History of Computing exam question

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Fri Nov 30 22:55:22 2001

At 02:07 PM 11/30/01 -0500, you wrote:
>> I would add: HP2000 timeshare system..widely used, often provided the
>> first exposure to computers that got many of us started in the field.
>
>I *think* I played my first computer game on the HP2000
>(said game paper tape currently being in Jay West's hands
>for his HP2000).
>-dq

Talk about those times... I remember that the ibm 4381
system that we used at the time received batch jobs
from an apple-II !!!! network! We would write progams
using the UCSD pascal editor and then we could submit them
for batch processing (including those dreaded OS360 jcl commands,
with batch job data indicated by GO SYSIN specs.. argghh).

No wonder I fell in love with UX when I first had access
to it (ca. 1987). So much simpler and logical...
... but I've grown to respect VMS even if I have lots
to learn about it.


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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Fri Nov 30 2001 - 22:55:22 GMT