[Linux4christians] Welcome

[Fred A. Miller]

On 11/09/2011 10:47 PM, Ken Sprouse wrote:
> You bring back memories.  I had three Kaypros over the years.  Started
> out life with a KIM-1 running a 6502, a Hex keypad for input and six
> seven segment displays for output.  Four to show the current address
> and two for the data stored at that address.  Then I moved on to the
> original TRS-80 (TRASH-80) but didn't like programming in machine
> language on the Intel processor nearly as much as the 6502.  This lead
> me to the Radio Shack Color computer with the Motorola 6809 which
> despite its "chick-let" keyboard was a very nice system.

Not bad, in it's day for sure.

>  From there I moved on to several South West Technical Products S-50
> Buss systems first with the Motorola 6800 and latter the 6809 on the
> processor boards.  The was my first exposure to a "Unix like" system.
>  Flex-9 was as close to Unix as you could get at the time on an eight
> bit processor.  My "console" was a Hazeltine model 1500 green screen
> terminal and my printer was a Teletype Model 35 RO.  From there I got
> into building XT clones from parts and stayed with them for a number
> of years.

So did I, but most often there wasn't any MickySoft on them. ;)

>
> I also ran bulletin boards.  Opus, Fido, a home brew version written
> in Turbo Pascal and a multi line Wildcat system.  I can't figure out
> now where and how I found the time!  :-)

Hehehehehe......been there and got the t-shirt! ;) Fido was fun....the
OS/2 areas were very active. If you were there you might remember one
particular MickySoft shill who created quite a bit of "noise". I took
great pleasure from pointing out his out and out lies and distortions. I
still have a soft spot for OS/2, but Linux has long since surpassed it's
abilities.

Fred

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"New" Democrats and old Communists so buy brass and lead 
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