Enrico Weigelt wrote:
* W B Hacker <w...@conducive.org> wrote:
Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote:
linux is actually quite easy and has been for about 12 years or more
... not sure of the others.
I was running diskless Windows in 1995; it wasn't pretty, but it could
be done. These days you can run XP+ diskless if you have the right
Windows Server and installation tools fu.
Don't get me started on diode plugboard 'ROM', mercury or nickel-iron delay
lines and 'upgrading' to mag drum memory now...
This is one of the days when this list feels like an veteran meeting ;-)
I'm probably one of the youngest here, i didn't have the honour to do
my first steps on punchtapes ;-o
cu
Heh!
If you'd ever dropped a deck of punched *cards* you'd have thought paper tape
was a huge advance, and more durable mylar even more so....
;-)
Wasn't all that slow, either. Mannesman-Tally punched it at 300 cps and upwards,
many optical readers read it back at over 1,000 cps.
