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Running all over the city fixing crap in an educational environment AND you have to drive your own car? Who in their right mind thought this was a good idea?

I'm sure they desperately want a diversity hire, but how many niggers are vaxen?

Running all over the city fixing crap in an educational environment AND you have to drive your own car? Who in their right mind thought this was a good idea? I'm sure they desperately want a diversity hire, but how many niggers are vaxen?

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The best software engineers are thoughtful, thorough and proactive when possible. You made the grade!

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Well...the stuff I was using wasn't my design, - the people who wrote it literally were dead or long retired. When I say this was legacy stuff, it truly was. Beautiful old equipment designed to outlive the war.

But I appreciate their design and try to use those tenets. The device did what is was programmed to do without using extra resources that had no bearing on the outcome of the device. Who cares what time of day it is, all I care about is the frogging circuits work.

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So some poor dude at some company(s) you used to work for pre-2000 had to comb through your legacy code too? Lol! The Fall of 1999 had a lot of software guys griping.

I didn't change employers, just groups within the same company ... and all of my shit was still where I left it. In most cases, whatever custom code I had written needed no maintenance, and if they needed a new feature, they always seemed to find me even if I was working in another department. Quid Pro Quo among managers.

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No, I didn't write code there, I just maintained the equipment hardware wise. No one went through any code there on the stuff I worked with, it didn't matter because none of it knew the date or time. I doubt the sources existed in a modern readable form, some of the older stuff was still on paper tape, written by divisions that were long gone.

Probably some of the newer cellular stuff was looked at, but that would have been somewhere in NJ or one of the Bell Labs locations. Who knows where that is now, I know there are many 4ESS and 5ESS units out there, but who maintains them is beyond me.

I believe we were the reason that DEC stopped offering PDP-to-PC conversions in the latter half of the 90s, before they got bought. We had two guys from MA show up and look at our test setup, look worried, and leave. The website didn't mention anything after that. The division that took the things after the Columbus Works closed tried to convert them, but it was a matter of sticking a card on the Unibus to talk to a PC, but it still used the original hardware. By then, the only dual-CPU unit we had was failed, and it never worked again. That was the 5ESS internal test unit, I have to assume that they replaced it with something else.