On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 05:35:28PM -0700, MHR wrote:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Bill Campbell centos@celestial.com wrote:
I still have a Tandy 4000, 386-16 no cache, that is used occassionally to program EPROMS. This same machine ran Xenix for years before being abused by installing DR-DOS on it.
I have a Radio Shack Model 100, the first laptop, in the closet beside an HP-97 programmable calculator.
Well, all I have that foes back that far is a 2nd gen IBM PC (the 64k m/b) that would probably work if I knew where any of my 360k MS-DOS floppies were.
Wait, I have a Pascal Microengine in the garage that I never did get to boot! You know, the ones that ran on the 8" floppies, like the old Teraks we used at UCSD?
Never mind - too modern (vintage 1978-79)....
I've still got the first computer I ever bought (a lot newer than the first one I ever used), a screamin' 10 Mhz XT clone with 8087 too! Last year when I fired it up it still worked, though the hard drive had bitten the dust.
And when my wife threatened, some years back, to throw out my boxes of eight inch floppies, I took 'em to work and stuck 'em under my desk for safekeeping. I swear, one of these days I'm going to find a 8" drive for them so I can read 'em in. then I can find one of those pdp-11 emulators and run RT-11 and some ancient Unix too!