[DUG] You say potatoe I say....

[Maurice Butler]

Hi, 
Started PDP-8,

then 6802 development kit moded to 6809 and then when upgrade to 4k ram got
pascal to run.

Trs 80,
then apple II,
hp 85,
Contract programming on Commodore 64, single disk drive
then ibm pc 64k , tape recorder, single 320k floppy a bargin at $10,000
loved turbo pascal when it came out - great improvement over basic or
assembler

Most exciting - removable pack hard disks - 20Mb with 1hp linear motor for
head postioning and being told on the servicing cse that the safety pin for
the linear motor did not stop it, it was to give you enough time to get your
fingers out before the safety pin sheared

Maurice - glad those days are over


-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
Behalf Of Phil Scadden
Sent: Thursday, 23 March 2006 4:09 p.m.
To: johnkbird at paradise.net.nz; NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: RE: [DUG] You say potatoe I say....


> My first tech device was a Sharp programmable scientific calculator, 
> EL5101 it had 48 yes 48 steps of program storage, and 5 memories.  It 
> also had a wonderful LCD display and algebraic logic, eg you could 
> enter expressions

We must be similar vintage. Mine was the wonderful TI. Similar functions but
easier than the HP25 RPN stuff.


> And PDP-11's and VMS, fond memories.  Guess where the DIR command came 
> from? My favourite memory is of a PDP-11 that crashed running RT11 
> which was real fast....the console was on a separate power supply and 
> it had this message on it:

well I am still programming vaxen. (Have machines that will not die). I
don't have good memories of the PDP-11. The hair-raising sound on the edge
of audibility as your winchester has a head-crash. You hear you data dying.
oh and the 8in floppies. How I hated the memory managment on those things
too.

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Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences
764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand
Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232

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