25 Mar
2005
25 Mar
'05
10:03 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 23:48 -0500, David V. Corbin
wrote:
The obscure Wang 3300 took around 40 minutes to get it into BASIC. I
couldn't believe these numbers myself but I have had multiple first hand
accounts, including from a Wang sales guy, that it was true. It took
longer if there was a read error, which wasn't too infrequent, and you
didn't know it until the end of those 40 minutes. It was a multi-step
tape loading process.
I haven't updated my web site on the 3300 in a long time, and I need to
fix it to correct my attempts to refute that 40 minute boot time:
http://www.thebattles.net/wang/3300.html
...
So what's the slowest classic machine to boot (to the point where a user
can start using the machine, say)?