[AccessD] OT: Merry Christmas

[John Colby]

LOL, ya got me by 10 years.

In 1972 I joined the US navy and attended a school for fixing computers.

My first programs were in machine code directly (octal), on a Univac 
trainer.  It had a front panel with rows of push button switches with 
tiny neon bulbs for lights, which displayed (and allowed modification 
to) the internal registers of the computer.

We inputted the instructions directly into these registers and then 
stored into core memory.  Dumped to paper tape.  read back in from paper 
tape.

These machines were designed in 1958 IIRC.  Their big brothers (Univac 
642 bravos) were just being replaced when I left the navy in 1978.  The 
entire intel center was run on two of these things.

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/univac/military/ntds/PX2846_CP-642B_TechDescr_Jul63.pdf

Fascinating that anything got done really.  Everything was programmed in 
assembler because memory was so tight - 32 K Words for the entire machine.

On 12/24/2015 5:12 PM, DJK (John) Robinson wrote:
> And a Merry Christmas to you Shamil, and all others, from a Very Old Timer.
>
> (How old?  Well, my development pretty much ceased around XP time, which is why I almost never post these days, though I
> still read;  I got my very first program working in 1962 - 53 years ago.  Anyone beat that?)
>
> John
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov Shamil
> Sent: 24 December 2015 19:40
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Merry Christmas
>
>
>   Merry Christmas and Happy holidays to All AccessD members !
>
> -- Shamil
>
>
>> Thursday, December 24, 2015 9:16 AM -08:00 from Charlotte Foust
>> <charlotte.foust at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Happy holidays to all the old-timers and new kids at AccessD.
>>
>>
>>
>> Charlotte Foust
>> (916) 206-4336
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 4:26 AM, jack drawbridge <
>> jackandpat.d at gmail.com >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Merry Christmas to all from a very, very warm Ottawa Canada. Going to
>>> 16C today (average is -7C). Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2016.
>>>
>>> jack
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 7:16 AM, paul < paul at wordwright.org > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Best wishes for a great Christmas to all AccessD folk.  And here's
>>>> to a really good year ahead.
>>>>
>>>> All the best from London
>>>> paul
>>>>
>>>> Paul Rodgers
>>>>
>>>> On 24 December 2015 at 11:19, Martin Reid < mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Happy and peaceful Christmas Gustav and all.
>>>>>
>>>>> Martin
>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>> From: Gustav Brock<mailto: gustav at cactus.dk >
>>>>> Sent: ‎24/‎12/‎2015 11:11
>>>>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving<mailto:
>>>>> accessd at databaseadvisors.com >
>>>>> Subject: [AccessD] OT: Merry Christmas
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all
>>>>>
>>>>>  From the ”cold” North (it is the warmest December I can recall
>>>>> with 10 degree Celsius), I wish all my friends at AccessD a
>>>>> peaceful and merry Christmas. Quiet – not to say relaxing – it
>>>>> may not be. I can tell for one, as we live at the countryside and
>>>>> family will invade for four days and three nights. But I’m lucky
>>>>> to have a nice, bright, and humerous family so, actually, it will
>>>>> be fun as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> All the best
>>>>> Gustav
>>>>>
>>>>> --

-- 
John W. Colby