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. ᐧ On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 11:51 AM Paul Winalski wrote: > On 5/11/22, Clem Cole 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. >