>  RM> Mainframes and minis, perhaps, but can you name a machine from
 >  RM> that time and in that price class that had an assembler that could
 >  RM> do so?
 
 > Indeed, somewhere I still have a manual for a PDP-1, about the same era.
 > It had a working assembler and four k of core memory to run it in.
 
 NP> Shit. That was luxury. When I started I had 2,400 bytes to run a
 NP> complete accounting and payroll in ! 
 
He, he, I remember some of the packages that where available in those
days, I was looking around for them for a fair while.
In the end I stayed manual untill a few years ago, not one crash in all
those years...
My insurance agent went computer when the XT became available, about a
year later his first crash almost broke him.
Backup? What's that he said.

 NP> When I came back to computers and had 24k, I thought it was heaven.
 NP> :-) 

Yes, I still have a system here in (sporadic) use that has one full size
card with 8k on board, fortunately it also has a 16 k expansion one:-)
Used it last year to extract some old assembler files from flop.
According to the legends there are some programs for the IBM that can
read these old files, must have a look.

 NP> On another note....
  
 NP> I have a WYSE terminal (Model WY-60-01-02) sittin on the shelf doing
 NP> nothing. It was originally hooked via an Alloy card to an XT running
 NP> Dos 3.3 with the terminal running Dos 3.2. It is a screen with a
 NP> keyboard connected via a International telephone plug and has two 2
 NP> normal 25 pin sockets labeled  AUX  and MODEM on the rear. 
 NP> Can anyone advise as to how I can use this as a dumb terminal off one
 NP> of my current computers (386/33)
 
I tossed a yeah beaut colour monitor, however I since traded a wyse terminal
in, all yours if you need another one:-)

 NP> Any advice (other than binning it) would be appreciated.
 NP> Niels Petersen

They make great targets, hit the tube side on...

Cheers,

Theo

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