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   AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 08:03:11 JST AI6YR Ben

   There's a Singer 201 of approximately the same age as mine... in the Smithsonian (African American Museum). Funny when the things you are using are of the same era as museum pieces.

   https://www.si.edu/object/singer-sewing-machine-and-table-maes-millinery-shop:nmaahc_2013.27.1

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     Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 08:03:08 JST Steve's Place

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     • Chuck

     @ai6yr @ChuckMcManis We got one of the very first Dec Professional micros, and yours truly ported code that ran on PDP-11's and VAX minicomputers to run on it. It was difficult to work with. We got to use a command line briefly, but then it was all P/OS, which was appropriately named. Anyway, I converted code from macro, BASIC, and assembler into PASCAL. I even found errors in the code we sold to Fortune 100 companies, which I corrected for the PC nobody would use. I deserve a medal. Where is my medal? Lol.

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 08:03:09 JST AI6YR Ben

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     @ChuckMcManis LOL you don't have a PDP 11 in the garage, do you?

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     Chuck (chuckmcmanis@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 08:03:11 JST Chuck

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     @ai6yr Looks over at a MicroVAX …