I met KO once in Maynard at the Old Mill and got to see his original orange-crate desk that he shared with Gordon Bell.  Nice guy and down-to-earth.<br><br>First fulltime techie gig I had was at Simplex Time Recorder, Gardner, MA, operator for DEC PDP-11 running RSX CAD/CAM stuff, and a MicroVax running VMS 3.5 for the software engineers.  1986.  Previously, as an assistant bookstore manager at Clark U., I&#39;d been in charge of selling the DEC Rainbow PCs as part of the University&#39;s program for students, faculty and staff.  1984-85.  <br>
<br>Last time I worked on DEC stuff was the VAX/VMS 7000 and the Alpha OpenVMS boxen running 7.1 at an outfit in downtown Woostuh.  2006-07.  <br><br>From what I&#39;ve heard inside the old DEC social circles is that a lot of the VMS engineering that didn&#39;t migrate to HP went to India, and that many of the old VMS guys have long since moved on to...drum roll....Linux.  <br>
<br>In other old DEC scuttlebutt, there was supposed to be an open field somewhere off Route 12 in Leominster that contained all kinds of hw dumped/stored there by whatever DEC facility back in the day.  During my own time at DEC in 87-89 one of our operators told us he&#39;d gotten all kinds of stuff from there and was now storing it in his front yard in Sterling.<br>
<br>Regards from the shores of Lake Champlain in winter,<br><br>Dave Hardy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

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   2. nice remembrances: Ken Olsen, DEC, ..... (Doug Mildram)<br>
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A nice  article from Jon Hall  is on top of the blog<br>
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<a href="http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/Rest-in-Peace-Kenneth-Harry-Olsen" target="_blank">http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/Rest-in-Peace-Kenneth-Harry-Olsen</a><br>

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along with many other replies about PDP-* systems, VMS, etc.<br>
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My first HIGHtech job (1985) was hanging tapes and keeping dumb terminals<br>
alive and connected to four<br>
VAX 750/780&#39;s running (not VMS but) BSD4 unix (before NFS, before NIS)<br>
for a robotics shop in Billerica called Automatix.            csh%  a.out<br>
 hello, world !<br>
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