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Article #623201Re: Bitsavers CDC stuff
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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 20:07
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 20:07
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On Monday, April 23, 2018 at 9:43:48 AM UTC-4, Peter Flass wrote: > Wow, lots of CDC stuff added today! [Might have told this before.] Years ago we had a timesharing system based on a CDC 6400. One day a kid spent a long time entering a program. When he tried to save it, the system burped and lost it. The kid was not happy, and he typed in an expletive as a command. It turned out all commands appeared on the central system console (a circular CRT), and the operator took great offense. [Discussed in the past]. I remain amazed that CDC got a huge windfall from the settlement with IBM, yet still managed to go out of business.
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