[Xastir] serial port error with serial GPS

[Jerry Chamberlin]

Hasp, Bi-sync, 2780. We stil use 2780 at Work for some point to point batch 
I remeber when I worked at Uninet, predessor for Trlnet and Sprint Net, we
upgraded the dial ups from 110 to 300 baud, what a rush..


On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:

> When I was in junior high, my dad was sent to a systems analyst class 
> for 6 months at IBM in Dallas (we lived in Ft. Worth, he worked for the 
> US Gov't at Bell Helicopter, as an auditor).  He never quite got the 
> idea behind programming, and most of the work was in FORTRAN (with a 
> little COBOL) so I started at that point.  He'd run my programs on the 
> IBM 1401 and bring home the results.  He got pretty good at analysis, 
> but never could string his thoughts together as working code.  You might 
> say his passing the training was the result of a good team effort.
> 
> I used the High School's Model 39 TTY to gain more access to the 
> Spectra-70 than I should have had.  Learned BASIC there because they 
> didn't make programming languages available to the HS students...
> 
> At TAMU, we had a 360/30 when I started, but by my sophomore year we'd 
> upgraded to a 360/65.  For most of the time I was there, the standard 
> was the IBM 029 keypunch and a line printer, but we also had Selectrics 
> for the APL folks.  At some point we started seeing Lear-Seigler 
> ADM3's... and then ADM-3a's.  We used them in a semiinteractive mode to 
> run WILBUR.  I got thrown out of a Numerical Analysis class for, among 
> other things, teaching my group how to run WILBUR and IEBPRINTPUNCH so 
> we could turn in the requisite print-out and deck.
> 
> Did I mention the Clandestine Programming Contest?  Modelled after the 
> intercollegiate contest, our goal was to take down the mainframe for the 
> longest period of time (that is, the hardest), with the least number of 
> cards, submitted at a normal user cardreader.  My deck had 6 cards; 
> after being hired for a 12 month stint to study and improve HASP, I kept 
> the deck in a plastic box on my desk as a reminder to our Director that 
> he was not safe.  To complete the story, there was a group of 
> undergraduates on campus working for various departments.  The Data 
> Processing Center Director took exception to us working in the computing 
> centers supposedly reserved for faculty/staff/grad-students.  After all, 
> we were slimey undergrads!  He directed his staff to intercept our jobs 
> in the queue, decrement our work accounts for the total requested time 
> charge, and report no output.  Our complaints met a silent wall.  So, we 
> took the step to organize the Contest.  All, save one of us, was hired 
> away from our departments; the hold-out got a bigger offer from the 
> department he worked for.  I did HASP/COP work while virtually all of us 
> did one form of systems security or another.  I even got a preliminary 
> look at ACF and RAC prior to them seeing the light of day.
> 
> gerry
> 
> 
> Jerry Chamberlin wrote:
> > Funny where one bit wil get you.
> > 
> > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Curt Mills wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Jerry Chamberlin wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Yes I have one, and a Special Cobol coding form..
> >>>I also have a IBM 1442 Printer manual.
> >>>My first program ran on a IBM 1620.
> >>>Then the school got a 360 Mod 30.....
> >>>I helped upgrade the a 360 Mod 20 to 16K core memory. Yes K, but K words so
> >>>multiply by 8.
> >>>
> >>>I think I am starting to feel OLD
> >>
> >>Yea, but these are fun sorts of threads, even if off topic (no
> >>version of Xastir would run on the old stuff we're talking about).
> >>
> >>First programming class was using punched cards and a line printer,
> >>Fortran.  I never saw the computer, and didn't even know which
> >>building it was in.
> >>
> >>The ham club at college (W7YH, 2 years older than the ARRL) had an
> >>ASR33? and a punched tape reader/writer, also a Robot 70 SSTV
> >>monitor and an audio reel-to-reel for recording/playing back the
> >>SSTV signals.  Had a blast with all that, but having more fun with
> >>Linux/Unix and connecting to radios.
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo dot com
> >>http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
> >>  Lotto:  A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown
> >>Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U.
> >>The world DOES revolve around me:  I picked the coordinate system!"
> >>
> > 
> > 
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> Gerry Creager -- gerry.creager at tamu.edu
> Network Engineering -- AATLT, Texas A&M University	
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used to be ICQ 6408731
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