Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

[Tim Daneliuk]

On 10/20/2010 11:55 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:47:38AM -0700, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
>> Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
>>> El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gary Kline escribi?:
>>>> 	PS:  I really _was_ current on hardware stuff.  Back in the VAX
>>>> 	780 days :-) 
>>> I booted my first UNIX V7 tape on a PDP-11 around 1982, I think.
>>
>> Gotcha beat :)  UNIX V6, PDP-11/34, RK05 disk cartridge, 1975.
>> The whole runtime fit on one RK05.  The sources took a second one.
> 
> 
> 	I remember the 11/34 fondly.  The whole EE department at Cory
> 	Hall was running one one; then when I interned at Livermore my
> 	job of porting the "Portable F77 Compiler" was done with vi and
> 	the source code that Stu Feldman wrote.  I love[d] those bloody 
> 	old computers, :-)  Dunno why.   Maybe because they really 
> 	*were* about computing.  Not streaming [[whatever]] or having 
> 	php running.  (Blah^9^9^9)
> 
> 	:)
> 
> 
> 

Heck, when I started out, they didn't even have zeros and ones yet.
We had to settle for "o"s and "l"s ...


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