Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jack Strangio Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.sys.raspberry-pi Subject: Re: Keeping 'order' without RTC. Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 06:21:38 GMT Organization: North Star Horizon Builders Club Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="c01c6455a1e61e7afbd705a91fe2ff93"; logging-data="18433"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+xaCEwpRYDC66O/waKIyYRz+msfVbtxdE=" X-Newsreader: TASS News Reader 3.7.2 jvs [linux] Cancel-Lock: sha1:2chB88xV9JxFFYj4gEy8ab+cIT4= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:13954 William Unruh writes: > > Disk? You were a latecomer to the PC. The original had a cartridge tape > system. > Yes. 1985. I had a much better CP/M system in terms of usability than the original 1981 PC up until then. My IBM PC-XT had my first hard drive - a whole 10 MB. My very first Personal Computer at the end of 1978 had a disk drive. 90 kb single-sided, single-density. I thought I was at the cutting edge. Jack -- "I'm a home-loving girl. And that's where I wish I was." "At home ..." "Loving." - Laugh-In, 1968