On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:37:12 +0100, Tim Streater wrote:

In article ,
Bob Eager wrote:

On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:18:16 +0100, Tim Streater wrote:

In article ,
Bob Eager wrote:

On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:45:20 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 18/06/13 20:01, D.M.Chapman wrote:
I seem to remember there were a few PDP-11 fans on here...

Fancy a job? :-)

http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcfo...ead.php?37827-
Greetings-
from-GE-Canada

http://goo.gl/177Iv

Darren

Golly. I used to write C on one of those..

C ? Pah! I started on them in assembler, but did hand assembly at
times.
Not to mention compilers for a couple of languages...

And I have four PDP-11s right here anyway.

Ever do any BCPL?

I used to run the BCPL User Group.

Well I might possibly be hornswoggled. I recall going to a BCPL User
Group meeting at Kent run by "Bob" in about 1983 or so. Martin Richard's
brother was there IIRC. I was working at SLAC at the time, came along
with my nephew Stephen who was a bit green then but went on to found
Eidos.

I joined the BCPL User Group for £5 but then heard nothing more. Were
you "Bob"? If so ICMFP.

Yup, that would have been me! We did send some stuff out using the subs
we got, but it all died a death. The remainder of the funds were donated
to charity.

This 'previous contact' stuff is getting weird.

There's Darren Chapman (current), Daniele Procida, Andy Champ (son I
think), now we have Bob Minchin. And Huge, Jules Richardson...

And I have met Tim Watts, but that was through this group.

I have probably forgotten some other UKC people too. Anyone?
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