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Subject: [OM] Re: Geeks and nerds (That can't be OT in this crowd.)
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:25:35 -0400
Do you harbor ill will toward museums?

Chuck Norcutt

John A. Lind wrote:
> Ian,
> :-)  I remember both well.  Had a Xerox 820 using CP/M for a while.  The 
> 8" full height, SSSD floppy drives sounded like coffee grinders.  Also 
> had a Victor 9000 for a while running MS-DOS 2, 3, and ultimately 3.1 
> (woo-hoo, finally a stable DOS).  We had the DEC machines at work at 
> that time, although they had all been converted to MS-DOS by then.  
> Great pieces of hardware.  I've got a Virtual Machine on a laptop that 
> has MS-DOS 6.2 with Win3.2 (16-bit), Win95, and Win98SE installed.  Just 
> pick which you want to run and boot it up on the virtual hard drive :-)  
> I've got some very old applications installed on each of them.  Haven't 
> figured out how to run a CP/M VM yet though.
> 
> I've still got enough parts in the boneyard to put together a PC-AT 
> clone with 16 MHz 80286, 1MB RAM (a pair of 512k SIP!), 30MB RLL drive, 
> and Hercules graphics.  I've got a keyboard with the full-size DIN 
> connector.  Don't know if I've got a mono monitor that could drive 
> though -- but there's always a VGA card I could use in one of its 16-bit 
> slots.  Gads, I could probably get Win3.1 running on the thing.  Hmmm . 
> . . maybe something I could donate to a museum!
> 
> -- John
> 
> Ian Manners wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>>   
>> Both, one partition is CP/M, the other DOS. Have a few other OS's for
>> it but never got around to installing them again.
>>
>> I miss the days of nice solid engineering, what am I saying !
>> This here RS/6000 F50 is travelling well though no were near as old :-)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Ian Manners
>> http://www.comkal.net/
>>
>>
>> Anything worth doing is worth overdoing
>>
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