4 Feb
2007
4 Feb
'07
7:32 a.m.
Another thought...Since this was, at the time, the only one and apparently
in use BEFORE the public had access to the model, that it was an earlier
model that had been upgraded to the performance specs of the 7070 for the
government in advance of the 7070s being released as a solid state machine
and so therefore we referred to it as a 7070?? It was my understanding at
the time that ours was the only one in existence and then later we heard
that others had been built.
On 2/4/07, Jim Isbell, W5JAI <jim.isbell at gmail.com> wrote:
I would agree except that I would have been given notice of that 15 years
ago when I read the article on the machine...I would think...
On 2/4/07, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
--
Jim Isbell
"If you are not living on the edge, well then,
you are just taking up too much space."
--
Jim Isbell
"If you are not living on the edge, well then,
you are just taking up too much space."
However, I would think that it is unlikely I
would have forgotten the
phrase, "seven oh seventy" Its a catchy phrase and has stuck with me
for
almost fifty years. We didn't call it the
"seventy seventy" or any
other
sequence of words, just the "Seven Oh
Seventy". However, what it
looked
like has pretty much been erased and blended with
the many other
computers
of similar size that I worked on.
You remembering the "seven oh seventy" phrase may have been distorted.
This is a common thing for details nearly fifty years old, and just
about all of us will or have fallen to an example or two.
I work with a number of older ships being restored, and we run into
this all the time. Some vets, as good natured and honest as they come,
will insist that something was done or installed a certain way, yet
the ships will have undeniable proof (often photographic or
documented) that it was done another way. Often these are details that
the sailor dealt with for a couple of years on a daily basis. Nobody
is at fault, really, just memory fades, and often we do not realize it
until questioned.
--
Will