Re: Happy Birthday to the System/38

[Roger Vicker <rvicker@xxxxxxxx>]

You too?

I also had to convert a System 34 and have the Series 1 talk to 3741s as well as
the outlying S34s. Weren't CF1 and EDX wonderful :-( languages?

Roger Vicker, CCP

Animated40@AOL.COM wrote:

> In a message dated 97-10-25 16:18:20 EDT, you write:
>
> << Joanie Clark wrote:
>  >
>  > Al,
>  >
>  > That sure brings back memories for me..... I remember our
>  > System/38... those huge disk drives that provided heat for those cold
>  > winter days..... I remember "magazines" too, and how we use to back
>  > up our system on them.... we felt so "with it" when we got a reel
>  > tape !!  My times have changed...
>  >
>  >I remember the third S/38 shop i was in, in 1985.  I relocated from LA.
>  CA....to MI....they had 2 sets of 20 magazines for there daily backups.
>   They rotated them every other day...6 months later i finally convinced
>  them that a reel-to-reel would be a little better...not that long ago.! >>
>
> I would rather  forget those days.  I had to convert a Sys/3 Model 15D
> running
> CPP to a Sys/38 and make the Sys/38 talk to a Series/1.



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