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To: AdmSmith
An acquaintance is working with OpenVMS supporting legacy VMS systems. He tells me the average age of folks in the office in around 55 years.

Time to fire up the old PDP-10.

8 posted on 04/18/2016 3:30:30 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: billorites

OH MY SWEET HEART

That is the first thing I ever did on a computer, but the output was to a printer, and each round had to be printed out.

I was in high school in Dallas, 1977, and they had the printer and a phone connection to the mainframe at the Dallas Public Library.

Eventually taught myself Basic and Machine Language programming.


11 posted on 04/18/2016 3:41:19 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: billorites

I remember that Star Trek game! It was great.


32 posted on 04/18/2016 5:05:35 AM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: billorites

LOL. I rewrote that for BASIC years ago and added tractor beams and other things. Unfortunately, the only copy was on a 5 1/4 inch disk.


48 posted on 04/18/2016 6:27:56 AM PDT by TheCipher (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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To: billorites

I remember that game. You ever play “MegaWars” on Comp U Serve?


57 posted on 04/18/2016 7:07:21 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: billorites

OMG, I remember playing that game on my HP terminal back in the '80s.

The one that sticks in my memory - I to dock at a Star Base to refuel and rearm, but I came in too fast and wrecked the place. They declared me a renegade, closed all other Star Bases to me. I wandered around their universe for aid util my fuel ran out, and alas . . .

66 posted on 04/18/2016 9:26:31 AM PDT by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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To: billorites

TTTTJ


74 posted on 07/12/2021 10:46:32 AM PDT by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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