"I started on a Microdata in 1972, first system in Seattle,Wa - Sent from my iPhone" my how times have changed :)
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Steve Romanow <[email protected]> wrote: > Earliest we've seen yet. Awesome! You early adopter! > > On 2/7/2011 1:45 PM, Tom wrote: >> >> I started on a Microdata in 1972, first system in Seattle,Wa >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> Tom Dodds >> [email protected] >> 630.235.2975 >> >> >> On Feb 7, 2011, at 10:56, "Peter S. Goldberger"<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Started in 1984 on an ADDS Mentor with a 40 Mb hard disk and 12" tape >>> >>> George Gallen wrote: >>>> >>>> and we had to walk to work in bare feet uphill both ways! >>>> >>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:u2-users- >>>>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] >>>>> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 11:52 AM >>>>> To: U2 Users List >>>>> Subject: Re: [U2] Pick Dinosaurs >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>> I started on Microdata systems back in 1982. Same big 'ol "washtub" >>>>>>> >>>>> drives, >>>>> >>>>>>> 1/2" reel tapes and Interrupt-Reset-Interrupt or >>>>>>> Interrupt-Reset-Clock-Interrupt paddle-switch sequences. >>>>>>> The first machine I worked on was a Microdata 1600 with 4 50 >>>>>>> MB >>>>>>> >>>>> Winchester >>>>> >>>>>>> "washtub" drives. It ran 16 users on 64K of core memory. That was >>>>>>> >>>>> back >>>>> in >>>>> >>>>>>> 1981. >>>>>>> >>>>> Wow. You guys are really old. >>>>> >>>>> Charles Shaffer >>>>> Senior Analyst >>>>> NTN-Bower Corporation >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> U2-Users mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> U2-Users mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> U2-Users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> U2-Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
