[ale] a moment of silence please

[JK]

When I was 12 or so my dad got me a Morrow MD-11. The "MD" stood
for "magnetic disk" -- it ran CP/M off of an 11MB Winchester HD.
That was an AWESOME machine compared to my TRS-80/I and Heath H8.
When I was first exposed to Unix it reminded me of CP/M rather
strongly.

-- JK


On 4/28/2010 4:34 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> I have a laptop that runs cp/m. Uses external cassette tapes for
> storage. 1984 NEC Starlette. It's pretty slick with a comm program,
> built in 1200b modem, wordstar and a spreadsheet and database all in ROM
> with 4k left for data.
>
>> On Apr 28, 2010 6:21 PM, "Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer at gmail.com
>> <mailto:greg.freemyer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> This long old thread and not a single reference to CP/M that I saw?
>> Your not the old codgers I thought you were.
>>
>> I never used CP/M much.  I was lucky enough to get the high-end stuff
>> right from the get go.
>>
>> Cromix on a Z80 / S-100 bus Cromemco.  Dual 8-inch floppies.  IIRC, it
>> was $2K or so just for the dual floppies.
>>
>> I was working (playing/experimenting) out of the computer lab at
>> Kennesaw, so they had bought the Cromemco and I got to use it
>> basically as much as I wanted.  ca. 1979
>>
>> Greg


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