I know of this local company, had an Alpha running VMS, just the end of
last year they wanted to move it to another location. They needed to
move data around to get rid of external disk arrays, but didn't know
what to do. It seems that they had been running that system for 2 1/2
years without an administrator, it just didn't need attention.
They found someone to move the data around, and are still running that app.
Roy Vestal wrote:
Well, to try and "one-up" ya, one of my former employers took their
VAX (VMS) offline in 2002. It held some serious critical data (can't
tell you, but it affected the entire company), and we had to upgrade
the thing for Y2K. It was online for over 20 years. Oh, and they added
2 Alpha's running VMS in the early 90's.
Anyway, they took them offline in 2002. The next year, they bought a
"new" Alpha to, guess what??? Run VMS for a project!
All the stupid old days...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
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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
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