Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:33:20 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD) Message-ID: <20101022173320.GA4676@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <201010211122.o9LBMxHX003855@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <201010211122.o9LBMxHX003855@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 06:22:59AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Oct 20 15:04:17 2010 > > From: Mike Jeays <mike.jeays@rogers.com> > > To: Bob Hall <rjhjr0@gmail.com>, > > FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > > Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:05:34 -0400 > > Cc: > > Subject: Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD) > > > > On October 20, 2010 03:46:06 pm Bob Hall wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:07:55PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > > > > On 10/20/2010 11:55 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:47:38AM -0700, 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 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) > > > > > > > > > > :) > > > > > > > > Heck, when I started out, they didn't even have zeros and ones yet. > > > > We had to settle for "o"s and "l"s ... > > > > > > When I started out, we didn't have read/write heads for the hard disks. > > > We had to copy the data from the screen to the disk by hand using > > > magnetized sewing needles. In order to read the damn things we had to > > > pass a compass over the disk and see where the needle deflected. > > > > OK, I guess you win! End-of-thread time? > > Well, if one is going to get into that kind of bragging, the first *mainframe* > I worked on didn't have any disks at all. purely mag-tape based. An early- > generation IBM system/360 with a whopping 64k words of _core_ memory. The > operating system was "TOS" (the <T>ape <O>perating <S>ystem), predecessor of > DOS, which the machine was upgraded to when they got a couple of hard-disks > for it. Single user, bare-bones batch processing, punch-card input. late 1960s. I learned FORTRAN back in summer quarter '78 on a CDC-6400 that used punch cards. Had to use my _nose_ to finish one card. The 6400 took up a chunk of the basement of Evans HAll and had a HUGE 64k of core! That's the limit of my bragging--er, commenting:-) "TOS"? <snicker>, LOL, ROFL ... > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org
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