[Cialug] I Remember When Computer Specs

[Nathan C. Smith]

Boot from paper tape.  That is fantastic!  I wish there was a way to experience some of this today. 

 I think there was a lot more ingenuity at work "back in the day".  Now people solve problems by replacement and throwing money at them to add more RAM or storage people replacing their computer because it is struck by a virus. 

Probably why I like Open Source so much, a little more ingenuity is involved.

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Morris Dovey
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 6:20 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] I Remember When Computer Specs

On 7/29/2010 4:11 PM, Tim Wilson wrote:

> 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.

Not as old as I do as I contemplate the old RIM loader for the PDP-8, and the Bendix G-15's (S)c7q89vz console sequence to make it boot from paper tape. :-/ _______________________________________________
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