Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: > Maybe I got confused. I thought my "10 inch" was from a DEC system. > It was sure big. Maybe they used a different type. I donated it to a > college teaching staff for demoing old tech, along with my samples of > a punched card program, and some paper tape.
No, DEC floppies were 8" too. Back when I was a computer tech, I used to maintain some VAX 11/780 systems. On them, the CPU needed to have the microcode loaded, before it could do anything. This was done by an LSI-11 (microprocessor version of the PDP-11), which loaded the microcode from a floppy and loaded it into the CPU. > I hated CP/M and had to deal with an early college computer center > that had IBM [brand and not clones] PC-XTs and a few of them actually > had a graphics card and not the original 80x40 characters type of > display. They all were double single-sided floppy 5.25 inch. The > other rooms had old Apple [before Macs] and they had CP/M OS options, > and the next room had DEC terminals to the mini-mainframes. While I > was there a math professor brought in the "new" Apple computer called > a Macintosh. We also a 10 inch screen portable PC-AT or XT that > weighted over 40 pounds. > > The next college center had both DEC terminals and a few dual floppy > PCs that were connected to the DEC system via a terminal emulator > called Kermit, if my memory is correct. I used its upload/download > abilities to save all my work for that college onto the floppies and > also did some editing at home. My first PC I had at home was a > "clone" from a kit that cost about half of the IBM prices. > > Those were the days of the early home PC market and the beginning of a > PC in every home idea. Before them, most home computer devices were > toys. I only used CP/M on a Supercalc course I took. My first computer, an IMSAI 8080 could run CP/M, *IF* you had floppy drives, which I didn't. I used audio cassettes. When I was taking a Fortran course, I used Procomm+ as a terminal emulator to connect to the school computer. I also had an XT clone. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
