From: Wayne Stallwood Sent: 06 July 2005 22:11
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:43 +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
Before Amstrad got their grubby paws on it, then :) God, I remember the days of autoexec.bat and config.sys, and am very glad
that I don't
have to deal with that any more :)
Actually I sort of miss those days.
I remember hours of fun trying to balance loaded TSR's with available (and pretty scarce) RAM. Oh and remember the different areas of Ram Extended and Expanded wasn't it ? PC Tools and early versions of Norton Utils ?
Not forgetting having to use Debug to low level format Hard Drives and manually parking heads before moving machines.
OK you're right it wasn't that much fun was it :-)
<nostalgia> Ahh!! </nostalgia> and let's not forget punched cards and..... paper tape. Oh! those were the days. Regards, Keith ____________ EGOTIST, n. - A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary
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On 7/7/05, Keith Watson <keith.watson@kewill.com> wrote:
<nostalgia> Ahh!! </nostalgia>
and let's not forget punched cards and..... paper tape.
Oh! those were the days.
And pencils and abacusses (abacii?)...*snif*
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On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 08:35 +0100, Keith Watson wrote:
From: Wayne Stallwood Sent: 06 July 2005 22:11
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:43 +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
Before Amstrad got their grubby paws on it, then :) God, I remember the days of autoexec.bat and config.sys, and am very glad
that I don't
have to deal with that any more :)
Actually I sort of miss those days.
I remember hours of fun trying to balance loaded TSR's with available (and pretty scarce) RAM. Oh and remember the different areas of Ram Extended and Expanded wasn't it ? PC Tools and early versions of Norton Utils ?
Not forgetting having to use Debug to low level format Hard Drives and manually parking heads before moving machines.
OK you're right it wasn't that much fun was it :-)
<nostalgia> Ahh!! </nostalgia>
and let's not forget punched cards and..... paper tape.
Oh! those were the days.
Regards,
Keith ____________ EGOTIST, n. - A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary
Yep, you're quite right Keith, we should stop living in the past. But it is nice to talk about these things at times. I have never used punched cards or paper tape, sorry. However, if you want to have a chat via Morse Code that's another story, I'm all in favour of that!! Cheers peter
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On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:12:06AM +0100, Peter Hunter wrote:
Yep, you're quite right Keith, we should stop living in the past. But it is nice to talk about these things at times.
Well, just to show how ancient I am, I started my computing career in about 1970 on a big (for then) GE timesharing system as a support engineer. The main machine most definitely used punched cards, that was still the predominant means for entering programs and data. At the (teletype, 10cps) terminals punched paper tape was it. Before I left the terminals had been upgraded to super whizzy Olivetti 30cps ones and we even had a few (also 30cps) VDUs. Later on I worked on many of the early DEC machines, PDP-8, PDP-12 (my speciality) and PDP-11. At that time all except the PDP-12 (which was a bit of an oddity) had to be booted by manually entering a simple paper tape loader in binary using the front panel switches and then loading the rest of the startup programs from paper tape. Next I programmed 8080s and other early microprocessors. I'll go back to sleep now. -- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 09:38 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:12:06AM +0100, Peter Hunter wrote:
Yep, you're quite right Keith, we should stop living in the past. But it is nice to talk about these things at times.
Well, just to show how ancient I am, I started my computing career in about 1970 on a big (for then) GE timesharing system as a support engineer. The main machine most definitely used punched cards, that was still the predominant means for entering programs and data. At the (teletype, 10cps) terminals punched paper tape was it. Before I left the terminals had been upgraded to super whizzy Olivetti 30cps ones and we even had a few (also 30cps) VDUs.
Later on I worked on many of the early DEC machines, PDP-8, PDP-12 (my speciality) and PDP-11. At that time all except the PDP-12 (which was a bit of an oddity) had to be booted by manually entering a simple paper tape loader in binary using the front panel switches and then loading the rest of the startup programs from paper tape.
Next I programmed 8080s and other early microprocessors.
I'll go back to sleep now.
Are you sure your name isn't Noah? Peter
On 07-Jul-05 Peter Hunter wrote:
Yep, you're quite right Keith, we should stop living in the past. But it is nice to talk about these things at times.
I have never used punched cards or paper tape, sorry. However, if you want to have a chat via Morse Code that's another story, I'm all in favour of that!!
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