*** Quoting Maurice Kinal from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 MK> Did you have to use those eye-bleeding dumb terminals too?
 CS> Thats all we had back then.  The amber ones were the worst.

MK> Right.  So it wasn't just us then.  My eyes hurt just thinking about t

The Sperry-Univac had an acronym list 3 miles long.  The only part that
didnt ¨have an acronym?  Cathode Ray Unit Device (CRUD), part of the FEP if
I recall ¨it right.  Acoustic modem for dayly feedback logs to the company.

BSD I think was the primary kernal?

 CS> Sperry Univac 1100/60 machine, took 4 hours to 'boot' from cold.

MK> All day from nine track tapes.  :-)  I never had to learn that thank g
MK>  If the system was down it had absolutely nothing to do with me.

Hehehe.  I was the SYSOP (old use of the term) for that machine.  The USAF
was ¨buying into it, but all the folks who worked it were navy.  The USAF
folks were ¨afraid to touch it.

 CS> I took it down to 45 minutes with no tending via batchfile trickery.
 CS> I did that when working at AFMPC for the 'phase4 transition'
 CS> (converting from Burroughs mainframe to Sperry) so my 'code' got 
 CS> widespread across the USAF.  Now and again I've run into someone
 CS> who used and improved it from the origional 'DPSN Pape' work.

MK> Neat.  You're a pioneer.

;-)  That I was.  I was taught to 'comment the batch files' by DP1 Carter
¨(Later DPC or 'Chief') so thats how folks knew it was me, years later.

                                       xxcarol

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