[wplug] OT: Down Memory Lane

[Bill Lavin]

Ooops!!!  Just checked - the Tech Ref Manual listed the ROM BIOS not  
the DOS.


On Oct 15, 2005, at 1:21 AM, Bill Lavin wrote:

> 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?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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