Back in the year 1988 a minor glitch developed, I forget now many of the details about that situation for that obsolete and decommissioned platform, in the United States Navy MK152 Guided Missile Fire Control Computer Complex and we had our brows furrowed for a while trying to figure it out. A workaround was discovered but that workaround was labor-intensive. I quickly wrote a binary code program for the Univac computer that virtually eliminated the labor required to isolate the failure. I often worked in areas of the system, often grueling and tedious, that no one else was looking at. Eventually, by the time I took charge of the workcenter, we didn't really experience any more failures, at least nothing like when I first started working there.
Jim Shea was still working with us so that narrows down the timeline. I have a this memory associated with that from years later when he and I worked for First Federal in South Carolina and a problem with an automatic teller machine in Seneca. As I have written here before many times my memory of the 1990s consist of many memory that seem real to my mind and then there is the hypothetical memory I speculate about and that is the point of this blog because I labor to remember the truth.
Anyway, we were trained in MK152 school in writing computer programs for the Univac and that training involved flow charts. Flow charts were one part of an intensive training program that literally covered every aspect of the electrical and electronic components of that massive system.
Anybody familiar with that incident would probably, back in the year 2005, find some similarity in this scene.
And finally, I recall in recent weeks thinking again about a suspicion that has lingered in my mind for a long time. My suspicion is based on the comments an instructor made to me during testing for the period of instruction covering programming for the Univac. I don't recall the dialog he spoke but what makes me suspicious is combined with how my earliest attempts failed.
I have to wonder if how my draft computer code failed was a factor in his comments. He commented because no other student failed in their attempts to pass the computer coding examinations.
And - or - he wanted to sell me the code that would not fail for the examination.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 05:17 AM Pacific Time Seattle USA Friday 22 February 2013 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/02/chain-reaction.html
Back in the year 2003 I wrote a letter on my computer at home and I printed it out on to paper and I put that letter in a stamped envelope for the postal service and I sent that letter through the United States Postal Service. I had the envelope of the letter addressed specifically to the Chief of [ Naval ] Operations United States Navy
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8.19 "Moebius Part 1"
EXT—DEPARTMENT OF AEROSPACE RESEARCH HEADQUARTERS, WASHINGTON, D.C., DAY
INT—OFFICE INSIDE THE AEROSPACE BUILDING
[Alternate Carter is there. She has short hair and is wearing glasses. She is dressed in conservative clothes in earth-tones.]
ALTERNATE CARTER
This is totally unbelievable! You are a small and pathetic man! Those were my theories on spin wave technology and the effects of anti-gravity on electromagnetism, and you know it!
[She looks at the empty desk of the man she has been pretending to yell at.]
ALTERNATE CARTER
Now, just because my reproductive organs are on the inside instead of the outside, doesn't… God! That's horrible! Who would ever say that?
[The door opens and a man enters.]
DR. HIRSHFIELD
Carter.
(looking around the office)
Who you talking to?
ALTERNATE CARTER
No one.
DR. HIRSHFIELD
Are you talking to yourself?
ALTERNATE CARTER
No.
DR. HIRSHFIELD
Have you proof-read my review of the solid fuel rocket ship?
ALTERNATE CARTER
I'm almost done. Good job!
DR. HIRSHFIELD
Thank you. Keep up the good work, Carter; you'll be moving up around here.
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- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 5:48 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 02 March 2016
