I started right out of college working at Microdata for their customer support division. We had 4 1600's that were named: Lucy, Linus, Beethoven & Peanuts. This was 1979. One "fun" memory was when I gave my notice that I was leaving and on my last day the office plan to take me out to lunch. Well, one of the other programmers had set a booby-trap for the lead CSR. When she logged onto the system in the morning it immediately began displaying an error message that said that she had initiated a sysem-shutdown. It was only messages and there really wasn't anything being done on the system but when she went to our boss (who really didn't know how things worked on the system) he quickly did an I-R-I and started restoring the system from the prior night's backup tapes. These were reel-to-reel and there were 4 of them. It took eight hours to complete the restore and 16 CSR's had to be sent home for the day. It made for a very uncomfortable lunch. Everybody was sure that I had set the booby-trap but I didn't say a thing. The plan had been for me to enable the break-key on her session and then stop the farce but I didn't get in the office on time because of traffic.
Those were the days! Bruce -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Robert Houben Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 8:39 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Pick Dinosaurs The first machine I worked on was a Microdata 1600 with 4 50 MB Winchester "washtub" drives. It ran 16 users on 64K of core memory. That was back in 1981. -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of charles_shaf...@ntn-bower.com Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 8:30 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Pick Dinosaurs >>I started in 1988, as a technical support representative for a subsidiary of the Ultimate Corp. >>We had a computer room with several big old machines with "reel" tapes....Back in the days of GFEs and all of those good things. Wow, those were the >>days. I also started in 1988 on an Ultimate system. In fact, I just came across a RECALL manual from that system. Copyright 07 Feb 1983 out of Hanover, NJ. Anybody need one? Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
