Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

2011-10-29 Thread daid kahl
Thank you very much for any nice idea, story or of course comparison in advance!i :) Well, I still have a TI-86 calculator with a Z80 processor. Of course, even these are extremely mocked these days (eg http://xkcd.com/768/) My best friend in high school had programmer parents, and lots of

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

2011-10-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 27.10.2011 06:34, schrieb Pandu Poluan: On Oct 27, 2011 9:50 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de mailto:meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com mailto:mike...@gmail.com [11-10-26 20:40]: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:56 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de mailto:meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

2011-10-27 Thread meino . cramer
Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net [11-10-27 17:10]: Am 27.10.2011 06:34, schrieb Pandu Poluan: On Oct 27, 2011 9:50 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de mailto:meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com mailto:mike...@gmail.com [11-10-26 20:40]: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:56

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

2011-10-27 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, By the way: There is an old CPM 2.2 manual available. Unfortunately in AMIPRO-format. I tried to load it with libreoffice from the commandline with no success. What can I do to load and convert this manual to a normal format? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

2011-10-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
rule of thumb: todays desktops are the BIG IRON of 10 years ago -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

2011-10-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:52 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, By the way: There is an old CPM 2.2 manual available. Unfortunately in AMIPRO-format. I tried to load it with libreoffice from the commandline with no success. What can I do to load and convert this manual to a normal

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

2011-10-27 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [11-10-27 18:36]: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:52 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, By the way: There is an old CPM 2.2 manual available. Unfortunately in AMIPRO-format. I tried to load it with libreoffice from the commandline with no

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

2011-10-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 27.10.2011 19:08, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [11-10-27 18:36]: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:52 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, By the way: There is an old CPM 2.2 manual available. Unfortunately in AMIPRO-format. I tried to load it with

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

2011-10-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:56 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, On www.archive.org I found videos of the series Computer Chronicle with Richard Cheifet and Gary Kildall (the inventor of CP/M and the founder of Intergalactical Digital Research, later known as Digital Research or short DR).

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

2011-10-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:56 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Totally amazed by the things which were brandnew those days (1985/1995) and are outclassed by any digital whristwatch nowadays I became curious about a more exact definition of faster in this area... If you like reading about old

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

2011-10-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:56 PM,  meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Totally amazed by the things which were brandnew those days (1985/1995) and are outclassed by any digital whristwatch nowadays I became curious about

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

2011-10-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:56 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, On www.archive.org I found videos of the series Computer Chronicle with Richard Cheifet and Gary Kildall (the inventor of CP/M and the founder of Intergalactical Digital Research, later known as Digital Research or short DR).

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

2011-10-26 Thread meino . cramer
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [11-10-26 20:40]: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:56 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, On www.archive.org I found videos of the series Computer Chronicle with Richard Cheifet and Gary Kildall (the inventor of CP/M and the founder of Intergalactical Digital

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

2011-10-26 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 27, 2011 9:50 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [11-10-26 20:40]: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:56 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, On www.archive.org I found videos of the series Computer Chronicle with Richard Cheifet and Gary Kildall (the