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“Computer Unit” – A PDP-11/34 at my school (1979)

by qmacro on 11/3/20, 12:55 PM with 7 comments

• by ggm on 11/4/20, 7:32 AM

  Systime was a DEC value added reseller which started with vt52 and vt100 terminals and wound up making vax clones. Famously, they got caught copying circuit boards and avoiding some ipr payments, and tried to bust ITAR export rules to the ussr. naughty!

  The BBC nuke drama "edge of darkness" features the systime hq in Leeds.

  I worked there briefly in 1982. Fantastic subsidised lunches in the factory canteen, robot delivery carts following magnetic stripes in the flooring, and a lisa workstation in the r&d department i played with.

  The head of r&d John Bondi was Herman Bondi's son. (Herman was an Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist of some note)

  Happy days.

• by core-questions on 11/4/20, 6:18 AM

  Love the aesthetic on those machines, very cool.

• by mikro2nd on 11/4/20, 8:51 AM

  Love how everybody in the picture was pair-programming!