11 May
2008
11 May
'08
9:30 p.m.
On Sun, 11 May 2008, Dave McGuire wrote:
On May 11, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Yep. There seems to be a big assumption (at least elsewhere) that
anybody who is "into retrocomputing" has just gotten into it
recently. Here, we have at least quite a few people who were into
(say) PDP-11s when they were current technology, and at some point
in the past that activity and interest automatically became a part of
the retrocomputing world. How bizarre.
I've always had a fondness for the C64, Amiga, AppleII series, and the
earliest Macs when they were brand-new. <shrug>
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David Griffith
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I
often suffer from the same problem. I think very few of us,
even
here, actually used stuff like CP/M and PDP-11s when they were
considered current technology.
What would we have used in those days?
Oh. I guess that you're talking about the youngsters.