Boanne Lorraine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> }- Hmmmm... wasn't the Apple II a commandline machine? Been a
> }- while. For that matter, if it was DOS 3.3, that'd be CL,
> }- right? Just cause Apple made it, doesn't mean it was a
> }- Macintosh.
>
> I stand corrected - without embarassment however, no one can know
> it all.
Yeah, but you STILL called me "point and drool". Hrmph!
> [...] He asks that I
> remind you all that his first machine was a Timex Sinclair,
> cassette tapes, hooked to the TV for a monitor, and booted to
> BASIC.
If it was a TIMEX/Sinclair, then it was a relatively modern machine. Timex
put out the TS1000 in what, about 1986 or so? I really don't remember, other
than looking at the SINCLAIR (no timex) ZX-81 kits -- and ordering one
recently. I pre-date that stuff by a tad.
> My one regret as far as computers are concerned is not that I
> missed the Timex Sinclair's and the Apple II+'s - I am sorry I
> missed the big boys, UNIX. That is the true root from which
> everything else has grown as far as I'm concerned.
There are some pretty great Apple ][ emulators (Apple originally spelled it
with the two opposite-facing square brackets before the '//e' came out)
available ... I *think* for DOS.
As mentioned elsewhere, you can also get a good taste for Unix (though
hardly the stuff of the old days) with Linux and/or one of the BSD
derivatives. I have given FreeBSD a spin, and I think it's where I do want
to be eventually, since there's only "one" very stable distribution. I have
to say, though, that Debian Linux is offering much of the same consistency.
I also enjoy "catching up" on the old systems, and get ahold of 'em whenever
I can. That's how I wound up with an AIM-65 (6502-based single board from
the late 1970's), Commodore PET2000 (cassette/chicklet keyboard) from the
same timeframe, and the Sinclair ZX-81. I've got my first calculator from
1976 too.
Strangely, some of the computers I'm fondest of are nearly as old as the
classic cars some 'round here love!
- Bob
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