The Annual Radio Shack Reminiscence Thread

[Transpower at aol.com]

Ah, yes.  I started working at Stevens' Computer Center / Radio Shack back in 
1982, as the systems engineer.  Naturally I worked on TRS-80 Model II, III, 
and 16's.  For most of the 80's the most popular business computer at our store 
was the Model 16.  I wrote numerous programs in Basic, Super, and filePro for 
the clients.  Back then we marvelled at 10 MB drives!

Regards,
Ron Satz
Transpower Corporation
transpower at aol.com
Commercial and Custom Software Manufacturing and Certified Systems 
Engineering for Microsoft Windows and SCO UNIX.
www.transpowercorp.com


In a message dated 5/11/2007 3:06:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jra at baylink.com writes:

> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:50:40PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> >I first saw Xenix in late 1982 when I was managing the RSCC in the
> >Congressional Plaza shopping center in Rockville Maryland when my CSR Jeff
> >(I forget his last name) came back from training in Fort Worth.  I borrowed
> >his manuals for a weekend, finding that here, at last, was a real Operating
> >System (I had 12 years in mainframes, mostly Burroughs MCP, before going to
> >work for Radio Shack in 1980).  Jeff was amazed that I understood it, and
> >then I got Thompson's book on Unix (the blue one that was probably the only
> >Unix book available at the time), and learned Xenix by reading that and
> >digging through system scripts.
> 
> Ok; everyone else chime in here.  :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> -- 
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