[ale] a moment of silence please

[Lightner, Jeff]

3B2s were good - from the 600 on. 

I'd still like to hunt down and kill whatever bastard thought ctccpio on 3B2-400 was a good idea.

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Paul Cartwright
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 10:30 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] a moment of silence please

On Thu April 29 2010, Thompson Freeman wrote:
> Well, CP/M was the first OS in the home for me. Had to  
> build that beast - H89. We got the children an Apple II a  
> few years later to get them off the CP/M machine. For all  
> of that, I rather wish I'd gone ahead and gotten the H-DOS  
> system also - with loadable device drivers and some other  
> goodness.
Mine was a Kaypro II CP/M "portable".. in no stretch of the imaginationw would 
it be called a LAPTOP..
BIG heavy metal case, the cover came off & was the keyboard. Dual-800Kb floppy 
drives ( No HD).

>
> I also got a Fortune16 (or something like that) Unix box  
> using 68000 in the late 1980's.

the AT&T UNIX boxes used that 68000 processor.. good old AT&T 3B2's & 3B5's.. 
lots of days hard at work, playing Collosal Cave:-0)

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Paul Cartwright
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