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Pages: 1 Andrew Girl Watcher Reged: 09/21/03 Posts: 5082 Loc: Boston, Mass. Send PM You might be a has-been if ... #270310 - 12/06/11 12:01 AM Reply http://blogs.computerworld.com/18601/you_might_be_a_technical_has_been_if I still have some of that greenbar paper around here somewhere. Just in case. There's other goodness in the comments section. -- A story of one man and his obsession with the female anatomy. Vas Crabb BOFH Reged: 12/13/05 Posts: 4462 Loc: Melbourne, Australia Send PM Re: You might be a has-been if ... [Re: Andrew] #270344 - 12/06/11 01:42 PM Reply I guess this could count as a has-been moment: I had a dream about needing to bootstrap a PDP-10. This is more complicated than you might at first think, because the PDP-10 has volatile microcode. To bootstrap it, you need to upload microcode from a PDP-11/40 (they were released around the same time, PDP-10 being a mainframe and PDP-11 being a mini). I was searching a huge university campus for the damn thing, but I couldn't find it. There were terminals everywhere, but this being a mainframe, you didn't normally need to care about where the thing was actually located. The whole time, in my mind I was going through what units I would likely find (CPU cabinet, memory modules, etc.) and mentally rehearsing the bootstrap procedure. I woke up before finding the damn thing. Pages: 1

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