Re: Tethering and Linux

[fbceachday <fbceachday@yahoo.com>]

Punch cards, anyone?  No one except Grad Students could mess with the 
new micro computers.  The first floppy disk I ever saw had no cover and 
had to be handled with white gloves.  They didn't have a very long life 
span.   :)

On 01/07/2010 03:16 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> I can top that. My first OS was CP/M 2.0 in 1979. All documentation was
> mimeographed and/or Xeroxed (TM). No compiler -- everything was done in
> 8080/Z80 assembler. Debugging and patching was done first with Dynamic
> Debugging Tool (DDT), and later with RApid Interactive Debugger (RAID).
> The entire OS fit into the first three tracks of a single-sided 315K
> Micropolis 5" floppy with 15 hard sectors. My first printer was an Epson
> MX80 -- darned near serial number 1. My first modem was a D.C. Hayes
> MicroModem 100 card for the S-100 bus -- 300 baud dial-up! Hot stuff.
>
> --Doc
>
>
> On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 21:26 -0600, Scott Duensing wrote:
>    
>> Floppies?  The first "distro" I installed was a stack of printouts
>> telling me what to download from where and compile!  Only took two
>> days.  :-)
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:04 PM,<tjc@mvp.net>  wrote:
>>      
>>>        
>>>>> Why, I remember Slackware and 13 floppies and... whoops, sorry, I'm
>>>>>            
>>> old.
>>>
>>> No, you're a youngster.
>>>
>>> Slackware took 140 floppies when I loaded it.  Still have some of em
>>> somewhere.
>>>        
>
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