<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:25 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ng0g@mchsi.com">ng0g@mchsi.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Steve Hawkins NG0G<br>
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From: j bengtson <<a href="mailto:j.bengtson@mchsi.com">j.bengtson@mchsi.com</a>><br>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <<a href="mailto:cialug@cialug.org">cialug@cialug.org</a>><br>
Sent: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:48:39 -0500 (CDT)<br>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] I Remember When Computer Specs<br>
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Is this just a sneaky way of identifying the old fogies here?<br>
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The first computer I got to lay hands on was an Apple II (48K RAM, 1MHz 6502 processor, monochrome green monitor). Several years later, when they first announced an external hard drive option, I remember wondering what in the world anyone would need 20 MB of hard drive space for...<br>
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It might be a way of id'ing us old fogies. Who remembers "pip", what it did, and what the letters stood for?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I (sort of) cheated. I've used it, I used to know what it stood for, but I couldn't remember. Peripheral Interchange Program is what I heard it called (after some memory jogging via Wikipedia). It copied files and deleted files with the correct arguments. I remember forgetting to put the "/lo" at the end of a "pip *.bas /de". Oops, there went all those BASIC files.</div>
<div><br></div><div>That was back on an old DEC PDP-11/44 using RSTS/E, RSX-11, and RT11. Different programs ran under the different OSes. I think EDT was RSX-11. Wow, I feel old.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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