Re: History

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Pat Barber wrote:
>>
>> You want old history:
>>
>> What is a MFCU & what did it attach to ???????
>
>5424 MFCU attached to S/3.  2 Hoppers, 5 stackers.
>Two models - one double the speed of the other, I believe changed by an
>internal switch, so you would order the cheaper model that had a lower
>maintenance cost, and after breaking it you would set the switch back
>before calling IBM service.  :-)
>
>>
>> What was it's primary purpose ??????
>
>To read 96 column cards at enormous speeds and see how big a card jam it
>could create by cramming several cards into the same point in the
>time-space continuum.
>
>What do I win Jay ?



"Let's see what Jay has in the box...   It's a Cheese Straightener!  Deluxe
model, too!"


I believe the MFCU had 2 hoppers/4 stackers....

Now, I remember card jams in the MFCM (the 80 column machine)... there were
sensors and error lights for every jam point except one:  The machine never
knew if you took out the gizzy around the punch station.  I remember the
fun I had one afternoon when a playful bunch of the guys removed this gizzy
just before I got the machine for some urgent testing.  Seems all the cards
just read in and spewed all over the insides of the machine.  No sensor
checked to make sure what went in went back out again.  *sigh*

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com


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