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4 total messages Started by Peter Flass Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:43

#623199

Author: Peter Flass
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:43

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Wow, lots of CDC stuff added today!

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Pete

Re: Bitsavers

#623200

Author: Al Kossow
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:18

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On 4/23/18 6:43 AM, Peter Flass wrote:
> Wow, lots of CDC stuff added today!
> 

It was in the queue from Tom Hunter for a while.

Re: Bitsavers CDC stuff

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Author: hanc...
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.

Re: Bitsavers CDC stuff

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Author: Charlie Gibbs
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".

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