On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Paul Robertson wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Ron DuFresne wrote:
>
> > windows systems. I've played with widowns systems a far back as when it
> > was still a run-time system under DOS <required pagemaker and lacked a
> > MAC>. I remember when word could be run on two 5.25 inch floppoes and the
>
> My first admin responsibility was for two computers that ran DOS[1]...
> There wasn't any way Windows would run on them, and they didn't have
> floppy drives (there was a card reader/punch though ;)[2])
I recall when our HS back in the early 70's got a terminal in, with a tape
reader, and there was no monitor it was all served out on teletype, back
to the mainframe. BASIC, ws an interesting toy, we had fun playing old
games on it like checkers and such, I think I still have the code on a
printout here someplace for a numbers quessing game.
I've an exwife from the mid-70's era, just after HS, that trained and was
employeed as a key-puncher. I wonder how many still make a living doing
that?
Yet, Paul, you and I are stiill mudpuppies to the experneices of some here
that played with systems as if not more limiting then those old DOS boxes
we started on.
What were the memory limitations of the old pdp systems like the 10 and 11
that I'm sure some here on the list played upon?
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
>
> Paul[3]
> [1] 2 IBM System/360 model 40's with a whopping 64K of core.
> [2] I'm almost tempted to calculate the number of cards Word would take
> as an object deck.
> [3] No, there's no real point here.
> [4] I'm also half-tempted to see if the S/390 Linux port would backport
> to the 360- but I don't have enough time to code as it is, and all I got
> away with was a CPU sign.
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> Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions
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