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To: freedumb2003
You had a hard drive? What were you, rich?

Nah, working for a company providing inventory control and order entry systems for auto parts stores. First computer-related job I had. In many ways, those multiuser CPM machines were vastly superior to anything the IBM PC and DOS worlds came out with for years hence - to add a user, all you had to do was drop in a new slave board and hook up another terminal.

40 posted on 02/05/2005 10:44:59 AM PST by dirtboy (Tagloin down for oil change and lube because it was squeaking)
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To: dirtboy

I ran an entire company on an S100 bus CPM machine for several years.

We used WordStar and I wrote the acocunting software myself -- using some Z80 assembler functions.

I had to develop my own memory management modules to devise my own simulated virtual memory.

Ahh, the gold old days. When real programmers managed memory directly.


41 posted on 02/05/2005 10:54:54 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Don't bring a moped to a car fight)
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