this is starting to sound like a Monty Python sketch "when I were a lad we
were lucky to have computa, and we lived in a sho box on middle road
and........"    :-)

Jeremy


On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Phil Scadden <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> >> My first computer experience was on a VAX 780.  2 MB Ram, 550 MB
> >>
> >
> > Just.don't.start. It's not Friday, and we are not in Yorkshire. <g>
> >
> Aww. Come on, where's the fun! Vax780?, that was luxury. We thought we
> were spoiled with a 1MB Vax 750. I started with PORTRAN cards on IBM via
> local bank, graduated to the Burroughs at Uni, and then oh joy, the vax.
> In fact still have a vax  (well alpha 2000) in my office.
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