I'm eight years to the day older than Rob, so I got to work with even earlier technology than he did. As far as I know, Rob never encountered the IBM1401, the PDP-7 with its 340 display, the Titan and its time-sharing system, 7-hole paper tape and Flexowriters, or the horrible Data General Nova mini-computer. I never used an IBM System /360, but we did both work with CDC machines, and punch cards.
I think Rob and I started on PDP-11s at about the same time in 1975, me on RSX-11M at Imperial and Rob on Unix at Toronto. Rob was always much closer to the center of the Unix universe than I was in the UK, but the Unix history he recounts was mine too, from Version 6 on. Rob's talk is a must-watch video.
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I'd like to see more retrospectives about the old days, because they presented some really interesting problems to solve. Not necessarily relevant today… although I don't know....
And yes, I used an IBM 360, and most of the PDP-* (from 7 to 15).
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