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Mike Markowski wrote: |
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> Tony Stohne wrote: |
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>> hehe, there are some experienced guys (& gals?) on the list. |
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>> I'm 44... |
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> I'm also 44, have been using Unix since 1981 and still have my hardback |
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> book on the PDP 11/70 and my K&R C book from then. I remember being |
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> told not to run 'vi' when too many people were on because it would slow |
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> the machine down. :-) (Bad info it seems, but funny now.) My first pc |
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> unix was in 1991 and I forget if it was BSDFree or FreeBSD. X11 dist |
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> was X386. I'm pretty sure the OS was version 0.1. I remember loading |
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> floppy after floppy after floppy to get the os on, then it took a long |
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> time for X to start up with the disk grinding away. I also remember |
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> earlier days as a teen never being able to convince my parents to spring |
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> for the $500 TRS-80 or Heathkit... :-) |
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I remember the TRS-80! I also was brought up on the CBM or Commodore |
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PET (green screen with cassette tape drive). I started programming in |
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early 1983 using BASIC on the Commodore PET. Same CPU as the Apple IIe |
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(and Apple IIc). The release of the Commodore 64 was a God send, with |
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my first real option to write graphics and sound code along with |
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eventually writing my own assembler because I couldn't afford to buy one |
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;-) 64KB was SO MUCH MEMORY back then! Oh yes, I am 35 years old. |
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Tom Veldhouse |
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