Posted by Gene on 02/04/07 16:22

Was it a Commodore Pet micro-computer ?

Not the easiest one to program, as I remember.
Think I attached a tape recorder to one, or it could have
been the one EXXon sold ... can't remember.

Hope someone saved a few of the old obscure micros, like
the Star, Mits Altair, Amiga, etc. If I remember correctly, I started
coding on the first one in ~ 1969, or 1970. Geesh, how the time flies.
LOL - I purchased a number of them to try & find one to write a generalized
accounting program on, but got busy with other projects & never finished
the code rewrite from the IBM 360 programs. LOL - left a few billions
on the table with that clever choice:-)

Gene





"Bill Vermillion" <bv@wjv.com> wrote in message news:JCxvqF.1sy1@wjv.com...
> In article <epvr69$56m$02$1@news.t-online.com>,
> Low Life #3 <holden_mcthynge@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>"SFTVratings" <SFTVratings_troy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>news:1170413859.944019.35140@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>: (2) I've been posting on Usenet since 1988 (back when computers were
>>: only a few kilobytes worth of RAM). I don't need some Newbie like you
>>: telling me what I can or can not do.
>
>>got you beat by two years... 1986 email and USENET access via a dumb
>>terminal connected to a DEC mainframe, back-bone site on the old ARPANET.
>>UNIX system and posted using the vi text editor. Fewer wankers in those
>>days.
>
> And what was the backbone site? Seismo? So much of the stuff on
> my machine came in via a uucp bang path, and here in the East
> almost everything seemed to go through Seismo.
>
> I brought up a leaf and then a node in about 1985 on a Radio Shack
> model 16 with Xenix. In a year or so we had three nodes in this
> area [Orlando] feeding about 100+ others. I got a backup feed from
> GE in Daytona, the main site got one from [oh my gawd - my memory
> is going - but it was a comptuer mfr starting with C]
>
> And I STILL post using a vi text editor :-) And 80x24 text with
> trn. [and I run my own new server on THIS machine - and I'm the
> only user - but it means everything is always there - instantly.
> I'm just an old fart who dislikes having to take my hands off the
> keys to play with a rodent. I guess I'm an anachronism.
>
> And a total daily feed of 6MB in 1985/6 meant that if you were an
> avid reader you could read ALL the posts in the ALL the NGs.
>
> It was really nice in those days with the ban on advertising
> becuase of Arpanet and all the university sites.
>
> And the level of posts seemed to be much higher as it took a bit of
> technical knowledge to get connected - but that may be just an
> impresison from a fading memory.
>
>
> Bill
> --
> Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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