I wondered if someone would catch that, nice work

Interesting, thanks. I thought AT&T had shut them down.

Interesting. Got a link to that web site?

Western Electric has not existed since the 1990's... so is someone using their name?

usenet I'm calling your name

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All these old computer memories and people talking about their first PC (mine was an 8086 IBM) made me think of:

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A discussion of prog on another thread reminded me of this

I studied and used Pascal, COBOL, basic, C+, and LISP. I understood the logic but I was never very good at it and left it behind. I was also for a brief time a Novell System Admin, but I hated that. I am not cut out for IT, but I’m what might be called a fairly advanced user.

I remember in 1974 the big event at the bank where I worked was replacing three of the large tape drives with a 10Mb hard disk array. The thing was about a meter square and required its own cooling duct in our mainframe room. Ah, the days of large Burroughs mainframes (the B7700 series with...

The contradiction, if you want to call it that, is the ORIGIN is Unix, developed by a commercial enterprise or group.

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