Dan,
The machine you are thinking of is the IBM 650. My older brother used one
although I never had the pleasure. I started on an IBM 1620 (with the
addition and multiplication tables in core memory).
I don't think that is the SOAP these youngsters are talking about, though.
Thanks for the memories,
Ari
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Schlitt [mailto:schlitt_at_world.std.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 2:17 PM
> To: firewall-wizards_at_honor.icsalabs.com
> Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Soap - Was RPCs over HTTPS through the firewall
>
>
>
> I guess I've become too old. When I hear SOAP mentioned in a computer
> context I think of the first programming language I ever used. I think
> that it stood for Symbolic Optimizing Assembly Program. It
> was for an IBM
> machine the number of which I can't accurately recall but it had a
> rotating magnetic drum for memory. The optimization was
> intended to put
> the next instruction under the read head at the completion of
> the previous
> instruction. And you could use symbolic names! The folks in a richer
> division actually had core memory for there nearly identical machine.
>
> When I returned to grad school after that summer I graduated
> to a 704 and
> FORTRAN.
>
> Those were the good old days.
>
> /dan
>
> --
>
> Dan Schlitt
> schlitt_at_world.std.com
>
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