[QCWA] AUTODIN

[Art (K5FNQ)]

I haven't heard AUTOVON for quite a while. I still have a copy of my 
orders in 1969 that restrict all collect commercial calls unless AUTOVON 
is not accessible.
I had always wondered what that was?
Art K5FNQ


On 12/1/2015 7:45 PM, Robert Rich wrote:
> 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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