Per Jessen wrote: > Michael Nelson wrote: > > >> Heh... memories. >> >> Before the www and Linux was around, I had been running FidoNet BBS >> systems on DOS and OS/2. I got laid off from my job and decided I >> wanted to learn something completely new (to me), so I decided to >> install Unix. A friend had a set of Esix floppies... 54 1.44MB >> floppies that made up a basic install of Everex's brand of AT&T >> SystemVR4 Unix. >> >> I installed it. Aside from the fact that it took 18 hours to do from >> floppies (and I had to do it three times because of random floppy read >> errors), when it was finished and I logged in, all I saw was "$". X? >> GUI? You've gotta be kidding, this was a text mode only install. >> > > FWIW you got the easy end of the stick - you should have started with me > on IBM, NCR and Burroughs mainframes in 1984. X? GUI? Mouse? > Nah, everything was 80x25. We moved up to 80x32 a couple of years > later. Now that was progress! (a typical airline reservation system > today will still support the IBM 4505 terminal (the manuals went out of > print in 1974) which does only 45x15). > >
The oldest "computer" I worked on didn't even have a display. It was a special purpose machine, made by Teleregister and installed at the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1952. It used vacuum tubes, relays and a memory drum. It was older than me! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
