[Coco] [OT - sort of] great UNIX article

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 16:19:47 -0400
Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday 03 September 2019 14:26:13 James C. Hrubik, Sr. wrote:
> 
> > Quite a fascinating read, for those of us who actually used
> > punchcards and waited for computer time for our research projects.
> >
> > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/08/unix-at-50-it-starts-with-a-ma
> >inframe-a-gator-and-three-dedicated-researchers/
> 
> That was a hoot!  Thanks Jim. Eunuchs... Chuckle..
> 
> 50+ years on, a Funny back story. At the time, '62, the head honcho
> at Northwestern Bell in Rapid City wanted to hire me in the worst
> way, but Bell had a policy that their employees had to have at least
> a high school diploma, which I didn't have as I never got past the
> 8th grade before I went to work fixing the days electronics for a
> living. I still wonder what I might have had a chance to play with
> had he been able to hire me. But I bailed from working for an alky,
> and went to the tv station as a transmitter operator and tech a few
> weeks later.  The rest as they say is history.
> 
> It has at times been one hell of a fun ride. Now  my ticker is in
> need of repairs it will get in 10 days or so, and I'm running in
> econo-cruise mode with a few stents till then.
> 
> Cheers everybody, Gene Heskett

     Prayers are with you Gene!!

We're moved (kinda, about 300 boxes still to un-pack) to near Rives TN
(pop ~300). CoCo3 is up and running (and a couple of Linux boxes). Now
that I'm retired, I'll have lots more to do than when I was 'working'...


Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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