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"Svein Skogen (Listmail account)" <svein-listmail@tillbilde.net> 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? ;)

If we're going to expand to non-Unix systems:  Fortran on an IBM 1401,
with punch card input and no OS at all, in 1966.