Userpic meme, as chosen by mrz80

[treetown]

1. Reply to this post, saying you would like to play, and I will pick six of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee

Comments

[john_holton]

Wasn't Lloyd hanging upside down when that picture was taken? (I haven't seen "Airplane!" in years. Lloyd and the guy who played Johnny were a riot.)

I didn't realize that you worked with a VAX. I worked with a DECSystem 20 (2 PDP-11's put together, if I remember correctly) way back in the Mesozoic Era when Pryor Corporation was trying to branch out of the cards and tapes and into service bureau work. I had a couple of experiences with VAX after that, one where I was reformatting data from a Burroughs 7700 for use on a VAX (I wored for a guy whose solution for everything was "T'row in on da VAX, let da users screw wit'it over dere") and the other was at McMaster Hospital in Hamilton, ON, where they had a Sybase database installed on one. Great fun.

I've done this a few times and everyone picks the same icons. If you can pick some different ones, I'll play again...

[mrz80]

[edit- correct a typo]

Actually, the DECSYSTEM-20 (note the all caps :-)) was unrelated to the PDP-11. It was a followon to the DECSYSTEM-10 (aka PDP-10) and was a totally different architecture.

Yeah, Ed was the VAXmaster at UMd's (Fear th' TURTLE!) University College Way Back When ™. He even let me have my very own VAX to use at one point - I was working a graveyard shift at NASA Goddard and dialed into an unused little VAX and played Rogue to stay awake while the backups were running. Ah, Those Were The Days ™.

[treetown]

Actually, the KL-class DECSYSTEM-10s had a PDP-11 as a console processor. You'd boot up the PDP from its own disk or floppy, and use it to send startup commands to the mother ship. Later models still had the separate console processor, but it wasn't a PDP. That console processor thing carried into the VAX line as well.

Who here remembers CompuServe? That was initially run on a PDP-10/DECSYSTEM-10. Back in those days, CIS userids were of the DEC "UIC" format...mine was [73063,230].

I still miss DEC; we could use Gordon Bell and Ken Olsen today.

I'm glad you were able to give that little 11/730 some use. I was just starting to cut my UNIX teeth, and it was nice to have an actual user, just to be sure what I did actually worked. :-)

[treetown]

OK,time to play! I hope these haven't been picked too often. I could only find your recent icon meme post. If you want to make substitutions, feel free.