Re: University credentials used by third parties

[Nate johnson <njj () NJJ-ASSOCIATES COM>]

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.
>
> Paul
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Iglesias
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 7:42 PM
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> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] University credentials used by third parties
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> 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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