From: jason@slimes.ca   
      
   Slimes wrote:   
   > Abby Normal wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:44:54 -0500   
   >> Slimes  wrote:   
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   >>   
   >>> Any proper greybeards besides me here?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> I didn't learn FORTRAN but I did learn Pascal in school, on Apple IIs.   
   >> Which apparently qualified me for my first job directly out of high   
   >> school, IT manager for a local company, maintaining about 100 PS/2s   
   >> talking to each other via token ring and to the outside world via an   
   >> ISDN line that only worked about half the time. All through a dual-386   
   >> server with twin 40MB hard drives. The one-person accounting   
   >> "department" ran on a C64 because "it was what they knew" and when   
   >> they needed to "talk to the network" they dialed in on a 2400bps modem.   
   >>   
   >> There were four networked dot-matrix printers, plus two non-networked   
   >> letter-sized daisy-wheel printers and a hernia-producing IBM   
   >> daisy-wheel printer that could handle paper fifteen inches wide.   
   >>   
   >> I made five dollars an hour and the entire departmental budget was   
   >> basically consumed by floppy disks, backup tapes, keyboard dust   
   >> covers, and printer ribbons. Good times, until the CEO decided we   
   >> needed to embrace Windows 95 and I had to rewire the entire building   
   >> with cat 5...   
   >   
   > Holy schoudles. A yungin shows up!   
   >   
   > Yeah, your story is all to familiar.   
   >   
   > CBM dual floppy for PETs was hernia inducing too.   
   >   
   > Weird backroom deals in Canada/Ontario with QNX using proprietary   
   > token-ring-like system...  UNISYS Icons. I've been trying to get my   
   > hands on one forever! It had a GUI in the early 80s.  And a port of   
   > TURTLE.  If you know what that is, yer really OG.   
   >   
   HO LEE GUACAMOLEE!   
      
   Someone not only found one, but revived the whole system.   
      
   The comments are pure gold.   
      
   www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/a39uvh/working_cem   
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