Donna Garverick wrote:

>anybody want to wax poetic about 'candy' (was that how you spelled
>it?)?  i remember (in college) when candy got fired up and the system
>came to a screeching halt 8-]                 - d

Ah, yes, CANDE (Command AND Edit) running under MCP on the
dearly beloved Burroughs.  And one of the best DBMS in the
business (DMS-II).  I did a lot of work on the B6700/7700 and
6900s back in the mid-70s.

But **MY** first exposure to the DP industry, as it was known
then, was on a Burroughs Datatron ... 8K memory I think, crude
loader (read in a deck of source cards, spit out a deck of
exec cards, read in deck of exec cards and configure a panel to
GO!).  It looked damn near as big as the Titanic.  Great fun for
a young university freshman.

Not so very long ago, I ran across a nice dark blue tie with
pretty pink piglets all over it with 'MCP' under each one.
Neat, I thought .... somebody else loves the Burroughs OS, and
wore it proudly.  It was some days later that my son told me
what it really meant.  And I still wear it proudly.

Ron Burnett
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