USING classic machines

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Fri Jun 27 17:20:31 1997

> going for a while. I don't know that Dr. Shoppa using all that classic
> DEC machinery at his Canadian university qualifies as doing "ordinary hom
> applications", although I'm delighted to hear that the old junk is still
> providing useful service (heck, at Hughes here, we have PDP-11s running

I have six all operational two get regular use. BEsides my CP/M systems
from before the flood.

> >modern MAC or PC, they have NO idea what is bieng missed. web pages in fu
> >photo quality color, realistic games, PPP connections, Realaudio etc. I a

Well, much of this I used to do back around '85 using microvax in color with
a 1280x1024 19" screen! Asa to much of the other stuff it's all hardware
much of which saw it origins on s100, Q and other busses.

Allison
Received on Fri Jun 27 1997 - 17:20:31 BST