[QCWA] AUTODIN

[Robert Rich]

Fellow QCWA's as I recall, running parallel to AUTODIN was AUTOVON,
I was very much involved in the AUTOVON project for several years.

73 de Bob WA4PWA

> On Dec 1, 2015, at 6:37 PM, Mike Sturm <mike at mikesturm.com> wrote:
> 
> For W2HB:
> 
> Thanks Doug for bringing back a great memory.  Almost forgot about AUTODIN
> - the programmers nemesis :)  Still remember the hassle of batching every
> 500 of those 80 column records (don't forget to include the header and
> trailer records in the count) and transferring them to 9-track tape -
> despite the fact we were on the Defense Data Network by 1985.
> 
> Being a programmer, I didn't touch the AUTODIN terminal but I sure
> remember it - bigger than most of the computers we were working on.  I
> joke but life was a lot simpler in those days and a heck of a lot more
> secure.  Thrills me to know I was one of the ones affected by the OPM data
> breach.  I can confidently say no enemy agent ever got even one of our
> punched cards :)
> 
> Thanks again Doug!  73 DE KA2E (Formerly of RUEOBMD)
> 
> NNNN
> 
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