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This is as good a time as any to post this:
As part of my YouTube channel, I need to put my hands on 70's and
80's era computers, preferably in working condition. If you have
any hardware of the era lying around, please give me a note.
And I do mean any hardware at all.
I draw the line at the PC architecture. So, for practical
purposes, any non-PC computer. I also draw the line for
Macintoshes at the switch to the power platform. I would love to
get any 68000 based Macs you might have.
I promise to love them and to bring them to working order to the
best of my abilities.
Shachar
An intro video to the project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1zQQAN6jmU&list=PLGTIvEdBrUVmzMYz1YwYv5jbombw_u0AG
On 25/12/2021 03:13, אורי wrote:
Until this thread I didn't even know there was such
a thing as 8" diskettes. My first computer was an Apple IIe
with 5.25" diskettes (from 1983). I used 3.5" diskettes too and
disk on key but today I hardly use even disk on keys, although I
used one last week after more than a year of not using it. And
of course CDs I don't use any more. My parents have stories of
using punched cards when studying in the Technion (around 1970).
But I still use hard disks, and I assume that everything we use
today will be obsolete in the next 50 years or so.
Omer
Zak said on Fri, 24 Dec 2021 20:32:56 +0200
>My friend, thankfully, has already progressed to the
1.44MB, 3.5"
>diskettes era when the now-archeological PC was new.
>No 5.25" diskettes.
>No 8" diskettes.
LOL, my first job in the computer industry was as a
receptionist at one
of those early computer stores that catered to business. CPM,
hard
disk, Wordstar, spreadsheet and Dbase. And 8 inch floppies.
This was February or March of 1984, and we were still emerging
from the
1982-83 recession, so in spite of the fact that in school I
wrote a
Cobol program that would take, as input, another Cobol
program, and
output a function decomposition diagram of the input, complete
with
branches, loops and procedure calls, nobody would hire me. So
I became a
receptionist in order to get a "computer job".
Two months later I had a real job as a Pascal programmer
(remember, bad
economy, I took what I could), on PDP-11/23 with 5MB
Winchester
removeable drive and about 50 serial ports to drive serial
terminals. I
never saw an 8 inch floppy again.
SteveT
Steve Litt
Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the
Successful
Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques
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