4 Oct
2004
4 Oct
'04
7:14 p.m.
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Nico de Jong wrote:
When I was employed by Philips Denmark, I had to
support a PTS6000 system in
a local authority. The system was "slightly" underdimensioned; instead of a
proper system (1x 5MB disk, 1x 8" 251K floppy, 1x digital cassette), they
had for budgetary reasons to do with 2x 8" floppy and 1 cassette.
...
We usually shipped 5 disks at the same time, as a floppy was normally worn
out in about a week. Paying for the floppies was not problem, as it was paid
from a maintenance account, as opposed to an investment account.
I still dont dare to show my face at the customer site...
UGH! What a nightmare!! Pretty funny from here though.
My old FidoNet code ran just fine in 128K (K, not M) because
it was all small-model and ran in OVERLAYS (via PSA's
plink). Performance wasn't too bad, but still it was a lot
of drive honking, luckily I got to overlay Fido vs. FidoNet,
user interface sections vs. scheduler, etc. Hard disk was
"recommended" (sic).
But it wasn't like that, which sounds awful. I assume they
are not still running it!