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Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Paul Sutton wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> http://www.unix.org/ > > I claim boring old guy!!! (Although I've just shaved off the grey beard > I was sporting at the last meet!) > > I first used a Unix system when I was 19... That was 28 years ago, so I > didn't quite get into it in it's first decade. It was Unix v6 and was > cosidered old then... Running on a PDP11/40 with 128K words (16-bit) of > magnetic core memory, a 3MB fixed disk and a removable 1.5MB drive. > > And here we are, whinging about needing a 'PC' wih 4GB of RAM for daily > use... Jumpers for goalposts... My first exposure to UNIX was a couple of years later, in 1985. The first years at Warwick were let loose on (IIRC) an 11/750 running some variant of BSD in rooms full of ADM3 terminals. James -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html