Re: gEDA-user: Free Dog meeting report: Notes on the topics that should be avoided

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 23, 2005, at 9:50 PM, Greg Cunningham wrote:
> > Or my DEC VT05? (VDU - 12 lines of 80 chars, uppercase only.)
> > I have a DECwriter II, but that's a bit young.
> >
> >    Ok, now I'm seriously jealous, despite my rooms full of tasty DEC
> > goodness.  The oldest DEC terminal I have is a VT50.
> Well, that brought some medals out of the cupboard... Good to know ther
> is a bit of old mainframe metal still around.  Me? Not really, I was
> only an addicted RF/TTL fault diagnostician 30 yrs ago. Tasmania didn't
> have too many big-gun CPUs in the 70's (find that on Google Earth!).

  Ahh, I'm a PDP-11 hacker from way back.  I started out with CP/M on a 
Z80, but I "got serious" when I bought a PDP-11/34a as surplus from a 
university where I worked part-time after school.  As a hobby I 
consider myself a bit of a historian of the history of our industry; I 
have a reasonably decent collection of PDP-8, PDP-11, and VAX stuff 
here, as well as some other goodies.  I also dabble in antique 
scientific instruments.

             -Dave

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'that
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