Klarinet Archive - Posting 000042.txt from 2012/02

From: "Ray Whitmore" <ray@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] IBM 1620
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:03:46 -0500

Aetna Insurance many years ago (maybe 20) found that musicians have the same
logical, orderly mind to be programmers. They hired many of my friends who
were music ed majors and taught them the skills to program. It turned out to
be a great decision for them with the de-emphasis on music and the arts in
the schools over the years.

I have at least 6 friends working at Aetna with music degrees so the theory
must be true. Also a couple of trumpet players but we don't acknowledge
them! And my son-in-law is a fabulous trombone player, majored in music, but
works in IT.

Ray S Whitmore
Senior Application Engineer
COmputer COnsulting Associates
A member of the Datamat Group
730 Hebron Avenue
PO Box 342
Glastonbury, CT 06033
860.657.2210
ray@-----.com
www.datamat.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Bowen [mailto:keith.bowen@-----.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 11:43 AM
To: 'The Klarinet Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [kl] IBM 1620

Nah. Just the best ones.....

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred [mailto:vze2bsbs@-----.net]
Sent: 02 February 2012 16:43
To: The Klarinet Mailing List
Subject: Re: [kl] IBM 1620

Wow! That is cool and way before my time. Say- does it seem that all
programmers are also clarinet players? Or vica-versa?

Fred

At 10:56 AM 2/2/2012, you wrote:

>Oh yeah? How about the vacuum tube ILLIAC I where I had to punch
>programs on 9-track paper tape in one room and feed them through the
>reader in another, with a tech standing at the other corner to catch
>and wrap the program tape as it shot out of the reader. And how the
>filament voltage was set at 70% of normal during the day but raised to
>100% after 5pm when a utility was run to locate all of the bad tubes.
>
>You guys are kids! 8-)
>
>Oliver
>
> > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 08:23:05 -0500
> > To: klarinet@-----.com
> > From: gkidder@-----.org
> > Subject: [kl] IBM 1620
> >
> > My goodness, yourself! That sure does take me back. I first
> > started
into
> > computers at the old Biophysics Laboratory at Harvard Med. School as
> > a young post-doc in (I think) 1963, and remember that beast well.
> >
> > For the benefit of those who missed this experience: To write a
program,
> > you first cut a bunch of key-punch cards, and loaded them into the
> > card reader along with the first-pass compiler. This produced a
> > stack of intermediate cards, which were loaded into the reader along
> > with the second-stage compiler deck. Then, and only then, would it
> > cough and say "mixed mode", a common error caused (simplified
> > version) by using a variable name beginning with i, j, k, l, m, or n
> > for a real (as opposed
to
> > an integer) number. Or vice-versa. The amount of hard language
> > this produced had to be experienced!
> >
> > I don't remember using Leeson's material, but it's been a long
> time now. I
> > never stopped using computers as aids to my work, but it sure got
> > easier and cheaper.
> >
> > George
> >
> >
> >
> > At 06:46 PM 2/1/2012, you wrote:
> > >My goodness. How did you ever get hold of that film? I was the
> > >producer and it was made for the 25th anniversary of the
> > >introduction of FORTRAN somewhere around 1980. If anything can be
> > >credited for bringing about the beginning of the computer
> > >revolution, it was FORTRAN. I don't know if anyone uses it today,
> > >but it was a cash cow in the 1950s, 60s, and early 70s, and without
> > >it, the introduction of large scale computers (which led Jobs to
> > >the personal computers) would have been delayed enormously.
> > >
> > >Dan Leeson
> > >email: dnleeson@-----.net
> > >alternate email: leesondaniel899@-----.net
> > >
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Mark Charette [mailto:charette@-----.org]
> > >
> > >Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 1:23 PM
> > >To: The Klarinet Mailing List
> > >Subject: Re: [kl] Saying goodbye
> > >
> > >I never met Dan, yet I had read some of his early work ...
> > >
> > >Basic programming concepts and the IBM 1620 computer
> > >
> > >and seen his movie
> > >
> > >http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTR
> > >AN/video/FORTRAN-1982.wmv
> > >
> > >way before I knew he was interested in clarinets.
> > >
> > >Software programming, movies, and the clarinet.
> > >
> > >What a guy!
> > >
> > >Mark C.
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