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    No Ken Olsen thread?

    Founder of DEC dead


    Computer pioneer Ken Olsen dies - The Boston Globe

    Wikipedia already updated - damn they are fast.
    McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
    Spock: "Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error."

    #2
    All the heroes of my youth are slowly dying off.

    Programming DEC-Vax's in the 80's - happy days.

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      #3
      Originally posted by singhr View Post
      All the heroes of my youth are slowly dying off.

      Programming DEC-Vax's in the 80's - happy days.

      New fangled Vaxen, bring back the PDPs!!!

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        #4
        VAX was ace!!

        We had them on the reactors when I was in the nuclear industry, along with some VAX-ELN things - embedded VAX in 1992....

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          #5
          Remember Eve and Vi?

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            #6
            Originally posted by pacharan View Post
            Remember Eve and Vi?
            EDT all the way. Editing with the 'Gold' button. Magical days...
            Illegitimus non carborundum est!

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              #7
              Originally posted by pacharan View Post

              Remember Eve and Vi?
              Remember vi? I'm still using the perishing thing.

              Wasn't TECO supposed to be the really horrific one? Never used it, but I heard you could easily wipe a text file beyond recovery by a single misplaced comma or full stop.
              Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ here

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                #8
                Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
                Remember vi? I'm still using the perishing thing.

                Wasn't TECO supposed to be the really horrific one? Never used it, but I heard you could easily wipe a text file beyond recovery by a single misplaced comma or full stop.
                q!

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Churchill View Post
                  q!
                  :q!

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
                    New fangled Vaxen, bring back the PDPs!!!
                    Wasn't a PDP 11/780 a VAX? It seems so long ago...

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