[TUHS] C from 1980 binaries

[Jon Forrest via TUHS]

On 11/1/26 5:13 PM, Clem Cole via TUHS wrote:

> At the time, WD was working on the chipset, and DEC had won the lawsuit it
> filed against California Data Processors (*a.k.a.* CalData). The results of
> that lawsuit were fresh in the eyes of the team at WD  [Ken O'Mohundro and
> Fred Cox's firm cloned a number of different ISAs but chose the UNIBUS,
> which got them in trouble.  O'Mohundro had famously run the complete 11//40
> diagnostics suite for Ken Olson at the National Computer show in CalData's
> booth].
Ken O'Mohundro - there's a name I haven't heard in a while. In the early
1980s I ran the Santa Barbara VMS Users Group. At the time, there were a
few vendors who were starting to make DEC-compatible peripherals, such
as memory, and disk/communication/network controllers. One of the
vendors was Able, in Orange County, CA. Somehow Ken contacted me to
ask if he could come talk to our users group about DEC stuff. Ken
was a self-described stutterer who enjoyed addressing groups of
people as a form of speech therapy. So, he came all the way up
to Santa Barbara from Irvine and gave a nice presentation. IIRC,
Able Computer paid for lunch for everyone.

He was a very nice guy.

Cordially,
Jon Forrest