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| Re: Bitsavers [message #366644 is a reply to message #366643] |
Mon, 23 April 2018 10:18   |
Al Kossow
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On 4/23/18 6:43 AM, Peter Flass wrote:
> Wow, lots of CDC stuff added today!
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It was in the queue from Tom Hunter for a while.
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| Re: Bitsavers CDC stuff [message #366731 is a reply to message #366643] |
Tue, 24 April 2018 16:07 |
hancock4
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On Monday, April 23, 2018 at 9:43:48 AM UTC-4, Peter Flass wrote:
> Wow, lots of CDC stuff added today!
[Might have told this before.] Years ago we had a timesharing
system based on a CDC 6400. One day a kid spent a long time
entering a program. When he tried to save it, the system
burped and lost it. The kid was not happy, and he typed in
an expletive as a command. It turned out all commands appeared
on the central system console (a circular CRT), and the operator
took great offense.
[Discussed in the past]. I remain amazed that CDC got a huge
windfall from the settlement with IBM, yet still managed to
go out of business.
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| Re: Bitsavers CDC stuff [message #366734 is a reply to message #366731] |
Tue, 24 April 2018 16:15 |
Charlie Gibbs
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On 2018-04-24, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
> On Monday, April 23, 2018 at 9:43:48 AM UTC-4, Peter Flass wrote:
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>> Wow, lots of CDC stuff added today!
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> [Might have told this before.] Years ago we had a timesharing
> system based on a CDC 6400. One day a kid spent a long time
> entering a program. When he tried to save it, the system
> burped and lost it. The kid was not happy, and he typed in
> an expletive as a command. It turned out all commands appeared
> on the central system console (a circular CRT), and the operator
> took great offense.
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> [Discussed in the past]. I remain amazed that CDC got a huge
> windfall from the settlement with IBM, yet still managed to
> go out of business.
I believe the official term for this is
"snatching defeat from the jaws of victory".
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