Hi, Pete;
I was posting from my MIL's place at Shelburne-On-The-Bay, just south of Burlington and just off Route 7. We were house-sitting for her while she's snowbirding in Florida. The Bay opens up into Lake Champlain, which right now has a bit of ice near the shores and is otherwise open water, thanks to the moderate temps this week.
We actually live in a 205-year-old farmhouse in West Montpelier. With two dogs and four cats, and two each, Windows and Linux boxes. My Windows 7 box has some VMS emulation sw on it for old lang syne, seeing as how that was my early experience in IT for years. Last worked with OpenVMS 7.1 four years ago.
You're at Clark U.? Wow. I worked there in campus police from 1980-83, then the campus bookstore, where I sold DEC Rainbows in cooperation with DEC to students, faculty and staff, and then when they sold it out to Barnes and Noble, I went back to campus police for another eighteen months, finally leaving in '86 to go work out at Simplex Time Recorder, in Gardner, with a PDP-11 running RSX for CAD/CAM apps and a MicroVax running VMS 4.0. I first learned VMS down in the basement of the Goddard Library while I worked the dead shifts for the CPD, reading those old orange binder manuals. Several of the campus police are still there, including the chief, who started there as a patrolman, and of course some of the faculty are still teaching. Jack Foley was working as an assistant manager at one of the dining halls when I started there in 1980.
I stopped by to visit in '06 and also applied for an IT job there, as I believe they still had VMS, plus the usual Windows, and also Red Hat. Never heard from them. Par for the job search for many years now. Also applied for IT gigs at WPI and never heard from them, either. So I am back in northern Vermont and after being bounced from a one-year temp contract nine months early, am on the job hunt again. So much fun.
Regards,
Dave
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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:38:08 -0400
From: Pete Wason <codevark@aim.com>
Subject: Re: [Wlug] KO
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I worked with a guy in the late '90s at a dotcom; at some point before
that he managed a huge team at DEC and was friends with KO, played golf
and such. Had great things to say about the man.
On 2/12/2011 9:56 AM, kevin.paetzold wrote:
> Since we are reminiscing about DEC and KO....
>
> I started at DEC in 1978 working on the DECSYSTEM20. My first manager
> was one of the first 100 DEC employees and even though I was initially
> working as a contractor for DEC (on an air force base) in Rome NY we
> made a trip to Maynard where he introduced me to the mill and to Ken
> Olsen. It was a fascinating time as I worked at the place which
> essentially funded the ARPANET and TCP/IP. I went to work in DEC
> engineering in Marlboro in 1981. Eventually I ended up at Stratus where
> among other things I now manage the Linux group (I never worked on VMS
> although I did do some stuff with the Ultrix group). It still amazes me
> (and many others) that DEC went away. I often tell my engineers that
> when I see some computer or software technology that DEC did not have I
> will let them know (there is some but not much that DEC did not have
> first and for which very little credit is given).
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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:41:37 -0400
From: Pete Wason <codevark@aim.com>
Subject: Re: [Wlug] Wlug Digest, Vol 88, Issue 10
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Hi, Dave -
Just curious, where on Lake Champlain? I currently work at Clark U., and
lived in Burlington for about 6 years during the early to mid '80s. It's
my favorite city east of the Mississippi.
Pete
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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:06:03 -0400
From: Pete Wason <codevark@aim.com>
Subject: Re: [Wlug] Wlug Digest, Vol 88, Issue 10
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heh that was weird. specifically chose reply to sender not list.. oh well :)
On 3/14/2011 7:41 PM, Pete Wason wrote:
> Hi, Dave -
>
> Just curious, where on Lake Champlain? I currently work at Clark U., and
> lived in Burlington for about 6 years during the early to mid '80s. It's
> my favorite city east of the Mississippi.
>
> Pete
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