Actually, I do. I was working for DEC at the time. Worked there from
1988-1998. But then again, I got into the industry when the COPS processor
from National Semiconductor and the 8080 from Intel was taking hold. My
first computer was an Imsai (sp?) 8080. Ran CP/M, which you booted from
toggle switches on the front panel. I then progressed by building a computer
from chip level. It also ran CP/M. I also had, an original Trash 80, along
with one of their pocket computers, the one with the 40 char. lcd? I don't
remember the name of it. Since then, I wrote IBM BIOS code for a clone
manufacturer, who gave me 8085, 8086, 80286, 80386, and 80486 test systems.
Last year, when I moved down here, I dumped all the old systems in the local
trash bin, from the 8080 systems to the 80386 systems. I now have a 80486
system running coyote linux as a firewall, a 166 MHz Pentium system running
W98, a 166 MHz system running Slackware, a dual 233 MHz System running
Slackware, and a dual 500 MHz XEON PIII system running...W2k. I still have
2- 500 MHz XEON's waiting for another motherboard if I ever want to spend
the cash for them. They keep the room nice and warm at night. I remember the
Wordstar, Lotus, and probably anything else you want to throw at me. Of
course, working for Digital, I also had a PDP-8 & PDP-11 systems at home.
It only took about 15 minutes to boot from tape.
I hope to get to a couple of meetings , but I work all weekend, and the
other half has something to say about the time I'm spending in the 'other
room'.
Regards,
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "patrick grantham" <pwgrant@cssi-fl.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] ZX-80/computer history
> The DEC Rainbow?! Now there's a name I have not heard in a LONG time.
THE
> MOST non-intuitive file OS I think. Next to CP/M or Frameworks (User
> interface app), anyone remember that one?!
>
> On Wednesday 29 May 2002 18:40, you wrote:
> > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 07:37:49AM -0400, Norbert Cartagena wrote:
> > > Didn't WordStar become StarOffice eventually?
> >
> > That's what we get for letting these young whipper-snappers on this
> > list, dag-nabbit!
> >
> > WordStar is/was an entirely different thing from StarOffice. Some people
> > swore by its arcane keystroke commands, which aren't/weren't near as bad
> > as emacs. WordStar was the king until Word Perfect came along. Now it's
> > just a footnote in computer history, along with the DEC Rainbow, Pong,
> > and Lotus 123. <sniff>
> >
> > Paul
>
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