RE: Chown ???

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i had a trs-80/radio shack color computer in college... those where the
days...

in junior high... one of my math teachers was taking her 1st course in
programming.. "basic".. she managed to somehow get a teletype machine, with
the yellow/white paper rolls, so we could actully login/access the local
college system, and that's where i started learning "basic"...

in 1972... damn i want a drink...



-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gene Heskett
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 1:32 PM
To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.
Subject: Re: Chown ???


On Thursday 09 April 2009, Jim wrote:
>Rick Stevens wrote:
>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 11:19 -0400, Jim wrote:
>>>> Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>>> Jim wrote:
>>>>>> Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>>>>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 15:27 +0000, g wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> ttys
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 'b-'. you did not answer which model and usage of paper. :)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> asr33, paper scroll :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ASR33s also had the paper tape punch and reader.  KSR33s did
>>>>>>> not.  I had both hooked up to my Altair 8800 back in '77 via 110
>>>>>>> baud, 20mA current
>>>>>>> loop serial interfaces.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ah, memories!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ASR33 on  a Altair, that far back, You must be at least 100,
>>>>>
>>>>> Smart*ss!  Nah, I was in college (sophmore).
>>>>>
>>>>>> I started out on a RCA 1802 8 bit and I still have it.  I modified
>>>>>> it to
>>>>>> work on S100 bus so I could get more memory , 64k , man you were
>>>>>> top dog with that kind of memory.
>>>>>
>>>>> Only had 56K (seven 8KB RAM cards) and a nice 8K EPROM board (had
>>>>> 1702A
>>>>> PROMS on it) holding a monitor program.
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer                      ricks@xxxxxxxx -
>>>>> - AIM/Skype: therps2        ICQ: 22643734            Yahoo: origrps2 -
>>>>> -                                                                    -
>>>>> -           "I understand Windows 2000 has a Y2K problem."           -
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> I don't think anything has had a fast pace change like the Computer.
>>>> Then you had to really get into the nuts and bolts of a computer to
>>>> get one working.
>>>> I also still have a dual 8" floppy drive that was big back then.
>>>> I can remember when the 3 1/2, 1.4mb floppy first came boy did that
>>>> make a big difference.
>>>
>>> Dear me, all you youngsters prattling on about these new-fangled
>>> "microprocessors". The first system I managed was a PDP-11/45.
>>
>> Got ya beat.  First managed a Univac (can't recall the model), moved to
>> an S/360, Burroughs Medium System 12, Xerox Sigma 7, DG Nova 2/10, DEC
>> PDP-8, PDP-11/45 and VAX 11/785, THEN got the Altairs and IMSAIs (and
>> Amigas and clones and lions and tigers and bears, oh my!).
>>
>> And now, back to the real topic.  (What was it again? I forget...)
>> -- Rick
>
>I knew it , just give it time, and the BIG GUYS will  jump out of the
>Woodwork.
>Did you ever buy a Trash-80 ?

Careful now, those are fightin words in this camp.

>From another screen on this machine:
----------------------------------------
Welcome to minicom 2.3

OPTIONS: I18n
Compiled on Aug 29 2008, 07:16:49.
Port /dev/ttyS0

               Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys

{t2|04}/DD:
 Directory of .  2009/04/09 16:50
BOOTTRACK       CMDS            DEFS            HDBDOS11.DSK    MAXTOR
MODULES         NEWBOOT         NITROS9         NOS96309        OLDCMDS
OLDDEFS         OLDSYS          PcDos.doc       PcDos.doc1      Pcdos.lzh
SYS             UTILS2          cc3go           UTILS2.tmp      dskini
dummy           gene            startyup        test.p          old-sysgo
utils2.merge-list               print-test.b09  sysgo           sysgo.asm
SRC             discscan4floppy dsave.out       startup         devel
p               ekodrvr
---------------------------------------------
That is the root directory of a Color Computer 3, running nitros9-3.2.8 as
the
os.  The more things change, the more they stay the same, it is a
multiuser/multitasking os running on an 8 bit Hitachi 63C09 cpu, at 1.79
mhz/second.  It has a 1GB scsi hard drive, 2 megs of ram.  Lots more but I
suppose I'd bore the list.  A true legacy computer, complete with a
bluetooth
serial port, although that was scraped from a wired connection.

--
Cheers, Gene
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		-- Dave Decot


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