that OT: Tredennick, u-370, 68000, 5100... thread

From: Ed Kelleher <Pres_at_macro-inc.com>
Date: Sat Aug 21 07:49:49 2004

At 11:07 PM 8/20/2004, you wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, vrs wrote:
> > > I suppose you're also going to tell me there's a South Carolina! HA!
> > Nope, I can't vouch for the existence of either of the Carolinas...
>
>They exist.
>I'm not sure WHY South Carolina exists, but it does.

1) Had a nice couple from Surrey, UK over recently on a shooting holiday.

2) Gives Canadians a place to go.

3) Most of the nuclear fuel used in North American is made here.
[on-topic]
They still use 4 PDP11's to do all the ultrasonic weld inspections on the
nuclear fuel rod end plugs.
Did the software in Macro11/RT11SJ over 20 years ago and Version 15 is
still humming along,
though now it's using Mentec's RT11SB.


Ed
South Carolina
    
Received on Sat Aug 21 2004 - 07:49:49 BST