On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:30:13AM -0800, Joseph McAllister wrote: > > 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
Unfortunately my PDP-11 didn't have the toggles on the front. Besides, at the time my email was UUCP dialup to UCSC on my 286 running Xenix. About all I ever did on the PDP-11 was play adventure. I learned assembler on 11s though back in college. They had one of the nicest instruction sets I've used, though MIPS is pretty nice. > 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. You say that like it's a bad thing. -- Photographs are like sentences, the best ones have both subjects and verbs. Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
