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Re: OT: serial console management system



On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:57:17AM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, John Summerfield <debian herakles homelinux org> said:
> > Björn Augustsson wrote:
> > >I've used digi gear since they were called Control Data, and it works
> > >really well. (One busted port in all those years) 
> > 
> > So that's what happened to CDC!!
> > I wrote my first programs for CDC computers (3200, 3300) in June 69 or 
> > thereabouts.
> 
> No, there's no relation I can see between CDC and Digi.  I think Digi
> used to make a product called "Control Data" (or something like that).

You're right, that was just me mixing things up.

"Central Data" was the name, not "Control Data" (hey, only a couple bits
differ...)

/August.
-- 
Björn Augustsson      Sysadmin     IT Systems & Services
Chalmers tekniska högskola     Chalmers University of Technology
         "Damn spooky analog crap." -- John Carmack.


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