On 10/20/2010 11:55 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:47:38AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: >> Matthias Apitz <g...@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 ... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
