30 Jan
2012
30 Jan
'12
10:59 a.m.
fre 2012-01-27 klockan 20:24 -0600 skrev Kevin Monceaux:
The subject, minus the word game, brought back a few
fond memories. The
junior high I went to the longest, Horace Man Junior High, added a computer
lab and computer science class my 8th grade year - '83/'84. I took the
class and have been hooked ever since. The school had an Apple ][ Plus
"network." I don't remember all the details. The host had half a dozen
floppy drives attached to it and all the "network" did was give several
other computers access to those drives. If I remember correctly it ran ROS,
the Remote Operating System. All the boxes on the network were daisy
chained off the host by narrow ribbon cables. It was a one semester class.
I did well enough that the teacher asked me to be her student aid the second
semester. Ah, the memories.
Which is comparable with how the networks (two different types from the
main manufacturer and a 3d part) in my 'high school' for the swedish ABC
series microcomputers worked but in this case it was hard disks in the
network hub (central.)
ABC computers: z80 machines with basic II and the possibility to run
CP/M.
The later ones had good ergonomics (separate really thin kbd with
built-in handrests and a yellow-brown phosphor display.)
The kbd was much better than the one which IBM sold for the AT machines
in the new bought CAD lab.
ABC computers later produced two UNIX systems where one use case was as
an central net hub in a ABC-Net network.