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Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To Productivity 
  Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To Productivity [link] Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity [link]... more »
By Anne & Lynn Wheeler  - Dec 23 - 4 new of 4 messages    

DEC Manufacturing plant codes 
  DEC used to print serial numbers on VAXes and Alphas and other boxes manufactured in the same period. These serial numbers start with a two letter code that identifies the production facility. After looking at the c.o.v. archives the follwoing list was compiled: AY = Ayr, Scotland BK = Germany GA = Galway, Ireland... more »
By H Vlems  - Dec 23 - 3 new of 3 messages    

The Real Meaning of SysRq 
  A tech mystery solved: [link] Dav Vandenbroucke davanden at cox dot net
By Dav Vandenbroucke  - Dec 23 - 2 new of 2 messages    

System/360 - Industrial Design Research 
  I am conducting research into the industrial design behind the System/ 360 - the most beautiful computers ever built. Real computers have control panels eh. I am tracking down photographs that were taken in a data center/machine room/computer room setting showing any System/360 model. Please contact me: kstu...@golden.net. Thank you.... more »
By NostalgicTechnophile  - Dec 23 - 1 new of 1 message    

Outlandish Particle Periodic Table update IX 
  Big Bertha Thing outlandish OUTLANDISH PARTICLE PERIODIC TABLE By Tony Lance Dip.Math(Open) 19th December 2009 Update IX from [link] .510998902 1.0D-09 1 1 80305 1 3224486665 1.0 SLC For full table see link:- [link]... more »
By Tony Lance  - Dec 22 - 1 new of 1 message    

Union Pacific Railroad ditches its mainframe for SOA 
  ...we claim that the payment gateway was the original SOA ... some posts [link] which acted as intermediary between webservers and the payment infrastructure. two of the people in jan92 ha/cmp cluster scaleup meeting, mentioned here [link]... more »
By Anne & Lynn Wheeler  - Dec 22 - 3 new of 3 messages    

Are there any veterans of RapiData Timeshaing, Inc here? 
  I worked for RapiData Timesharing for about a year circa 1969 and it recently occured to me to google up what I could find. Almost all record of them seems to have not made it to Usenet adn Google. It was when all they had was GE 400 series machines. I was there when Honeywell people came in and removed the GE signage for their own.... more »
By Al Dykes  - Dec 20 - 2 new of 2 messages    

DEC-10 SOS Editor Intra-Line Editing 
  I remember using the SOS editor on the DEC-10 and DEC-20. There was a command (alter, I think) that would put you in a mode to edit a line of text. The text line would be printed on the terminal, and then *under* the line you would type "ddd" to delete the three characters above those letters, etc.... more »
By Charles Richmond  - Dec 20 - 40 new of 40 messages    

Happpy DEC-20 Day! 
  Long live the system that is a great improvement over its successors!
By Rich Alderson  - Dec 20 - 1 new of 1 message    

some '83 references to boyd 
  I sponsored a Friday's after work at local watering holes. Jim Gray used to come before he left for Tandem. A frequent place was a deli that opened up across the street from the main plant site ... they had an "overflow" room that was normally closed ... but they would open it for friday's after work and give us half-price on pitchers of Anchor... more »
By Anne & Lynn Wheeler  - Dec 18 - 1 new of 1 message    

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