30 Aug
2018
30 Aug
'18
10:11 p.m.
Early plug and play.
Would have worked better if they trained the PC techs in how the stuff worked.
Bill
Old ex-tech turned sysadmin
-----Original Message-----
From: Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com>
To: Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com>
Cc: William Pechter <pechter(a)gmail.com>, The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
<tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
Sent: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 11:22
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Cryptic Unix Commands
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 9:03 AM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 10:31 AM William Pechter
<pechter(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Ah yes, the original zeroconfig :)
Warner
Screw IBM for the in cable drive select lines on
diskette
You of course realized that was because of field service issues of
course. Setting all floppies (and later ST-506 disks) on the PC and using
a twist in the cable meant they did not have to ask FS folks to set the
jumpers properly.