More Easy Pickings

Send your answers for the top, middle, and bottom pictures of this stellar group via email here. Remember that the identities will not be given for awhile. I want to see how many of you will send in correct answers.

Those who gave correct answers are: (Add your name to the list even if someone else has already answered.

TOP - 1. Don Piveral, 2. Mick Snider, 3. Paul Boltauzer, 4. Vic Munn

MIDDLE - 1. Steve Ludwig; 2. Don Piveral, 3. Mick Snider, 4. Paul Boltauzer, 5. Vic Munn, 6. Larry Berg

TERMINAL IN MIDDLE PICTURE - 1. Larry Berg

BOTTOM - Seems to be a tough one?? 1. Paul Boltauzer, 2. Clyde Blanchard

1.When this fellow came to DPI from the GE Computer Department he was assigned to write the code for the Magnetic Tape Driver in the first release of DCOS. And he rewrote it for just about every release after that. He probably still does it in his sleep. While writing that first version, he requested a new status line be added to the hardware but was told it could not be done. Next he requested a hardware class for all the programmers so they would better take advantage of what was there. About mid-way through the Mag Tape Controller class, he handed the hardware Engineer a marked up logic diagram to change the hardware to give him the change he had first requested. We always listened to him afterward.
When this brash young kid made the leap from a Manufacturing Test Technician to become an Application Programmer in the days before AIDE was invented, who would have thought that someday he would be responsible for hooking up the heaviest terminal ever connected to one of our Data Collection Systems (Terminal hint - it happened about '93 or '94. The system was the DCF package on the TOWER and its successors). Can you guess what the terminal was as well as the man? About the time of this picture, he wore very short ties.
Here is another of the many GE Computer Department people who came to DPI in the early days. He also loved his sailboat and many a DPIer was taken sailing on the beautiful Monterey Bay on nice weekends. While they had lots of fun, the reports always seemed to include getting stuck on a sandbar! Wish I knew where he was so he could defend himself from this slander. He read the Wall Street Journal every day. One day he read an article about a test to prove whether or not you were an alcoholic. After doing the test, he was able to say "I am not an alcoholic!"