On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 12:53 PM, AlyssonR wrote:
You write software for clocks?
When I was in college the University used a Univac 1108 for both business and educational computing. Said machine had a very large LED clock readout which was easily seen from the hall outside the glass enclosed computer room (must show the world we had a big computer, after all).
So apparently the people working in the Admin building would come to work each morning and check the time displayed on the computer, correcting their Accutron watches if the watch differed from the computer.
Of course back then mainframe computers were rebooted each morning by the computer operator who set the time by looking at his (maybe $25, mine were $5) Timex watch and hitting the carriage return key (no enter key back then) on the operator's console (some type of teletype, or a Selectric typewriter on IBM 360).
For a while I was the guy who would reboot the computer at the beginning of my shift, entering the date and time each day.
JZ
P,S, Back then I never forgot the correct year when writing checks in January.
