[ale] Unix Automation?

[Geoffrey Myers]

Tom Freeman wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Greg Freemyer wrote:
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> <<snip>>
>>>
>>> My hand is raised.  30 days to get X running on my first Linux install.
>>
>> My first UNIX computer was a Perkin Elmer (1982?).  I don't think Sun
>> or Apollo were shipping yet.
>>
>> IIRC, it didn't come with a graphic monitor at all.  We needed
>> graphics, so we bought some monitors and graphics cards.  Over $200K
>> for a few monitors / high-end controllers / and a polaroid based
>> graphic printer. (iirc).
>>
>> The printer was cool.  It had a B&W monitor that faced up and a
>> polaroid camera that faced down.  I think there were colored filters
>> between the two that controlled what color was being printed.  The
>> primary colors were "printed" onto the polaroid one at a time, by
>> physically moving the filter.
>>
> I just occured to me that the first UNIX type equipment I ever fiddled 
> with was a chromatography controller from Varian on '84??. They had it 
> locked up pretty tightly, but somebody clued us in on how to get to the 
> command line and a really really really bizzare form of BASIC.

pdp11, late 1970's ish.

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Until later, Geoffrey

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