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

[Alister Christie]

Oh yeah,

I remember when working in Babylon I got my first abacus, man that was 
much easier than counting piles beans....

Alister Christie
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Maurice Butler wrote:
> 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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