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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: "Aaron J. Grier" <agrier@poofygoof.com>, tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Okistations and OKIX?
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:41:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200628234101.GU1324@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200628223955.GH170@ra.poofy.goof.com>

Huh, that's a trip down memory lane.  I didn't have that one but the first
PC I ever owned was a CP/M machine made by the same company.  Marketed in
this country under the BMC name but it was made by Oki.

2nd one down here:

http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/miscpm/index.htm

I took out a $2000 loan and bought it in 1984 or 1985 because the
alternative was a VAX 11/780 that had about 30-40 people trying to
compile their projects at the same time.  I believe it had 4M of
ram, definitely not enough for the load.

You'd think a 64K z80 with floppies would be a down grade, it was not,
the performance was predictable, I didn't get swapped out for minutes,
it was always working just for me.

I wrote a _ton_ of code on that machine.

On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 03:39:55PM -0700, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> Anybody on the list know much about the provenance of SVr4 and OKIX for the
> Okistation 7300 model 30?
> 
> http://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/computer/work/0029.html indicates that OKIX
> came later on the model 75, but many years ago as a staff programmer at
> Oregon Graduate Institute, a surplus 7300/30 followed me home, but the
> sysadmins referred to it as OKIX.
> 
> if anybody's interested in the hardware to do some spelunking, email me
> off-list.
> 
> -- 
>   Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@poofygoof.com
>   "The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity.  It
>    is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay."  -- Tony Hoare

-- 
---
Larry McVoy            	     lm at mcvoy.com             http://www.mcvoy.com/lm 

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-28 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-28 22:39 Aaron J. Grier
2020-06-28 23:41 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2020-06-29  0:35   ` Nemo

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