No, I think the Apple 5 and a quarter inch floppies were only 143 K. Their 3.5 inch disks were 800, but I couldn't afford those. Ibm had the 360K 5.25 disks. Gosh, I even double spaced above. Talk about old habits! On Tue, 21 May 2002, Alex Snow wrote: > Yup, it was called bex. You booted from one disk, then had to insert > another disk to work with, called the main disk I think. The system I had > was an apple II, but I also worked with the GSs a few times. The whole OS, > program files, and data files all fit on one 360k floppy. Winblows takes > 500 Megs! > I remember sitting in computer class, all the sited people actually had > macks with HDs, waiting for my sorry little apple to boot. That thing > sounded like a freit train I remember! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at attbi.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 5:59 PM > Subject: Re: OLD DAYS > > > Hey Alex. I remember the apple 2gs, and it took 5 mins to boot also. It had > a 3.5 fd with the echo synth that I could somewhat understand. Oh wasn't > that word processor called Bex? The thing booted off a floppy I think. I > wonder if that was its entire kernel and rest of os and software all on that > disk? Old ass mac system! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alex Snow <alex_snow at gmx.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 5:14 PM > Subject: Re: OLD DAYS > > > > I came after the paper tape, but I remember way back in elementary school > > learning to type on an apple II with talking typer from aph. It had an > echo > > synth that I didn't understand, and two disk drives (5.25") and took about > 5 > > minutes to boot. Then it would crash if I backspaced to many times in > the > > date, and the whole process would have to be repeated. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Cecil H. Whitley" <cwhitley at ec.rr.com> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 11:07 PM > > Subject: OLD DAYS > > > > > > > hI, > > > i REMEMBER bitnET AND RELAY (RAN ON TOP OF RSCS). i ALSO REMEMBER PAPER > > > TAPE AND PUNCH CARDS. sAD PART ABOUT THAT IS THAT THE nAVY IS PROBABLY > > > STILL USING PAPER TAPE IN PLACES. > > > > > > cECIL > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
