29 Aug
2008
29 Aug
'08
10:26 a.m.
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 20:47 -0400, fred smith wrote:
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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!
IIRC, the TRS Model 16 had 8" drives. That might be a good bet.
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Bill (the other one)