This is far afield even for COFF, so apologies up front. Machines and
OSes we fondly remember get older day by day. But many labs I worked in
during undergrad & grad years and then in the workforce always had a
radio going, and music never seems to age. When I hear Earth, Wind &
Fire's "September" or Doobie Brothers' "What a Fool
Believes," it's
RSTS/E on a PDP11/70 as a teen, my first exposure to computers.
Kraftwerk and Big Audio Dynamite mean Unix with Mike Muuss at Ballistic
Research Lab in the early 90s. I had PX (military Post Exchange)
privileges which Mike used to the fullest to buy fantastic lab
speakers. The old ENIAC room, our work space, had thick walls. :-)
I wonder if particular music transports any others back to computing
days of old. The current lab I'm in receives exactly 1 radio station
from a local high school and streaming is blocked. Not sure that any new
musical memories will be formed for my ever nearer days of retirement!
Musically yours,
Mike Markowski