From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 10:37:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6740106566C for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:37:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from blue.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FB638FC31 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:37:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o9KAbfef037437; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:37:41 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <4CBEC675.9060401@qeng-ho.org> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:37:41 +0100 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20101007 Thunderbird/3.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Svein Skogen (Listmail account)" References: <20101004233302.GA62267@takino.homeftp.org> <20101004195012.GA2023@tiny> <20101017143901.GA71132@current.Sisis.de> <20101019074615.GA2183@current.Sisis.de> <20101020022946.GA23035@thought.org> <20101020052601.GA1977@current.Sisis.de> <4cbe9e9a.3qT7q8JUqJxSD8/V%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <4CBEA93A.4040202@stillbilde.net> In-Reply-To: <4CBEA93A.4040202@stillbilde.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:37:43 -0000 On 10/20/10 09:32, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote: > On 20.10.2010 09:47, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: >> Matthias Apitz 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? ;) > > //Svein > Hard or soft sectored? -- "Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, few know what a wombat looks like, but everyone knows what a dragon looks like." -- Avram Davidson, _Adventures in Unhistory_