[Info-vax] Just how old are we?

[Elliott Roper]

On 4 Mar 2021 at 10:55:10 GMT, "Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)" <Phillip
Helbig (undress to reply)> wrote:

> 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.  :-)

The currrent one is running Aquamacs Emacs. Verbose but powerful
> 
>>  Now I am retired, I'm a pointy-haired Mac-head.
> 
> With apologies to the Four Yorkshiremen: You still have hair?!
What there is is very pointy.

...and that's enough cheek from you. Whippersnapper!
> 


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