extremely OT: Old Farts, Old Cybers, and thanks for all the fish

[david]

As the designer and implementor of Compass and Update (the assembly 
language on the CDC 6400/6600 and a source maintenance tool), you bring 
back memories.

Remember Micros (I blush).

David Kurn


At 07:40 PM 5/6/2004, you wrote:
> > Greg writes:
> > > Heh.. The first system I worked on was a CDC 6600(S/N 32),
> > single cpu/131K
> > > ...
> >
> >
> > The machine room was locked, but the console operators sometimes let
> > us in to the "Holy of Holies".  They had a control console with two
> > round CRT text displays, which even then looked archaic.  There was an
> > app that the operators ran to show off, that made an ASCII fish swim back
> > and forth across the display.  Fairly lame, but they were proud of it.
>
>Yeah those CRT's were odd. Actually there was some other things you could do
>with those CRT's. Plus CDC had some "games" you could play either onthe
>console or a remote terminal.
>
> > I will probably see Andy Davidson, the CDC on-site maintenance engineer
> > in 1975, at the Portland Linux Unix Group meeting tonight.  I will remind
> > him of those days, and see how he remembers them.
>
>That name sounds familiar.. He probably knows either my brother or sister
>since all three of us worked for CDC.
>
>Greg
>
>
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