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Article #619904Re: Prime
From: Gordon Henderson
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:57
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:57
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In article <B5HbC.402423$q8.107507@fx07.am4>, AndyW <An...@nojunqmail.com> wrote: >On 29/01/2018 14:23, Gordon Henderson wrote: >> In article <TQAbC.82275$Os2.30629@fx01.am4>, >> AndyW <An...@nojunqmail.com> wrote: >>> If anyone out there has ever used a Pr1me minicomputer and fancies a bit >>> of nostalgia then there is a telnet emulator you can play with. >> >> I used Primes when a student & working at uni. >> >>> http://www.andrewpetermarlow.co.uk/personal/prime.html >> >> Oddly enough I have absoltuely no interest in connecting in to one >> ever again as long as I live. I have no feelings other than hatred >> towards them. This is possibly (probably) due to the politics >> and people surrounding them at the establishment I worked for. > >I tried it. >It is just as awful as the first time I used it. Thankfully PCs were >coming in at the time and we switched to them after a couple of years >with the prime.... sorry Pr1me, must remember the '1' >I do recall that their security was appalling and it was an easy matter >to go 'Up' and 'LD' to find the lecturers' directories and then 'Down' >to a directory to get the lesson plans and assignments. I remember hitting the break key on the asr33 (yea, 1979/80 and we had asr33's) some 72 times and it dropping into some weird supervisor mode. I think they fixed that at Prim0s 19, but by then I'd moved on to better things (the BBC Micros were faster!) Gordon
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