[Info-vax] Just how old are we?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <s1qcip$1njr$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Elliott Roper
<nospam at yrl.co.uk> writes: 

> >>  I'll stake a claim for the other end. Born 1940.

> >>  The birth of PDP-8 sucked me in.
> >>  The death of Alpha spat me out.

> > 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.

The most important question is how long your lawnmower has been running 
on TECO.  :-)

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

With apologies to the Four Yorkshiremen: You still have hair?!