On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 20:25:08 -0700, Victor Odhner wrote: Speaking of memories... > ec wrote hastily: > > New Year's eve, 1970, I got a whole top-end > Burroughs mainframe to myself in the factory to > run an experimental printed circuit router. Man, > that machine was the pinnacle. ...programmed totally in ALGOL, > including > the OS. For sure, for sure. Those were way ahead of their time. I remember a Univac salesman with egg all over his face trying to talk about the new features comming on the Univac OS. The usual response: "We've had that for years." A sad note: After Burroughs hostile take over of Univac's parent (Sperry Rand), the CEO, some 6 months later, realized he had left his old employees on such a short end of the bargain that he took his own life. > I had written the programs that wired the > thing, including the 18,000 wires on the six-foot CPU > backplanes. I assume you saw one of those wire-wrapping machines at work. The data input device on the one I saw was an IBM card punch (Yes, in a Univac factory). BTW, I just bought a new wirewrap gun for the Science Bowl project I'm doing. > 'Young'ns' -- hrmf. :-) > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss