Prime Computers... (was: RE: [SunRescue] Re: OT: Advice)

[BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak]

> > All I can say is that I have been "doin it" for 15 years (paid) and 15 years
> > before that too. I have outlived almost all of my employers (Proteon, a
> > division of Motorola, Prime Computer *geek points for anyone who remembers
> > them*). Most of the O/S's I learned (AOS/VS, PrimeOS, RSTS, etc) are dead. I
> 
> Aaaagh!  May PrimeOS *stay* dead!  (No offense, but I *hated* the Prime I
> had to use back in '86...)
> 
> FORTRAN on a Prime... Memories I am trying to have eradicated...

Well, I just rescued a pair of Prime 9 track OS/Fortran reels, if
anyone really needs them.  I was thinking of dd'ing off the bits
and seeing if the tapes could be reconstructed, should anyone rescue
a Prime box......(:+\\.....  I gotta do something useful with my
9-track reel spinners.

Bob

> -Pete