To: RadioAstronomer
One of my oldest computers is a PDP-8 with and ASR-33 as its terminal. My very oldest working computer is a 1963 Minivac 6010. Well you beat me, I only go back to the VAX 11/780.
I still remember playing Star Trek and getting stripped of my command for detonating nearby stars with photon torpedoes...
on purpose!
Cheers!
106 posted on
12/16/2005 6:34:53 PM PST by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: grey_whiskers
I only go back to the VAX 11/780.
Luv those VAXes!
109 posted on
12/16/2005 6:52:48 PM PST by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: grey_whiskers
My H-8 (with Trionyx Z80/Trionyx 64K DRAM/Trionyx backplane) is still functional. The smart 8 inch drives still work. I stopped writing C code on that machine in 1983 after banging the head off one of the Remex drives. It cost $160 to repair the drive. Cheap compared to the initial acquisition cost of $2500 for the drive package. An upgrade to the TRS80 Model 16A running Xenix made a more viable development platform. I ported David Korn's shell to that platform on multiple releases and found a fair number of bugs. Getting a confirmatory e-mail from David Korn on a found bug was quite a treat. That machine is still here and running too.
My VIC20 still works, but I only have about 20 game cartridges for it. It was pretty good for the time.
124 posted on
12/16/2005 10:17:30 PM PST by
Myrddin
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