this is starting to sound like a Monty Python sketch "when I were a lad we were lucky to have computa, and we lived in a sho box on middle road and........" :-)<br><br>Jeremy<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Phil Scadden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:p.scadden@gns.cri.nz">p.scadden@gns.cri.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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>> My first computer experience was on a VAX 780. 2 MB Ram, 550 MB<br>
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> Just.don't.start. It's not Friday, and we are not in Yorkshire. <g><br>
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</div>Aww. Come on, where's the fun! Vax780?, that was luxury. We thought we<br>
were spoiled with a 1MB Vax 750. I started with PORTRAN cards on IBM via<br>
local bank, graduated to the Burroughs at Uni, and then oh joy, the vax.<br>
In fact still have a vax (well alpha 2000) in my office.<br>
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