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Originally Posted by MUHLBACH1@HOTMAIL.COM
I can help you program your television remote control? Whew heavy duty stuff mentioned above.
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Well..... if you can program a TV remote, you're one up on me!
I agree - lots of heavy duty stuff in tucillo's post. I got out of the programming business in the mid 70's and went to the hardware side. I worked as a DEC Field Service Engineer maintaining/repairing the largest systems they made (DEC 10's, 20's and big VAXes). The largest system I had was a DECsystem 10 that was over 30 feet long. The PC I'm sitting at right now has a faster processor and scads more memory than that machine, but that system easily supported over 100 users at a time, and it seemed like you had the whole machine to yourself.
After about 6 years I got really, really tired of being on call every other week and transferred to DEC's Training department where I wrote and delivered all levels of VMS training, including internals and crash analysis. Was part of a small team that worked directly with the Alpha engineering group to develop and deliver Alpha VMS training, prior to that product being introduced.
Long story, short - the people who took over DEC after the founder (Ken Olsen) was forced out, decided that internal Field Service training was no longer needed, so except for a couple of admin people, our entire group of almost 100 people was laid off. Up until a couple of years before I left, it was a great place to work.