back in '67 at RCA Global, we wrote out maintenance programs in 501 machine code (octal, of course),

then we went and punched the lot out on paper tape on a flexowriter. the 501 sans operating system would just suck up the paper tape and run.

mainly we wrote machine code because a cobol compile took an entire SHIFT! if you had a big cobol program you wrote machine code patches for it for about a year before the next compile. if there were any compile errors, you patched around them.

men were men.

i spent 13 years writing about dec in decpro and rstspro magazines.

i often was critical. ken never failed to greet me and was ever gracious.

i think of him rolling out his g4 at bedford.

fare foward, ken

dave mallery