From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 20:05:39 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 91969106564A for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:05:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: from smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BC488FC0A for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:05:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 35289 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2010 20:05:38 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=DKIM-Signature:Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:Disposition-Notification-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id; b=VYAr38qJzuLwJK5BuIQy6vXpfgCmJssaJwkiwglj7yaqih3xAOB16FhPOP+I9jPuGrzn2VRaWOvR8eV8o0/ZofvrER3MnsPdeC839yQEciBx3fhq9u8Ql9bbslDcBg3OexxlmlrZZO9zYuAo/CVtgnIv2+pe2OcIrxd06i0R4+M= ; DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rogers.com; s=s1024; t=1287605138; bh=XW3bv9DTk4lLXlxHxtN6UqI/r/0NrTpUufBUjXIL6n4=; h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:Disposition-Notification-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id; b=vrNz+9MM4vDTZXTylPqNCcn4lUvKc2BoT+3rJJ6O8JbL4ck3PQSGwtrF6zH7NT6BACSmNbtx9L6c277koZOqBA0l9SEcqCwUYqPRGRr50F0qu1DWfwKwR7AZ5dMpnJEoXpipjBd9Qtx471697mgU0Y4csEpwUeuq//EIx7PXXoE= Received: from napoleon.localnet (mike.jeays@99.224.61.141 with plain) by smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Oct 2010 13:05:37 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: N82WFx6swBBjwcHWPFR2CGt6udzA8RPrA.xm0enFFXaK2g-- X-YMail-OSG: SmGXWSQVM1kOXzeFY.MC0RbIASzrVRHcUYaMB2zlpRgz9QP wyyk- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: Mike Jeays To: Bob Hall , FreeBSD Mailing List Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:05:34 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.32-24-generic; KDE/4.4.2; i686; ; ) References: <4CBF21EB.1080003@tundraware.com> <20101020194605.GA78565@stainmore> In-Reply-To: <20101020194605.GA78565@stainmore> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010201605.34809.mike.jeays@rogers.com> Cc: 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 20:05:39 -0000 On October 20, 2010 03:46:06 pm Bob Hall wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:07:55PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > > 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 ... > > When I started out, we didn't have read/write heads for the hard disks. > We had to copy the data from the screen to the disk by hand using > magnetized sewing needles. In order to read the damn things we had to > pass a compass over the disk and see where the needle deflected. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to> "freebsd-questions-