No.. But I was only 18 then. I do remember the Atari Rainbow that I had on
my Atari 800 PC.
http://www.atarimuseum.com/
Jose :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kat Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:18 PM
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
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