Conference 7.286::digital

    
    Where did this information come from ? Is this a "wishful thinking"
    rumour, or is there a solid source for this ?
    
    		Thanks,
    
    			Barry

    re.1
    IT CAME FROM MANAGEMENT AS SOMETHING THEY HAD BEEN TOLD WAS COMING.
    THAT IS MY ONLY SOURCE SO I AM TRYING TO VERIFY IT.
                                       SMITTY SENDS

    You certainly won't get verification here.
    
    		Steve

    BTW, maybe your management can find a terminal to replace your VT50
    with. You'll find being able to use lower case letter,which your
    VT50 can't handle, will make your notes easier to read. Or were
    you shooting? That's generally what notes in UPPER CASE are.
    
    			Alfred

    i also did not know that upper case notes meant shouting when i came
    to DEC and first started notes ,so another possibility is that the
    author of .0 is a new DECeee ?

    i know from my own experience that it takes at least 2-3 year of
    exposure to learn all the ins and outs of noting policies and procedures.

    
    
     A New DECee??????   I thought we were in layoff mode?
    
       now i am really confused....
    
    

            <<< Note 2207.4 by CVG::THOMPSON "Radical Centralist" >>>

>    you shooting? That's generally what notes in UPPER CASE are.
    
Alfred,

If the base noter were shooting, wouldn't their comments be bulletized?  I 
thought upper case was shouting?

    HA,HA,
    THANKS ALFRED I ENJOY A GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR, I GUESS I SHOULD FESS UP
    THOUGH AND TELL YOU I DON'T EVEN HAVE A VT50 ITS REALLY A VT05. DO YOU
    REMEMBER THOSE OR HAVE YOU NOT BEEN AROUND LONG ENOUGH? WHICH LETTER
    DID YOU HAVE IN MIND WHEN YOU SUGGESTED I USE LOWER CASE,OR DID YOU
    MEAN LETTERS, IN WHICH CASE YOU SHOULD HAVE ADDED THE "S". ONE OTHER
    POINT BY THE WAY GOOD GRAMMER DICTATES WE SHOULD NEVER START A SENTENCE
    WITH "OR". PLEASE FORGIVE ME BUT I DID NOT INTEND TO BE SHOOTING AT
    ANYONE OR COULD IT BE THAT REPLY 2207.7 WAS CORRECT.
                                THANKS AL
                                SMITTY SENDS
    
    P.S. Its not form but content that counts. Still looking for a reply
    from others who have heard this RUMOR. Well, there I go SHOOTING again.

>    THANKS ALFRED I ENJOY A GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR, I GUESS I SHOULD FESS UP
>    THOUGH AND TELL YOU I DON'T EVEN HAVE A VT50 ITS REALLY A VT05.
	
	I remember VT05s but I thought I remembered them supporting mixed case.

			Alfred

1) VT05's were upper case only, but I could have sworn they weren't 80 columns.
2) It's "grammar", not "grammer"
3) If there's a new SERP with a seven year adder, wouldn't it have to be
   offered to anyone over 48? (55 is the minimum early retirement age, isn't
   it?)

-Jack

    1) 72 columns (That's why the text files shipped with RT-11 V5.6 are
    limited to 72 chars per line (otherwise someone, somewhere would
    complain)).
    
    3) The way TFSO is going 26 weeks + pension adder is getting very
    competitive.
    
    /s/ Jim WIlliams

	Isn't it age 55 BUT 10 years with the company?

    VT05 rathole...
    
    VT05s could send and receive upper and lower case (if you flipped
    a switch to enable u/l case), but could display only uppercase...so 
    one had no idea whether characters being sent or received were
    in lowercase or not.  The feature was not particularly useful.
    

>    VT05s could send and receive upper and lower case (if you flipped
>    a switch to enable u/l case), but could display only uppercase...so 
>    one had no idea whether characters being sent or received were
>    in lowercase or not.  The feature was not particularly useful.

Put 0eu in your tecini file and TECO will flag lower case characters with
a preceding ' (quote mark).  That's what I do on my VT05 so that I can
enter notes without shouting (or shooting).

-steve-

	Nice to know we still have some people around who can support
	the old products.

			Alfred

    To the basenoter:
    
    From your mouth to God's ears :-)
    
    Karen
    

    re. 2207.0
    
    OK, enough of these unfounded and uncalled for rumors. The real rumor 
    is 48, 8, and 8.  Let's not talk about 50 being the cutoff date anymore. 
    Things like that tend to come true. We want the 48 age limit to be the 
    predominant rumor. 
    
    - John (48 next month)
    :-)

    I WISH I HAD A NEWER TECHNOLOGY VT05 ... I ONLY HAVE THIS DARN LT35 AND
    THE LEVERS KEEP STICKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKING.  ANYONE GOT SOME OIL
    IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII CAN USE?????
    
    WHERE IS WAYNE GOLDSMITH WHEN I NEED HIM?
    
    CHUCK

    RE: .19
    
    TFSOed ?  or uSERPed ?
    
    }8-)}
    

    
    re: last 2 -
    
    If it's the same Wayne Goldsmith, he's alive and well, working as a
    Digital Services UM in the Metro Detroit district. Great guy!
    
    John

    re:21
    
    Same guy ...

    .13:
    
�                         The feature was not particularly useful.
    
    I found it a substantial negative once.
    
    While in college, I was working on a project which was to run on RSTS;
    the catch was that my access to such a machine was quite limited.  I
    did most of the work on a PDP-10 with a pseudo-BASIC-Plus from some
    college or other.  After doing some major revisions on a VT05, I
    discovered to my dismay that
    
    	10 A = 5
    	20 Print a
    
    would print "0", not "5";  it seems that a (possibly undocumented)
    feature of this wonderful crock was case sensitivity in variable names,
    probably to provide more than 286 possible variable names per data
    type.
    
    Dick

    
      from the Lowell Sun, 6/26/96 :
    
      MAYNARD - Digital Equipment Corp. yesterday said it has received
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      Digital said the company will operate the network on a monthly
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      Analysts described the deal as evidence that Digital's service
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     service deals tend to carry low profit margins.
      The contract will add some local employment.  The Boston Herald
     today quoted a Digital spokesman as saying the company will hire
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     such as technical advice for Citicorp employees.