7 Jan
2015
7 Jan
'15
6:27 p.m.
On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Clem Cole wrote:
I did not realized it [WCS] was an option. IIRC we
had it on the
Teklabs 11/60, but we could not run the tools easily so we ended up
never messing with it.
Our 11/60 certainly had it; I remember scouring the manual, trying to make
sense of it, but after five years studying at UNSW and eight years working
there (almost got long service leave!) I got itchy feet. Besides,
although the CSU was a great place to work, I didn't like the plans to
merge it with the Chancellery (the bureaucratic centre), lest I come to
work one morning and find myself working on a COBOL program...
The provenance of the beast was that apparently a deal with some big
publishing house fell through (Limited News, perhaps?) and DEC was stuck
with a warehouse full of them; it seems the WCS was to be used for the
typesetting or something, I dunno; they could always have yanked the WCS?
[...]
The only solution when that happened was the pull the
circuit breaker
power on the back of the machine because the front panel switched were
lost.
Don't all 11s have the same key? I used to carry one on my key-ring.
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