{"id":49,"date":"2008-06-25T21:19:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T05:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=49"},"modified":"2009-12-02T08:26:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T16:26:26","slug":"ancient-history-sperryunisys-5000-unix-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Ancient History:  Sperry\/Unisys 5000 Unix Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I started actually getting paid to be a computer geek, I started as a system administrator\/database administrator on Sperry\/ Unisys 5000 mini-computers. These were about the size of a small refrigerator, and were designed for mostly serial I\/O with dozens up to hundreds of serial ports in the back. They were based on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Motorola_68040\">40 MHz 68040 CPUs<\/a> and ran a proprietary port of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UNIX_System_V\">ATT System V Unix<\/a>.  We used <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oracle_database\">Oracle version 6.0.36<\/a> (and later Oracle 7) on them with our own proprietary character based financial, logistical, and personnel applications. If you want to see what one of those looked like, enter the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.porterdavis.org\/computing\/sperry.html\">U5000 Memorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started actually getting paid to be a computer geek, I started as a system administrator\/database administrator on Sperry\/ Unisys 5000 mini-computers. These were about the size of a small refrigerator, and were designed for mostly serial I\/O with&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=49\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}