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2008-04-24 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

This Day in 1981, IBM....

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Posted by Sherry 2008-04-24 17:18|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 OS: IBM PC-DOS Version 1.0 or
Xenix
or
UCSD Pascal
or
a multi-user dos that previous home computers used
(I forget the name)

The deal is IBM-DOS was $50 the others $1k or more.

Posted by 3dc 2008-04-24 19:13|| 2008-04-24 19:13|| Front Page Top

#2 (I forget the name)

CP/M, maybe?

Posted by SteveS 2008-04-24 20:34|| 2008-04-24 20:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Followed by the jazzy PC-XT, then the snazzy PC-AT, and then the rip roaring son of a gun, the 286. I think that was the first time I had a computer with a hard drive, that didn't boot from a floppy.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-04-24 20:43|| 2008-04-24 20:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Real men can program in 16k.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-24 20:46|| 2008-04-24 20:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Real women used to program in FORTH. heh

Posted by lotp 2008-04-24 21:24|| 2008-04-24 21:24|| Front Page Top

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