Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:58:12 -0500 From: "Jerry Dunham" <jdunham@texas.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD) Message-ID: <4CBEE764.14536.21649948@jdunham.texas.net> In-Reply-To: <4CBEA93A.4040202@stillbilde.net> References: <20101004233302.GA62267@takino.homeftp.org>, <4cbe9e9a.3qT7q8JUqJxSD8/V%perryh@pluto.rain.com>, <4CBEA93A.4040202@stillbilde.net>
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On 20 Oct 2010 at 10:32, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) 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? ;) Well, I used to design 8-inch floppy drives. Fortunately, the nightmares have subsided and I'm just left with this twitch ... this twitch ... this twitch ... -- Jerry Dunham Moderater, Texas Great Dane Rescue jdunham@texas.net
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