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| From | "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: Miniskirts and mainframes |
| Date | 2015-08-20 15:46 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <mr5e8a$us3$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (4 earlier) <ff506e07-da84-4cc6-b759-97ff0e4496a4@googlegroups.com> <mddbne39hou.fsf@panix5.panix.com> <684dfd03-ba83-47ea-99fb-489369f81caf@googlegroups.com> <1bsi7e59td.fsf@pfeifferfamily.net> <mr4u7901hnq@news7.newsguy.com> |
"Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote in message news:mr4u7901hnq@news7.newsguy.com... > On 2015-08-20, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: > >> Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes: >> >>> On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 1:55:40 PM UTC-6, Rich Alderson wrote: >>> >>>> WTF? Western Digital was never part of Digital Equipment Corporation. >>> >>> I didn't think there was a relationship between them, but I remember >>> reading >>> somewhere that Western Digital originally was a part of DEC that made >>> some >>> peripherals for it. (They bought peripherals from third-party suppliers >>> too, like nearly all the other non-IBM compter companies. Some were made >>> by DEC itself, like the LA-36 DECwriter and the VT-52 and so on, but >>> they >>> got standard card readers, line printers, 9-track tape drives from the >>> usual >>> suppliers like Potter Instrument.) >> >> I'll guess your memory is confounding Western Digital with DEC Western >> Research Lab. At least, that's how I make mistakes like that! > > I seem to recall seeing "decwrl" in some bang paths way back when. > Didn't DEC Western Research Lab run the Gatekeeper server that had a lot of archives on it??? -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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Re: Miniskirts and mainframes "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-20 15:46 -0500
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Re: Miniskirts and mainframes "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-21 15:29 -0500
Re: Miniskirts and mainframes pechter@S20.pechter.dyndns.org (William Pechter) - 2015-08-20 15:36 +0000
Re: Miniskirts and mainframes "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-20 15:43 -0500
Re: Miniskirts and mainframes "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-21 07:07 +1000
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Re: Miniskirts and mainframes scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-18 14:15 +0000
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