Happy DEC-10 everyone!

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Fri Dec 10 15:23:08 CST 2010



On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Daniel Seagraves wrote:

> On Dec 10, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
>
>>>
>>> And remember, if it's not 36 bits, you're not playing with a full DEC!
>>
>> Reminds me of a converstaion a fried of mine had with another chap
>> shortly after I';d obtained a much lesser machine (a PDP11) and was
>> looking for various bits for lit, like a DL11...
>>
>> "I've got a mad firend with a PDP11"
>> "How can you possibly call anyone who owns a PDP11 'mad'"
>> "Well, he's a few cards short of a full DEC"
>
> Geez, if he thinks a guy win an 11 is mad, I wonder where that puts me... -_-

Well, I was pretty mad back when I was short of a full DEC in my PDP-11! :-)
These days I'm quite happy with my -11's except over the space they take up.

As for you?  The word that comes to mind isn't "Mad", but rather "Brave". 
I'm personally scared of the idea of owning a KS10.

Zane





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