[wplug] OT: Down Memory Lane

[Bill Lavin]

My "first time" was on an IBM 360 running Fortran Level G.  It was  
located at Slippery Rock University and the "number" belonged to a  
Physics professor.  My next time was on my very own $3K IBM 5150.  It  
had 64 K on  the motherboard, a 170K single side 5 1/4" floppy, a CGA  
card using a 19" color TV for a monitor.  Ran BASIC.  Sped up the  
disc drive using Speedup.com - supposedly courtesy of IBM.   
Eventually had two double-sided floppys and took the memory to the  
max possible - 640K.  Never did put a HD on it.  Who could have  
filled a 10 meg drive?  Had the assembler but didn't do much with  
it.  Too busy running PL/1 on the mainframe at Youngstown State  
University - an Amdahl mainframe with 12 meg of memory running VMS.   
Never got to use one (professors hogged them) but they also had two  
Osbournes.

PS - the 5150 is the original IBM PC.  The fifth one that  
Computerland in Warren, OH sold.  Bought the Technical Reference  
Manual ($35) which had all the info on the 5150 including an  
assembler listing of DOS 1.0.
Have Zork I,II and III along with Hitchhiker's.


On Oct 14, 2005, at 7:06 PM, Richard Farina wrote:

> Diana A. Clarion wrote:
>
>
>> Oh, yes!  I worked on a Wang (shut up, people! :) in 1984.
>>
> /me snickers
>
> -Rick Farina
>
> PS> Also, the goddess of the network bit from one of your other  
> sigs..... Wow, even I have never pushed it that far, I'm impressed....
>
>
>> It sat in
>> Cleveland, and talked to machenes in NYC and Pickens, SC.
>>
>> DAC
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:02:15PM -0700, Michael P. O Connor wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Nice site, but it does not list the Wang computers, does any one
>>> remember Wangs?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> wplug mailing list
> wplug at wplug.org
> http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug
>