[TenTec] Buying a New Orion

Rick Westerman Rick at dj0ip.de
Wed Jan 21 00:15:40 EST 2004


Actually, the best light show, Grant, was a PDP 1170 running
MUMPS.

73
Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Grant Youngman
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:06 PM
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Buying a New Orion


> "Hands On"
> is a meaningful expression and what makes ham radio
interesting, and
> computers frustrating. 73, Stuart K5KVH

I have to echo that ... I long for the days when men were men and
computers that had not only big front panels, but entire consoles
with
register displays and a plethora of switches, and paper tape
readers, and
chain printers that could be made to play the Stars and Stripes
...  and
Algol ... were the real deal and not just museum curiosities.

 ... and when best light show is town was the maintenance console
on a
B5500 or the entire equipment racks of my favorite machine,
described
here:  http://www.princeton.edu/~adam/R1/r1rpt.html

Ok, so maybe the paper tape thing wasn't so great :-)

Grant/NQ5T

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