Path: news3.best.com!news2.best.com!feed1.news.rcn.net!rcn!d6 From: jmfbahciv@aol.com Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Re: TU10/20/7x (was: SA10 front panel (was Re: Multiple stupid TOPS-10 questions...)) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 99 10:58:13 GMT Organization: UltraNet Communications, Inc. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <7nf1it$30s$1@autumn.news.rcn.net> References: <7n4a1k$d0u$1@autumn.news.rcn.net> <7n6sp8$2l$3@autumn.news.rcn.net> <7n9j2d$3ms$1@autumn.news.rcn.net> <7nc83i$anu$1@autumn.news.rcn.net> <9ztm3.321$XM5.8029@ord-read.news.verio.net> X-Trace: v1kCStqhXxls3SYZ5OpBfNpiJBtO2+p5idlPi9wAI9A= X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Jul 1999 12:57:01 GMT X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Xref: news3.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:5506 In article <9ztm3.321$XM5.8029@ord-read.news.verio.net>, jeverett@wwa.DEFEAT.UCE.BOTS.com (John Everett) wrote: >In article <7nc83i$anu$1@autumn.news.rcn.net>, jmfbahciv@aol.com says... >> >>>We definitely moved to Marlboro in '73. I remember because DEC paid for >>each >>>of the members of the Monitor Group to take a "business" trip after the >>>successful completion of some release, the version number of which I can't >>>recall. TW went to Australia, JMF to Europe, Lewine went to California (I >>>think), and I went down south to race. I raced at Talladega and the >>Charlotte >>>Motor Speedway on successive weekends in August 1974, travel courtesy of >>DEC. >> >>Well, JMF's trip to Europe happened at the same time Nixon resigned. >>He had a great story about that since he was in the middle of Italy >>during their vacation month and couldn't get anybody to translate >>the paper for him. > >Exactly; I watched Nixon's resignation speach from my room at the Downtowner >Motel in Anniston, Alabama. We had practice and qualifying the next day at >Talladega. > And you guys were in Marlboro then. Hmmm. everybody was wrong except you :-). And I simply can't believe that we all did all that work in such a short amount of time. When I started at DEC, July, 1971, the single KI had been announced; this was greatly touted at my 25 year anniversary dinner by Palmer even though he thought it was a 32-bit machine (he almost wore my ice cream that night...I got really pissed). /BAH Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail.