I had an Apple ][ with an acoustic coupler. It auto dialed over a regular telco dial tone line using a program loaded from a cassette player, or if one could afford it, from an early floppy drive. The college I went to had a Univac 90/70d. The were 4 student dialup numbers. I could get into one of those much like the scene from War Games. It was fun.
Linda Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 5, 2016, at 11:19 AM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Lester, Bob <bles...@ofiglobal.com> wrote: >> >> Hi John, >> >> Commodore 64 anyone? :-) >> >> Do you know what OS it ran? > > Some variant of Microsoft BASIC, in ROM. > > > >> >> Was the HW an x86? Motorola? Apple? > > Motorola 8 bit 6510 CPU. > > Apple ][ was the 6502(?). And don't forget the Atari 800 (and lesser 400), > which was 6502 based. Or, the one that I had: Tandy / Radio Shack's TRS-80 > (affectionately known as the "trash-80") which was Zilog Z-80 (superset of > Intel 8080) based. Oh, and the grandfather of them all (immortalized in > "War Games" - how did they get an acoustic coupled modem to autodial?????) > was the Imsai 8080. Not to mention many other CP/M-80 machines, such as > Comemco and Altair 8800. These latter two had the "feature" of being able > to toggle individual bytes into memory via switches on the box. Damn, I'm > old. > > > >> >> I had a buddy (years ago, of course), that did strange and wonderful >> (at the time) things with several of them connected together. No cases, >> wires everywhere, but pretty cool anyhow for the time. >> >> TGIF, else I'd be in trouble. :-) >> >> BobL > > -- > Werner Heisenberg is driving down the autobahn. A police officer pulls > him over. The officer says, "Excuse me, sir, do you know how fast you > were going?" > "No," replies Dr. Heisenberg, "but I know where I am." > > Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing > to a building as being maintenance -- Jim Horning > > Schrodinger's backup: The condition of any backup is unknown until a > restore is attempted. > > He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
