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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @09:57PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Thursday July 06 2017, @09:57PM (#535898)
Assuming you were born in 1956, I'm two years older. First computer was an Apple II+ in 1980, used for engineering simulations in our home-based engineering business -- Apple Pascal on floppies for the floating-point win (gawd was that slow)!
Then we were given a Z-80, S-100 bus CM/M system, set up to also be a remote terminal to a VAX-11/780. This was so we could work remotely for one of the big video game companies -- 1981. Seemed pretty advanced to use a 1200 baud modem from a home office. The VAX ran BSD Unix (not VMS). If my memory serves (and it's not too reliable anymore...) that VAX was upgraded from BSD 4.1 to 4.2 in 1982 (or maybe it was 3.1-->3.2?) While I think the VAX was on ArpaNet or early internet, we didn't have anyone to email to, except other users on that VAX.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @09:57PM
Assuming you were born in 1956, I'm two years older. First computer was an Apple II+ in 1980, used for engineering simulations in our home-based engineering business -- Apple Pascal on floppies for the floating-point win (gawd was that slow)!
Then we were given a Z-80, S-100 bus CM/M system, set up to also be a remote terminal to a VAX-11/780. This was so we could work remotely for one of the big video game companies -- 1981. Seemed pretty advanced to use a 1200 baud modem from a home office. The VAX ran BSD Unix (not VMS). If my memory serves (and it's not too reliable anymore...) that VAX was upgraded from BSD 4.1 to 4.2 in 1982 (or maybe it was 3.1-->3.2?) While I think the VAX was on ArpaNet or early internet, we didn't have anyone to email to, except other users on that VAX.