[TUHS] Armando plate

[TUHS] Armando plate

[Steve Bourne]

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Armando also responsible for the UNIX "live free or die" plates. I still
have a few.

Steve

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Re: [TUHS] Armando plate

[Kenneth Goodwin]

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As I recall, The UNIX plates were the first in the series and distributed
at a USENIX conference AT THE DEC booth The next year, they came out with
the ULTRIX plates.

On Tue, May 10, 2022, 8:54 PM Steve Bourne <srb@acm.org> wrote:

> Armando also responsible for the UNIX "live free or die" plates. I still
> have a few.
>
> Steve
>

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Re: [TUHS] Armando plate

[Clem Cole]

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Ultrix plates were much later.  The original Unix plates were there for a
few years.

On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 8:58 PM Kenneth Goodwin <kennethgoodwin56@gmail.com>
wrote:

> As I recall, The UNIX plates were the first in the series and distributed
> at a USENIX conference AT THE DEC booth The next year, they came out with
> the ULTRIX plates.
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2022, 8:54 PM Steve Bourne <srb@acm.org> wrote:
>
>> Armando also responsible for the UNIX "live free or die" plates. I still
>> have a few.
>>
>> Steve
>>
> --
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Re: [TUHS] Armando plate

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

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On Tuesday, 10 May 2022 at 20:56:59 -0400, Kenneth Goodwin wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2022, 8:54 PM Steve Bourne <srb@acm.org> wrote:
>
>> Armando also responsible for the UNIX "live free or die" plates. I still
>> have a few.
>
> As I recall, The UNIX plates were the first in the series and
> distributed at a USENIX conference AT THE DEC booth The next year,
> they came out with the ULTRIX plates.

FWIW I picked up a UNIX plate at USENIX 2001, possibly one of the
last.  It has the texts "Compaq" and "Tru64" on it.  See
http://www.lemis.com/grog/photos/Photos.php?dirdate=20040304

Greg
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Re: [TUHS] Armando plate

[Clem Cole]

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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.

On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 9:53 PM Tom Lyon <pugs@ieee.org> wrote:

> Bill Shannon had the actual NH UNIX plates.Upgraded to VMUNIX for
> California.
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 6:03 PM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
>
>> Ultrix plates were much later.  The original Unix plates were there for a
>> few years.
>>
>> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 8:58 PM Kenneth Goodwin <
>> kennethgoodwin56@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> As I recall, The UNIX plates were the first in the series and
>>> distributed at a USENIX conference AT THE DEC booth The next year, they
>>> came out with the ULTRIX plates.
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 10, 2022, 8:54 PM Steve Bourne <srb@acm.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Armando also responsible for the UNIX "live free or die" plates. I
>>>> still have a few.
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>> --
>> Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
>>
>
>
> --
> - Tom
>
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Re: [TUHS] Armando plate

[Paul Winalski]

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.

Re: [TUHS] Armando plate

[Clem Cole]

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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.
ᐧ

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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