Re: Slightly off-topic
From: Frank <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:50:41 +0100
Message-ID: <3E2D9681.60104_at_netscape.net>
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> I ante up with Fortran IV on an IBM 360 with boxes of punch cards.
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> Anybody out there remember PDPs with 8K RAM or XDS or Lockheed or CDC or
> Honeywell or breadboards? Feel free to jump in.
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> BTW: Anyone have any of those knitting needles we used to use to sort
> databases?
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> Daniel Morgan
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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:50:41 +0100
Message-ID: <3E2D9681.60104_at_netscape.net>
DA Morgan wrote:
> Pablo Sanchez wrote:
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>>Frank <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net> wrote in news:3E272741.2010600_at_netscape.net: >> >> [Quoted] >>>Any of you remember Rbase:2000? >> [Quoted] >>Hey Frank, >> >>I remember it but never used it. Do you remember UNIFY and ACCEL/IDS? >> >>And right beforing hitting the hay last night, I remembered the other >>HP product I was using: Image/3000 heh heh! Yup, I actually learned COBOL >>to work with Image/3000 >>-- >>Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering >>http://www.hpdbe.com
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> I ante up with Fortran IV on an IBM 360 with boxes of punch cards.
>
> Anybody out there remember PDPs with 8K RAM or XDS or Lockheed or CDC or
> Honeywell or breadboards? Feel free to jump in.
>
> BTW: Anyone have any of those knitting needles we used to use to sort
> databases?
>
> Daniel Morgan
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Yup, been working an a PDP11/04, programming assembler to 6800/6809
(motorola) single board "computers".
Heard of ACCEL/IDS and Unify, never worked it (or with it).
[Quoted] I can beat your cards, tho, with a TI960; it had to be programmed with toggleswitches; after entering the right (binary, 16 bit) code, you had to "clock" it manually into memory. Bootloader was about 35 lines of code...
Gee, I am getting old, or what? Still own a 6802-based microprocessor training kit. With casette tape interface...
Frank Received on Tue Jan 21 2003 - 19:50:41 CET