UNIX- Grad-daddy of all modern operating systems?

[Josef Lowder]

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On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:08, Jim wrote
> I don't know if this would be in the one up category, but I remember 
> being a high school freshman in 1981 and spending time after school 
> in the math teacher's room messing around with his TRS80 with a 
> whopping 4KB RAM and running programs stored on cassette tape.

Speaking of that old TRS-80 Model I ... I bought one the first week 
they showed up in Radio Shack stores, thinking it might make a fun 
father-son hobby project.  I knew absolutely nothing about computers 
at the time (and still feel very much a "newbie" compared to all the 
brilliant minds in the plug community) ... but after tinkering with 
that old Model I for a couple of weeks, I built a little basic program 
to demonstrate for one of my clients how I thought we might be able to 
use a computer to produce shipping documents that were then being typed 
and retyped over and over endlessly on selectric typewriters.