Smalltalk…. Now that was an interesting language and development environment.
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For years I worked for Tektronix as a firmware engineer in their Logic Analyzers Division (158th & Walker Rd). I can’t remember if we were in building 92 or 93, but in the other building was an interesting group. They were known for creating the uTek workstation - essentially a Unix box that was totally configurable and preceded the Sun workstations by years. Tek’s management snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by killing this product on the loading dock - they decided they didn’t want to support it or some such reason. Then, years later, management had to eat crow when Tek spent a fortune buying Sun workstations and Micro VAXes - a market Tek could’ve owned. But I digress…
So, after the uTek disaster, this group worked on a product for doing automated testing of circuits. That itself isn’t unusual, but what the project was developed under was …Smalltalk. This project went on for a few years and was eventually killed - progress was too slow and, worse, the performance of the system was poor.
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That was well over 30 years ago - yikes!
Camera related stuff: those were the days you could take your camera into work and make photos without Security coming after you. Although I could still do it in a smaller company in 2018.
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