I never had the pleasure of running LDOS. Once I got newdos I was so happy and busy that I could have 4 floppy drives and the 5 meg hard drive.
I had NewDos on my TRS-80 Model I, if I recall correctly. My Model 3 and my Lobo Max-80 both had LDOS.
If recollection serves, the rights to LDOS were eventually bought by Tandy, and they used it as the basis for later versions of TRS-DOS; it was easier and cheaper for them to do that than to rewrite everything for the larger drive support.
But our version of LDOS was very different than the versions which ran on Tandy machines: they were basically ROM-based machines and much of the code (including BASIC) was in the ROM. Our machines only had a shadow boot ROM that booted to the floppy or hard drive and then got out of the way. The Lobo had the first (perhaps the only) system that could bank switch all 32K banks of the full 128K memory.
It was heady stuff...and I soon learned that if you have one computer for a dedicated use, you really need to have another one for the day to day stuff and the experimenting.
I had three
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I discoved what one could do with a computer, I sold all the teletype gear and dropped out of ham radio for a period of time.
my ham license just expired, and I've so far not renewed it. I don't like that they now need your social security number. Somehow that bothers me. And I've done nothing in ham radio for a long time now.
I am having a senior moment with the name of the BBS software....it was written by a young guy named Marcos in California...he was the author, I did the docs....it was so popular that it was pirated left and right...so, we had multiple backdoors in it...when we saw an unpiad version, we'd drop in and leave a polite request for payment...when that didn't work we replaced it online with a crippled version.
The guy I bought from, who also wrote the CompuServe system, was actually a singer for the New York Metropolitan Opera (I wish I could remember his name). That was back in the days when people from all walks of life were first discovering small computers but keeping their day jobs.
I sold custom software for CP/M and MP/M .
I wondered how come you remembered the difference in the placement of the
/ in the two. Most people would say M/PM and not MP/M.
floyd said:
30 years ago I was 11. I had no interests in electronics at that time.
When I was 11 (1955) I was already building kit short wave radios; I think from Radio Shack (then a small Boston-based company, and not part of Tandy; Tandy did leatherworking kits) But there were a few other radio kit companies as well, and it could have been one of the others.
donkeyKICK said:
Does anybody remember using the internet back when really it was just little more then a connection between the libraries?
Yes, I used it as part of a small bit of military work; if I told you, I'd have to ... well you probably understand
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I remember getting my first 56k modem, and then saying "What?!? I can't actually use 56k? WTF man!!" And reading that it was faster one way then other, and I never got more the about 48k in any case. Calling the phone company, demanding a better pair, and really being quite annoyed I wasn't getting what I thought I was paying for.
The limitation was in the hardware based protocol, but there was a very real limitation in the connection speed of the folk you were downloading from as well. For example, when I started my first webhoting company in 1995, the College down the street from us had a 56k (real 56k, not modem) connection for the entire campus. I had 128k, but if I got on the phone it was only 64k, because I'd be using 64k for my telephone line (ISDN connection). (This was in Florida, where home-based ISDN connections weren't timed by the minute.)
Now I have a 15mbps connection, and I am whining that it is too slow.
I'm currently (at my home office) 3mbps DSL, but I'm looking at switching to either AT&T Uverse or Charter Cable in February, when TV switches to all digital, because Riverside is far enough away from Los Angeles that digital TV over the air isn't too good here. I'd prefer Verizon FIOS to Uverse but you can get what you can get, based on the incumbent phone company, and I'm in AT&T territory.
I've resorted to setting up a vps at my datacenter for the sole purpose of remoting in and being about to use the internet speeds there when I want to download big stuff.
Of course at the data center I've got 100mbps to the cabinets, and fiber to the cage.
I called my cable company, and they want $150 more a month to bring me from 15mbps to 20...
Really not bad; at the datacenter we pay (at my current usage rate) $35 per mbps (10 mbps at 95 percentile).
The cable company is trying to prevent him from releasing it saying that it is stealing... But it isn't since you are never taking away from your neighbors, and it requires your neighbors permission to work. Someday we'll all have them, and be reminiscing about how we all used to have all this unused bandwidth....
If you didn't have your neighbor's permission it would be stealing under California law. I'm not sure it's legally stealing from your cable company, but it's most likely against their TOS. If you and your neighbors actually used all the bandwidth your connection offers the cable company would have to raise their rates; bandwidth, unlike Linux, is NOT free
. Think 15mbps at $35 per mbps. Do you really want to pay $525 per month for your cable connection? You probably would have to if you and your neighbors were using all your capacity.
Jeff