[TriLUG] More computer trivia...

[Byarlay, Wayne A.]

I learned to program Pascal on THIS 

http://www.guidebookgallery.org/articles/microsoftwindows/somemachines/p
ics/burroughsb20

Which was DEFINITELY NOT running "Microsoft Windows" as the heading of
the web page indicates! It actually had 4 terminals attached to it and
took 20 min to compile, link, and run a 400-line PASCAL program.

My friend and I would push back the due dates for projects by finishing
our projects early, then unnecessarily compiling, and linking them
(Whatever linking was, I still don't know), simultaneously, taking the
entire class hour, and forcing the teacher to move back the projects
because everybody was just sitting there waiting for the computer to
finish compiling for the entire class hour. :)

WAB 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Pat Regan
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 10:37 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] More computer trivia...

Greg Brown wrote:
> My first computer of my very own (not a family PC like the jr) was a 
> PS-II model.. um.. don't remember.  It was big, clunky, and heavy but 
> could be torn down using a quarter and was nearly indestructible.  It 
> was a used unit from the IBM Employee Retail PC Store that no longer 
> exists and it was my first machine to run OS/2.  I still love that OS.
> 

I remember, probably when I was in high school...  A friend of mine
bought OS/2 2.0.  He bought it on CD-ROM because it was cheaper...  He
didn't have a CD-ROM drive, but I did.  So he came over to my house with
a big stack of floppies and the disc.  I think we had to repeat this
process more than once, because some of the floppies wouldn't read in
his machine :p.

I remember installing it myself, but my proprietary Sony 1x CD-ROM drive
(which I recall costing around $500 :p) wasn't supported :).

My first computer was a TI 99/4a.  I wanted an Atari for Christmas that
year...  I think I learned a lot more than I would have from a 2600 :).

Pat