And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I designed the owner's custom home in Boca Grande, FL (1992) and he tried to talk me into a DEC Alpha system for running my AutoCAD program but I declined. Last I heard they no longer exist or morphed into something else. shrug
I was going to say -11. When I started working at a certain pharma plant in NJ in 1986, the tablet coating rows were running a Fortran program on PDP-11s. Bonus points if you know anything about tablet coating!
Dave, I can let you do that.....Dave ? The red eye ,2001 space odyssey, My eye guy has one and I said DAVE he nor his staff had ever seen the movie. Gramps with cell phone showed them kid what was to so damn funny. Boomers # 1
Oooh, blast from the past for this (apparently) ancient programmer.
ReplyDeleteIn 1981, I was programming in Fortran 77 on a DEC-10, of course it was a card machine, even older than this.
ReplyDeleteIt's not ancient if I used it. Especially if I also used its predecessor, the PDP8.
ReplyDeleteI designed the owner's custom home in Boca Grande, FL (1992) and he tried to talk me into a DEC Alpha system for running my AutoCAD program but I declined. Last I heard they no longer exist or morphed into something else. shrug
ReplyDeleteSURE you did. We believe you! No, REALLY! And I bet he tipped you a million bucks for your work, right?
DeleteI was a janitor at a Digital building in Colo Spgs in 1990 maybe 1991. I think our building was called CXO1.
ReplyDeleteEric.
I was a computer operator on a Univac 100-40 back in the day.
ReplyDeleteThat is 1100-40, my bad
ReplyDeleteLooks familiar, but I am old.
ReplyDeleteWhen I were a lad, you couldn't just buy a computing engine. We had to make our own from twigs and dirt.
ReplyDeletePDP8 forever!!!
ReplyDeleteI was going to say -11. When I started working at a certain pharma plant in NJ in 1986, the tablet coating rows were running a Fortran program on PDP-11s. Bonus points if you know anything about tablet coating!
DeleteInsert “I was there, 3000 years ago” meme here.
ReplyDeleteWhere are the 8" floppys and the large 5meg hd floor cabinets? DEC 1170
ReplyDeleteVT100 terminals, MASS 11 word processing, super fast form fed daisy wheel printers.
ReplyDeleteDEC VAX was always sexy. S370 wasn't.
ReplyDeleteTen system 20, ha, let the upgrade games begin!
ReplyDeleteI worked for DEC for 22 years. Got laid off in DEC's first major down sizing in '91. Took me 8 months to find another job.
ReplyDeleteDave, I can let you do that.....Dave ? The red eye ,2001 space odyssey, My eye guy has one and I said DAVE he nor his staff had ever seen the movie. Gramps with cell phone showed them kid what was to so damn funny. Boomers # 1
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