It was a really fun crash course in Basic and PC capabilities for me! I had only worked on IBM mainframes prior to that day. Received big bonus points from the gf too! It was about 10 years later, after living on IBMs, DEC VAXs and SPARC workstations that I got my first networked PC at work. Some of our test equipment was x86 based but not as flexible as a standalone PC. I did spec out and write a complete operating system for a homebrew rack-and-stack test system we developed in-house with power supplies, oscilloscope, pattern generators, homebrew hardware and our own in-house designed high frequency test head controlled by an HP instrument controller (HP Basic) in the mid-1980s. Exciting times! I had a blast!
It was a really fun crash course in Basic and PC capabilities for me! I had only worked on IBM mainframes prior to that day. Received big bonus points from the gf too! It was about 10 years later, after living on IBMs, DEC VAXs and SPARC workstations that I got my first networked PC at work. Some of our test equipment was x86 based but not as flexible as a standalone PC. I did spec out and write a complete operating system for a homebrew rack-and-stack test system we developed in-house with power supplies, oscilloscope, pattern generators, homebrew hardware and our own in-house designed high frequency test head controlled by an HP instrument controller (HP Basic) in the mid-1980s. Exciting times! I had a blast!
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