Hi Scott,
Sounds like your Dad had quite a career. Did he have a favorite machine? This particular Univac had a tough beginning. It was too heavy for the elevator, so they rigged up some plywood and planned to slide it down the stairs. I wasn't there for the big event, but I saw the evidence. They didn't even add support under the plywood, so when they started it down the stairs, the leading wheels when through, the machine tipped over, slid down the plywood to the bottom of the stairs and slammed into the concrete wall hard enough to take a divot out of it. It must have been quite a fea t to get it righted and into the machine room after that. Ever after, it would occassionaly post a "page fault on (dev)" message to the console and lock up. When that would happen, we would go over to the machine, open the door and give it just a little boot in the right place. About 80% of the time, it would pick right up and go on. Rest of the time it would crash, and I would get to IPL. :)) It had core memory and a bootstrap tape. Only machine I ever worked with that had that . The Univac taught me a lot. Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Ford" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 6:24:23 PM Subject: Re: IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit Linda, Wow I remember a lot my dad worked on but no the 90, been awhile, he retired working at ft Harrison in Indianapolis on univac 1100s..... Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Jan 16, 2012, at 8:26 PM, Linda Mooney <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Scott, > > > > The very first mainframe I learned on (not paid, in school) was a Univac > 90/70/D VS9. I don't remember what its specs were. I really liked that > machine. There was a training program that ran on it called Lester. Any > body remember Lester? > > > Linda > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Scott Ford" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 1:11:54 PM > Subject: Re: IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit > > Omg, my dad was a fe on univacs....small world > > > Sent from my iPad > Scott Ford > Senior Systems Engineer > www.identityforge.com > > > > On Jan 15, 2012, at 4:47 PM, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In <[email protected]>, on 01/15/2012 >> at 04:05 PM, Ed Finnell <[email protected]> said: >> >>> Howz about 32K on an SS80? >> >> The UNIVAC SS80 and SS90 were decimal machines. >> >>> Some not so good... >> >> UNIVAC 1005? >> >> -- >> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT >> ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> >> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. >> (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
