[QCWA] AUTODIN

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AUTODIN and AUTOVON were two totally different animals  with no 
relationship. AUTODIN was, in those days, the high speed digital stuff.  Mode V was at 
TTY rates and Mode I was 1200 BPS. The system gear was made to  replace the 
work having been done previously by IBM  360-65's...
 
73 - Doug - W6HB
 
 
In a message dated 12/01/15 17:51:28 Pacific Standard Time,  
k5fnq at lusfiber.net writes:

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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