My dad worked for Univac, in Salt Lake City. For several years, they would hold an open house once a year, and I went to several of them as a kid. This is a real blast from the past for me.
But I didn't realize that ferrite cores were that small. The way they threated them is amazing. I thought it was much more manual than that.
Reel-to-reel tapes! Punch cards! Drum memory! Fortran! Flowcharts! I never used them professionally, but I remember seeing them.
Uniscopes! I did use those professionally, briefly.
I only just recently found this youtube channel. I've been having so much fun looking at all the technology that used to be. I thought I was old school having worked with Tandem and JCL and all that, but this is an entire other generation.
My dad worked for Univac, in Salt Lake City. For several years, they would hold an open house once a year, and I went to several of them as a kid. This is a real blast from the past for me.
But I didn't realize that ferrite cores were that small. The way they threated them is amazing. I thought it was much more manual than that.
Reel-to-reel tapes! Punch cards! Drum memory! Fortran! Flowcharts! I never used them professionally, but I remember seeing them.
Uniscopes! I did use those professionally, briefly.
What a time trip.
I only just recently found this youtube channel. I've been having so much fun looking at all the technology that used to be. I thought I was old school having worked with Tandem and JCL and all that, but this is an entire other generation.