On 08/02/11 03:58, Dawn Wolthuis wrote: > I started on a P300 that I think might have been running Primos 3, > then we got a 400 running Primos 4. I think it was either the upgrade > to Primos 5 or 7 (details are too blurry at this point) when we had > significant issues with a upgrade, not the least of which was that the > cobol compiler was broken and there was no going back.
I started my programming career on a 25/30 (a 250 CPU board in a 300 chassis) in 1982. It ran Primos 18.3 and had 256 KILObytes of memory, a 32Mb disk drive (16 fixed, 16 removable), and an 80Mb removable drive. I remember getting a 300Mb drive and thinking "that quadruples our disk space"! > > Ah, the good ol' days when my skill at threading tapes or setting the > hardware switches for booting the Pr1me were appreciated. > Oh - threading tapes - the memories :-) and somebody who picked a disk at random to test a tape backup and wondered why it was so slow ... the disk was on the rabbit (2250) in the office down the road, linked by 9600baud modem over a leased line ... > That predates Information. We were writing COBOL with MIDAS files back > then. --dawn I was using Doric INFO - a sort of relational database. Then when I moved on, in 85 I was introduced on to PI 5.3, running on a 750. They also had two 850s. Can't remember exactly when I got introduced to the 19.x series of Primos - the rabbit had 19.4. But when I moved on, I got introduced to a 19.2 system - and discovered why there weren't many of them - I tried to use a standard 19.x utility and crashed it - twice. I'd forgotten how to use futil and had to rack my brains to remember it ... :-) Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
