[TriLUG] More computer trivia... ( I'm an older fogy than you).

[Greg Brown]

>
> My first computer experience was sometime late in the 1950s when I
> visited my Dad who worked for IBM down at 590 Madison Avenue on
> Manhattan.  I got a tour of the computer room. I can't remember what
> the machine was, probably either a 7000 or 1400 series, but I got to
> mount a magnetic tape.

One of the first programs I ever wrote was a little gizmo that would
spin the reels around needlessly during tours of the data center
(everyone who toured the room always said "are they broken?" because
they were so used to seeing them move around in the movies).

Greg