Asylum (Like Wolfenstein), Elite (space simulation), and Flight Simulator.
________________________________ From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 7:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: LinkedIn Choplifter... classic! As was Beach Head! -sc From: Len Hammond [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 7:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: LinkedIn At an aircraft repair shop I worked at before I got into IT (just a computer hobbyist at that point never thinking that I would change careers) they had a System/36 with the 8" floppy cartridges for backups. Took like 6 or 8 cartridges with several diskettes in each cartridge. I had just sold my C64 and bought a C128D and added the 1571 drive I used on the C64 so I had two drives. That was a hot setup in the day. However, it's day didn't last very long. My son (now 25) still longs for the Commodore version of Choplifter. LOL Len Hammond CSI:Hartland [email protected] On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Devin Meade <[email protected]> wrote: Aaruughhh Deskworks 36 nightmares! I knew just about all the PF key assignments for that little jewel. PF12 we re-calc I think. Press that and everyone takes a coffee break while your spreadsheet re-calculated (then you go fix errors and do it again). I think it had ~8 inch "floppy disk cartridges" or something like that. Good times, good times. On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: Nice! The System/36 at our company had a mechanical "life system" in it where in you attached a ratchet to a hex head crank and ratcheted the disc pack up so you could get at the guts underneath it. First time I saw a computer that needed sockets the same size I used on my car engine. -sc From: Len Hammond [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 4:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: LinkedIn I've got one of those in my garage to save for posterity. Weighs about 100 pounds and the drive motor is 1/3 horsepower. Was 'huge' too, by the standards of the day - 550MB. It had 4 each 14" platters. When I retired the VAX it was attached to I pulled the other one apart and most of us in the company signed a platter and presented it to the company owner & president to remember the VAX by. Len Hammond CSI:Hartland [email protected] On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: C'mon... belt-driven hard disks are uber c00l! -sc From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 10:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: LinkedIn We still have is run in the walls but Thank God all the hardware that used it is gone. System 36 and what a nightmare that was. -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
