Chown ???

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Thu Apr 9 15:19:49 UTC 2009


Rick Stevens wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>> Rick Stevens wrote:
>>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 15:27 +0000, g wrote:
>>>>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> ttys
>>>>> 'b-'. you did not answer which model and usage of paper. :)
>>>>
>>>> asr33, paper scroll :-)
>>>
>>> ASR33s also had the paper tape punch and reader.  KSR33s did not.  I 
>>> had both hooked up to my Altair 8800 back in '77 via 110 baud, 20mA 
>>> current
>>> loop serial interfaces.
>>>
>>> Ah, memories!
>>>
>> ASR33 on  a Altair, that far back, You must be at least 100,
>
> Smart*ss!  Nah, I was in college (sophmore).
>
>> I started out on a RCA 1802 8 bit and I still have it.  I modified it to
>> work on S100 bus so I could get more memory , 64k , man you were top 
>> dog with that kind of memory.
>
> Only had 56K (seven 8KB RAM cards) and a nice 8K EPROM board (had 1702A
> PROMS on it) holding a monitor program.
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I don't think anything has had a fast pace change like the Computer.
Then you had to really get into the nuts and bolts of a computer to get 
one working.
I also still have a dual 8" floppy drive that was big back then.
I can remember when the 3 1/2, 1.4mb floppy first came boy did that make 
a big difference.




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