From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 14 4:57:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.wetworks.org (shell.wetworks.org [63.160.175.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2BE5C37B4CF for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 04:57:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 15010 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2000 12:57:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO diskfarm.firehouse.net) (10.0.0.28) by 192.168.1.2 with SMTP; 14 Nov 2000 12:57:09 -0000 Received: (from abc@localhost) by diskfarm.firehouse.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eAED13i35529; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 08:01:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from abc) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 08:01:03 -0500 From: Alan Clegg To: Peter Wemm Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft Source (fwd) Message-ID: <20001114080103.A34676@diskfarm.firehouse.net> References: <200011121935.MAA26831@gw.doug.net> <200011141250.eAECnuL07140@mobile.wemm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200011141250.eAECnuL07140@mobile.wemm.org>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 08:49:56PM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Unless the network is lying to me again, Peter Wemm said: > Dont forget the Tandy/Radio Shack Model 16. It was a 68000 based Xenix box > with a Z80 "IO coprocessor". It was commercially produced and marketed. > You could have three terminals, and (wait for it) 8 inch floppys (with three > external drives) and even a 5 or 10MB *hard disk*... :-) > > I actually threw out my catalog that had photos and details from about the > 1983-84 era. I did tech support for these monsters. Biggest problem was they had a BAD habit of overwriting their boot sector. We'd charge people $175 to tell them how to 'dd' a new boot sector to their floppies. AlanC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message