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To: TREND1 who wrote (9131)	1/22/1998 1:14:00 AM
From: MonsieurGonzo	Respond to of 95453

Larry; *** OFF OFF TOPIC *** Heheheheheh - yeah - we were travelin' first class with the timesharing setups back then (^_^) Had DecWriters running at (dig this) 1200 BAUD!!! I'm 47 - so learned how to program on Univac 1108's and IBM 360/370 series. Punched cards were great. They'd go flappitty-flappitty in the reader / sorter. I moved from Texas to San Francisco in the late 70's. About the time of the Alaskan Pipeline Project, I met up with some hackers (we used to call the hardware guys "hackers" and the software guys "wizards") who were making these terrific, 4Mhz Zilog Z-80 workstations with AMD AM9511A-2 math chips and a full house of interfaces like IEE-488 as well as RS232C and "Centronics Parallel" out back - for the engineers working up there. I had one made for me, too - and learned how to write Intel 8080 Assembly Language. Paid $1,000. for 64Kbit of RAM. Bitch screamed man (^_^) -Steve