Colen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 07:19:22AM -0600, Bob Sullivan wrote:
Larry,
35 years or so of the internet?
OK, technically back then it was the arpanet.
In 1974 it was TTY terminals and time sharing.
And your point?
Personal computers were a hobbiest thing.
People had computers at work and school.
Sure, if you were into bootstrapping a PDP-11 with the toggles so it
knew it had a TTY keyboard into which you keyed the start command so
it would read the paper tape that loaded the program that put into RAM
the instructions for running the 80 col. card reader that loaded the
instructions for using the cassette tape drive that loaded the
software that told the computer it had a 9" reel to reel tape drive
which loaded the software program that allowed you to use the serial
port and a 9" green screen monitor to view the the 300 baud ASCII
modem data as you accessed the ArpaNET on which you could communicate
using the TTY keyboard, as well as command the IBM 360 mainframe to
run real programs to accomplish real work using the info stored on
"Data-Pac" 4 disc hard drives that plugged into the drive motors in
the refrigerator size enclosure with underfloor air for cooling.
Joseph McAllister
Pentaxian
http://gallery.me.com/jomac
http://web.me.com/jomac/show.me/Blog/Blog.html
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