Re: OT: Humor
- From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:02:40 -0500
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 22:08, Terry Polzin wrote:
On Tuesday March 7 2006 22:04, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 21:55 -0500, Terry Polzin wrote:
: - Trim'n some cruft...
:
VME was good, too. Compiled scripts (procedures), an ALGOL
derived scripting language (SCL) at least as good as VMS's dcl,
optional command templates, data dictionary, and screen handling
that reveals CICS as the dogs breakfast that it is. Crummy
screen editors, can't beat VMS on that, though I have yet to
find a line editor as powerful.
Andy Goss
On to the main frame stuff,
DOS 27 / Socrates
DOS/VS(E) 33,34
CICS 1.5,1.6
VTAM
ICCF
VOLLIE
VSAM
Ah! Forgot about da Mainframe stuff...
I could go on about the Tab equipment, and wiring boards... ;-)
Scope 3 (Control Data Systems Operating System, Circa CDC 6500 -
Hollerith based character sets, no less).
Mike
Or, how about wire wrapping all the support boards around an 1802 based
Super Elf, complete with the whole cloth simple video I needed to make
a machine that installed an academy leader and automation trigger tones
on a tv commercial back when Sony 2800's and 2850's were new? Saving
us a generation loss between production and air. 1977-78, still in use
in 94 when I last talked to the Chief there. All in about $1190 bytes
of battery backed ram for the program and data, maybe another 100 bytes
for stack. No assembler, looked it all up in the 1802 programmers
manual & entered with a hex monitor the board came with.
Or doing the same thing with a pair of z-80 boards, building a pretty
complete transmitter automatic remote control system a couple of years
later when the z-80 was new & had a buglist as long as your arm in 4
point type? Again, no assembler & a hex monitor only.
Or building a super duper, many times friendlier & 4x faster than
Grasses EDISK for the 300 series switchers (it sold for $20k) out of a
trs-80 color computer 2 running os9 level 1 V2, used from 1989 to 2002
when the last Grass 300 was dumped in the garage at WDTV where I was
Chief from 10/1984-07/2002.
Even before small computers, my fingerprints were in the cameras that
were on the Trieste when it made its only dive into the mohole back in
the 60's. I helped build them a few months before that dive.
That, and $0.65 or so will get you a cup of java around here, and thats
about what its worth, but I just had to play "can you top this" with
all the big dogs on this list. Now of course I'm just another old fart
with a story to tell. :)
Do carry on, I rather enjoy it when the real artists come out and
play. :)
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