Re: [TUHS] Armando plate

[Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>]

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Paul - thanks,

s/Nissan/Datsun/ on my message -- I stand reminded of the name change from
the USA Datsun brand to their worldwide name of Nissan.

As you said Armando had a Z car at the time.   I mentioned I had a Jetta,
but after I wrote that I remembered that the picture was of my silver '79
Capri that predated my Jetta - which was the first unixmobile in my series
of MA plated same.
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On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 11:51 AM Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 5/11/22, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
> > I did not realize Shannon must have had it first.  Armando had it on his
> > Nisson and he passed it to John Hall (Maddog) when he moved.   Somewhere
> I
> > have a picture of Armando’s car and my then Black Jetta with the MA plate
> > together.
> >
> I left grad school to join DEC as a software engineer in 1980, working
> on software development tools for VAX/VMS.  Back in 1978 I'd interned
> at one of the VAX-11/780 beta test sites.  The group I was in was
> based at DEC's Mill facility in Maynard MA but was slated to move in a
> few months to the new software engineering facility on Spit Brook Road
> in Nashua, NH.  So I got an apartment in Nashua and commuted to
> Maynard for a while.  When I registered my car I got the VAXVMS vanity
> license plate.  When the VMS OS group moved to Nashua from Tewksbury
> they wondered who had the VAXVMS plates.
>
> Armando had the New Hampshire UNIX plates on his spiffy red Datsun
> (they weren't Nissan yet) sports car.  My car was an old, rusted-out
> Datsun B210.  Armando jokingly threatened to park his car next to mine
> and photograph UNIX and VAXVMS side-by-side.
>
> -Paul W.
>

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