18 Jun
1998
18 Jun
'98
7:25 p.m.
From: Philip.Belben(a)powertech.co.uk
Subject: Re[2]: CP/M
Likewise the Commodore 8-bitters. In the early 1980s,
I was one of the
first in my school (I was 14 or so at the time) to own a floppy disk
(yes, a disk, not a drive).
Gosh what memories, did you lug around a box of cassettes too??? Yeah,
disks back then were about $5.00 (US) a shot [not to be confused with
ammunition in previous off topics, though I can wield a mean VIC-20] for the
cheap SS/SD ones.
New Topic! Ok people: what sort of storage media (and for what system) did
you guys carry around to start out with?
I started with cassettes for the PETs at high school, though not as old as
some but still nostalgic. I still have my original first tape, though it had
been transfered to a new housing and snaps when a good (assertive?) datasette
rewinds it, it is still readable.
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19 Jun
19 Jun
7:28 p.m.
At 09:25 PM 6/18/98 -0700, you wrote:
New Topic! Ok people: what sort of storage media (and for what system) did
you guys carry around to start out with?
I started with cassettes for the PETs at high school, though not as old as
some but still nostalgic. I still have my original first tape, though it had
been transfered to a new housing and snaps when a good (assertive?) datasette
rewinds it, it is still readable.
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First??? DECtape, 1 inch wide on the 4 inch reels from the PDP-8 in the
OMSI computer labs. On occasion 8 level paper tape from the teletypes that
we used to access a GE time-share system in Seattle.
And... I still have gear in the collection that can read both! B^}
-jim
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Computer Garage Fax - (503) 646-0174
5:15 p.m.
At 09:25 PM 6/18/98 -0700, you wrote:
Well I guess this dates me, but , 80 column punch cards. Do
not bend ,spindle or mutilate.
The only benefit was when a few years later on my advertising
distribution company was delivering a promo for a large supermarket
firm that shall go unnamed, cards that had some prizes included.
The cards were put thru an interpreter at the check-out counter
and some were winning cards if you had the item mentioned in
your basket. Since I could read the cards we pulled some of the
better prizes and presented them at different stores.
" Oh I won a Steak ? Thats great , I just happen to have one in
my basket."
We lived more dangerously in those days.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
New Topic! Ok people: what sort of storage media (and for what system) did
you guys carry around to start out with?
I started with cassettes for the PETs at high school, though not as old as
some but still nostalgic. I still have my original first tape, though it had
been transfered to a new housing and snaps when a good (assertive?) datasette
rewinds it, it is still readable.
--
First??? DECtape, 1 inch wide on the 4 inch reels from the PDP-8 in the
OMSI computer labs. On occasion 8 level paper tape from the teletypes that
we used to access a GE time-share system in Seattle.
And... I still have gear in the collection that can read both! B^}
-jim
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8:53 p.m.
At 09:25 PM 18-06-98 -0700, Larry Anderson wrote:
New Topic! Ok people: what sort of storage media (and
for what system) did
you guys carry around to start out with?
Well, paper tape for the PDP-8, cards for the PDP-15 and DECsystem-10. I
still have a complete card deck for an Algol program I wrote that takes
modified BNF as input and produces the operator precedence matrix as output.
The reason for cards? Well the assignment was getting close to coding time
(ie a day or two before it was due :-) and the DEC-10 was broken and likely
to be down for a day or two. A quick brush up on IBM card punch procedures
and the deck was ready for input as soon as the -10 came up. This is the
largest card deck I ever did (about 1 card box in length).
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Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479
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