>Sounds like you've got the good life at the moment! Don't you just love how
>the Navy did away with the DP rating? Do any of them )*#$ _at_$(&% RM's have a
>clue about computers (not counting the ex-Data Processing Tech's)?
Actually, I've spent most of my 17 years in working on the IS
side of things, including doing a few custom programs. You don't
want to hear my view of the DP/RM fiasco...let's just say I thought
it was stupid from the start. Too bad there's an even bigger fiasco
looming on the horizon, but that's best left off-list.
>BTW, since when is a SH (which I'm assuming is what you are) called
>something as polite as a "Box Kicker"? Now I know the Navy's gotten to
>blasted PC!
He had the right idea...i'm an SK not an SH. The fact i've
spent most of my time in the service doing some form of IS work vice
my normal job is one of the reasons I'm still an SK2!
>For an on-topic note, you ever get to play with SNAP II (the Harris Mini)?
>When I was an EM3 I was one of the few people on the ship that knew how it
>worked, and was able to do stuff like backups and reboot it after it crashed
>(I also had OS level access). Very cool system. SNAP I on the other hand
>(Honeywell DPS-6's running GCOS-6) was not what I'd call a cool system.
Yes, have used both the Harris mini of SNAP-II and the
Honeywell DPS-6 that used to be SUADPS. Had a lot more contact with
SNAP-II though as far as direct interaction at the system itself. We
had an EMCS that was our SNAP-II and 3M coordinator and he really
knew his stuff. He'd routinely do direct downlods of the 3M data to
one of the Z-248's and inport it into Dbase-II/III/IV to do what he
wanted with it. We had a couple of ET's that did the backups and
actual hardware repairs, though the EMCS generally did the tape
updates. Our Harris used to destroy disk packs quite often. The
thing I liked about the DPS-6 was the version of the classic 'Star
Trek' game that was installed with it! Too bad the A/C on the ships
was rarely up to keeping the DPS-6 cool enough and it tended to crash
quite a lot. SUADPS was later ported to HP Unix and run from a micro
and then phased out somewhat as of last year, though there may still
be some ships using it.
I applogize to all of those not familiar with the USN
terminology that had to sit through that <g>
Jeff
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