[AccessD] OT: Merry Christmas

[John W. Colby]

I had the entire schematic for that and a dozen other machines and was 
trained to find problems down to the gate level.

Long ago in a galaxy far far away of course.  Or so it seems.

John W. Colby

On 12/26/2015 12:54 PM, Dan Waters wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> That's quite the machine!
>
> It used 6.3 gal/minute water cooling to maintain a temp range of +/- 70 deg
> F.  And this is the 'B' model - 2X faster with 4X the output of the 'A'
> model.
>
> Today we have the initial versions of the HoloLens.  Where will that be in
> 30 years?  I hope to be here to find out ... :-)
>
> Merry Christmas to Everyone!
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> John Colby
> Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2015 11:18 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Merry Christmas
>
> 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_T
> echDescr_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.
>