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Re: University credentials used by third parties
From: Nate johnson <njj () NJJ-ASSOCIATES COM>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:23:21 -0400
Greetings David:
Yes, I can recall getting that 3:00 am call that my program to convert a CDC 3300 BCD tape format to a 5-Level Baudot code format for transmission to London, England over a Digitronic, I believe, tape system, put the wait light out on the 360/65 and brought down the hypervisor, which was running 7074 programs. I was living in southern New Jersey and commuting to the Big Apple. I drove in and fixed the problem before the market opened.
I recall a school of thought APL would replace Fortran, but there was another language that the operations research folks were using - I forget the name, Mathematica or something.
When Paul was a freshman, I wrote my first database attempting to replace the pitfalls of indexed sequential.
I apologize for my part in hijacking the original topic. Truly, it has been a remarkable experience. Many thanks.
With best regards,
Nate
On Aug 18, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Paul Kendall wrote:
In 1973, I was a freshman electrical engineering major in college, and hating it. My roommate was a Comp Sci major, and convinced me to go talk to the department chair about changing my major, which I subsequently did. A few weeks later I was talking to my folks on the phone and mentioned I had changed my major to Comp Sci. My mother said (and I quote) "You realize, of course, there's no future in computers." The next thing she said was "And I'll bet you are doing this just so you won't have to take so much math." Graduated with a double degree in --- you guessed it. Comp Sci and Mathematics.NJJ ASSOCIATES
Paul
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] University credentials used by third parties
On 08/18/2010 02:25 PM, Russell Fulton wrote:
On 19/08/2010, at 4:02 AM, Guy Pace wrote:
COBOL!?!?! COBOL is for people who love to type and write code in stream of consciousness mode.
It's front panel switches for me!
OK, how many folk on the list know about front panel switches? ;-)
I used to have a short program keyed in from the front panel switches for
our DEC KI-10 that would rotate the lights in interesting patterns.
or 80 column boot straps?
Nope, but we did have paper tape and DECtape bootstraps.
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- Re: University credentials used by third parties, (continued)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Don Cochran (Aug 18)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Joel Rosenblatt (Aug 18)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Valdis Kletnieks (Aug 18)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Paul Kendall (Aug 19)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Joel Rosenblatt (Aug 18)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Bob Kalal (Aug 18)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Pete Hickey (Aug 18)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Cal Frye (Aug 20)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Mike Iglesias (Aug 18)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Paul Kendall (Aug 18)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Nate johnson (Aug 18)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Valdis Kletnieks (Aug 18)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties David L. Wasley (Aug 18)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Pete Hickey (Aug 18)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Anthony Phillips (Aug 18)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Isabelle Graham (Aug 18)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Valdis Kletnieks (Aug 18)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Joel Rosenblatt (Aug 18)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Cal Frye (Aug 18)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Ullman, Catherine (Aug 18)
- Re: University credentials used by third parties Nate johnson (Aug 18)