24 Jan
2012
24 Jan
'12
11:01 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Wolfgang Eichberger <oe5ewl at gmail.com> wrote:
you're right, Ethan. Playing with a real 36bit
Machine would be a good
pleasure. Personally, I never had the chance to work on one - except
virtual ones. It'd be great to see one in action - live, but as far as I
found out nothing survived here in Austria (correct me if I am wrong).
I used them as a CompuServe service (CIS) user in the 1980s, watched
one (CompuServe's CIVIC node) through the glass at our local science
museum (COSI) where I was a high-school volunteer, hung out with some
of the DEC-20 crowd while attending Ohio State, and finally _at_
CompuServe, in 1994-1995 as a contractor, then 2002-2003 as an
employee, used them for work.
Never in all that time did I get closer than the other side of the
glass to the hardware. Plenty of time on 12-32 bit DEC gear, but
never 36.
-ethan