Niall Kavanagh wrote:
>
>The company I used to work for actually still *USED* a PDP11 for
>ordering/fufilling "magazine" subscriptions.

Was it a real PDP-11, with a switch register and lights, or one of those
"fake" Micro-PDPs?  After the 11/70 it was all downhill...  :)

>I myself remember my first computer: A VIC20. No real operating system,
>just BASIC. And I used to whistle into a rotary phone when I wanted to go
>online.

RSTS was like that: you logged in and were sitting in a BASIC+ interpreter.
Not even a text editor.

>Did I mention I also walked to school? ;)

In your bare feet?  :)


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