Booting up a PDP-11/34... Well,
here's a blast from the past! When I was just getting started programming computers, in the mid-'70s, these DEC machines were what I lusted after. I got to play with them a few times on consulting jobs, but their price tag put them
way out of my reach. I had to settle for owning microcomputers (and even
they were a big strain on my tiny purchasing power). At the time, that felt like settling for fourth or fifth-best. The notion that microcomputers would come to dominate computing never occurred to me at the time – I thought of them then as simple, small, and unpowerful cousins of the
real computers...
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