7 May
2004
7 May
'04
4:56 p.m.
Nothing like walking across the parking lot with the
system disk in one
hand and the backup copy in the other. I was careful not to drop either
pack.
I joined the RT-11 development team in 1978... and got my first office
in the mill. At that time we had a lab full of systems where we did
our development and testing. Occasionally there were fire alarms and
evacuation drills at the mill. It was not unusual to see a bunch of
us with our RK05 (or RL01,02) disks which contained the most recent
RT sources, out in the parking lot. The first thought many of us
had when the alarms went off was to power down the drive and get
the disk... then calmly exit the building...:-)
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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| Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL,ST| email: mbg at world.std.com |
| Member of Technical Staff | megan at savaje.com |
| SavaJe Technologies, Inc. | (s/ at /@/) |
| 100 Apollo Drive | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ |
| Chelmsford, MA 01824 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler |
| (978) 256 6521 (DEC '77-'98) | required." - mbg KB1FCA |
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