Re: University credentials used by third parties

[Pete Hickey <pete () SHADOWS UOTTAWA CA>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 02:31:17PM -0700, David Lundy wrote:
> I do!! I do!!  Remember the Altair and Imsai computers and other
> S-100 bus computers 

Yeah... Those days there were a LOT of different architectures,
machine languages, etc.

> the computers that inspired Bill Gates to launch Microsoft? 

Nah... CP/M.... an OS which ran on 8080/Z80 processors.  MS-Dos
version 1 was pretty much a copy of CP/M...

But those kind of machines were pretty much after the front
pannel switches...  PDP-8 was my speciality.... 12 bit words.


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