Re: xmkmf and make
Re: xmkmf and make
- Subject: Re: xmkmf and make
- From: Vernon Williams <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 15:03:14 -0600
Friday, February 4, 2011, 2:43pm
I still have my original 512K Mac in a closet or out in the
garage somewhere, where it has been gathering dust
since the power supply died about 23 years ago. That
saved it back in 1993, when it was back in my apartment
closet and I got burgled and lost my newer Mac SE and LC.
I got it in December of 1984, so it wasn't the earliest Mac,
the Mac 128K. It had no hard drive and only 1 built in
floppy drive, which made it virtually unusable, since it
forced me to constantly swap between system and
application disks, so I bought an external floppy drive
a few days later, which made life bearable, so I could
just leave a system disk in one of the drives and use
the other for applications. A RAM disk program, to
simulate a drive in the 512K RAM, also helped.
About 6 months later, I bought the first internal hard drive
available, a 10 meg drive from General Computer, for
about $2300, which made my life vastly easier. My, how
times have changed, when I can buy a 2 gig SD memory
card about the size of a postage stamp for about $12,
and a terabyte external hard drive for less than $200. But
that 10 meg was plenty back then, before we had digital
music, digital video, digital pictures, and bloated operating
systems to swallow up gobs of space.
I wish I still had my old Apple II+ from 1981 or so, as a
museum piece, but I sold it to an old girlfriend about
1984 or so. I also wish I had my first computer, a TI
programmable calculator, with a built in thermal printer
and tiny magnetic memory cards for storing programs
and data, which I got for $500 in about 1978 or 1979.
I wrote some fairly sophisticated programs on it, in its
cross between and assembly language and a higher
level language.
Vernon Williams
On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Weller, Robert A wrote:
Would you believe a Heathkit H11 with 8" floppy drives? 64k words of
memory. DEC RT-11 operating system. State of the art. It actually
worked the last time I turned it on, but the disks were getting
flakey. I'm keeping it on the theory that I will live to be 120
years old and I can sell it for food when the social security system
eventually breaks.
BW
On Feb 4, 2011, at 12:47 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
I'm sure it will die eventually, but like most technology, there
will be holdouts. I still have a SS20* in my office (acting
primarily as a monitor riser)...
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation_20
--Jeremy _______________________________________________
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