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From: rdd@access4.digex.net (R. D. Davis)
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Subject: Keep Making PDPs [filk]
Date: 28 Jul 1995 10:40:39 -0400
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Keep Making PDPs  -  by Robert D. Davis, July 28, 1995
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[sing to the tune of "Johnny B. Goode"]

Once upon a time before there was a VAX,
DEC made some nice machines used for lots of great hacks,
Lots of people bought them,
From the one to eleven,
DG tried to beat them,
but couldn't win. 

Go, go DEC go, go,
Go DEC go, go,
keep making PDPs.

Way up in the north there was a factory,
Run by Ken Olson making PDPs,
Made them by the zillions,
Sold them for a low price,
Said they weren't computers,
Just called them PDPs.

Go, go DEC go, go,
Go DEC go, go,
keep making PDPs.

Hackers like to hack them and keep them running,
Built in obsolescence, no problem here,
Systems made to last long,
They just keep running,
They'll run for years and years,
Before they need repairs.

Go, go DEC go, go,
Go DEC go, go,
keep making PDPs.

-- 
R. D. Davis  Eccentrics have more fun! :-) http://www.access.digex.net/~rdd 
rdd@digex.net, rdd@mystica.uucp         Vintage computer preservationinst.
Home telephone: 1-410-744-7964          Unwanted computer systems disassembled
Work (play!) telephone: 1-410-744-4900  and removed for free.