If you're gettin' all nostalgic, how about Osbornes, Kaypros and Morrow
Decision computers with CP/M ? Or Thick Ethernet from Xerox ? Those were the
days.........
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee, Wook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10:48 PM
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC 2006
Ah, now we're really dragging out the old war horses. My first job at
DEC was writing CBI courses for the DECmate WPS+ list processing module.
They gave me a Robin (think VT100 with a processor and dual 5.25" floppy
disks) to use at home (a little basement studio next to the laundry room
in the basement of my apartment building in Acton, MA.) My second job
was writing a device driver in C for a Polaroid CRT-to-film peripheral
called the Polaroid Palette (had a mini-high resolution B&W CRT and a
Color-filter wheel all controlled by a Z80 processor) for the very same
Rainbow PC.
In those days, Digital could not decide on a PC strategy. There were
three different product lines that all had some potential but none of
them took off. We had the Rainbow which was close to what became
mainstream with an 8088 or 8086 processor, the DECmate with was
basically a secretarial workstation running WPS+ and not much else and
the Pro 350 which was a repackaged PDP-11 that spent a few years as the
console device for some of the bigger VAXen. If I recall correctly, the
Pro 350 OS was based on RSTS.
Those were the good old days before 1987 and Black Tuesday. I think I
had some Digital options at something like $150. Sigh.
Wook
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kat Collins
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC 2006
Anyone remember the Rainbow? It was DEC's attempt at a Personal
computer. Launched in early '83, if I remember... ran its own
proprietary DEC-OS and was not compatible with any IBM-DOS apps. It
died a year or two later, but the marketing stickers held up for about
10 years!! I had one stuck to my daughter's mirror and damned if I
could get it off!!
And the DECwriter and the Gold key..... ahhhh - sweet memories!!
On 1/11/06, joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ah but people using DEC and attending DECUS were smarter than the
average
bear.... To this day the people I meet who grew up on DEC are more
well
rounded and knowledgeable in the field than the norm.
The good ol days... Anyone remember Mike Mayfield and the RSTS/E
Monitor
Internals books he wrote? Only place to get the real scoop on the
internals
so you could really wreak havoc. I think he also wrote the original
Trek too
so if your system was still up after poking around in the internals
you
could play a video game on your DecWriter or VT52.
I got my first official corporate support position supporting OS/2 and
Win31
on Token Ring back in the mid 90's because I knew DEC. The 8 or so
people in
the panel interview started asking me questions about the equipment
the job
was for (OS/2 Win31 tcp/ip Token Ring) and I couldn't answer any of
the
questions so they saw DEC on my resume and started asking DEC
questions and
a couple of hours later we were all laughing and I had my choice of
the
three open positions they had even though I knew nothing about any of
them.
:)
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John
McGlinchey
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 4:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC 2006
My experience is just the opposite. I attended DECUS (The other DEC,
Digital
Equipment Computer Users Society Symposia) a few times back in the
90's and
the casinos complained that the attendees were not losing enough
money.
This was attributed to 1) most of the attendees knew the odds were
against
them so they kept their money in their pockets where it belonged and
2) the
ones that did play were pretty good at it and were winning too much.
I'll not be attending but I'm sending someone that works for me
instead.
Have a good conference.
John McGlinchey
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thommes,
> Michael M.
> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 3:38 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC 2006
>
> I think you are going to find the same at Green Valley -
> http://www.greenvalleyranchresort.com/gaming/index.html
>
> Leave your car and house titles at home!
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