Jerry: I also worked for Victor tech, as a contractor in about '82, but that was after they sold the computer division to Tandy. I maintained an Arev application for about 5 years for a company that sold, and is still selling, the calculators.
Sent from my iPhone Tom Dodds t...@ix.netcom.com 630.235.2975 On Feb 7, 2011, at 21:22, Jerry <jpb-u...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I also started in 1972 on point of sale systems at Victor Comptometer > Corporation. At the time we were a US manufacturing facility for Noxdorf > Computers. I didn't get into a Pick flavor until 1980 when I started work at > Prime Computers. I think at tat time Primos was 16 something and Prime > Information was around 4 or 5. It's been a long time. > > Jerry > > On 2/7/2011 12:48 PM, Steve Romanow wrote: >> Earliest we've seen yet. Awesome! You early adopter! >> >> On 2/7/2011 1:45 PM, Tom wrote: >>> I started on a Microdata in 1972, first system in Seattle,Wa >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> Tom Dodds >>> t...@ix.netcom.com >>> 630.235.2975 >>> >>> >>> On Feb 7, 2011, at 10:56, "Peter S. Goldberger"<pet...@eoftech.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Started in 1984 on an ADDS Mentor with a 40 Mb hard disk and 12" tape >>>> >>>> George Gallen wrote: >>>>> and we had to walk to work in bare feet uphill both ways! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> -----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 11:52 AM >>>>>> To: U2 Users List >>>>>> Subject: Re: [U2] Pick Dinosaurs >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>> I started on Microdata systems back in 1982. Same big 'ol "washtub" >>>>>>>> >>>>>> drives, >>>>>> >>>>>>>> 1/2" reel tapes and Interrupt-Reset-Interrupt or >>>>>>>> Interrupt-Reset-Clock-Interrupt paddle-switch sequences. >>>>>>>> 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. >>>>>>>> >>>>>> Wow. You guys are really old. >>>>>> >>>>>> 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
