Re: University credentials used by third parties

[Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>]

For your trip down memory lane ...

<http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/1620.html>

Joel

--On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 3:43 PM -0700 "Pollock, Joseph" <PollockJ () EVERGREEN EDU> wrote:

> Well, I started out on an IBM 1620.  Still have the programming book
> around the office somewhere (it's fun to pull out for visiting
> students).  BTW - my recollection of the 1620 is that it had magnetic
> core memory, and was the first commercial solid state computer.
>
> Moved on to the PDP-8 and PDP-11, complete with front panel switches.
> There was a tech in the lab where I worked who thought he could fix any
> programming error by randomly changing memory contents...  Success
> usually eluded him.
>
> Speaking of switches, when I came to Evergreen in 1985 they were still
> running an HP-1000/2000, with lots of lights and switches :-)  And a
> paper tape boot/diagnostic loader.  I still have a 16KB core memory
> stack from it.
>
> Anyone remember when an 8KB core memory board for a PDP-8 was nearly
> $10,000?  For me, that really puts things in perspective.
>
> Joe Pollock
> Network Services
> The Evergreen State College
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Bristol, Gary L.
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 2:49 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] University credentials used by third parties
>
> Here, you mean where you could actually see the wires wrapped around the
> core with the sense, and x, y  wires going thru them.
>
> Connecting to different systems meant throwing big two or three position
> switches to change which system talked to other systems.
>  Plugging in the bootstrap program either push buttoned lighted
> indicators or toggle switches on the front of the data general nova or
> eclipse computers.
>
> Sent from my iPad - Gary
>
> On Aug 18, 2010, at 4:43 PM, "Eric Case" <eric () ERICCASE COM> wrote:
>
> > Know about or use front panel switches?  I never got to use them, but
> I know
> > about them.
> >
> > While we are in the way back machine, how many know about core memory?
> > -Eric
> >
> >
> > Eric Case, CISSP
> > eric (at) ericcase (dot) com
> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/ericcase
> > (520) 344-CISO (2476)
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
> > > [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Russell Fulton
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 2:26 PM
> > > To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> > > Subject: Re: [SECURITY] University credentials used by third parties
> > >
> > > 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? ;-)
> > >
> > > or 80 column boot straps?
> > >
> > > Russell
> > >
> > > PS.  since I'm wasting bandwidth advertising my age ;)
> > >
> > > > Stephen Bradley
> > >
> > > > I'll bet not as much as I miss working on the card punches and
> readers.
> > :-)
> > > don't forget card sorters for when you drop your deck of 500 cards an
> hour
> > > before the assignment is due...



Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel