Hehe...how could I forget the ADDS Viewpoints! Our last two systems were the 6550 for our administrative system, and a 9955-II for academics (into which we installed two 880MB drives, I think, that cost us about $28K apiece!)
We migrated our ERP application (we owned source code: AIMS) to Universe on an HP G50. In two years, we had paid off the investment just in savings from maintenance costs. Kinda miss Primos, though. After rev 17, it was a good operating system. And PI was a good db environment. It's dynamic file system worked very well. We were on Universe about 5 years before I felt the dynamic file system was stable enough to use. Drew -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 1:34 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Pick Dinosaurs I stand corrected... Pr1me : ) And yes, Dataproducts 300lpm's and one 600lpm now that you mention them. Let's not forget the one piece ADDS Regent 40 terminals. They were fun to lug around to different departments. I remember being SO excited when we went with Viewpoint 60s. The last Prime system I worked on was the big 6550. Memory boards the size of a 32 inch LCD TV. Gary P. Canedy Senior Database Analyst ProMutual Group (617) 757-6775 From: Drew William Henderson <[email protected]> To: U2 Users List <[email protected]> Date: 02/07/2011 01:27 PM Subject: Re: [U2] Pick Dinosaurs Sent by: [email protected] Sounds familiar! One of my first projects in 1985 was to make program adjustments for how the SETPTR statement changed at PI 5.4.1, on a Pr1me 750 running Primos 18. I think we only had two drives....I used to have one of the 300MB disk packs around here somewhere (used to use 'em for class tours). Two of the 300lpm rebranded dataproducts printers, decollators, detacher, Micom port selector...... and no viruses! :-) Drew -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [ mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 11:55 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Pick Dinosaurs Started in 1984 as a Computer Operator on a Prime 750 running Primos 18.? and Information 5.4. Three loud line printers and a big "band" printer. Two reel to reels for backups, which took 18 reels for a Full off of four 300MB washtub drives. Carrying them, 9 on an arm to our offsite location was always a treat. 2-part Decollator, always efficient when you have a few boxes of 4-part carbon reports. And a teletype style console that ate more paper than it printed. Gary P. Canedy Senior Database Analyst ProMutual Group (617) 757-6775 From: "Don P. Nagai" <[email protected]> To: "'U2 Users List'" <[email protected]> Date: 02/07/2011 11:43 AM Subject: Re: [U2] Pick Dinosaurs Sent by: [email protected] I started on Microdata systems back in 1982. Same big 'ol "washtub" drives, 1/2" reel tapes and Interrupt-Reset-Interrupt or Interrupt-Reset-Clock-Interrupt paddle-switch sequences. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Houben Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 8:39 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Pick Dinosaurs The first machine I worked on was a Microdata 1600 with 4 50 MB Winchester "washtub" drives. It ran 16 users on 64K of core memory. 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