RE: Help Wanted

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From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 5:23 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Help Wanted


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Don't knock the 5251-11.  Any terminal capable of blowing raspberries at
users...

Anyone record that WAV file and replace their message indicator with it
yet?

Rob Berendt
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Douglas Handy <dhandy1@bellsouth.net>
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11/15/2002 02:23 PM
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Adam,

>so for a couple years this box was
>just humming along doing its job and no one even knew it existed
physically.

And just who was running the backups on this machine?

It is amazing how long the machines last.  My local county library used a
S/34
until 1999, when it got replaced due to Y2K.  The interactive card catalog
was a
collection of four 5251 mod 11 terminals for patrons to use.  The lookups
were
done with WSF/34 (Workstation Search Facility), an old PRPQ.

It was comical watching people try and use them.  My kids couldn't
understand
how the system was hailed as the easiest system to use, in its day.

What was obnoxious were the 5251-11's at the checkout.  They had a barcode
scan
keyboard wedge, and everytime the scan was successful, the keyboard buzzer
went
off.  Remember those?  And nobody modified the buzzers either.  This was
in a
library mind you...

If it weren't for Y2K, the library would probably still be using the
thing.  (If
it ain't broke...)

Doug
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