7 Jul
2005
7 Jul
'05
2:14 a.m.
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:52:25 -0700 (PDT)
Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com> wrote:
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, William Maddox wrote:
[Lest anyone think I hate IBM -- I don't. I really love the 360
architecture, and would have loved writing assembly for it. It's
just that their business practices weren't conducive to
non-business cultural uses of their systems, until the peecee.]
They were open enough, at least, that people like my dad were able to
'check out' and bring home an IBM 5100 on the weekend for us to fool
with. I remember loading and playing Star Trek on the 5100 at home.