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.
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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 always preferred the CDC 6600 to the Univac. But some procurement
wienie got taken on a golf outing by a salesman and suddenly we had to
convert everything to Univac.
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~~R
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