Re: Memories - was (University credentials used by thirdparties)

[Guy Pace <gpace () SBCTC EDU>]

Still have my old trig slide rule and my math tables book, with notes all in the margins. When the kids give me trouble 
about how hard things are, I get the slipstick out and challenge them to come up a with cube root on it.

Remember when a required piece of visual aid equipment in all HS math and science classes was the huge slide rule? When 
significant digits were a function of the precision of your slide rule and your eyesight? And, when you could get a 
really _good_ mechanical pencil for a few bucks?

My step-dad was an engineer. We spoke slide rule and log tables. I could tell stories, but this is email and Internet, 
and for some things the statute of limitations never runs out.


Guy L. Pace, CISSP 
Security Administrator
Information Technology Division
WA State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) 
3101 Northup Way, Suite 100 
Bellevue, WA 98004 
425-803-9724 
gpace () sbctc edu 

"Great art is a practice. Turn it into a process and the result is a paint-by-numbers system." Bob Lewis


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Paez
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Vacuum tubes, slide rules, calculators, physical books ... Of course, once
we get the implants in our heads, we will be able to visualize everything
without ever being there!  That is what I like about horses, they will bring
you back to planet earth if you forget how to behave around them, just as it
was before our virtual age!
Ozzie Paez
SSE/SAIC
303-332-5363

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  I started high school 40 years ago, and took Electronics shop as an
elective in my final year.  The instructor was a radio ham who had a working
rig there in the class (VE3SIC, if anyone cares...).
  Wwere told that the following year, they would stop teaching tubes and go
solid state.

David Gillett

-----Original Message-----
From: Bradley, Stephen W. Mr. [mailto:bradlesw () MUOHIO EDU]
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My first work system was a Varian 622 (18 bit version of the Varian 620
16-bit) in '76 with the Navy.  I spent many an hour programming by the front
panel switches in Octal.  I still remember 210000base8 is an unconditional
jump.  :-)

My first personal computer was a Sphere circa '78-79 with tape and TV
RF-Out.  Had a Motorola 6800 and 1k of 8 bit memory.

I guess after working 41 actual years with electronics (started with tubes)
I'd be classified as either a fossil or an oldtimer.

Steve



Stephen W. Bradley SSCP GCIH GCFA CISSP
Network Security Specialist
Miami University
Security Engineering
Business & Infrastructure Services
513-529-8129
bradlesw () muohio edu




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   That was what I thought of when someone mentioned front panel switches!
Only it was on a 360/50 way back in '69 when I started. NDSU had gone from
an IBM 1620 to an IBM 360/50 with the help of an NSF loan about a year
earlier. For a while there was such a gap in processing speed we'd actually
shut down the computer in the evening. ;-)

   Marty

Jeff Kell wrote:
>   Ahh... we're going pictures now :-)
>
> Some of you with 360 experience may recognize this...
>
> Jeff

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