User:Thor

Thor Halbert

Very into Retrocomputing, started programming in High School in about '75, so have seen a bit since...

• High School 75-79 - PDP-10 KA10 TOPs-10 5.07 (this was the Albuquerque Public Schools system, so coincidentally was (perhaps one of) the machines that Bill Gates and Paul Allen rented time from to work on MITs Basic. Assember (loved Macro-10), Algol, Fortran, Basic, SNOBOL, LISP
• 79-80 - DecSystem-20 (not sure what version -- have to dig through some old printouts I have) - Tektronic 4010 programming - Pascal, Macro-20, minor exposure to MIDAS, SAIL, and APL.
• 78-81 MITS Altair Extended Disk Basic Business machine with two reasonably large hard drives -- LA-180
• Second Jobs: 1980 Basic software development on Apple II + - got some exposure to Flex-9 operating system on SWTPC machines. First actual "Winchester" brand hard-drive.
• 1980-1985 - DEC PDP-11 Shop. Lots of different species of PDP-11's (03/24/34/40/44/70). RT-11 (V3, 4 & 5), RSTS/E (mostly production is later V7s, but got exposure to 8). A bit of Ultrix, RSX-11 MUMPS. Programmed primarily in DIBOL and Basic-Plus. Learned C for the first time with the PDP-11 C Language C tape for RSTS/E. Did a bit of programming in random Basics - Fortran, SPSS, just a bit of Macro-11.
• 85-2001 - Initially DEC shop - PDP-11's running BSD 2.9. Then large crop of small Vaxen -- mostly Microvax-II's in a vaxcluster with early ethernet on DecNET. System was a member of SPAN (Space Physics Atmospheric Network) -- at the time the largest "Internet" if it's kind -- but it was DecNET based. Shop then shifted to Suns -- early SUN3's with SUNOS then into the Sparcs running solaris. Started running FreeBSD.
• 2001-2005 - Consultant

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