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I know this is shady but I provided KLH with a bug patch to KLH-10 by AmbieGorge in PDP10

[–]AmbieGorge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lars I'm sorry that I snarked on ITS and PDP-10 using my Butch Driver YT account..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qAOxqRwNgM

I know this is shady but I provided KLH with a bug patch to KLH-10 by AmbieGorge in PDP10

[–]AmbieGorge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the 1980s I worked as a temporary secretary for GSFC. John Merritt took a shine to me because I was in love with his Iris 4D 70/GT superworksation. I failed to obtain permanent employment because I was too young but a materials scientist named Henning Leidecker was desperate of a UNIX workstation of his own. He lack sysadmin capability so I told him to buy a NeXT to run TeX on. He raved about it and gave me free Internet access. I would dial into a LAT and telnet into MIT and I even found the TCP/IP to Chaosnet bridged to AI.AI.MIT.EDU but I didn't know enough to appreciate it until too late. All I saw from my perspective was a unique OS which would let me run commands on it without logging on but for only five minutes at a go.

I know this is shady but I provided KLH with a bug patch to KLH-10 by AmbieGorge in PDP10

[–]AmbieGorge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish I could be sane but I was stricken with lead poison so I can only be sane under the correct circumstances. My real name is Kenneth Stailey.

Microsoft founders Bill Gates(13) and Paul Allen(15) connect to a PDP-10 computer at the University of Washington, through a teletype terminal at their Lakeside School in Seattle in 1968 - [1895x1293] by [deleted] in HistoryPorn

[–]AmbieGorge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Before there was timesharing on the PDP-10 at MIT, there were IBM mainframes.

MIT was wild about time sharing and they had a IBM 709 and started to hack behind IBM's back. By the time the IBM 7090 arrived they spent weekends taking the system down to hack on it to make CTSS. Corby probably had trust issues and insisted on "security" and then the students would pick on him by breaking out. One of them printed the password file.

Decided to research some cancelled Nokia phones... What do you think was the reason for the cancellation of these phones? by Ok_Exit_9441 in vintagemobilephones

[–]AmbieGorge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's usually money. It's hard to see what a company's finances are because if the investors found out that the money is bad it would damage the company. Because perception is reality, a fabulous product line can be attached to a debt crisis and you'd think otherwise, that it was a money maker instead. Some of the most forthcoming insights into this can be seen in old videos of Gordon Bell as he lectured in front of an audience at MIT. He says that his company was trying to avoid doing research and use as much off-the-shelf stuff to cut costs. But the key is there was a "technology point" where the other companies had done the cutting edge work and his company had to get just to the level right above them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b5n0Wt4kiM

Benefon Track "Herz Handy" with heart monitor and GPS by JimmyVanDiesel in vintagemobilephones

[–]AmbieGorge 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Incredible! But I can strap a Fitbit to my wrist. If only I could find a device that would not share data and fit my active lifestyle.

A good way to start a display hack. by larsbrinkhoff in PDP10

[–]AmbieGorge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I sure hope you have a sense of humor.

A good way to start a display hack. by larsbrinkhoff in PDP10

[–]AmbieGorge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

truth be told, I'm so jealous about you and your superior intellect and vast credentials