Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re:

ron ginger wrote:

> > Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:20:49 -0700
> > From: "Greg Nuspel" <nuspel@...>
> >Subject: Re: Re: Ah, the 'bad ol' days'
>
> >I remember Focal that was 76-77 era.
>
> Actually 76-77 was near the end of the Focal era. I started as a Sales
> Engineer for DEC in Feb 1969, and Focal was doing well then. It ran on
> a 4k (12bit words) machine. In 1972 I moved to Massacuhsetts and later
> worked with the author of Focal, Rick Merrill.
>
> I still have a whole set of the DEC handboks from that era, with a Focal
> maunal, as well as 8K Fortran and several other languages. My favorite
> was the 'big' TSS-8, a timesharing system for up to 32 users on a 32k
> PDP8, with a 32k disk. The big disk option was 256k

Yes, A friend of mine was system manager on a TSS-8. Quite a system
at an incredible bargain, compared to most other manufacturers at the
time! (Of course, a HOPELESS relic of the past, the memory bind was
always gnawing away at anything you tried to do.)

Jon