Back when SCO was cool...
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The maxim I was blathering about below about magtapes and station wagons triggered an amusing memory. These days SCO is rather universally reviled by programmers as they crusade for completely inane software IP laws. Back in the day I used to work with them a lot and they were a very 'cool' company. The facilities manager was a fellow named Billy Rainbow and I don't think I ever saw him wearing shoes. I recall story about how they had to send a memo around the office that clothes were required during business hours after a group of visiting execs from TI ran into one of the programmers coming back from the hot tub wearing nothing but a towel. Santa Cruz is a lovely little land that time forgot and it stayed the '60s there until well into the '80s. BOF sessions and semi-offical source code handed around by the dev staff. Of course, this was the original SCO, run by the Michael's, but it's sad to see what the Caldera idiots have done to the name. -Blake
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The maxim I was blathering about below about magtapes and station wagons triggered an amusing memory. These days SCO is rather universally reviled by programmers as they crusade for completely inane software IP laws. Back in the day I used to work with them a lot and they were a very 'cool' company. The facilities manager was a fellow named Billy Rainbow and I don't think I ever saw him wearing shoes. I recall story about how they had to send a memo around the office that clothes were required during business hours after a group of visiting execs from TI ran into one of the programmers coming back from the hot tub wearing nothing but a towel. Santa Cruz is a lovely little land that time forgot and it stayed the '60s there until well into the '80s. BOF sessions and semi-offical source code handed around by the dev staff. Of course, this was the original SCO, run by the Michael's, but it's sad to see what the Caldera idiots have done to the name. -Blake
I remember trying to install Santa Cruz Operation unix on an old DOS machine. It never worked and I ended up throwing out the hard drive because I could never get it reformatted. That was when a 100 MB harddrive cost a lot of money.
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