Well, interesting week...
 

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Calif Bill wrote:
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On Feb 3, 9:19 pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:28:59 GMT, "Mike" wrote:
I was one of those guys that thought the www (netscape,
yahoo, etc) would never catch on.... oops. :-)
Compuserve management thought the same thing until it was too late to
save the franchise.

Really big oops.
What amazed me was that all these forward thinking people that
ran theses companies were rather parochial when it came to
innovation - it was all about the hardware and they never realised
what kind of communications revolution was sitting on the
horizon.

The people running these companies were controlled by the Board of
Directors who were controlled by the Venture Capital firm. Zero
creativity in most of the VC firms. We were the biggest 2nd source for
disk subsystems for the DEC and DG world. Sun approached us about
designing a sever for them when Sun was just getting really started.
Our leaders said we are a DEC world company. by then we had dropped
the DG stuff. DG was never a big part of the business anyway. Did get
me a nice trip to Switzerland for a few weeks for a DG design problem.
What DEC products are still being produced today?

What DG products are still being produced today?

What Sun Products are still being produced today?

Sun software is still good. They have gone to Intel now instead of a
great in house designed chip. But I worked in the Disk Controller
business in the 1980's and we were a very profitable company in the early
80's. Profit sharing checks equivalent to 11 weeks pay. We build a
clone of the VAX 780 SBI disk interface and we had a disk controller that
supported hook ups to 4 CPU's and then a 16 CPU connection controller and
8 disk drives. With software that supported multi CPU access to a disk
farm.

Did you work for DG? AViiON development maybe? Does the 88000 BCS ring a
bell?


No, System Industries. We were the big second source for disk drives and
controllers for DEC and DG.

Well, interesting week...
 

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Since we are commenting on "Smoke, and Mirrors"... I was napping in
the aft cabin, and got brought snapped back to reality by a loud
"BZZZZT", and fireworks outside the hatch. I hopped out, and pulled
the wire out, and threw it to the ground. End result was removal of
about 3ft of dock cord, and re-installing the 30 A female connector.
The connectors were shiney, and O.K. The only thing I can think of, is
where the wire was clamped, the conductor insulation flowed over the
years until white got to black. (Green wire was undamaged) Glad I was
in the boat to witness that, as it could have developed into a 911
situation.

Den 48YF