if you hadn't already known this about the PDP-8

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblakeman_at_kih.net>
Date: Fri Dec 14 11:41:03 2001

Hell my first network was through a null modem cable, from my Osborne to a
serial display terminal. On a PC to PC it's basically swpping pin 2 to 3, 3
to 2 so that xmit goes to recv and vice-versie. You're both right though - I
know these "experts" with A+ that have never hard of a 386 processor let
alone a 68000 series, you mention Motorola and they go "the radio makers?".
Of course many people on this list work on machines that predate me, like
the Burroughs 205 that I found the command card on the net for. I got into
all of this around 75 so I technically am a rookie to many of the heavy iron
geeks on the list.

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Bryan Pope
-> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 11:04 AM
-> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> Subject: Re: if you hadn't already known this about the PDP-8
->
->
-> >
-> > > -----Original Message-----
-> > > From: Doc [mailto:doc_at_mdrconsult.com]
-> >
-> > > Yeah... Most distros don't even have a headless install
-> > > option, and not
-> > > all PCs will even complete a POST without a video card. But more
-> > > relevant is the fact that hardly anybody I know, even the
-> geeks, knows
-> > > what a null-modem cable is for, let alone own a serial terminal.
-> >
-> > You must not hang around with very high-quality geeks.
-> >
->
-> That would be the "new" geek who believes the first computer was
-> a Pentium.
-> I was setting up my C64 next to my PC one day and a "geek" mad
-> the comment
-> "Oh you can hookup the 64 to the PCs video switchbox"... Is it
-> that hard to
-> belive that a computer could possibly output something *other* then VGA
-> for its vidoe?!? Grrrrrr....
->
-> Bryan
->
Received on Fri Dec 14 2001 - 11:41:03 GMT