On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:09:54 +0100, John Hall wrote:

In message ,
Graham Easterling writes
If we are going back in time, who remembers CPM, with PIP etc. in the
early mid 80s?

Me. But I don't remember it very well, as I didn't use it much. (Mainly
for playing Adventure - aka Colossal Cave - at lunchtime, I think.)

I had CP/M 1.4 running on a Nascom 1 at one point, 32K RAM, a 5.25in floppy on a S100
card.



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Regards, Paul Herber
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Paul Herber wrote:

On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:09:54 +0100, John Hall wrote:

In message ,
Graham Easterling writes
If we are going back in time, who remembers CPM, with PIP etc. in the
early mid 80s?

Me. But I don't remember it very well, as I didn't use it much. (Mainly
for playing Adventure - aka Colossal Cave - at lunchtime, I think.)

I had CP/M 1.4 running on a Nascom 1 at one point, 32K RAM, a 5.25in floppy
on a S100 card.

.....and going back even further the computer technology on the Voyager space
probes really has to be admired. Both were launched in 1977 and, as far as I
know, they are still either sending data or are capable of doing so if they are
woken up. According to Wikipedia -

"The digital control electronics of the Voyagers were based on RCA CD4000
radiation-hardened, silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) custom-made integrated circuit
chips, combined with standard transistor-transistor logic (TTL) integrated
circuits".

A truly remarkable achievement that they are still functioning today.

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
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