[Cialug] July Meeting: ComSec Strategies

[Morris Dovey]

On 7/19/13 8:15 PM, Tom Pohl wrote:
> To me, this part of your résumé is pretty darn impressive!
>
> "Designed and implemented an IPL-able routine to provide for extremely rapid dump and restore to/from cards on the IBM 1130. A full system and user library reload could be effected in less than five minutes using the 1442 card read-punch – a considerable reduction from the hour and a half previously required by the standard IBM utility"
Necessity is the mother of invention. During debug, the stuff I was 
working on trashed the disk with every test.

What the guys I was working with liked was that the card data was 
compressed and that the deck could be loaded at full speed even when 
backward or shuffled, with cards oriented any which way (upside down, 
turned end-for-end, etc.)

I didn’t know it then, but what I really wanted was a USB port and a 1GB 
FLASH drive. :-)