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Article #623202Re: Bitsavers CDC stuff
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 20:15
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 20:15
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On 2018-04-24, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote: > 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. I believe the official term for this is "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory". -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ Fight low-contrast text in web pages! http://contrastrebellion.com
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X-Received: by 10.28.98.65 with SMTP id w62mr1738527wmb.26.1524600984425; Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:16:24 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: alt.folklore.computers@googlegroups.com Received: by 2002:adf:ab57:: with SMTP id r23-v6ls1020364wrc.3.gmail; Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:16:23 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:adf:e206:: with SMTP id j6-v6mr2092162wri.10.1524600983819; Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:16:23 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!k195ni4570wmd.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news2 From: Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Bitsavers CDC stuff Date: 24 Apr 2018 20:15:19 GMT Organization: NewsGuy.com Lines: 26 Message-ID: <pbo38n0anl@news2.newsguy.com> References: <492340433.546183789.579495.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <6b5c39c5-dab3-4cff-a2e7-d25622ca0a90@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p567594effab3311c02bc5987aa5094e5e34533d22e2714f8.newsdawg.com User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) X-Received-Bytes: 1709 X-Received-Body-CRC: 464568682 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit