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My first paying gig was to write PL/I code for a factory monitoring system on a VAX @ Buick City in Flint Michigan, 1981. Anyone remember DEC and those wonderf
by W-Stool 7y ago
My first paying gig was to write PL/I code for a factory monitoring system on a VAX @ Buick City in Flint Michigan, 1981. Anyone remember DEC and those wonderful VAX systems?
- howard941 7y agoMy first paying gig was as a temp worker college freshman and I designed and wrote the link level protocol in PL/M for a Ku band satellite terminal @ Harris in Palm Bay at exactly the same time. The engineers with real jobs @ Harris were in nicer parts of the building and got to work on the network layers and above on VAXen. Those were great times. Yeah we had useless offices literally the size of closets (but we all had offices, ones with walls and doors that closed) but we did everything in the lab, playing music, talking, everyone was a smoker and cigarette smoking in the lab was almost a requirement the air was so thick with smoke. Before I left we fantasized about putting bubble memory into the terminal when bubble memory was a thing. Small world. Thank you for making my afternoon nicer with the memories.