Rich Alderson

@arrakeen_urbanite@universeodon.com @scanner@apricot.social @brouhaha@mastodon.social Bagpipes always help.

@kentpitman@climatejustice.social I remember that chart from the directory on the DEC-20 at UChicago, where I first learned EMACS. I found (MIT) TECO so fascinating that I created my own variant with the TWENEX and TMACS/TMUCS libraries built in rather than loaded by the top level. You and RMS declared me the “official”maintainer when I published a Y2K fix for the KMPTIME library in 1999! ;-)

@scalzi First time I’ve responded to one of these. “Nightshade & Oak” and “Five Funerals” look interesting.

@icm@mastodon.sdf.org I personally know of one that has been running TOPS-20 since 1990.

@kaelef@mastodon.social @ve7fim@mastodon.social My System/370 assembler textbook, new in 1973, used “nybble” for half a byte.

@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca @ve7fim@mastodon.social Paper tape dates back to the telegraph period, Hollerith punch cards to the 1890 census. Mag tape for data is mid 20th Century.

@ve7fim@mastodon.social It’s explicitly PDP-11, from the 1972 Paper Tape Software Handbook.

@scalzi We bought a Macbook Air for my wife, to replace a Gen 6 iPad, back in December. She hated it, so I said she should get a new iPad. She waffled, but we purchased an M4 Air last month. I keep hoping that she doesn’t read the tech pages in the Seattle Times, about the new cheap iPad…

@fvzappa@mastodon.sdf.org You have some of the best toys, man! My best to the family!

@faraiwe@mstdn.social @dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz The 11/70 runs Unix v7. “4.x” sounds like a BSD 32 bit (i.e. VAX) version; the 16 bit versions are 2.x, but I think they expect a Qbus PDP-11 rather than Unibus like the 11/70 and earlier.