Re: University credentials used by third parties

[Ozzie Paez <ozpaez () SPRYNET COM>]

It is an awesome idea - We should not forget that across the world many of
these antiques continue to operate - I was working at a Nuclear Power Plant
in the late eighties and early nineties where the robot that defueled,
refueled and did much work in the reactor core was being controlled by a
PDP-8s with about 4K of physical memory and a panel full of cards that did
computation using a variety of chips.  The Robot was about four stories tall
and could reach down many feet into the reactor core.  The system was
programmed with paper-punch and a set of switches, where you could select
registers and memory locations and then enter discreet binary patters to
program the system.  It is amazing how much we got done with so little
computation.

Ozzie Paez

SSE/SAIC

303-332-5363

 

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Why not?  That's a great idea!  it could be part of a double-sided issue,
with a "A blast from the past, AND a fast forward to the future" with
previews of new technologies/impacts, etc.

 

Jenny Mehmedovic

Assistant to the Provost

The University of Kansas

 

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Same here!  I've had a wonderful time reading all the reflections and
memories.  Too bad they can't be bundled together and written up as an
article for Educause online. J

 

Theresa Semmens, CISA

Chief IT Security Officer

North Dakota State University

IACC 210D

PO Box 6050

Fargo, ND 58108

Phone: 701-231-5870

Fax: 701-231-8541

Theresa.Semmens () ndsu edu

 

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Security is the strategy, privacy is the outcome
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[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Curt Wilson
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Wow, great to hear of the history that some of you have! I started with a
Commodore VIC-20 with a cassette tape for storage. Pac-man took a really
long time to load, but once it did, we just didn't turn the computer off for
the rest of the day/week.

 

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu>
wrote:

On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:24:36 MDT, Ozzie Paez said:

> Some perspective:  Attached is a 5MB storage unit photographed in 1956 as
it
> was being shipped - Their 8Gb Thumb-Drives must have been murder to carry
in
> a pocket!

Nice picture, but I call shenanigans.  Looks like a staged photo op with a
mock-up unit - does anybody seriously believe they shipped that thing
without a
shipping crate to protect that glass window that lets you see inside? :)