Subj : Retro, not Vintage
To   : Akacastor
From : Abbub
Date : Sun Apr 07 2024 21:10:41

*** Quoting Akacastor to Abbub dated 04-07-24 ***
> The IMS Series 8000 sounds super interesting too!  I just googled and I
> think I found your thread about it on forum.vcfed.org.  Very cool!
Yep, that's probably my thread. I think there are about four people on the ¨VCFed forum who actually have one of these. One of the guys down in TX has ¨been helping me out quite a lot. There's just one more puzzle related to a ¨boot failure that I need to figure out.  Then I'll call in from THAT system.

*** Quoting Akacastor to Abbub dated 04-07-24 ***
> have done some brief reading about Gary Kildall.  I've watched a bunch 
> of The Computer Chronicles episodes on YouTube, what a gem that show 
> was and what a gem Gary was as co-host!
Yeah, I love watching those old episodes of the Computer Chronicles. It's particulary fun to reflect on the paranoia (here in the states) about what the Japanese computer industry was doing and how they might out-compete us.  That never really panned out, but it's definitely something that got brought up a lot on those early shows.

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