[Info-vax] Just how old are we?

[Elliott Roper]

On 3 Mar 2021 at 18:19:35 GMT, "Simon Clubley"
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:

> On 2021-03-03, Elliott Roper <nospam at yrl.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>  I'll stake a claim for the other end. Born 1940.
> 
> On the plus side, at least at that age, you should have long since
> had your Covid-19 vaccine injection by now. :-)
> 
> Some of us are still on the waiting list...
Yep. I am living in UK. That means I got my first jab in early Jan. Second jab
due soonish.
> 
> 
>>  The birth of PDP-8 sucked me in.
>>  The death of Alpha spat me out.
> 
> Interesting. Time for another thread.
> 
> My earliest DEC system was a PDP-11 running RSTS/E V9.{something early}
> so I didn't even get to experience the "wonders" :-) of RSTS/E V8
> and earlier.

I have a funny story how I got sucked into the minicomputer thing, which I may
tell here one day. And a lot of tragic stories how I got spat out. I will keep
quiet about them for ever. Mostly because all in c.o.v could make a pretty
good guess.

My first paying work was on PS/8 before it became OS/8. Just about everything
on PDP-11 except unix. VMS since about V3.mumble. A bit of Data General RTOS
and RDOS and a few projects on 8 bit micros.

Now I am retired, I'm a pointy-haired Mac-head.

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