[DUG] You say potatoe I say....

[Phil Scadden]

> My first tech device was a Sharp programmable scientific calculator, EL5101
> it had 48 yes 48 steps of program storage, and 5 memories.  It also had a
> wonderful LCD display and algebraic logic, eg you could enter expressions

We must be similar vintage. Mine was the wonderful TI. Similar functions but easier than the
HP25 RPN stuff.


> And PDP-11's and VMS, fond memories.  Guess where the DIR command came from?
> My favourite memory is of a PDP-11 that crashed running RT11 which was real
> fast....the console was on a separate power supply and it had this message
> on it:

well I am still programming vaxen. (Have machines that will not die). I
don't have good memories of the PDP-11. The hair-raising sound on the
edge of audibility as your winchester has a head-crash. You hear you
data dying. oh and the 8in floppies. How I hated the memory managment
on those things too.

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