Re: Tethering and Linux

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

Ah punch cards... When I first went off to college Washington State
University was the proud owner of a brand new IBM System 360 Series 67
mainframe. Whether your classes were in Cobol or Fortran (Waterloo
dialect - WatFor), you did everything on an old KP-26 card punch
machine. In my sophomore year they added new fangled KP-29 card punch
machines -- very sexy. I've still got some long & low boxes with punch
cards and their listings somewhere around here. Then there were the bits
of paper punched out of the cards. Today we'd call them chads, and they
were great for parties and pranks around the dorms.

--Doc


On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 21:20 -0600, fbceachday wrote:
> 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



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