30 Nov
2001
30 Nov
'01
12:53 p.m.
At 12:08 PM 11/30/01 -0600, you wrote:
I would add: HP2000 timeshare system..widely used,
often provided the
first exposure to computers that got many of us started in the field.
My first intro to "real" computers:
IBM's ITF (interactive terminal facility) timeshare system that
ran on the 360/370 mainframes.
Not widely used (I heard it was 10 installations worldwide),
but must have been a huge development effort on the part of IBM.
A scaled down locked down (but I did figure out how to crash it) TSO with
Basic and PL/I programming langs.
Changed my life, possibly for the worse, 25+ years ago. Hmm...
Others I'd put on the list from personal experience:
IBM/360
Early HP3000 (series I,II,III)
PDP-11
Apple II
IBM PC 5150
1 Dec
1 Dec
3:09 a.m.
Is this supposed to be which ones were most historically significant, or
WHICH ONES YOU LIKE??
Imagine a world history that leaves out all mention of Hitler.
30 Nov
30 Nov
1:21 p.m.
"Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" wrote:
Is this supposed to be which ones were most historically significant, or
WHICH ONES YOU LIKE??
Imagine a world history that leaves out all mention of Hitler.
Well it would be a
lot thinner!
It is hard to say what you consider significant and from what country
you are from. One other item neglected is software ( hoping windows
don't crash while typing this) too.
Ben Franchuk --- Pre-historic Cpu's --
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
1 Dec
1 Dec
3:50 a.m.
Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
Is this supposed to be which ones were most
historically significant, or
WHICH ONES YOU LIKE??
As the examiner, I say it is the former. Likes and disklikes don't enter into it.
Imagine a world history that leaves out all mention of
Hitler.
Nice point
-- hbp
5:22 a.m.
On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Hans B Pufal wrote:
Leaving Hitler out of a world history would be like leaving IBM PC (5150)
out of a list of significant computers.
Is this
supposed to be which ones were most historically significant, or
WHICH ONES YOU LIKE??
As the examiner, I say it is the former. Likes and disklikes
don't enter into it.
Imagine a world history that leaves out all
mention of Hitler.
Nice point
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