Pascal System

From: Mike Allison <mallison_at_konnections.com>
Date: Thu Feb 26 21:14:48 1998

Frank:

That's the baby...

I had a hell of a time finding a machine that would go farther than spin
the disks.
I think it was an original PC that first booted. It DEFINITELY didn't
like anything but true blue.

Don't know why I kept the discs so long ('cept I paid for 'em) but I
wanted the manuals as refs. I'm happy now, though...

-Mike


Frank McConnell wrote:
>
> Mike Allison <mallison_at_konnections.com> wrote:
> > This is the UCSD P System which means that there is no way to copy it to
> > the HD as this _IS_ the operating system.
>
> This is the one in the sort of peach-colored IBM binders with
> slipcases, right? I had a copy of that a few years back (gave it to
> an interested friend back east). While I had it I made some
> observations. The manuals didn't mention hard^H^H^H^Hfixed disks at
> all. They also seemed to indicate that diskettes held about 160KB
> (i.e. no knowledge of double-sided disks). And it didn't want to boot
> on anything I had access to except the Panasonic Business Partner in
> the QA lab at work -- I'm not sure whether it objected to 80x86s for
> x>=2, clock speeds > 4.77 MHz, or what.
>
> -Frank McConnell
Received on Thu Feb 26 1998 - 21:14:48 GMT