I started on a P300 that I think might have been running Primos 3, then we got a 400 running Primos 4. I think it was either the upgrade to Primos 5 or 7 (details are too blurry at this point) when we had significant issues with a upgrade, not the least of which was that the cobol compiler was broken and there was no going back.
Ah, the good ol' days when my skill at threading tapes or setting the hardware switches for booting the Pr1me were appreciated. That predates Information. We were writing COBOL with MIDAS files back then. --dawn On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Jerry <[email protected]> wrote: > I also started in 1972 on point of sale systems at Victor Comptometer > Corporation. At the time we were a US manufacturing facility for Noxdorf > Computers. I didn't get into a Pick flavor until 1980 when I started work at > Prime Computers. I think at tat time Primos was 16 something and Prime > Information was around 4 or 5. It's been a long time. > > Jerry > > On 2/7/2011 12:48 PM, Steve Romanow wrote: >> >> Earliest we've seen yet. Awesome! You early adopter! >> >> On 2/7/2011 1:45 PM, Tom wrote: >>> >>> I started on a Microdata in 1972, first system in Seattle,Wa >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> Tom Dodds >>> [email protected] >>> 630.235.2975 >>> >>> >>> On Feb 7, 2011, at 10:56, "Peter S. Goldberger"<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Started in 1984 on an ADDS Mentor with a 40 Mb hard disk and 12" tape >>>> >>>> George Gallen wrote: >>>>> >>>>> and we had to walk to work in bare feet uphill both ways! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:u2-users- >>>>>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 11:52 AM >>>>>> To: U2 Users List >>>>>> Subject: Re: [U2] Pick Dinosaurs >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>> 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. >>>>>>>> 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. That was >>>>>>>> >>>>>> back >>>>>> in >>>>>> >>>>>>>> 1981. >>>>>>>> >>>>>> Wow. You guys are really old. >>>>>> >>>>>> Charles Shaffer >>>>>> Senior Analyst >>>>>> NTN-Bower Corporation >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> U2-Users mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> U2-Users mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> U2-Users mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> U2-Users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> U2-Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >> >> > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > -- Dawn M. Wolthuis Take and give some delight today _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
