[time-nuts] Re: MJD 60000 this week

[Jeff Woolsey]

I'm most grateful to y'all for having arranged this event for my 
birthday....

I wrote a program in assembler while in college in 1980 to collect and 
print a bunch of somewhat ephemeral information from the University's 
Cyber 74 that it was running on (not too different from neofetch 
today).  That program has not been rebuilt since.   The system knew only 
one time; it had no concept of time zones or UTC, so it was always set 
to local time.  Today I live in PST.


       1   INFO      ABS           2345    2252    80/11/02. 13.21.28.  NOS 1.4  COMPASS3.6518       A
                                                   COPYRIGHT CONTROL DATA CORP. 1973.
            INFO
            RFL=

DB? *go
  F23\02\24. 10.51.51. JD=23055     , JV=2460000, UP=21.23.15.+65, PD=_BXJ%%;;;;.
  B-Displ :
  *ENDRUN* -- Execution completed.
DB? xq

In the intervening time, I wrote the modern (by comparison) simulator 
that I use to run this old binary today, as a spare time project (of 
which I have too much today).

-- 
Jeff Woolsey {{woolsey,jlw}@jlw,first.last@{gmail,jlw}}.com
Nature abhors straight antennas, clean lenses, and empty storage.
"Delete! Delete! OK!" -Dr. Bronner on disk space management
Card-sorting, Joel.  -Crow on solitaire