[GreenKeys] Bletchley Park...FORTRAN

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Larry,

Where did you surface from?  I only spent a few nights with the 1620.  
McMahon played with it a lot.  I was going into communications.  But ended up in the 
Oil Patch instead.

I couldn't have told you it was a Sperry but it was Buz Root and it was a PDP 
8.  But don't knock KRUS.  I was the station engineer during part of that 
period.  I'm sure we put out as much power as the system clock.  :-)

In a message dated 3/4/2009 10:41:32 PM Central Standard Time, 
ldesoto at comcast.net writes: 
> ROFL,
> 
> Those were the days Bob, sleeping on the 60K core memory cabinet in the 1620 
> 
> room at Tech during a marathon between-the-quarters computing session.  Do 
> you remember the Sperry "solid state" computer down in EE that Root, I 
> think, was trying to interface to a PDP 8?  I shared an office with a fellow 
> 
> at Bell Labs who was supposed to have been a Sperry field engineer for that 
> boat anchor.  IBM made it obsolete before it ever went out the door.  It 
> still makes me laugh when I think about the system clock in it that 
> generated more power in the broadcast band than the local AM radio station.
> 
> :Larry DeSoto - WA5MLH
> 
> 

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