Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: History--did relay logic (e.g. crossbar switch) need air conditioning? Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:02:48 -0800 Organization: Wheeler&Wheeler Lines: 41 Message-ID: <878u52tc53.fsf@garlic.com> References: <101d5060-a05b-4d3d-8e35-1d2a1b148aa6@googlegroups.com> <773c8f3e-0854-4485-b6ac-ba5a4919dcae@googlegroups.com> <96d62385-51c5-440c-992d-8f5ff3445007@googlegroups.com> <6Ofay.302422$eK.192841@fx11.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9a6c8ce24fcd2caeb84dd64e0fa6007c"; logging-data="13167"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19hlLPGPwj2kqQS6PO9g2a4mAHNPRfR3Ow=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:63N/cb5XEA+LXfrqCyfMlodXmvU= sha1:FI7TK/P7d8Z6MHLfQ9nxGL6JxH8= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:154965 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes: > Something we, here in the Silicon Valley, are quite aware of :-(. > They finally cleaned up the superfund site on Bernal (Fairchild/Nat > Semi, IIRC); but there is still plenty of groundwater remediation > occuring throughout the valley. one of my co-workers that lived south of the fairchild bldg (affected by fairchild ground water contamination) ... came down with cancer attributed to that contamination. shortly after new grocery store went in (where fairchild bldg use to be). I was in the store and noticed that the ATM machine was open'ed and being worked on. I went over and started talking to the person ... this was after nations had taken over bank of america and changed its name to bank of america. He said that nations was letting lots of the bank of america people go. He said that he was assigned to go through all the bank of america ATM machines (in the local area) and replace the advanced, state-of-the-art, intrusion detection with some hack that nations used (so all nationsbank ATM machines would be the same) ... and when he was done, he would be let go to. It was more than academic interest ... I was on financial industry standard committees working on security features ... topic drift ... one of the standards http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959 and some of the technology http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads tandem had bought one of ATM machine technology providers (Atalla, in part because tandem machines were extensively used in the ATM/cashmachine networks and tandem had been bought by compaq) ... old post referencing workshop that compaq/tandem/atalla had sponsored for us: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#riskm report on AADS pilot done by NACHA and one of the ATM networks (gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine, aka 23July2001)) http://web.archive.org/web/20070706004855/http://internetcouncil.nacha.org/News/news.html -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970