Re: Interesting Find

Oh memories, memories, …

I imagine that it was similar to the expression on our CEO’s face when he accidentally shut down our entire 360/40 system by casually leaning on the “Big Red Button” on the computer room wall while showing off our facilities to a visiting group of executives. Took us 6 hours to recover everything from the backups and three more days before we caught up with the time we had lost.


On Jul 29, 2015, at 11:06 AM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My father was in the room when after they had just completed bursting some huge stack of checks and remittance advices when the Halon went off. The place looked like a paper bomb had exploded! The panicked looks on the operators faces was apparently priceless.

Why did the halon go off? Failing power supply in something which was what he was there to fix.

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On 7/29/2015 10:30 AM, Jeff Young wrote:

Yup.
Been there, done that. :)

Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Or alternatively spend 45 minutes re-stacking a recalcitrant multi-part
set of payroll forms which were so “sharp” that they cut your fingers to
shreds only to put them on the top of the printer and then watch in horror
as your fellow operator pushes the lid raise button.


On Jul 29, 2015, at 9:19 AM, Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ahhhh yesssss. The 1403 N1 printer.
Leave your coffee on the top and then the printer runs out of paper....

top

rises open automatically. (:
Also, what fun when the carriage tape was worn ant the printer just kept
spewing paper. :)

Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Waxing nostalgic - printing posters with the 1403 line printer. And

even

more geeky - making music. :)

1973 - S3 Mod 10.
2 Draws
MFCU
SLOW Printer.
16K

Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 3:55 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

Got you by two, started on S/34! :-)

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 7/28/2015 3:13 PM, Luis Rodriguez wrote:

Ha!,

If anything, this thread has made me feel a little bit younger. :-) I
cut
my own RPG teeth with a S/32...

Regards,



Luis Rodriguez

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