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Operations Manager
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Check out the slide rule in the pocket and the sideburns. Hey, it was the '60's!
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Lecture
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I have no idea what I was discussing here, but somebody picked up the camera.
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My Secretary
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Roxanne. She was absolutely great!
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Computer Operations Supervisor
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Don't let the oscilloscope fool you. Bea didn't work on the hardware. But she was an outstanding supervisor.
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Bea
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The computer room was in the basement of a building for security and other reasons. There was no natural light and I had a slim budget for decoations. I also had staff with artistic talents so I bought the materials and they made their own decorations.
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Computer Operator
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Many names have disappeared from my memory after 35 years, but these were an excellent and dedicated group of people.
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Computer Operations Supervisor
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Yvonne was another of the computer operations shift three shift supervisors and a great asset to the project.
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Yvonne
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A good sense of humor was one of the things that distinguished almost every one of my staff for this project.
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Computer Operations Supervisor
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This was a large IBM mainframe computer around 1967 when this picture was taken. One meg of menory, 648 meg of hard drives, no video and it cost in the millions!
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Computer Operations Supervisor
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Many names have disappeared from my memory after 35 years, but these were an excellent and dedicated group of people.
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Magnetic Tape
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Our backup storage was 9 track magnetic tape.
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Programming is Fun
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Even when it doesn't work the way it was supposed to the first time!
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Programmer Relaxation
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Bits and bytes and a little folk music go a long way. All the programmers were mathamatitions by training.
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Computer Operators
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Many names have disappeared from my memory after 35 years, but these were an excellent and dedicated group of people
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Computer Operators
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Many names have disappeared from my memory after 35 years, but these were an excellent and dedicated group of people
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Tape Library
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Helen was our tape librarian.
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Tape Cleaning
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After a few uses tapes were cleaned and tested before being put back into circulation.
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Data Control Unit
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Karen was one of about a half dozen very smart people in the data control unit making sure that the data going in was good.
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Data Control Supervisor
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Toni on the left supervised the Data Control Unit.
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Honeywell DDP-516
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This mini computer was used to connect a dozen prototype data terminals to the mainframe over a 50KB modem line. The function would be performed today by a hub or switch.
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Data Terminal Test Room
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These special prototype terminals were state of the art at the time and were the first displays in which the data was first written to memory then displayed.
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Data Terminal Test Room
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These special prototype terminals were state of the art at the time and were the first displays in which the data was first written to memory then displayed.
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Data Terminal Test Room
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These special prototype terminals were state of the art at the time and were the first displays in which the data was first written to memory then displayed.
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Demonstration Center
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Demonstrations of the system were presented in a special series of rooms created for the purpose. In addition to a working terminal the center was equipped for a short film and slide presentation.
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Prototype Terminal
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A prototype terminal was set up in the demo center.
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