[TriLUG] Fwd: Organize a Debian Birthday party in your city

[Jim Ray]

PDP 11/03 and 3/4" paper tape for storage that only the teachers were allowed to use was life back circa 1975. 

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On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:01 AM, "Brian McCullough" <bdmc at buadh-brath.com> wrote:

> 
> This has been interesting, resurrecting ancient history.
> 
> 
> My stack of floppies was 99pl14, summer or fall, probably 1993.
> However, my Unix and Unix-like history started some time earlier.
> 
> Not counting my encounters with actual Unix through the 70's and 80's
> and later, my first "real" operating system was QNX, doing proper
> multi-tasking on a 286 in "real" mode ( is that what it was called, not
> DOS mode ) in the late 80's if I remember correctly.
> 
> I never had any use for DOS and the like, the idea of the machine
> sitting there waiting for me to hit the next key never appealed.
> 
> 
> 
> Brian
> 
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