From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 13:12:04 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 D602D10656A3 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:12:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdunham@texas.net) Received: from nm13.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (nm13.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com [98.138.90.76]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92C858FC12 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:12:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.138.90.56] by nm13.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Oct 2010 12:58:15 -0000 Received: from [98.138.89.251] by tm9.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Oct 2010 12:58:15 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1043.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Oct 2010 12:58:15 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 468864.75212.bm@omp1043.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 46633 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2010 12:58:15 -0000 Received: from [192.168.0.197] (jdunham@99.184.77.115 with login) by smtp105.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Oct 2010 05:58:15 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: BXg4crCswBA3Yst0ukKcAsjzce_hQYKGmi4Wj6Ag X-YMail-OSG: h5J86fgVM1mBWZ0PRtfLX.Iq.k3uUFVf_885QZot_4kaNZ9 WF65yHl23f7TEYzxT_Lmz1SnYI1pgFtxq4Lq3J0tHDLA6szEmrHnDs9WnUss HIYhUV_rIm9o.vvf264v4h5LYPQtcc6sOVcRH77mRjGYpqVfMu_DgKO0rDep xurtAY0njKQgtoF88fkrPrUoNiZxbMBWwaMCdy4h1I0mzB7z1VO_QFOrVquj gxXI2KH9HIwAIlcuE7DemYYt_2EiSkvT7eXshym3dDgyXb2F8TZ5wL6affR_ g X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: "Jerry Dunham" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:58:12 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4CBEE764.14536.21649948@jdunham.texas.net> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <4CBEA93A.4040202@stillbilde.net> References: <20101004233302.GA62267@takino.homeftp.org>, <4cbe9e9a.3qT7q8JUqJxSD8/V%perryh@pluto.rain.com>, <4CBEA93A.4040202@stillbilde.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.50 PB1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Description: Mail message body X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jdunham@texas.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:12:04 -0000 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 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