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| From | Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: personal histories |
| Date | 2020-06-12 19:04 -0400 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
| Message-ID | <mddk10brim6.fsf@panix5.panix.com> (permalink) |
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Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> writes:
> On 6/11/2020 6:08 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
>> I knew that system! I was a freshman in the fall of 1969 at UT; I had a
>> work-study job with the School of Education's CAI Lab, working with an IBM 1800
>> in the basement of Sutton Hall and the administration's System/360 Model 50 in
>> the basement of the Tower.
> You and I shared the same Freshman year at UT Austin.
Cool! Hook 'em, 'Horns!
> What a huge enrollment! What a great football team.
> Austin Texas and UT was such a fun place compared to my tiny rural high
> school in East Texas.
> I started out as a Chemistry Major, but took a test during admissions that
> let me opt out of taking the usual Freshman Chemistry course. So, I took an
> experimental course for freshmen by Dr F. A. Matsen named "The Vector Space
> Theory of Matter", and they taught us FORTRAN.
I learned FORTRAN on an IBM 1401 the last semester of my senior year in a
Chicao suburb, while Dad finished his doctorate at Northwestern. That's why
the work-study folks were sending me to computer-related jobs! (I'm a native
Texan, born in Denison, but that's another story altogether.)
> I was hooked immediately on writing software.
> So I changed my major to Math/CS.
Perfectly reasonable. I was a linguistics major from the get-go.
> I had a part time job coding for graduate students in the Physical Chemistry
> Dept (mostly FORTRAN for doing matrix calculations for their Quantum
> Mechanics models) or various things for the CS Dept through Dr. Brown all
> four years I attended as an undergraduate.
> I had no idea that having a CDC-6600 as your first computer was quite unusual.
> - Larry
You've just missed having some fun. I work(ed) at Living Computers: Museum+Labs
in Seattle for the last 17 years. We restored a 6500 (originally at Purdue from
1967-1989, then in the Chippewa Falls Museum of Industry and Technology till
2011) and have given free accounts on it for several years. Unfortunately, the
museum is closing for 12-18 months (due to the effects of the pandemic on any
museum and more especially on "touch everything" museums).
My friend who got me the museum job was an operator at the UTCC, but only after
they had moved from the 6600 onto a Cyber. He's retired back to Austin, which
was home for him all along.
--
Rich Alderson news@alderson.users.panix.com
Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
--Galen
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