hahahahah! hp9000! you're never going to believe this (actually you might).
at the last company i worked for (2003 - 2005), we were using a hp9000 (this thing was about a good 10-15 ft long). i dubbed it the 'deathstar' because it made this really ominous noise when it was powering down (so much -- in fact that it felt like the room got brighter when we turned it off). anyhow, in 2004 we took it offline. we also had a couple of dec alpha 4100s (running digital unix 4.0, which i later moved on to tru64). all of the above were used solely for sybase. i miss those. they were ROCK solid! eric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roy Vestal Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 9:08 AM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Old-n-Young Guy Stories Heh, "youngun's"... I guess I'm one of the "tweeners" between the Jim R/Chris C./Glen H. group and the Olsen E./William S./Craig T./Alexis Z. group. Barely born in the beginning of the 70's. Wrote my first "program" (we now would call it a geneology db) on my Atari 400 w/Left Cartridge Basic (pre M$ basic) and "membrane" keyboard as a Christmas present for an Uncle (was a sw eng at Apple). Then for fun, added peek/poke graphics and ported it to my C-64. Attempted to play my first game(s) of mtrek on the school's HP 9000. It didn't use a monitor, but a printout. Needless to say, I got killed as soon as I logged in. The first computer I learned "programming" on the good ol' TRS-80 Model 4 with *dual* 360k floppies AND a *green* screen (no crappy orange on this baby!). It was one of the *10* that were used at the local High School. My dad taught there and was one of the instructors that used the computer lab. I would go in and play on that thing for hours after school. Then there was.... (/me has lots of stories)... Alexei Znamensky wrote: > On 2/8/07, Craig Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Anybody else who was born in the '70s ever use their father's punch >> cards to build card houses? I found that they were much much better >> at supporting my larger structures and hung onto a whole stack of 'em >> for about 7 years before they faded out of where I put them... (got >> lost / stopped caring). >> >> At high school before the Apple ]['s came in we used a teletype that > > > call -151 > peek -16384 > > ... mind wanders... > > was hooked up to NCSU where we could run a bunch of programs whose >> main purpose I believe was to waste paper. >> >> I used to know all of the chip-level details (what each chip did), >> memory space, cycle counts etc for the Commodore. Now things have >> gotten so complex and only standardized through driver interfaces >> that I miss the chip-level type programming that you could do... >> >> On 2/8/07, William Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Adding to the younger-but-older stories. I was born in the >> mid-70's. I >> > remember the punch cards, cradle modems, and line printers where my >> father >> > went to school. In fact, I actually used the punch cards myself >> > (for bookmarks :-D ) >> > >> > -- >> > William Sutton >> -- >> TriLUG mailing list : >> http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug >> TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member >> Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ >> > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
