From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 17:19:11 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 332DF106564A for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:19:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from ozzie.tundraware.com (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2A588FC1A for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:19:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [0.0.0.0] (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) (authenticated bits=0) by ozzie.tundraware.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o9KH7toL051128 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:07:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <4CBF21EB.1080003@tundraware.com> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:07:55 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk Organization: TundraWare Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Mailing List 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> <20101020165526.GA25310@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20101020165526.GA25310@thought.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:07:56 -0500 (CDT) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-TundraWare-MailScanner-ID: o9KH7toL051128 X-TundraWare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TundraWare-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No 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 17:19:11 -0000 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 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 ... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com