Stuff to trade/stuff I'm looking for - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

27 Feb 2000

Lawrence LeMay &lt;lemay(a)cs.umn.edu&gt; wrote:
...
  Gods gift to computing ;)   
...
  Surely you're referring to something other than
the 3000/200... They couldnt
 even write a proper FORTRAN compiler for it. And we never did use the
 5.25" floppy drives, they didnt seem to provide a proper file oriented
 way to access them (though I suppose it could have been just a lack
 of documentation). 
Sounds like a 9000 to me; there never was a 3000 series 200.  The only
floppy disc drives I ever heard of on 3000s were 8", and I don't think
that notion caught on.  

And if you were using a 3000, you'd have noticed!  3000s don't run
Unix, they run MPE, which (back then at least) was clearly not
Unix-like.  They also used to have a thoroughly record-structured
filesystem.  Most folks just hate that, though I can't fathom why.

-Frank McConnell