Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)
Gary Kline
kline at thought.org
Wed Oct 20 16:56:01 UTC 2010
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:47:38AM -0700, 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 remember the 11/34 fondly. The whole EE department at Cory
Hall was running one one; then when I interned at Livermore my
job of porting the "Portable F77 Compiler" was done with vi and
the source code that Stu Feldman wrote. I love[d] those bloody
old computers, :-) Dunno why. Maybe because they really
*were* about computing. Not streaming [[whatever]] or having
php running. (Blah^9^9^9)
:)
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