Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

[Svein Skogen (Listmail account)]

On 20.10.2010 09:47, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
>> El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gary Kline escribi?:
>>> 	PS:  I really _was_ current on hardware stuff.  Back in the VAX
>>> 	780 days :-) 
>> I booted my first UNIX V7 tape on a PDP-11 around 1982, I think.
> 
> Gotcha beat :)  UNIX V6, PDP-11/34, RK05 disk cartridge, 1975.
> The whole runtime fit on one RK05.  The sources took a second one.

I guess I'm just a kid, then, since I wasn't exposed to computers until
6 years later (my excuse was being born in 1975). CP/M-80 and MP/M-80
with intel asm, was where I started my hairpulling... Anybody else got
nightmares about 8 inch floppies? ;)

//Svein

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