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Originally Posted by gary
Hi Rick,
Great stuff!  It's a small world.
At the risk of running off topic on the thread for a moment and I
hope Alex does not mind whilst we make a brief excursion into this
blast from the past ...
I'm am trying to think back of the names of the Apollo sales reps that
were here in Sydney .. Carlo or Carlos??
We use to use a lot of Apollo computers in previous working life times -
DN3000's, DN4000's, DN4500's DN-425T's - for both software
and hardware/ASIC development. The hardware platforms ran
Mentor Graphics licenses.
Apollo made some great computers and it took a long time
before personal computers had any of the salient hardware features that
were in any way comparable.
Operating system and network-wise I am still waiting for PC's and Macs
to catch up with what Apollo were already doing back in the early 80's. 
I still have some Apollo computers here as a historical collection.
That was funny! 
Again apologies to Alex for going off-topic whilst I reminisce. |
There is no need to appologise but personally I see nothing wrong with off topic as they say conversation.
After all my op was somewhat an attempt to give folk a platform to say something...
and often interesting things, as they have, pop out on an off topic detour.
all good.
alex