[geeks] nerd reading for a Friday night ... old-skool waxed

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2007/01/30 Tue PM 04:16:17 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] nerd reading for a Friday night ... old-skool waxed

>Dave Fischer wrote:
>> gsm at mendelson.com writes:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:14:30PM +0000, Mike Meredith wrote:
>> 
>>> I was more of a floppy kind of guy. I bought Esix 3.2 on floppy, 4.0
>>> on tape (with boot floppies), Coherent on floppy (anyone remember that?),
>>> but the first real Linux system I installed was from CD-ROM.
>> 
>> I wrote the first 3rd-party commercial software for Coherent-286.
>> (First, or only? Dunno.) Coherent was great. Made your PC feel like
>> a small PDP-11. Never used the 386 version, had moved off PCs by
>> that point.
>
>I ran that, and Coherent 386.
>
>I still have my install floppies though, and the Coherent 286 and 386
>manuals.

I ran Coherent '286 on a TI 80286 laptop, with my main accomplishment being I managed the address list for my wedding with a handful of shell scripts (to prove I could ;^) - my final output was a simple dump of the addresses for the caligrapher to put on the envelopes (for what, a $1 or so per), but that was 15 years ago...

Lionel