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Dans nos laboratoires  circa 1975, nous avons l'habitude de DEC pdp8e sur nos spectromètres .16k de mémoire fonctionnant sur le code machine (je crois) . Prog. chargement en cours était par bande magnétique R Tor jumeaux ou une bande de papier sur un téléscripteur . 1980, nous avons utilisé la course 64k de PDP11 sur le code Fortran . Lits 7 « lecteurs de disquettes .
Notre échantillon central [ uter a ensuite été mis à jour pour VMS .

Apologies to sheffieldgraham for plagiarism 

LOL.

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I know nothing.  I come from Barcelona.

Strangely I was writing spectroscopy code in the 1980's

A single beam stopped-flow spectrofluorimeter with either a photomultiplier or self-scanned diode array camera as the detector.

Photomultiplier detection limit better than 4AU, photometric non-linearity < 0.1%.

Diode array, 512 point resolution, 1000 spectra in 1.01 seconds.

Control and analysis used a 386, 486 or Pentium, running 286 protected mode extended DOS, or Win3.11 386 Enhanced Mode.  It was fun writing DMA drivers for the hardware in protected mode systems.

Alternatively Adam it may be considered that readers should ensure their comprehension of English!

When I started my career one of my objectives was to develop a  X.400 working up from X.25 protocol analyzer using awk on a MicroVAX 3500 - although I say it myself it thought that code was the dog's dangly bits - as it was cross platform portable - and was purchased by a few network  research and development establishments  throughout the then EEC.

Many fond memories of the Dec VMS environments (excluding All-in-1 yeuch)  - and my final year project at Uni was a hardware video DSP framestore interfacing to the PDP11 bus... though I did use a Z80 controller on my card to do the DSP maths - in assembler

Simon

Most hilarious!

I used to work for Digital Equipment back in the 1980's.

Probably the best company I have ever worked for in many ways not just because we got a trip to Hawaii, San Francisco, Cannes etc. but because of a sense of pride and being at the forefront of IT at the time.

I worked on large European projects such as with the Unilever MRP programme working in the UK, Italy, Germany and France then Scottish & Newcastle Breweries in Newcastle & Edinburgh. Initially developing manufacturing systems and solutions on on PDP-11s then VAXs (wonderful computer in it's day).

Great company and great days!

Richard 

 @FFF Were you based at DEC Reading? My wife worked there in the early '90s as a VMS systems manager, before their sad demise....... She sill has a soft spot for them.

They'd offered me a job, back in '75, as a field service engineer, but I didn't fancy and went off to design bits of spaceships instead.

In my day we didn't have them fancy 1's, we only had zeros...and we liked it!

DEC @ Reading? This does ring a bell to me, although I have not been there physically, but I had quite a few friends working on a system called DECTrade, still posses a few design papers from this team.

I was bassed out of DEC (Digital Equipment) in Birmingham (Sutton Coldfield then Birmihngham Intl Business Park)  then Leeds (Horsforth)

Went to DEC Park in Reading on many an occasion.

I was at Digital 1985-1994.

Richard

If I remember correctly our DEC service engineers were based at Leeds.

Most of Sheffield/Rotherham British Steel production labs. in the 70's,80's,90's were using OES spectrometers controlled by DEC computers, pdp8/pdp11's mostly into VAX central computers

Ah the Commodore PET... also the first PC I worked on.

Just like the one below with a casette deck and small keys:

I think it was 8k or even 4k memory?

Then eventualy you could get a 16k version with a floppy disk and full sized keyboard.

Richard

weren't they taken over by Fujitsu?

when i was at uni, the departmental computer was a 1906A front ended onto a Cyber 7600, so i played around a bit with George 3......although they didn't allow us smelly undergrads to do much more than pipe our printouts to different printers LOL.

I think they also had a 1905E on the top floor as a front end to the research computer, but that was for postgrads only!