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Subject: Re: [OM] OT, Miramar Re: While on the subject of computer safety and back-ups
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:33:30 -0500
It's a tough job but somebody's gotta to it.  :-)

Chuck Norcutt

Chris Barker wrote:
> Chaps
> 
> This is almost a non-sequitur, but here goes ...
> 
> After I discovered CP/M and small computers on the Tornado Squadron in  
> Germany, I was posted to teach US pilots in Florida on the F16 (dirty  
> job etc ... :-))
> 
> Well, last night I watched Top Gun for the umpteenth time (our  
> students watch it allll the time, as well as the Battle of Britain  
> film) and remembered this photo of me at Miramar:
> 
> http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/flyulas/CbPublic#5281506422313692354
> 
> I had not seen it for around 5 years so was quite pleased to find it  
> again.  You can just see "Fightertown USA" on the hangar in the  
> background.
> 
> Halcyon days! :-)
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> On 19 Dec 2008, at 13:03, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> 
>> You guys are much too young.  This is the first DOS.  At least 10  
>> years
>> before there was anything even close to a personal computer
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/360>
>> It's also probably the DOS that Chris recalls.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>> Frank van Lindert wrote:
>>> Dr DOS? Concurrent DOS? QDOS (Quick and Dirty DOS? 86-DOS?
>>>
>>> BTWQ, it might interest you that one of the first disk operating
>>> systems was mad by... Apple. At least according to this link
>>> http://members.fortunecity.com/pcmuseum/dos.htm , FWIW.
> 
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