And I had been on the PDP 11/70, and TI-99, and Comodore Pet,
VAX 11/70, and Vic20, and C64, and Apple-][, and original Mac,
and Amiga, and PC-XT 8086/4.77Mhz, PC-AT, 286/12Mhz, 386/25Mhz,
Altos Motorolla 6800 with Unix, VT-100, Decwriters, and more...
(Memories, TRS-Photos & More TRS options)...
this was the first one that I spend LOTS of time on,
Kind of like Rowland, I even programmed the ones in the store, for fun.
Once in college, I Loved using the qotdsubmit at this domain>VAX series of computers
running VMS.
You might see Pete's, or Stan's PC history page.
David's Emulation page will let you run one.
Later, while still in High School, I wound up programming for City Hall
on an IMB 5120, based on 5100, to process local Real Estate, and taxes.
I did a bit of
dBase-II
(history) on an
Altos 8000-2 computer running
MP/M,
a multi-user version of CP/M. Laton Allison let me help him with his invoice
& shipping program.
It was a 64K machine, with two ASCII terminals, an
external
14-inch 10-Meg hard drive, two 8-inch floppy drives, and a slow
daisy wheel printer. You could tell Altos wanted you to know
it was a
"quality" machine, because they gave it genuine
OAK wood case sides!
At a computer camp for High School-ers, I found the
PDP-11/70
!!
I even have one of these memory cards, at home on my wall.
I've also used or at least seen many of the computers at Jim's.
In college, I Loved using the
DEC
VAX
systems, running VMS. (emu)
That was before DEC was bought by Compaq, which was then bought
by Hewlett-Packard. ( good DEC history, but big pdf)
Now it is hard to find those systems running, for work projects,
since they were phased out, in forvor of DEC Alphas. One of the VAX
cabinets is now even re-built into a BAR for DECUS
Of course, I later learned Unix, and "vi", spent ten years as an
Oracle DBA, played with Linux and networking on my home systems,
and became a UFie
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