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Re: Tethering and Linux



In high school I used teletypes to enter my program, and paper tape (if you know what that is) to save my program. Later I graduated to punchcards with PL1 in college.
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Date: Friday, January 08, 2010 12:35:30 pm
To: silug-discuss@silug.org
From: "Charlie Bruce" <cbruce8@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Tethering and Linux

Well, I can come close. I started around that time and Kaskaskia Jr College
had just dumped punch cards the semester before.

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage
<dsavage@peaknet.net>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


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