RE: Re Maintenance Withdrawal

[Neil Palmer <npalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You mean the 3747-001 Data Converter ?
Up to 8K bytes of memory, 1200bps modem, 1/2" tape controller.
They withdrew maintenance on that at the end of 1996 !

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey M. Silberberg [SMTP:silbrbrg@netcom.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 1998 8:31 AM
> To:   neil.williams@pocruises.com
> Cc:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Re Maintenance Withdrawal
> 
> 
>  Yes, BUT  do you remember what the 3747 was ???  I do !!!  :-(  
> 
> On Thu, 19 Mar 1998 neil.williams@pocruises.com wrote:
> 
> >         
> >      >3741 ALL             DATA STATION      
> >      >3742 ALL             DUAL DATA STATION 
> >      
> >      I remember this stuff. Big clunky satisfying noises came out of
> 'em 
> >      every time you hit the enter key, and an even bigger satisfying
> clunk 
> >      when the m/c switched the floppy (8" were they?) through a few 
> >      degrees.
> >      
> >      The screen was set into the table top facing flat upward toward
> the 
> >      ceiling, and the characters were displayed upside down and the
> wrong 
> >      way round. A small square box was set directly over the screen,
> and 
> >      this held a mirror at approx 45/50 degrees over the screen.
> From the 
> >      operators sitting position they viewed the (3 line ?) screen
> thru' the 
> >      mirror, like a periscope in reverse. The dual one allowed two 
> >      operators to sit on different sides in a sort of 'Lover's Seat'
> 
> >      configuration.
> >      
> >      Ahhh the old days. '77 ?
> >      
> >      Neil H-W
> >      
> 
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