Re: University credentials used by third parties

[Paul Kendall <PKendall () ACCUDATASYSTEMS COM>]

Thank you to everyone who contributed their bit of history.

To those of you who may have gotten started in this field in the 50s and 60s, a heartfelt thanks for helping make it 
happen. You drove the hardware side to the point it became useful. To those of use in the late 60s through the late 
80s, hardware continued to be a wild ride, but so did software, especially programming languages and operating systems. 
To everyone who started later than us, you have contributed spectacularly to the field, and have continued to extend 
the art and science of computing to new levels. It is an honor and a pleasure to work alongside all of you.

I enjoyed this dialog immensely; it is good to see there are still a lot of us around who do remember 'back in the 
day...'.

Paul
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Paul L. Kendall, PhD, CGEIT, CHP, CHSS, CHS-III, DHS-CVI, CISM, CISSP, CSSLP
PCI Qualified Security Assessor
Senior Consultant
Accudata Systems, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Valdis 
Kletnieks
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 10:04 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] University credentials used by third parties

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:42:47 PDT, Eric Case said:

> 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?

The two computers I started doing anything serious on on were the campus IBM S/360-65J, which had a whole whopping 4M 
of core memory (hat was one big honking
-65J) and an HP2114, which had 16K of core.  They only let me play with the front panel switches of the HP2114. :)