Return-Path: Sender: "Marvin Kaye" To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:57:27 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from imo-d23.mx.aol.com ([205.188.139.137] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c1) with ESMTP id 742997 for lml@lancaironline.net; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:37:28 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=205.188.139.137; envelope-from=Sky2high@aol.com Received: from Sky2high@aol.com by imo-d23.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id q.54.3e30ba56 (16633) for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:36:34 -0500 (EST) From: Sky2high@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: <54.3e30ba56.2f462212@aol.com> X-Original-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:36:34 EST Subject: Loose control... and vibration for older folks. X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1108658194" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5000 -------------------------------1108658194 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 2/17/2005 9:28:21 A.M. Central Standard Time, billhogarty@direcway.com writes: Wow - you must be older than me. Thought I had that record. Bill, Hey, I don't know about that, but here is the first computer I programmed: Illiac I Illiac I was the first computer built and owned entirely by a university. It went on line on September 22, 1952. With the computing power of a modern-day handheld calculator, Illiac had 2,800 vacuum tubes and weighed 10,000 pounds. It was more than 10 ft long, 2 ft high, and 8 ft high, with a 5k main memory and 64k Drum memory. The engineers and scientists continued working on Illiac, which , and by 1956, it had more computing power than all of the systems at Bell Labs. Darn, I lied again. Actually, It was the IBM 604 wired program computer: The 604 electronic calculator, introduced in 1948, was designed primarily for _commercial calculations_ (javascript:OpenWindow('604adv.gif','', 'width=567,height=710')) . A program: The 604 arithmetic unit contained about 1400 electron tubes, used to implement memory (37 decimal digits), an counter/accumulator of 13 (decimal) positions, and control circuits. The basic operations (listed in Table 1) could be used under control of a hard-wired program provided by the user. The connections were made by hand on a pluggable patch panel. Maximal 60 program steps could be wired on a single panel. For iterative procedures, a program could be made to include loops. It took two program panels and two passes to compute correlations........ Now you know why I am Grayhawk. -------------------------------1108658194 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
In a message dated 2/17/2005 9:28:21 A.M. Central Standard Time,=20 billhogarty@direcway.com writes:
<= FONT=20 style=3D"BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size= =3D2>Wow -=20 you must be older than me.  Thought I had that=20 record.
Bill,
 
Hey, I don't know about that, but here is the first computer I=20 programmed:
 
 
Illiac I

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Illiac I was the fir= st=20 computer built and owned entirely by a university. It went on line on Septem= ber=20 22, 1952. With the computing power of a modern-day handheld calculator, Illi= ac=20 had 2,800 vacuum tubes and weighed 10,000 pounds. It was more than 10 ft lon= g, 2=20 ft high, and 8 ft high, with a 5k main memory and 64k Drum memory. The engin= eers=20 and scientists continued working on Illiac, which , and by 1956, it had more= =20 computing power than all of the systems at Bell Labs.

Darn, I lied again.  Actually, It was the IBM 604 wired program=20 computer:

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The 604 electronic calculator, introduced in 1948, was designed primarily= for=20 = commercial=20 calculations.

A program:

The 604 arithmetic unit contained about 1400 electron tubes, used to=20 implement memory (37 decimal digits), an counter/accumulator of 13 (decimal)= =20 positions, and control circuits. The basic operations (listed in Table 1) co= uld=20 be used under control of a hard-wired program provided by the user. The=20 connections were made by hand on a pluggable patch panel. Maximal 60 program= =20 steps could be wired on a single panel. For iterative procedures, a program=20 could be made to include loops.

 

It took two program panels and two passes to compute correlations........=

Now you know why I am Grayhawk.

 

 

 
 
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