What do you use now?
>Like the Kaypro 4/84 (ca 1984) that I use to run my billings on.
In general, I hope everyone that prides themselves of running
Electric Pencil on their Altairs is doing it for practical purposes,
and not because they just want to show off that they won't use
a PC.
>
>I have a PDP-11/73 for development and continuation support use. Also
>very handy for getting from Digital Equipment Corp designed and
>propritary media to other more common use media.
>
A server for what? You must have an Interlnk client if you are using
Intersrvr, unless you hacked the protocol...
>
>I do use an old 386sx/25 as a headless server using MSdos6.22 intersvr
>and interlnk software and a parallel port data cable(LapLink).
I would bet that _most_ hackers do it for commercial/industrial
reasons. FOr everyone who built their own z80, hundreds came off the
assembly line.
>
>All people that modify "hack" machines are not all hobbiests. As a
>professional I need for various reasons to read disks created years
>ago sometimes really old like the 8" media from the late 70s early 80s.
>I have old machines to do this but a handy one is an XT clone using a
>modified floppy controller with and old 8" drive. You cannot buy that
>capability now but, companies have archives that are sometimes very old
>that may need to be accessed.
>
>Even your common P-II box is hard pressed to read older 5.25" format
>floppies! At a minimum you would have to find an apporiate drive and
>then by trial and error figure the jumpers out as new machines a
scantily
>documented at best.
That's an immense exaggeration. P-II boxes a) Have no jumpers, as a
rule b) can support a 5.25" fdd if you can plug one in.
What other difference can there be?
>In computers old technology and new are often only different in speed
or
>size. There are many PDP-8s (1970s tech), PDP-11s (late 70s into the
>80s tech) and Data General Novas still in service as control systems
>where they do the same thing everyday as the have for the last 20+
years.
I agree with that. It's impressive how many people think Windows NT
is a safer option than UNIXoids though NT is only 1/3 as old...
> Mature stable systems we know how to use.
>
>
>Allison
>
>
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