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