Stuff to trade/stuff I'm looking for

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Sun Feb 27 19:06:26 2000

Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu> wrote:
> Gods gift to computing ;)

> Surely you're referring to something other than the 3000/200... They couldnt
> even write a proper FORTRAN compiler for it. And we never did use the
> 5.25" floppy drives, they didnt seem to provide a proper file oriented
> way to access them (though I suppose it could have been just a lack
> of documentation).

Sounds like a 9000 to me; there never was a 3000 series 200. The only
floppy disc drives I ever heard of on 3000s were 8", and I don't think
that notion caught on.

And if you were using a 3000, you'd have noticed! 3000s don't run
Unix, they run MPE, which (back then at least) was clearly not
Unix-like. They also used to have a thoroughly record-structured
filesystem. Most folks just hate that, though I can't fathom why.

-Frank McConnell
Received on Sun Feb 27 2000 - 19:06:26 GMT