Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

2010-06-19 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/19/2010 12:00 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/18/2010 11:05 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Right after that, started hacking on MIT's PDP-1 (of Tech Model Railroad Club and Spacewar fame, but at that point free-standing). The really neat thing about the

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

2010-06-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/19/2010 12:00 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/18/2010 11:05 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Right after that, started hacking on MIT's PDP-1 (of Tech Model Railroad Club and Spacewar fame, but at that point free-standing). The really neat thing about the machine was that hack

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

2010-06-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/18/2010 11:05 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Right after that, started hacking on MIT's PDP-1 (of Tech Model Railroad Club and Spacewar fame, but at that point free-standing). The really neat thing about the machine was that hackers were allowed, even encouraged, to make HARD

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

2010-06-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/18/2010 11:05 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: High school, Junior & Senior year (1969-71) - DG Nova, single user configuration, had to toggle in a bootstrap loader, then read in a 2nd-stage off paper tape, final stage read in off of a hard drive (as I remember, but hard drives were pretty rare in

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

2010-06-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
High school, Junior & Senior year (1969-71) - DG Nova, single user configuration, had to toggle in a bootstrap loader, then read in a 2nd-stage off paper tape, final stage read in off of a hard drive (as I remember, but hard drives were pretty rare in those days, so I could be wrong). 1st yea

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

2010-06-18 Thread Justin The Cynical
On 6/18/2010 15:58, ABS Doug wrote: On Thursday 17 June 2010 15:03:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: What was that thing that was only a keyboard that had the cpu and memory built into it? You connected a tape player for the I/O and a TV for the display. I used it to play chess on and to do astrology pr

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

2010-06-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/18/2010 05:58 PM, ABS Doug wrote: On Thursday 17 June 2010 15:03:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: What was that thing that was only a keyboard that had the cpu and memory built into it? You connected a tape player for the I/O and a TV for the display. I used it to play chess on and to do astrolog

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

2010-06-18 Thread ABS Doug
> On Thursday 17 June 2010 15:03:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> What was that thing that was only a keyboard that had the cpu and memory >> built into it? You connected a tape player for the I/O and a TV for the >> display. I used it to play chess on and to do astrology programs. It >> took hours to

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

2010-06-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/18/2010 09:11 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Eric Gerlach put forth on 6/17/2010 1:46 PM: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:15:37PM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote: There was also a TI something back then. TI-99/4A represent! (I will also accept props from TI-99/4 users... begrudgingly) I had a /4A

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

2010-06-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Eric Gerlach put forth on 6/17/2010 1:46 PM: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:15:37PM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote: >> There was also a TI something back then. > > TI-99/4A represent! (I will also accept props from TI-99/4 users... > begrudgingly) I had a /4A but didn't bother mentioning it as I nev

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

2010-06-17 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:15:37PM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > There was also a TI something back then. TI-99/4A represent! (I will also accept props from TI-99/4 users... begrudgingly) Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 88

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

2010-06-17 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 17 June 2010 15:03:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: What was that thing that was only a keyboard that had the cpu and memory built into it? You connected a tape player for the I/O and a TV for the display. I used it to play chess on and to do astrology prog

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

2010-06-17 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 17 June 2010 15:03:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > What was that thing that was only a keyboard that had the cpu and memory > built into it? You connected a tape player for the I/O and a TV for the > display. I used it to play chess on and to do astrology programs. It > took hours to get th

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

2010-06-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:03:52AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:18:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On 06/16/2010 06:09 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >>>Ron Johnson put forth on 6/15/2010 1:50 PM: > On 06/15/2010 01:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

2010-06-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:18:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/16/2010 06:09 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 6/15/2010 1:50 PM: On 06/15/2010 01:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] an USB enclosure and use it for backups. Having ~700GB of da

[OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

2010-06-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:18:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/16/2010 06:09 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >Ron Johnson put forth on 6/15/2010 1:50 PM: > >>On 06/15/2010 01:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >>[snip] > >>>an USB enclosure and use it for backups. Having ~700GB of data with the