I'm still kicking myself for passing up an IBM mainframe and a Sun 2000 that my previous employer no longer needed. I reasoned that I didn't have space or power for them; never let logic and good sense dictate your actions :)
Connor picked a great learning experience... EE, CS, and other disciplines such as civil engineering, all rolled into one experience. On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:09 PM, Matt Patoray <mspproducti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Mar 29, 2016, at 7:28 PM, Jay West <jw...@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > Evan wrote... > >> Connor is a member of our user group here in the Mid-Atlantic. He's > >> been learning at an astonishingly quick rate! > > > > He's been a member on this list for quite some time, and is a regular on > the evening crew of the #classiccmp irc channel as well. > > > > He was working on a DG Nova 3 before the Z machine arrived, hope he gets > back to it as well :) > > > > J > > I got to see that DG just after he picked it up in Akron. He stopped by > the Large Scale Systems Museum in New Kensington PA and we gave it a look > over and also discussed the docs he got with it and what to tackle first. > > Now if only it had come with some of those cool blue/green DG terminals :) > > I still remover the day he sat down in front of the HP 2116B, he had never > touched a blinking light front panel, he asked if Dave or I minded if he > erased the program in memory, we said no, he powered it on and 2 min later > was reading the programming docs for it and wrote a quick blinking lights > program in like 15 min. > > Connor is a good guy!
