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Re: [SLE] Floppy drive vs. SUSE 10.0
- From: Carl William Spitzer IV <cwsiv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 05:02:18 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <1131163503.8110.19.camel@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 20:01 -0500, Mike wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 November 2005 19:11, James Knott wrote:
> > Anyone here remember 8" floppies? Hard sectors? CP/M?
>
> My first computer (SWTC 6800) used cassette tapes - loaded data at a smokin'
> 300 baud!
>
My first was Radio Shack 4p two single sided low density 5.25 floppy's
no HD and needed a disk knotcher to use other side of floppy. Used
LSDOS after RS gave up on maintaining their own. Had a 300 baud
internal modem screen and computer in one unit and kb which fit into
slot below screen. But at least I did not need a daughter card to get
80 columns. I had a Pascal compiler which cost extra $200. Whole thing
about $2k for 64k ram with Z80 processors like those in the original
Hubble and space shuttles.
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/ ____\ \ / / ____|_ _\ \ / /
| | \ \ /\ / / (___ | | \ \ / /
| | \ \/ \/ / \___ \ | | \ \/ /
| |____ \ /\ / ____) |_| |_ \ /
\_____| \/ \/ |_____/|_____| \/
> On Wednesday 02 November 2005 19:11, James Knott wrote:
> > Anyone here remember 8" floppies? Hard sectors? CP/M?
>
> My first computer (SWTC 6800) used cassette tapes - loaded data at a smokin'
> 300 baud!
>
My first was Radio Shack 4p two single sided low density 5.25 floppy's
no HD and needed a disk knotcher to use other side of floppy. Used
LSDOS after RS gave up on maintaining their own. Had a 300 baud
internal modem screen and computer in one unit and kb which fit into
slot below screen. But at least I did not need a daughter card to get
80 columns. I had a Pascal compiler which cost extra $200. Whole thing
about $2k for 64k ram with Z80 processors like those in the original
Hubble and space shuttles.
--
_______ _______ _______ __
/ ____\ \ / / ____|_ _\ \ / /
| | \ \ /\ / / (___ | | \ \ / /
| | \ \/ \/ / \___ \ | | \ \/ /
| |____ \ /\ / ____) |_| |_ \ /
\_____| \/ \/ |_____/|_____| \/
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