[AccessD] OT: Merry Christmas

[John R Bartow]

Nice. What kind of computations were you running on it?

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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.

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

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