Anybody here been around long enough to remember the 386 being introduced?

Ben Myers wrote:

Anybody been around here long enough to have used an IBM XT as his or her
first office computer?

Anybody been around long enough to have worked with and cursed IBM's
MicroChannel computers or Compaq's and other EISA bus computers with their
hare-brained configuration diskettes?

Anybody been arould here long enough to have written programs in FORTRAN
using
punched "IBM" cards? ... Ben Myers

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:58:01 GMT, T wrote:



Compaq actually beat IBM to market with it, it was a feather in their
cap tat day.

Man, how things have changed over time; they spread out shrimp, no
prawns, ice sculpture, (where there dancing girls? Maybe.)

Nowadays it's a spot on some TV show that masquerades as a magazine and
is really an advertisement.

It was a really big deal back then, the 386. It had people running
around training folks on the architecture and pipe lines and this new
idea; a cache. What's that?

Ah, the good old days.


TBerk
I started on a C64 and then had an Amiga then a 286 (which actually was one
of the very few to have cache, it was fun out benchmarking the guys that
bought 386's)

Compaq actually beat IBM to market with it, it was a feather in their
cap tat day.

Man, how things have changed over time; they spread out shrimp, no
prawns, ice sculpture, (where there dancing girls? Maybe.)

Nowadays it's a spot on some TV show that masquerades as a magazine and
is really an advertisement.

It was a really big deal back then, the 386. It had people running
around training folks on the architecture and pipe lines and this new
idea; a cache. What's that?

Ah, the good old days.


TBerk

Anybody been around here long enough to have used an IBM XT as his or her first
office computer?

Anybody been around long enough to have worked with and cursed IBM's
MicroChannel computers or Compaq's and other EISA bus computers with their
hare-brained configuration diskettes?

Anybody been arould here long enough to have written programs in FORTRAN using
punched "IBM" cards? ... Ben Myers

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:58:01 GMT, T wrote:



Compaq actually beat IBM to market with it, it was a feather in their
cap tat day.

Man, how things have changed over time; they spread out shrimp, no
prawns, ice sculpture, (where there dancing girls? Maybe.)

Nowadays it's a spot on some TV show that masquerades as a magazine and
is really an advertisement.

It was a really big deal back then, the 386. It had people running
around training folks on the architecture and pipe lines and this new
idea; a cache. What's that?

Ah, the good old days.


TBerk

Ben Myers wrote:
Anybody been around here long enough to have used an IBM XT as his or her first
office computer?


I was the guy in the back of the store adding the extra chips to the
mother board so I could then add the AST multi i/o which brought the
full RAM up to 640k. Oh, and pulling the blank on one side to add a
half hight WD 10 or 20 meg HD. 8])



Anybody been around long enough to have worked with and cursed IBM's
MicroChannel

Well, at least we retain _some_ things like smaller mouse and keyboard
connectors, the 3.5" diskette, etc, etc. PS/2, the future of computing.
Just don't loose your cmos battery power.

computers or Compaq's and other EISA bus computers with their
hare-brained configuration diskettes?


Talk about poor vendor/ 3rd party support.

Anybody been arould here long enough to have written programs in FORTRAN using
punched "IBM" cards? ... Ben Myers


OK, punch cards were my Dad's thing.

I used to repair Kaypros & Morrows though, the Grand Daddies of the
Original Luggable Compaq.


TBerk

386, that is new compared to the first machine I used. How about a 8086
powered AT. Or a binary programmed machine? I have a portable machine in
the other room
all set to go. OS discs included (DOS 3 or 4 ) it has a total of 1 meg
of memory and an 8088 processor.

--
Steve Williams

"T" wrote in message
m...


Compaq actually beat IBM to market with it, it was a feather in their
cap tat day.

Man, how things have changed over time; they spread out shrimp, no
prawns, ice sculpture, (where there dancing girls? Maybe.)

Nowadays it's a spot on some TV show that masquerades as a magazine
and
is really an advertisement.

It was a really big deal back then, the 386. It had people running
around training folks on the architecture and pipe lines and this new
idea; a cache. What's that?

Ah, the good old days.


TBerk

I had an XT dual floppy machine made by Leading Edge, the "Hemingway" model.


ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
Anybody been around here long enough to have used an IBM XT as his or her
first
office computer?

Anybody been around long enough to have worked with and cursed IBM's
MicroChannel computers or Compaq's and other EISA bus computers with their
hare-brained configuration diskettes?

Anybody been arould here long enough to have written programs in FORTRAN
using
punched "IBM" cards? ... Ben Myers

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:58:01 GMT, T wrote:



Compaq actually beat IBM to market with it, it was a feather in their
cap tat day.

Man, how things have changed over time; they spread out shrimp, no
prawns, ice sculpture, (where there dancing girls? Maybe.)

Nowadays it's a spot on some TV show that masquerades as a magazine and
is really an advertisement.

It was a really big deal back then, the 386. It had people running
around training folks on the architecture and pipe lines and this new
idea; a cache. What's that?

Ah, the good old days.


TBerk

Yeah, wrote some simple math solving programs in Fortran while at VA Tech back
in 1976 or so--and had to use punch data cards several years later to enter
data on from a marketing study for the Chevolet Chevette. Spent several
all-nighters entering that data....

Dale Johnson

Yeah, right. The good old days of $50/mb RAM, 25MB hard drives for $300, all
that great stuff.
HH

"T" wrote in message
m...


Compaq actually beat IBM to market with it, it was a feather in their cap
tat day.

Man, how things have changed over time; they spread out shrimp, no prawns,
ice sculpture, (where there dancing girls? Maybe.)

Nowadays it's a spot on some TV show that masquerades as a magazine and is
really an advertisement.

It was a really big deal back then, the 386. It had people running around
training folks on the architecture and pipe lines and this new idea; a
cache. What's that?

Ah, the good old days.


TBerk

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Anybody been around here long enough to have used an IBM XT as his or her first
office computer?

Anybody been around long enough to have worked with and cursed IBM's
MicroChannel computers or Compaq's and other EISA bus computers with their
hare-brained configuration diskettes?

Anybody been arould here long enough to have written programs in FORTRAN using
punched "IBM" cards? ... Ben Myers

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:58:01 GMT, T wrote:


1968 punched cards, paper tape and magnetic tape (you know like on
Doctor Who) and 24 K, yes K of core memory (you know the doughnut shaped
things)..... (discs, what was a disc? Not even sure that Frisbees had
been invented). Programmed it in Algol.

1971 The first big mainframe I worked on was an IBM 360/50 with 256K of
memory. I think we ran something in the region of 6 partitions on it.
We had two of them, a production machine and a development machine.

Had to wait until circa 1985 for my first desktop, think it was an
Olivetti 80286. 10MB disc and 640K RAM. Anyone remember playing
Sopwith when the boss was not looking?



Compaq actually beat IBM to market with it, it was a feather in their
cap tat day.

Man, how things have changed over time; they spread out shrimp, no
prawns, ice sculpture, (where there dancing girls? Maybe.)

Nowadays it's a spot on some TV show that masquerades as a magazine and
is really an advertisement.

It was a really big deal back then, the 386. It had people running
around training folks on the architecture and pipe lines and this new
idea; a cache. What's that?

Ah, the good old days.


TBerk


--
Nicholas David Richards -

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

Ben Myers wrote:
...
Anybody been arould here long enough to have written programs in
FORTRAN using
punched "IBM" cards? ... Ben Myers


Yep, FORTRAN II on an IBM 1620... magnetic core memory, punch cards,
the whole works back in college. I also used an IBM assembler called
"SPS" (Symbolic Programming System) because, then as now, assembly
language executed MUCH faster (and also made it possible to do things
that those taking the FORTRAN class declared to be "Impossible!",
heh-heh! And then there was the trick of seeding pre-punched cards into
the input hopper of the keypunch machines that so that the phrase would
later appear in the error list received by the hapless fellow DP101
student: ERROR F7 UNRECOGNIZABLE STATEMENT: YOU BLEW IT, STUPID!
Ah, yes, I remember it well....

Mark