Re(2): Re(2): Re(2): Re(2): [SunRescue] Offerings

[scohen - Stephen Cohen]

All y'all are youngsters.  My first encounter with programming was a Wang programmable calculator using 80 column punched cards.  This was 1966 - I was in 8th grade.  My first job was with Sperry Univac R&D (Database Systems, RPS 1100, Roseville, MN) on 1108b mainframes - the ones with actual core memory.  We had to be careful opening them up . . . all those ones and zeros can make a real mess.

I was through grad school with a Master's in Computer Science BEFORE the Apple II was invented.  In fact, Sperry asked me to look into the Apple - in my infinite wisdom, I concluded that this microcomputer was incapable of hosting a database of any sort.  Much later I learned of the Boeing Vulcan project (later renamed dBASE II which ran on a CP/M card inserted into a IIe).

A. G. Edwards once asked me of the significance of the Apple Lisa.  I told them that it represented as big a leap over MS-DOS as the original Apple represented prior to the invention of the general purpose microcomputer.

Now, that's OLD!

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-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Haas [mailto:wedge at onlineimage.com]
Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 03:43 PM
To: rescue at ohno.mrbill.net
Subject: Re: Re(2): Re(2): Re(2): Re(2): [SunRescue] Offerings


On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Tim Hauber wrote:
>
> Not really, we've got a couple teen-agers on this list, they were born in
> the 80s for pete's sake!  They probably listen to this rap junk :-)
> 

Hey watch it!! :)

02/03/80

It's usually oldies or jazz, none of this modern noise :) Actually I think
MFM drives spinning up is more music than some of the stuff these days (or
those Apple ][ imagewriter ][s)... 

And I heartily enjoy listening to all these accounts of so-called
'old-time' machines and users :) Great piece of history which I missed,
and a good nostalgic kick. 

For a Sun related question... is there anywhere on the internet where one
could find a copy of SunOS 4.1.x for the SPARC platform? 

Keep it coming, I am never bored when reading this list... ALWAYS learning
something. 

> "The Microsoft Virtual Machine is no longer supported by Microsoft."
> http://www.microsoft.com/mac/ie/ie45faq.htm
> hmmm....
> 
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