User:ForOldHack - Revision history

ForOldHack: /* who logged me out.. Oh... */ Updated photo refrence

2023-01-24T05:38:16Z

‎who logged me out.. Oh...: Updated photo refrence

ForOldHack: /* Sources */ Do not edit on poor cell phones. It makes for typos and illegiblity.

2023-01-24T01:03:04Z

‎Sources: Do not edit on poor cell phones. It makes for typos and illegiblity.

ForOldHack: /* updated for Eamon adventures */

2023-01-24T01:02:07Z

‎updated for Eamon adventures

ForOldHack: /* sequence update */ got something out of order.

2022-11-21T10:34:40Z

‎sequence update: got something out of order.

ForOldHack: /* Typo */

2020-09-27T01:09:56Z

‎Typo

ForOldHack: /* Sources */ added Xenix

2019-04-23T02:05:12Z

‎Sources: added Xenix

ForOldHack: /* Sources */ Added DEC archive.., Internet archive, bitsavers.

2019-04-23T01:59:29Z

‎Sources: Added DEC archive.., Internet archive, bitsavers.

ForOldHack: /* added sources and best places for material */

2019-04-21T21:36:12Z

‎added sources and best places for material

ForOldHack at 09:39, 15 March 2019

2019-03-15T09:39:24Z

ForOldHack at 00:40, 12 March 2019

2019-03-12T00:40:43Z

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-I will try and put up a good explaination:
+I will try and put up a good explanation:
 My father used to staple his old punched card decks,
-into christmas trees.
+into Christmas trees.
 When I was 10, my older brother assumed that I could program a computer like a 14 year old,
 and I could easily. Started with a Data General Nova, which died only after a few short months of use.
-( It had been there for over 4 years, and was flakey at best ...)
+( It had been there for over 4 years, and was flaky at best ...)
 The powers that be showed it the door, and ushered in a new subsidized HP 2000B, and
 used the same old ASR-33 Teletypes. 4 years later, my brothers teacher had me complete
-the answers keys for all the years quizes in the first week. Easy work.
+the answers keys for all the years quizzes in the first week. Easy work.
 A small segway: While I was living with a friend, he showed me Eamon.
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 http://www.pdp-11.nl/
 This is the one from the Netherlands which is a good source for the DEC Books webified.

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 This is the one from the Netherlands which is a good source for the DEC Books webified.
-Bitsavers and The web archive both seem to have a lot of material on line, but just as scanned plages.
+Bitsavers and The web archive both seem to have a lot of material on line, but just as scanned pages.
 Bit Savers, bless their heart, [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/ Digital Equipment Doc archive ]

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 used the same old ASR-33 Teletypes. 4 years later, my brothers teacher had me complete
 the answers keys for all the years quizes in the first week. Easy work.
 or so years later, my C teacher said "Have you heard of GNU?

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 so we had to use a mail server at uwasau.fi to uuencode and split them into 4 128byte emails, and wait for a few weeks to get them
 all together so we could look at the source. Unix was fun before all this DNS stuff messed it up.
 After another year, I came home, and both my roommates were fired up about a usenet post by some guy named Linus, and he had written an OS...
 So we downloaded it, and lacked the Swedish keyboard necessary to run it, so we waited a few months until Linus added English keyboard support.
 booted just fine!
 Most of the problems I find with other wikis is that they have little respect for the people who were ACTUALLY THERE. [[User:ForOldHack|ForOldHack]] ([[User talk:ForOldHack|talk]]) 10:39, 15 March 2019 (CET)

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 had a source tape of GNU 0.1. Upon reading almost all the source over a few days,
 me and my two friends agreed: This guy is going to get a MacArthur grant, no doubt about it.
-It took a few years but we got one.
+It took a few years but he got one.
 When we finally got to meet Richard, we told him this story, and all he said was "Humph."

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	Bit Savers, bless their heart, [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/ Digital Equipment Doc archive ]		Bit Savers, bless their heart, [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/ Digital Equipment Doc archive ]

−	Internet Archive, [https://archive.org/search.php?query=DEC%20Digital%20pdf VAX archive], [https://archive.org/search.php?query=PDP%20pdf PDP Archive ]	+	Internet Archive, [https://archive.org/search.php?query=DEC%20Digital%20pdf VAX archive], [https://archive.org/search.php?query=PDP%20pdf PDP Archive]
		+
		+	Internet Archive for [https://archive.org/search.php?query=XENIX Xenix]

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	Bitsavers and The web archive both seem to have a lot of material on line, but just as scanned plages.		Bitsavers and The web archive both seem to have a lot of material on line, but just as scanned plages.
		+
		+	Bit Savers, bless their heart, [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/ Digital Equipment Doc archive ]
		+
		+	Internet Archive, [https://archive.org/search.php?query=DEC%20Digital%20pdf VAX archive], [https://archive.org/search.php?query=PDP%20pdf PDP Archive ]

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	Most of the problems I find with other wikis is that they have little respect for the people who were ACTUALLY THERE. [[User:ForOldHack\|ForOldHack]] ([[User talk:ForOldHack\|talk]]) 10:39, 15 March 2019 (CET)		Most of the problems I find with other wikis is that they have little respect for the people who were ACTUALLY THERE. [[User:ForOldHack\|ForOldHack]] ([[User talk:ForOldHack\|talk]]) 10:39, 15 March 2019 (CET)
		+
		+	== Sources ==
		+	I keep coming across amazing sources for DEC knowledge, all of which I will collect here:
		+
		+	http://www.pdp-11.nl/
		+
		+	This is the one from the Netherlands which is a good source for the DEC Books webified.
		+
		+	Bitsavers and The web archive both seem to have a lot of material on line, but just as scanned plages.

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−	My ~~page is lost~~ to ~~history~~... ( no ~~its~~ on ~~another machine~~ ) ~~<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>~~	+	I will try and put up a good explaination:
		+
		+	My father used to staple his old punched card decks,
		+	into christmas trees.
		+
		+	When I was 10, my older brother assumed that I could program a computer like a 14 year old,
		+	and I could easily. Started with a Data General Nova, which died only after a few short months of use.
		+	( It had been there for over 4 years, and was flakey at best ...)
		+
		+	The powers that be showed it the door, and ushered in a new subsidized HP 2000B, and
		+	used the same old ASR-33 Teletypes. 4 years later, my brothers teacher had me complete
		+	the answers keys for all the years quizes in the first week. Easy work.
		+
		+	15 or so years later, my C teacher said "Have you heard of GNU?
		+	We said no, who wrote it, and he said Richard Stallman, and we said "Oh the guy who wrote emacs?"
		+	and he said "You know emacs?" and we had to answer honestly, "Not nearly as well as we liked."
		+	and we said "Well, if GNU is anything like emacs, we would like a source tape. So I
		+	had a source tape of GNU 0.1. Upon reading almost all the source over a few days,
		+	me and my two friends agreed: This guy is going to get a MacArthur grant, no doubt about it.
		+	It took a few years but we got one.
		+
		+	When we finally got to meet Richard, we told him this story, and all he said was "Humph."
		+
		+	We would check the updates often, and had trouble with transferring the large files,
		+	so we had to use a mail server at uwasau.fi to uuencode and split them into 4 128byte emails, and wait for a few weeks to get them
		+	all together so we could look at the source. Unix was fun before all this DNS stuff messed it up.
		+
		+	After another year, I came home, and both my roommates were fired up about a usenet post by some guy named Linus, and he had written an OS...
		+	So we downloaded it, and lacked the Swedish keyboard necessary to run it, so we waited a few months until Linus added English keyboard support.
		+	booted just fine!
		+
		+	Later on, I built a IBM XT Turbo compatible, and installed Xenix x86 on it. Learned K&R and all the funny things with Xenix.
		+	We got all the stuff to compile and run, and could play Rogue on all our terminals. So we got the source to NetHack,
		+	and tried to compile it. It blew up the file system so badly, that... it was unrecoverable.
		+
		+	Most of the problems I find with other wikis is that they have little respect for the people who were ACTUALLY THERE. [[User:ForOldHack\|ForOldHack]] ([[User talk:ForOldHack\|talk]]) 10:39, 15 March 2019 (CET)

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−	My page is lost to history... ( no its on another machine ) ~~01:39, 12 March 2019 (CET)~~	+	My page is lost to history... ( no its on another machine ) <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>