Omg, I initially skimmed your note. That was some experience. I have heard of ppl looking under raised flooring to see water running over the top of the bug and tag cables...that was a tad scary. But to drop a machine, tap it and have it keep going amazing ...lol
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Jan 17, 2012, at 1:18 AM, Linda Mooney <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
