Re: why use Debian?
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 08:56:43PM -0800, Ernest Tucker wrote:
> I have been computing so long that I used to debug a
> computer that was built with RTL cars and had a 26 bit
> word. You either latched the program in by hand or
> loaded from octal tape.
> --- Carel Fellinger <cfelling@iae.nl> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 03:00:22PM -0700, Monte
> > Milanuk wrote:
> > ...
> > > Hey, it's nice to know that at least some of the
> > people I talk to aren't
> > > half my age (and able to run circles around me on
> > Linux :( ).
> > >
>
(true story)
I worked on a PDP11/34 with removable disk packs, they
were 20MB jobbies, about the size of a respectable flying
saucer, and weighing a ton. You could eat your breakfast off
them.
Anyway on cold winter mornings they would misbehave, going
into endless, and very noisy seek loops. We cured this
by writing a small program that was typed in, in octal,
on some keys on the front panel that instructed the contoller
to seek from out to in on the disk in order to warm it up.
Mmm, those were the days...
Cliff
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