It's a tough job but somebody's gotta to it. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Chris Barker wrote:
> Chaps
>
> This is almost a non-sequitur, but here goes ...
>
> After I discovered CP/M and small computers on the Tornado Squadron in
> Germany, I was posted to teach US pilots in Florida on the F16 (dirty
> job etc ... :-))
>
> Well, last night I watched Top Gun for the umpteenth time (our
> students watch it allll the time, as well as the Battle of Britain
> film) and remembered this photo of me at Miramar:
>
> http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/flyulas/CbPublic#5281506422313692354
>
> I had not seen it for around 5 years so was quite pleased to find it
> again. You can just see "Fightertown USA" on the hangar in the
> background.
>
> Halcyon days! :-)
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 19 Dec 2008, at 13:03, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> You guys are much too young. This is the first DOS. At least 10
>> years
>> before there was anything even close to a personal computer
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/360>
>> It's also probably the DOS that Chris recalls.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>> Frank van Lindert wrote:
>>> Dr DOS? Concurrent DOS? QDOS (Quick and Dirty DOS? 86-DOS?
>>>
>>> BTWQ, it might interest you that one of the first disk operating
>>> systems was mad by... Apple. At least according to this link
>>> http://members.fortunecity.com/pcmuseum/dos.htm , FWIW.
>
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