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Jim, I kid you not, I believe you have a beginning of a sci-fi novel here :) -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James H H Lampert Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 11:03 AM To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Microsoft Tries to Cozy Up to Mainframe, iSeries Users > Based on the thread, it appears that several remember > when there was no monitor to work on...and no pc's. In high school, we used a pair of multiplexed phone lines (five 300 baud terminals per modem, and a sixth that usually wasn't stable above 150, up to a dozen terminals in all) to connect to the district's student timeshare system (an IBM 370/135, as I've already mentioned, running McGill University's MUSIC operating system). Later, when the district office was moved closer, we traded our multiplex modems to another school for a dozen individual 300 baud modems, since the leased line bill apparently included a mileage charge). Terminals were a mixed bag of Lear ADM-1s, an ADM-3, Datamedia Elites, Decwriters, one lone thermal printer (that had an internal acoustic coupler modem and a carrying case, for portable use), and a Teletype Model 34 (Wow! Dot matrix with DESCENDERS and TRUE UNDERSCORES?!?) We also had a daisy-wheel that we got rid of, because its carriage return was so violent, it constantly jarred its own boards loose. At CSU Long Beach, we had a fleet of Telerays, with shared printers, accessing multiple hosts through a port selector. By my Senior year, most of the older Telerays had been replaced by the 10T model, and there were a few Apple ][ labs and two IBM PC (floppy disk only!) labs. There were also a few Tektronix DVST terminals scattered around the engineering labs. -- JHHL -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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