Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest, Vol 4, Issue 120

I had one of those old plungers floating around here from the last 38 I
ripped appart...

Don in DC

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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> EEWW! I thought I was the only dummy who had ever done that.... :-))
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> Paul Nelson
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> >date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:38:07 -0800 (PST)
> >from: "James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >subject: Re: Is IPL necessary?
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> >> Had to do the old 3-4 to get it restarted.
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> >Huh?
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> I think what he's referring to are the old rotary switched on the operator
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> panel of the Sys/38.  You set one to position 3 and one to position 4,
> then pressed the (correct me if memory fails me) power on button.  This
> was how you 'cold-started' the '38.
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> The Sys/38 also had a big red button that you had to pull to do an
> emergency shutdown.  I recall one time someone was on the phone in the
> computer room and for the receiver cord tangled around this button, and
> yanked on the cord to free it...
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> Terry Richardson
> Vermont Information Processing, Inc.
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