new FC1 install problems

[Karen Spearel]

duncan brown wrote:
> Gene Heskett said:
> 
>>Both :)  And an old fart (69) to boot. I started on much much simpler
>>machines back in the 70's, writing a commercialy used app for the RCA
>>1802 cpu with nothing but the programmer manual and the machines hex
>>monitor.  Unforch, thats ill-equipt me to deal with os's whose src  code
>>is in the general area of 200 megabytes. :(
> 
> 
> completely offtopic, so please excuse me alexander.
> 
> and i don't mean to insult you in anyway, but... i wonder who's the oldest
> computer literate linux user out there?  i sort of have the mentality of
> the hippies back in the 60s/70s, don't trust anyone over 30 =] ... it's
> hard for me to believe that someone over 30 uses linux personally, once
> you're over 30 you have to start thinking more like a manager =]... then
> again, i'm almost over that line, but i don't feel like i'm that close =]
> 
> -d

A proper lady never reveals her age, but I did have an analog computer 
to play with in 1960...remember when Dr. Dobbs was a newsletter and was 
a charter subscriber to Byte.  Back in the good olde days, if you 
couldn't handle the business end of a wirewrap gun, it didn't happen.

The first thing I had the remotely qualified as a store-bought computer 
was a kit that had a 6800 clocked at a whopping 500 kilohertz...complete 
with 256 *bytes* of memory and a really nifty from panel with leds and 
toggle switches...of course, in those days, Woz, Jobs and Billy Gates 
were still wandering around in short pants. Hand assembly of machine 
code toggled into the front panel was the only way to do anything unless 
you were really lucky and owned a TTY...110 baud Baudot code, anyone?

Ah, for the halcyon days when homebrewing was the only way...when 1771s 
and 6845s were to become cutting edge, when DeMorgan's Theorem and 100 
TTL packages on a logic diagram was generally required to do anything 
useful...and when a primitive assembler was a real luxury?


KAS