[ale] a moment of silence please

[ale at pcartwright.com (Paul Cartwright)]

On Thu April 29 2010, Thompson Freeman wrote:
> Well, CP/M was the first OS in the home for me. Had to ?
> build that beast - H89. We got the children an Apple II a ?
> few years later to get them off the CP/M machine. For all ?
> of that, I rather wish I'd gone ahead and gotten the H-DOS ?
> system also - with loadable device drivers and some other ?
> goodness.
Mine was a Kaypro II CP/M "portable".. in no stretch of the imaginationw would 
it be called a LAPTOP..
BIG heavy metal case, the cover came off & was the keyboard. Dual-800Kb floppy 
drives ( No HD).

>
> I also got a Fortune16 (or something like that) Unix box ?
> using 68000 in the late 1980's.

the AT&T UNIX boxes used that 68000 processor.. good old AT&T 3B2's & 3B5's.. 
lots of days hard at work, playing Collosal Cave:-0)

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