26 Apr
1999
26 Apr
'99
4:56 a.m.
On 26 Apr 99 at 13:27, Hans Franke wrote:
Oops . A slip. I had one eye on the tv screen watching Sandra.
I meant Grace Hopper who developed the compiler for Univac and
later headed the COBOL development for the Navy. Likely the most
influential woman in computer history.
ciao Larry
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> <Yesterday, at the KS10 move, I came away
with two IBM PCs, but I
> <don't know enough about them to know if they are the AT or XT
> <models... they both have a 5.25" floppy and a hard drive, and
> <both have color monitors.
> One was a 5150 (xt) the other was a 5170
(also XT)
> If all fails look at the cpu:
> XT 8088 or 8086
> AT 80286 or later
Or XT286 !
> Allison
Heh, Heh, now I don't feel so inadequate for
knowing so little about DECs.
Aside from the front decals which identify them as a Personal Computer (a
PC 5150) , Personal Computer XT (5160), Personal Computer AT (5170)
there is a model # on the back. The IBM monitors were Mono 5151, CGA 5153,
Feels a little like telling Grace Bulloch what an Atari ST is. :^))
Aeh - and who's Grace Bulloch ? (Just for the records)
H.
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