[ale] a moment of silence please

[Geoffrey]

Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> 3B2s were good - from the 600 on. 

Got a couple of 3b2 300s in my basement.  No idea if they still boot.

> 
> I'd still like to hunt down and kill whatever bastard thought ctccpio on 3B2-400 was a good idea.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Paul Cartwright
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 10:30 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: Re: [ale] a moment of silence please
> 
> On Thu April 29 2010, Thompson Freeman wrote:
>> Well, CP/M was the first OS in the home for me. Had to  
>> build that beast - H89. We got the children an Apple II a  
>> few years later to get them off the CP/M machine. For all  
>> of that, I rather wish I'd gone ahead and gotten the H-DOS  
>> system also - with loadable device drivers and some other  
>> goodness.
> Mine was a Kaypro II CP/M "portable".. in no stretch of the imaginationw would 
> it be called a LAPTOP..
> BIG heavy metal case, the cover came off & was the keyboard. Dual-800Kb floppy 
> drives ( No HD).
> 
>> I also got a Fortune16 (or something like that) Unix box  
>> using 68000 in the late 1980's.
> 
> the AT&T UNIX boxes used that 68000 processor.. good old AT&T 3B2's & 3B5's.. 
> lots of days hard at work, playing Collosal Cave:-0)
> 


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Until later, Geoffrey

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