RE: Electronic device control from RPG

Wimps... VBG
This reminds me of the S38 days when a friend of mine rigged up a light
sensor and hung it in front of a 5250 screen. We then had a pgm that would
acquire the device and display reverse image blanks on the screen. We set
that up on a homegrown job scheduler for 7:00 AM and the hooked a coffee pot
to it. Fresh coffee every morning. You have to keep in mind that this was
before automatic coffee machines were very common. Worked like a charm.

Tom

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David wrote;
Reminds me of when I started out.
I was under a lot of pressure and woke up one night in a sweat
convinced that I was an RPGIII being called with the wrong parameters.


David -
In the 80's , one of my co-workers woke up from a nightmare one night (we
were working on a S/36 at the time) that he had 99 indicators chasing him...
- sjl