OLD DAYS

[Janina Sajka]

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
> > >
> > >
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				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
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