> > ... and I remember (almost fondly) of getting down on hands > and knees > > threading ribbon cable between a new Apple II and our > 16.5Mb fileserver > > :) - that was in 1979 I think. > > (waving hand frantically) I did CP/M, MP/M, TurboDOS, Zapple, > and a whole bunch of other S100-based stuff. Goes back to > 1974 for me on that stuff. I still have Volume 1, Issue 1 of > ROM (Read Only Magazine) with the centerfold of a > fully-stripped Z80 processor in it. '80 for me. Ahhhh, the good old days.... Apple IIs and s100 machines. And don't ever forget Commodore! My first 'LAN' was 5 Commodore PETs connected to an auto-swtitching IEEE-488/HP-IB (actually was an HP box), a printer and a single sided 5 1/4" floppy. Printing or using the drive needed a 40+ character command line and our access control consisted of waving your hand in the air and hollering "Nobody else print!" Volume 1, Issue 1, huh? Cool... I used to have a full set of the first 4 years of Byte. But then came the flood... Eric Diamond eDiamond Networking & Security 303-246-9555 eric@xxxxxxxxxxxx
