XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: Peter@Iron-Spring.com   
      
   On 1/3/26 13:12, rbowman wrote:   
   > On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 08:31:33 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >   
   >>       No Low-Level Access: The language lacked a way to override its   
   >> strict type system, making it impossible to write its own I/O systems or   
   >> memory allocators *within the language itself*.   
   >   
   > The University of Maine used Pascal as a didactic language and most of the   
   > engineers at Sprague Electric were from UM. I can't remember the term but   
   > I wrote several dlls, module, or whatever they were called that allowed   
   > Pascal to do stuff like gather process data from HP instrumentation,   
   > control robotic arms, and other real world activities. Hey, it was   
   > money...   
   >   
   > It is depressing that many companies I either worked for directly or as a   
   > hired gun have wiki articles starting with   
   >   
   > "Sprague Electric Company was an electronic component maker"   
   >   
   > "Sylvania Electric Products Inc. was an East Coast American manufacturer   
   > of electrical and electronic equipment,"   
   >   
   > "General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate"   
   >   
   > It isn't even the usual X was bought by Y was bought by Z. They're gone   
   > completely although the GE trademark does live on in GE Aerospace. Also   
   > gone are all the jobs the companies provided.   
   >   
      
   I thought GE was still going. Besides aerospace, is GE Porwer Systems   
   still running (turbines, generators, and such)? I lived in the general   
   vicinity of Schenectady for many years and had family that worked there.   
   I know GE Plastics in Pittsfield and Waterford was sold off (I had a gig   
   there for a while, GE-400 system). MAO had something to do with nuclear   
   subs. I know the appliance division left a long time ago, and I'm not   
   even going to mention the Computer Division here in Phoenix.   
      
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