A listing of comments and other information received from Data Communication Trivia and AUTODIN Contributors and Visiters
March 3, 2008: AUTODIN
Thanks for keeping the memory alive.
I was and AF Tech Controller at Korat from Aug 68 to Aug 69 as part of the first AF crew that officially took over from Philco Ford.
I know there used to be lots of great photo's from back then that were on the legacy site. Sorry to see them gone. In many ways AUTODIN was the true for-runner of the internet.
Sherman Rattner
April 11, 2008: AUTODIN
Hey Bob,
Glad to hear from you. I will check your web site again and see what's happening. I forwarded your email on to our retired WU/Autodin breakfast club and I'm sure several of them will get in touch with you. I have most of their email addresses but hesitate to make them available unless they give me a go ahead and such. Will get back with you.
Lee Wheeler
Apr 11, 2008; Re lost AUTODIN information:
It’s a damn shame had I had a lot of stuff I sent to Don in digital form, etc. I lost it in my old computer, but have some old pix I can send you to copy, etc, if you want. Had system drawings that I am still looking for, but I am afraid it will be in vain. I will keep looking. I was talking to don the night before he died and it came as a shock when I found out. I still believe that some archives on his computer are still out there on the hard drive. I know it broke his heart when the system crashed.
Tim Tierney
Apr 21, 2008; AUTODIN
Just wondered if you got anything from the guys I forwarded the info to. Daryl Goodwin was from Ft Buckner and Jack Van Trump was at Pirmasens, Germany. Jack was an Honor Grad from his primary MOS class (32D20) and Daryl was right behind him. I was the Honor grad from the night class for the same cycle and MOS. It's a shame for Daryl but they only gave one Honor Grad position for each class. The real bummer for Jack and me was that they had discontinued a program just weeks before we graduated. That program gave Honor grads a skip rank promotion. We were E3's at graduation and got an automatic E4 promotion. It would have been really nice to have E5 in less than 1 year.
John Morton