> My first tech device was a Sharp programmable scientific calculator, EL5101 > it had 48 yes 48 steps of program storage, and 5 memories. It also had a > wonderful LCD display and algebraic logic, eg you could enter expressions
We must be similar vintage. Mine was the wonderful TI. Similar functions but easier than the HP25 RPN stuff. > And PDP-11's and VMS, fond memories. Guess where the DIR command came from? > My favourite memory is of a PDP-11 that crashed running RT11 which was real > fast....the console was on a separate power supply and it had this message > on it: well I am still programming vaxen. (Have machines that will not die). I don't have good memories of the PDP-11. The hair-raising sound on the edge of audibility as your winchester has a head-crash. You hear you data dying. oh and the 8in floppies. How I hated the memory managment on those things too. ---------------------------------------------------------- Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
