[NBLUG/talk] System Message

[Cal Herrmann]

As I recall, the PDP11's at Berkeley were development stations for 
Unix, before vaxen came out.
Previously the Fortran compilers were the work-horses on PDP11's and 
8's.  You do know how to do lab research with 4k-Fortran, don't you??
Cal
On Feb 16, 2005, at 11:11 AM, Walter Hansen wrote:

> I wonder, what did the PDP-11 and Cyber-40 run? I learned Pascal on the
> Cyber-40 at SSU using writeln if I remember correctly. I was 
> corresponding
> with a nice girl named Sandy there until she found out I was 14. My 
> first
> programming experience was on a Apple ][ and we had to load integer 
> basic
> from cassette for 20 minutes before starting. That was arround 1978 
> and I
> was in fourth grade (an afterschool class). Heh, I remember I was 
> reading
> books about making calculators using voltage (non-binary) arround the
> time. Guess I'm a geek.
>
> Anyone ever program on a teletype? What an enormus waste of paper. 
> Hmmm. A
> guy named Dick used to run the computer center at SSU and he showed me 
> and
> my frinds the Andy Capp animated ANSI art on his terminal and the huge
> drum printer (9'x9'x5') and the disk drives that looked like washing
> machines. They had a little Apple ][e tucked in a room that was almost
> never used. I used to use it alot for writeing term papers and stuff.
> Hmmmmm. Applewriter was a lot better than wordstar. Chatting with 
> eliza,
> trying to land that lunar lander, ...... wanders off down the old geek
> road.
>