Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!hsdndev!stanford.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!newstop!eastapps!juggler!gaudreau From: gaudreau@juggler.East.Sun.COM (Joe Gaudreau (Spaced for Rent)) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: trs80 Date: 8 Mar 91 14:35:34 GMT References: <978@creatures.cs.vt.edu> <1991Mar2.032644.2884@jack.sns.com> <4668@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> Sender: news@East.Sun.COM Reply-To: gaudreau@east.sun.com (Joe Gaudreau (Spaced for Rent)) Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. - BDC Lines: 29 Approved: gaudreau@East hundt@OCCLUSAL.RUTGERS.EDU (Thomas M. Hundt) writes: =Those disk drives cost $500 at the time... and held, what, 40k =or 80k for double-density? One time I deleted and deallocated =half the directory to make room to fit the entire MS-Fortran =compiler on a single disk. It was 40trks, 10 sectors, 256 byte per wasn't it? That's about 100k. That's a *lot* of storage! :-) Fortran? Yick. :-) How about SAM-76? ='Course, nowadays, programs are *pigs* in terms of size... we had =programs that worked *well*, like Scripsit and ST80-III (with =custom modified control codes for better VT100 emulation) and =SuperUtility and the assembler... that ran in 16-32K. And, we =had LDOS which had more features than MS-DOS! Don't forget NewDos [80]. Very nice! MacroMon-The Shadow was the coolest monitor, single stepper, disassembler, etc I have ever run across. Small, powerful as all getout, and cheap! =Those were fun times. Yes they were. The good old days! Making a light pen for 99 cents and writing the driver yourself was most excellent. The nostalgia I get from even thinking about adjusting the heads on my tape recorder makes me want to cry :-) alas, the Z80 (and friends), I knew it well... Later dudes, Joe -=-