Re: Operating system name

Maybe I'm disremembering but wasn't the MFCU
where we really learned about the rpg cycle and look
ahead and matching records? And then if it jammed or
stopped you had to find the missing card that was still at
one of the read stations? And the cards were sequenced
so you had to look at them to be sure you got them
back in the right order? Or was that one of my
late night/early morning nightmares from the 70's.

Bill




From: Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 05/03/2017 08:44 AM
Subject: Re: Operating system name
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Joe,
And wasn't it loads of fun when you had placed something on the lid of the
1403 (like hot coffee or a box of cards) and it ran out of paper?

Or how about when the control tape was too worn and it kept forms feeding
until it was stopped or ran out of paper.

Regarding the MFCU, yes I *did* have another name for it. Especially when
there was a card jam and one of the cards was mangled.

Lots of fun. NOT :)


Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On 5/2/2017 1:52 PM, Jeff Young wrote:

+1 on S/3 CCP Model 15D

My first machine. 3741 diskette keypunch. 1403 band printer.

Removable

disk packs. 5424 MFCU (which may or may not have stood for
"multi-function" depending on the day).

Bursting multi-part printouts and putting them into boxes.

Yeah, I'm old too. :)


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