[Info-vax] "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS
Richard B. Gilbert
rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Thu Apr 2 17:11:54 EDT 2009
Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <fxrX1XLbYIa8 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
> koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>> In article <hZ6dnSkmzc1-nefUnZ2dnUVZ_vWdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>>> Who are you calling "junior", junior? I was VAXinated in 1984! I
>>> started with VMS V3.x on a VAX 11/750. Yeah, I was 4.something years
>>> late but I couldn't afford to buy my own; I had to wait for old
>>> moneybags to cough up the coins!
>> All of us who got our first VAX when 11/780 was the only model,
>> and it ran VAX-11/VMS 1.x, still get to think of you as a newcomer.
>
> Some of us had years (or even decades) of experience before the first
> VAX even came into existence, junior. :-)
>
You may number me along with those of whom you speak. I met my first
computer in 1967! It was an SDS 730. ISTR it had a whole 32K of
magnetic core memory. I also worked briefly with a PDP-8.
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