Re: Microsoft Tries to Cozy Up to Mainframe, iSeries Users

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Based on the thread, it appears that several remember
> when there was no monitor to work on...and no pc's.

In high school, we used a pair of multiplexed phone lines (five 300 baud
terminals per modem, and a sixth that usually wasn't stable above 150, up
to a dozen terminals in all) to connect to the district's student
timeshare system (an IBM 370/135, as I've already mentioned, running
McGill University's MUSIC operating system). Later, when the district
office was moved closer, we traded our multiplex modems to another school
for a dozen individual 300 baud modems, since the leased line bill
apparently included a mileage charge). Terminals were a mixed bag of Lear
ADM-1s, an ADM-3, Datamedia Elites, Decwriters, one lone thermal printer
(that had an internal acoustic coupler modem and a carrying case, for
portable use), and a Teletype Model 34 (Wow! Dot matrix with DESCENDERS
and TRUE UNDERSCORES?!?) We also had a daisy-wheel that we got rid of,
because its carriage return was so violent, it constantly jarred its own
boards loose.

At CSU Long Beach, we had a fleet of Telerays, with shared printers,
accessing multiple hosts through a port selector. By my Senior year, most
of the older Telerays had been replaced by the 10T model, and there were a
few Apple ][ labs and two IBM PC (floppy disk only!) labs. There were also
a few Tektronix DVST terminals scattered around the engineering labs.

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JHHL