On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 21:18 -0700, Dana J. Laude wrote:
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 18:31, James Knott wrote:
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> [11-02-05 19:13]:
Anyone here remember 8" floppies? Hard sectors? CP/M?
Wordstar
Ah, the good old days! Zenix, Esix, CP/M, low level formats, MFM, RLL and the like. I remember installing a 16550 Uart chip so I could get the bbs up and running on a USRobotics HST modem.
I had this one computer based on CP/M that was built like a frick'in tank... I'm sure if you had two of these, you could drive you're car up on em to change the oil. I also had a ISA card for RLL drives that would take a say 20MB hd and put it at around 40MB. Can't recall the name though. And Wordstar, great program... and it worked just fine off of Wyse terminals. How about LANtastic? ;)
Dana
I certainly remember tape drives - though that would have been grade school - I still have an 8" diskette from my Navy days - I also remember he wonderful days of BBS and 1200 baud modems and using procomm to download 40kb of data (it took hours!) I stepped away from computing for a few years and low and behold jumpers were practically a thing of the past and memory was geater than storage ever used to be.