[apt4ssx8] Re: [OT] reminiscences, was Re: Re: APT4 documentation
- From: dave <dengvall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: apt4ssx8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 22:20:55 -0700
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:26:05 -0400
"Kent A. Reed" <kentallanreed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 6/4/2012 9:19 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
> > Kent A. Reed wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> My production controller and data-gathering system was written
> >> entirely in assembly language, first in PAL-11 and then in
> >> MACRO-11. I'm sure Jon Elson would recognize some of the NIM and
> >> CAMAC hardware I was driving.
> >>
> > I am still MANUFACTURING NIM and CAMAC modules for the research
> > community!
> >
> > Jon
> >
>
> I can never figure which fascinates me more---all the technology that
> has faded away or all the technology that stubbornly hangs around!
Well, some of the stuff was designed to do a job and do it well ... and
is still doing it.
Good engineering is not to be scoffed at.
Dave
>
> My Aussie friends would say "good on ya, mate!"
>
> Regards,
> Kent
>
>
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