On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 06:22:59AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Oct 20 15:04:17 2010
> > From: Mike Jeays
> > To: Bob Hall ,
> > FreeBSD Mailing List
> > Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:05:34 -0400
> >
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Arthur Chance wrote:
> Dredging up physics unused for 30+ years, ferrite is ferromagnetic and
> intensifies magnetic fields so a coil of wire with ferrite inside is a
> massively bigger inductor then an empty coil. I vaguely remember that brass
> is slightly diamag
My first machine was an IBM 1620, but hey, at least we had an actual disk.
A couple of 2311's.
To quote a fellow I used to consult for, two days' I had solved a
particularly nasty programming problem for his company, "But what have you
done for us lately?"
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:57 AM, RW
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:32:23 +0100
Arthur Chance wrote:
> On 10/21/10 13:38, RW wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100
> > Arthur Chance wrote:
> >
> >
> >> 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by
> >> inserting brass slugs for 0s and ferrite slugs for 1s on a pin
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 01:38:44PM +0100, RW wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100
> Arthur Chance wrote:
> > 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by
> > inserting brass slugs for 0s and ferrite slugs for 1s on a pin board.
>
> I wonder why it was brass/ferrite rath
On 10/21/10 13:38, RW wrote:
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100
Arthur Chance wrote:
50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by
inserting brass slugs for 0s and ferrite slugs for 1s on a pin board.
I wonder why it was brass/ferrite rather than brass/empty or
ferrite/em
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100
Arthur Chance wrote:
> 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by
> inserting brass slugs for 0s and ferrite slugs for 1s on a pin board.
I wonder why it was brass/ferrite rather than brass/empty or
ferrite/empty.
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Oct 21 02:18:28 2010
> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:20:07 +0100
> From: Arthur Chance
> To: FreeBSD-Questions
> Subject: Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)
>
> On 10/20/10 23:07, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 20, 2
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Oct 20 15:04:17 2010
> From: Mike Jeays
> To: Bob Hall ,
> FreeBSD Mailing List
> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:05:34 -0400
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)
>
> On October 20, 2010 03:46:0
On 20 October 2010 21:10, Arthur Chance wrote:
> On 10/20/10 20:46, Bob Hall wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:07:55PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>>
>>> 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:
> Matthi
Hi,
Reference:
> From: David Brodbeck
> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:58:40 -0700
> Message-id:
David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Arthur Chance wrote:
> > On 10/20/10 20:46, Bob Hall wrote:
> > Getting back to reality, although I never did it (fortunately
"Svein Skogen (Listmail account)" wrote:
> On 20.10.2010 09:47, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > Matthias Apitz 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 :-)
On 10/20/10 23:07, Gary Kline wrote:
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 09:10:28PM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote:
On 10/20/10 20:46, Bob Hall wrote:
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:07:55PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
On 10/20/2010 11:55 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:47:38AM -0700, per...@pluto
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 07:25:14PM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
>
> And I'm appalled that my phone has more horsepower than a dual-cpu VAX
> 11/780 with a floating-point accelerator. That just doesn't seem right.
What I find appalling is that most of the extra power on my smartphone is
wasted on
Unix, v6, on a PDP-11 (although I can't recall which model), circa 1977.
Got away from it for a bit, then landed in the middle of the v6-v7 shift
and the BSD takeover a couple of years later. Still recall being amazed
by the Fujitsu Eagle ("small" form factor, "large" capacity).
And I'm appalled
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 09:10:28PM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote:
> On 10/20/10 20:46, Bob Hall wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:07:55PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> >>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:
> Matthi
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Arthur Chance wrote:
> On 10/20/10 20:46, Bob Hall wrote:
> Getting back to reality, although I never did it (fortunately), a friend of
> mine who was about a decade older than me (I'm mid/late 50s) had the
> experience of programming microcode on a machine by inse
On 10/20/10 20:46, Bob Hall wrote:
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:07:55PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
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 wrote:
El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gar
On October 20, 2010 03:46:06 pm Bob Hall wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:07:55PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> > 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 wrote:
> > >>> El d?a Tuesday, October 19
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:07:55PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> 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 wrote:
> >>> El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gary Kline
> >>> escribi?:
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 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
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:32:58AM +0200, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote:
> On 20.10.2010 09:47, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > Matthias Apitz wrote:
> >> El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gary Kline
> >> escribi?:
> >>> PS: I really _was_ current on hardware st
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:47:38AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Matthias Apitz 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
> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:47:38 -0700
> From: per...@pluto.rain.com
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mob...@freebsd.org
>
> Matthias Apitz 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
On 20 Oct 2010 at 10:32, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote:
> On 20.10.2010 09:47, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > Matthias Apitz 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 th
On October 20, 2010 03:47:38 am per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Matthias Apitz 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 ta
On 10/20/10 09:32, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote:
On 20.10.2010 09:47, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Matthias Apitz 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 d
On 20.10.2010 09:47, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Matthias Apitz 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 aro
Matthias Apitz 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
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