Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

[Jerry Dunham]

On 20 Oct 2010 at 10:32, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote:

> 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? ;)

Well, I used to design 8-inch floppy drives.  Fortunately, the nightmares have subsided and 
I'm just left with this twitch ... this twitch ... this twitch ...



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Jerry Dunham
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