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To: LindyBill who wrote (99750)2/10/2005 2:18:29 PM
From: aladin  Respond to of 793667
 
Bill,

the "wire your own boards" expression

My first mainframe was a CDC - the main control panel was a hardwired program that we all had to learn.

What did it do? It was a driver for the card reader where we did the IPL (initial program load).

What did it do? It was a kernal OS and the driver for the tape subsystem so we could load the remaining OS.

A hard crash could take hours to days for recovery.

Each new OS subsystem or compiler required that assembly language routines be programmed.

My son used to think I made all that up until his AP CompSci teacher told him about the hard wired programming he had done. He was an old man of 55 :-)

John



To: LindyBill who wrote (99750)2/10/2005 4:24:25 PM
From: Ish  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793667
 
<<I was in the headhunting business in the 70s.>>

It must have been good back then. I leased a duck hunting blind back in '80 and the guy who leased the blind next to mine was a headhunter. He'd quit working mid September and would go to Canada to hunt ducks. Every couple of weeks he'd move south as the hunting seasons would open and end up in Texas at the end of January. He had to spend at least $30k a year in lease fees to hunt that many places.


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