Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:17:16 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: svein-listmail@stillbilde.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD) Message-ID: <4cbfe8fc.j2jDvUgmHnngJnSP%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <4CBEA93A.4040202@stillbilde.net> References: <20101004233302.GA62267@takino.homeftp.org> <20101004195012.GA2023@tiny> <op.vj5o9ixxhtl4zj@ack5833s2.ad.service.osu.edu> <20101017143901.GA71132@current.Sisis.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1010171215030.96626@wonkity.com> <20101019074615.GA2183@current.Sisis.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1010191448390.6689@wonkity.com> <20101020022946.GA23035@thought.org> <20101020052601.GA1977@current.Sisis.de> <4cbe9e9a.3qT7q8JUqJxSD8/V%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <4CBEA93A.4040202@stillbilde.net>
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"Svein Skogen (Listmail account)" <svein-listmail@tillbilde.net> wrote: > On 20.10.2010 09:47, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > Matthias Apitz <guru@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? ;) If we're going to expand to non-Unix systems: Fortran on an IBM 1401, with punch card input and no OS at all, in 1966.
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