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  • Subject: Re Maintenance Withdrawal - 3742
  • From: John Carr <74711.77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 14:29:17 -0500



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RE:     Re Maintenance Withdrawal

        
 >    >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.
 
<SNIP>

My first job was on the 3742.   I maintain that that machine had the 
BEST keyboard that was ever produced.  The J and the F were sculped 
deep enough to know the home row.  Sitting in the chair it was the 
right height,  everything.  Perfect.  Including the Numeric pad.

To mentally convert the "Negitive" packed numbers to the corresponding
letter I still press the imaginary numeric pad with my fingers, Let me see 
J, K, L, M, ....  N is a negitive 5 ! thats right!.

John Carr
    
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